The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-27

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| spent much time in debating the Galphn and other
claims, which had not the merit which this has.
| Mr.. FOWLER moved to lay the pending mo-
ton TO reconsider the vote by which the Free
| Land bill referred to the Committee of the
Whole the state of the Union, and ordered to be
| printed) ON the table.
| MIR. MORSE appealed to the gentleman TO with
draw the motion, and expressed the hope to be al
| lowed few moments 10 reply 10 the gentlemen
who had preceded him.
MIR. FOWLER would not withdraw the motion.
| [Several voices "Welvote it down."l We ought
| now, he said, to proceed TO other business
The question was stated, when
motion was made to adjourn, and decided in
| the negative.
And the motion to lay the motion to reconsider
on the table was disagreed to.
| Mr. EVANS, of Maryland, was assigned the
| floor
MIR. MORSE claimed it, but
The SPEAKER said that he could not re-
cognise him, he had already Addressed the
House
Mr., EVANS gave a portion of his time to
Mr.. MORSE, who said that he had made mo-
ton to reconsider the vote by which the bill had
been referred to the Committee of the Whole on the
state OF the Union. Would il be in order for him
! to move TO reconsider the motion to.print?
The SPEAKER replied that 1t was one motion.
II not, SO wide latitude TO debate would have
been permitted?
Mr. MORSE said it very evident, from the
tluttering which had been witnessed from the few
sustard seed shot thrown out at random that they
had affected gentleman not far from him. Not in
the vlndicuvc, but warm manner, in which he had
been assailed by those with whom he had been on
friendly terms, IT was apparent that their skin is
not as thick that of the rhinoceros Az to cen
suring the committee, he had only said that he
hoped to sec in their report something to induce
him to look with favor on the measure II the gen
tleman would come into the fourth Congressional
district of louisiana, they would find that the Hon.
Isaac f. MORSE talks to the people there he did
here II you go with the outrageous system
of protecting the people, you will have them
coming here and asking you to plant their corn.
The gentleman from Mississippi asked whether
he did not vote hundreds Of thousands of acres Of
land to Louisiana. He did. This was no more APP
pl!cable to the case IN point than the most remote
thing to be conceived of There some millions
OF acres of land in that State overlooked annually
and are not worth one single cent. Louisiana
claimed moee than three millions, which have been
sold by the General Government at one dollar and
twenty five cents an acre; and Louisiana was
obliged, III self-detencc, to go and make the
provement, by which millions of dollars went into
the public treasury. She had only asked to have
portion of the swamp lands to pay expenses. So
with the giving of alternate sections of lands to
that State The late Senator from South Carolina
(Mr. Cahoun,) voted to give them, because an adj
ditional value was thus impaired to every Other for
the benefit OF the people Of the United States For
every one dollar and twenty five cents which
went out of the treasury, So 80 came in. On all
these occasions, there was some show of reason and
justification. For the affection and love for the
the lands, which ought to go to pay those no have
lent you money, and propose to give them away.
He repeated, he held the same language in Louis
lana that he did on this floor and for this reason he
could not lend himself to this iniquitous bill In
some OF his expressions, he but repeated the Ian
guage of gentlemen this floor. According to
the notions of the gentleman from Tennessee,
(Mr. JoHNsoN) this measure was the greatest pa
nacea the face of the earth, and will heal
all the wounds of the country, and will do an
amount of good scarcely creditable, and not to be
recitcd III an hour. The people were said to
be honester and better than the members on this
floor, and the gentleman said he loved them. And
Is II possible that the corrupng influences of this
House are so great that there are more honest men
at home, who have 10 be tiattered and appealed to
as being SO Infinitely superior? He (Mr. NJ said
there was no higher position which could be given
to him than a representative, because it an in
dependent one, and he had exercised the privilege
In an independent manner. He put down as bun
combe, that they only friends of the people who
vote them public lands and give them homes. As
to the beautiful, sympathetic appeal for woman,
made by the gentleman from Mississippi, if he
(Mr. ND could do any thing, to advance the
interests of woman, he should but fairly repre-
sent those who sent him here. Louisiana was the
only State in the Union which has raised woman
TO the level with man. As to man and wife, the
property belongs clearly to both, and not TO the
man only, who may squander it, and leave his
children beggars. He would not give the public
lands to vagabonds and felons too lazy TO work
No man has right to ask Government to give him
difference between giving revenue in the form of
ands or the proceeds of the lands and giving it TO
A, b, and c, because they happen TO be unfortu
nate.
Without disposing of the subject, the House went
into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the
Union, Mr. BoYD in the chair,) and resumed the
consideration Of the bill making appropriation for
the support of the
WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY.
After some time spent therein, the committee
rose, and the amendments agreed upon were re-
ported to the House.
Those giving TO the professors of drawing and
French : 500 each per annum, and quarters
and fuel, instead Of the sum allowed, and APP
propriating S62S additional TO carry this provision
into effect, were concurred in.
The Housc-by yeas So, nays Se-refused to con-
cur in the amendment, striking from the bill the
proviso, that no professor at the Military Academy
shall be entitled to forage money in lieu thereof
for moro than one horse. actually kept in order.
The bill was then passed, and the House adj
journed