The Arkansas banner., 1850-12-03


 Senate bill for he relief of eiszens of Arkaasas and Lafayette counties, .O exempt them from the operation of sec. 90, chap. 4l, Digest.
 On motion of Mr McKneely, Lafayette county was stricken out.
 The hll as amended was read . third time. Mir POindeKtsr called for Ihe ayes nnd noes. Mir Rec tor thought the bill it would infringe the rights of persons who had made im- provements and purchased property under the con- siderstion lhst the county seat was to be pefma nently fixed. lie thought such persons would be entitled to indemnity that t was an unwhOlesome precedent and would be apt to entail upon the ties an unjust Iax.
 Mr Barrow thought the question had been already sufficiently debated--he had studied the effect of such bill aud had no scruples that any vested rights or obligations would be violated by the bill. He had seen bills passed to give permission to ped- de without license. to relieve SheTiffs and Pnvate citizens without opposition. this was the first time 1 he had introduced private bill there vas no provision in the Constitution 10 provide for inc Pas- sage of such messures-He wished there was. He had few dsys. since seen bill passed without q question to change the name of enc man and mske 1 him tie heir of living man. He had permitted such measures to pass a matter of courtesy to the Senators who..intr odsced them. No law eau be made which does not affect tho rights Of some citizen. The Post of Arkansas has become de- serted and barren plain, and large majority of the citizens of that county have desired bim to sf. feet the repeal of this obnoxious statate, far It affects his own couaty. This law crestes perpetut ties and moao,scli in favsF, of shop holders and owners of town lots, but makas consequent tax upon the hardy and industrou ous farmers of all the rest of the county. Itis iriquitous act In this case he in,erfersd with sihe rights of no one, he would willingly give to any Senator his promise to support him in similar cause, he hoped Senators would graut to the oppressed farmers of Arkansas county their prayer, expressed through him, their proper representative in this body, to be relieved from the tax of riding forty miles across barren plain. Ayes i9, noes 3, the bill was pessed.
 Senate bill to provide for the prin'iug,Of the Go vernors message, and the reports of the State off, cers. read second time
 Senate bill for the relief of ohm CarnalI. late Sheriff of Crawford county, was passed.
 House bill for the benefit of Andrew Roberts, of Hempstead county. was read a second time.
 House bill 10 declare MaddOx's Bay, in Monroe 1 county, navigable, was passed,
 On motion Of Mir Izard. the Homestead exemp. ton bill was taken up
 The amendment of MT Burrow to exempt all lands from execution was pending.
 Mr Burrow said he had proposed the amendment, a rider 10 the bI but seriously to relieve the country from it's presen, drIapidited sOme. thing evidently necessary to be done for this pur- pose, In justice 10 the Governor. he would state that the composition, character snd tenor of his message, did credit to his head and heart, notwith standing his gloomy account of the ofriirs of the State. He could not give lis sanction 10 the bi.l while it remains so defective it now is. It is unequal in it's operatioD protesting democratic principles, must be uniform and consistent in their legislation. The man who has five hundred dol lars in homestead Unprotected, he who has five hun dred dollars, the produce of he sweat of his brow in personal prosperity is left unprotected.
 According 10 the provisions of the bill. the value and extent of the homestead is left to the mercy of the 6ckle and precarous rise and fall in the prices of real estate. A provision Sf this kind should be stable and lastiug, oue that would remain fixed and unchangeahle, one that would accomplish the Ob. jec, intended by this Legislation.
 IL is objectionable, because il is a grant to pov- er,y and necessity. am willing to make ths grant but this bill is uot proporoned to the different cases that may arise. A widow of one child has as much granted 10 her as one who has twenty two children this Is certainly unsuiied to the wants and neces- ses of those The bill should proportion its benefits according to the several necessities of the cases which may arise
 The bill us IL is does not encourage agriculture, it only protect house 10 live in and provides for cutting off the fields, aud leaves only, perhaps dslapidated tenement 10 live in, and lakes away all the lands wlereon those who are intended 10 be benefited, may labor 10 procure corn, by which to feed themselves and add to the wealth of the coun try by their industry
 The iusufficieucy of this bill, renders t a mere humbng-it destroys everything like the growth of architecture by cutting oil mecilancs liens. The growth and prosperity of community are equal to the increase of this class of the industrial arts It leaves out large portion of needy persons, if the bill were passed as it is. widow, who Is now a widow, could not possibly receive any benefit from the bill And, again, under ihe provisions of this aci, if man leaves twenty sons the homestead must remain until ihs youngest child becomes twenty one years of ge-aud thus, several home- steads would, at the same time, be exempted. lie was in favor of the principle but objected 10 this bill on account of its insuiciency, he proposed to benefit the widow first and then the widower, the maid. the married man aud the bachelor, so as to include all the persons who intended to be bene fitted by the proposed act. Under, the as il reads, the who has slaves and large plantations Is benefited, while the needy maid who may be striving for her bread by teaching school depeu- ding on her exer,ions for her support is left altogether unprotected.
 He passed by the bachelor unnOticea, hc oay claimed for the unfortunate who had never hasked in the sunshine of love, who had beeu left