Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-04-03
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sa Congress sioaanl.
In the Senate on the 2lst Of February,
bill was passed removing the Land OF
70 in the Chippewa land district from
~ Croix to Still ater in Minnesota Ter
tory.
mir. Walker moved an amendment to
lie bill, creating new Land District in
be State Of Wisconsin, upon which a.
acndment debate sprung up.
Mr.. Dodge said he hoped the amend
nent,ofared by the senator from Wis
;onsin [Mr. WALKER] would prevail
He knew that an additional land Office
would be greatly needed to accommodate
he people Of northern Wisconsin, if the
one now located at the falls Of st. Croix
was removed to the town Of Saltwater,
Ia Minnesota; and he hoped that it would
be. The accommodation ofthe people in
that section Of the country would be
greatly increased by changing the site Of
the Office to Saltwater. No gentleman
who would cast his eye upon map of
that country, could fail to perceive the
necessity for the Office asked for by the
gentleman from Wisconsin,. Bnt the SEN
Rator from South Carolina objects because
no committee has reported in favor of the
office asked for. That is ordinary good
grounds Of opposition to a measure, but
4 not so 10 this case. The session Of Con-
4 gress is now rapidly experimenting its
close; and If the Office was not now crea-
ted, it would not be for at least another
year. The chairman Of the Committee
on Public Lands, [Mr. BREEsE,1 than
whom there is no member Of this body
] more vigilant in attending to the mat
tors which belong to his committee, or
better informed as to the wants of the
people Of the new States and Territories,
has told you that the proposed office is
unquestionably needed, and will no doubt
be established at the next session Of Con-
gress. Mr.. D.. would hazard the asser-
ton that there was not single member
Of the Committee on Public Lands who
would not concur in this opinion Of their
chairman. Then why give this amend
ment the go-by? Why defeat meas
ure acknowledged to be eminently de-
manded by the exigeneies Of the public
service, because it has happened not 10
come before this body in the usual man.
ner? He trusted it would not be DONE
Let the bill and amendment pass. Let
them go 10 the House Of Representatives;
and If, as has been suggested by some
gentleman, information from the Commits.
sioner Of the General Land Office be re.
quired, the committee Of the House can
confer with that officer on the subject.
Mr.. D. said he went for Wisconsin and
Minnesota both; but If there was 10 be but
one Office, and fight for that, he was on
the side Of Minnesota, because she was
weak, dependent, and without voice or
vote on the floor Of the Senate.
Mr.. Walker desired the senator from
Iowa, who had been surveyor general in
that district, to bear testimony 10 the i'm
portance of the amendment.
Mr.. Jones fully concurred with the
views expressed ny the senator from Wis
consin as to the propriety and necessity
Of establishing this new land office. Cit,
liens residing in Wisconsin at from fifty
to one hundred miles from this land office
were now compelled to travel sometimes
three hundred miles 10 the land Office, te
which the government pla,s are return
ed, and ,shere the lands are offered foa
sale. He would also state that the peo
s pie in Wisconsin beyond the limits of the
ST. Croix land Office, and who were at 8
great distance from:tha at Mineral Point
or the one at Green Bay, desire the es.
adjustment of another office. In CONVEX
sa.ion with the deputies who bad lately
surveyed the country under him, and with
others who were qualified to jud &c of the
proprieiy and necessity thereof, he has
4 uniformly been assured Of the propriety
~ removing the land office from the falls
s.sosyff to, Saltwater, or to some other point
more accessible by steamboat navigation
/ He hoped, therefore, that the bill as a
mended would pass, that both objects may
/ be attained, and the welfare of the PEG
pie, and government too, DO thereby
8 greatly promoted. When he first heare
Of the location Of the land Office at The
falls, he expressed the opinion that i
would mol remain there longer than unit
the people could be heard upon the sub
ject Of its removal.
The amendment was finally adopted
and the bill passed.
RAIL ROAD PROJECT-AGAIN.