Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-08
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.
EXTRACTS From oun DAILY REPORTS. l

be printed.
message received from the President of the United
States, IN compliance with resolution of the Senate
uniting reports from the several heads con-
tanning all the information in possession of the rscuve rel
alive to the subject and stating that information has been
received establishing the existence of any revolutionary
ment in the Island OF Cuba among the inhabitants of that
island The correspondence dscoses the fact that repeated
attempts have been made under the direction en-
nyiDg the hospitality of this country get up armed expe-
dions United States the purpose invading Cuba
and showing that the Government has been faithful in the
discharge of its treaty obligations with Span and in the
cuon of the acts Of Congress- which read and ordered
to lie on the table.
FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL.
Mr.. WEBSTER. Mr. President al an early period of
the session turned my attention the subject of preparing
bill respecting the retaining of fugitive slaves Of pre-
pairing certain amendments the existing law that subject
In pursuance of this purpose conferred with of the
most eminent members of the profession, and especially with
high judicial authority who has had to do with ques-
tons Of this kind, presume, than any other judge in the
United Safes these consultations and conferences
early as in February prepared bill amendaoy of the act
of 1893, intending when proper time lay it before
the Senate for its consideration wish to present the
bill to the Senate unalered and precisely when pre-
pared in February last.
The bill then laid on the table and ordered to be
printed, IS follows
BILL amendatory OF An respecting ugitves from
the Of their
BE enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives.
the Of the said act shall extend to the Territories
Of the United States and that the commissioners who now
are or Who may Be y the Circuit hsrs G1r
courts not established by the Territorial courts OF the
United Saes all Of which authorized and required
Acknowledgements of bail and adavs and also TO take dpo-
tons Of witnesses civil and who shall EACH
Judge the United States complaint being made on oan 10
him that fugitive from labor is believed to be within the State
Territory in which he lives issue his to the
willing to serve it, authorizing an arrest Of the fugitive
within the State or Territory to be brought before him or
other Judge the d M
claiming the services Of such fugitive be examined And
on the hearing dispositions duly parol proof
shall be heard establish the identity Of the fugitive and the
right Of the claimant and also to show that slavery esab-
lshed in the State from which the fugitive absconded And
if on such hearing the commissioner Judge shall find the
claim the of the fugitive asserted sustained by
the evidence he shall make certificate OF the material
proved and his thereon whchIhe shall sign,
which shall be of the right Of the claimant
his agent TO take the fugitive back to the State from whence
service the claimant under the laws Of the State where he
held and after being duly cautioned to the solemnties
missioner judge shall forthwith jury of twelve
men to try the right of the claimant who shall be sworn to
try the according to evidence and the or
judge shall preside the trial and determine the competency
of the proof
scc q find be further enacted, That the commissioner
said the jurors fifty each and the marshal other
serving the process shall receive five dollars for serving
the allowed the marshal for similar
vices to be examined and allowed by the commissioner
judge, and paid by the claimant.
Mr. WALKER, in pursuance notice, asked and obtain
ed leave introduce bill for the payment of outstanding
loan office and final settlement certificates, issued for money
loaned, for services supplies during the revolutionary
wars which was read twice, and referred to the Com
mittee on Revolutionary Claims.
Mr. CHASE, in pursuance of notice. asked and obtained
leave introduce bill reduce the price of public lands
belonging to the United States, in the vicinity Of the Wabash
and Erie canal and the Miami Extension canal, in the
State Of Ohio; which read twice. and referred to the Com
| mittee the Public Lands
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN MISSOURI.
| Mr.. BENTON. Mr.. President in accordance with
grant the State of Missouri certain quantity of public
lands for objects of internal improvement which, added 10
the quantity heretofore granted that State for that purpose
will make equal to the quantity heretofore granted to any
other State for the same purpose.
On offering this BILL would suggest that concur in the
doctrine that the Government the great andhoder has the
right grant the States in which they e lands for the
purpose of improving the value of the remainder There
great quantity of refuse lands in the State Of Missouri
Missouri part of the territory of Louisiana. The
land granted by the Spanish Government from l764
until the period when became the property of the United
States During that period Of forty years. the best land
taken in very large grants From the time that Lous
coded to the United States, almost half
tory the lands the State Of Missouri have been picked
that scarcely any but the refuse lands remain The public
lands in the State Of Missouri have been picked from 1894
different times until 1904, and from 1904 down to the pre-
sent time For period Of nearly century these lands have
been undergoing the process of picking that those lands
which of very inferior quality 1t is desira-
BILE to the United States that these lands should in
other be made useful and subserven to the purposes Of
settlement and improvement The policy Of granting lands
the States in which they e for purposes Of internal i'm
povement has been found to be OF the most efectua
of retaining refuse lands. am of opinion, with the
celebrated Edmund Burke, that take land from hands
that do it, and give it to hands that do it, would
be for the benefit of the country.
Many years ago. Mr.. President brought in bills similar
purpose, many respects to the which now propose
introduce One feature Of those bills to graduate the
price Of the public lands reducing the price periodically
cordng the length Of time the land had been in the market
Another feature make donations of land to actual
tiers. third provision to grant the refuse lands to the
States in which they lie for objects of internal Improvement
The principle of the bill propose to introduce is the
granting Of the refuse lands the States in which they lie,
for purposes Of internal improvement am clearly under
the conviction that it ought to be done in this
Another argument in favor of the bill which introduce
is that only proposes grant the State of Missouri
amount Of land which, added to what has already been grant,
ed that State for objects of internal improvement will make
equal to the whole amount Of land granted to any other
State The of the Land Office show that il will
quire 2l0 to accomplish this purpose and for
that amount is this bill drawn The bill objects
Of internal improvement to which, under the auspices OF the
State this land is to be applied One is railroad from ST.
Louis to the western frontier Of the stae through the capital
the town Of Hannibal, the Mississippi river. The bill
but other effects, such the draining of swamps will follow
committee to which the bill will go, wish the members of
that they may make, expect they will favorable report
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