Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-08-31

Mason Pratt Rusk Sebastian Souie Turney and Yuee-l6
NAYS-Messrs. Badger Baldwin. Bell Benton Bradbury,
sh sss Dayton 5ia.oa oPss @ Dodss
King Mangum, Pearce, Phelps Shields Smith, Spruanee
Sturgeon, Underwood UPham Wales Winthrop, and Whit
comb-S6.
So the bill was laid upon the table, and it was made
the special order for Monday next. at IL o'clock.
BOUNTY LAND BILL
Mr. SHIELDS. move to postpone the prior special
des for the purpose of taking up the bill ssgranng bounty
land certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged
the military service Of the United States" It is bounty
land bill which the House has passed in liberal spirit, but
which has heretofore been kept back the Senate pur-
pose of allowing other important to pass hope
it will be received in the spirit which actuated the
House, and that it will be considered and disposed Of
Mr.. SHIELDS. The Committee on the Public Lands
have reported several amendments in which they ask the
cnrrence OF the Senate.
The first amendment then read being to strike out the
word who, in the first section, and insert in lieu thereof
the words, whose has been returned rolls
in any other official to the War Department
having" SO that the section will read
That each OF the surviving commissioned and
msoned officers musicians: Private whether of regulars
rolls in any other official Manner the War
Department. having performed military service in reg
men company detachment in the service of the United
States the with Great Britain, declared by the United
States the 18th day Of June, 1872 any the Indian
wars since 1905 and each OF the .uryvpg commissioned
officers who engaged in the military service of the Uni
ted States in the late with Mexico shall be entitled
twelve months service, hundred and sixty Of
three months service to forty acres Of lard Proded The
having been service shall receive said land
thereof if It shall appear by the muster rolls of his
regiment corps that he deserted dshonoraby dis
charged from service, or if he has received entitled to
land bounty under act of passed.
The amendment agreed to.
The second amendment insert the word surviving
which have placed between brackets before the words
commissioned officers who engaged the military
vice, was also agreed to-
The third amendment insert the words in italics and
to strike out the words between brackets the second sec
ton, which is as follows
Sec. Q find be further enacted, That each commits
stoned and officer musician private for
whom provision made by the first section hereof shall
ceye certificate warrant from the Department of the
terror for the quantity of land which he may entitled
any land Office Of the United States in one BODY and N CON
formiy to the legal subdivisions of the public lands upon any
OF the public lands in such district then subject private
try and upon the return OF such certificate with
evidence of the location thereof having been legally made
the General Land Office patent shall be issued therefor In
the of the death any or
stoned oce musician private prior subsequent the
passage of this who shall have served aforesaid and
who shall not have received bounty land for said services
like certificate shall be issued in favor and nure
the benefit Of his widow n not to her heirs the heirs
such commissioned officer, soldier,
before the conclusion OF his service unmarried the
date OF her application Prouaded further That land war
rant issued under the provisions of this shall be laid upon
land OF the United States which there shall be
empon right upon which there shall be actual settle
ment and cultivation except with the Of such settler
to be satisfactorily proven to the proper land officer"
The amendments agreed to.
The fourth amendment insert after the words issue
Of in the third section, the words the patent certificate
of entry on" so that the section would read:
"Sec s. .qnd be hrther enacted, That all Sales
cages letters of attorney, other of writing
going affect the title claim any certificate
herenbeore provided for made prior the
cate shall be null void all and purposes whatso
shall such certificate warrant the land obtain.
ed thereby be in anywise affected by or charged WITH
officer soldier prior to the issuing of the patent Pouded
That the benefits Of this act shall any person
| who is a member OF the present Congress"
| Mr.. DOWNS. would suggest that this amendment will
be of very little effect because if you allow the transfer to be
made any stage of the proceeding before the title the
land absolutely vested in the grantee always
evade it. would suggest that the words cor certificate Of
entry be stricken out, as to prevent any transfer
1 Mr.. SHIELDS This matter was fully considered in
committee, and the only restrictions thought reasonable were
such would prevent disposition of the scrip until the
land became the property of the individual When the man
the land and gets his certificate the land is absolutely
his and the issuing Of the patent depends the officer and
the individual, and in some instances it is kept back
for five six years. have objection to the rejection Of
the amendment except that would produce great deal of
Inconvenience where the officer able issue
the patent when the individual entering the land calls for it.
| The amendment was agreed to-
The fifth amendment then read, being insert at the
end of the bill the following proviso
TTotHoeu IATneT, every person may De enti-
ted under the provisions of this receive certificate
orbouny land shall be allowed the option to re-
such certificate warrant Treasury for 800
where the quantity of land is 100 acres $50 where the quant
is 80 and S25 where the quantity 40 said
scrip bear interest Of per per annum payable
semannual, and redeemabe at the pleasure of the Gov
crnment.o
Mr.. BADGER hope the Senate will not concur in that
amendment The body Of the bill proposes to dispose Of
know how much and nobody oresee, Of the public
lands and then this provision enable the persons who
may be entitled, they undoubtedly are, the
benefit of the previous part Of the law, to demand
money in lieu thereof and thus create public
debt, their option Now, really it to me, however
friends may disposed give away the public lands
to all who may have participated in any and all Of wars
great and small since the beginning Of Government they
ought not to be wiling in the present state the exchequer
and in the present prospect of the country to create this i'm
mense national debt hope the Senate will not in
! the amendment
Mr.. SHIELDS. would state to the Senator from North
Carolina that the Of money very uncomfortable when
compared with the Of land and that the who
will select the money will suffer great disadvantage will
also state that we have copied this amendment from the pro-
visions of former law, and that the experience under that
law has shown that little money has thus been claimed
is, however, matter Of very little importance, and
not strenuous in regard to the adoption of the amendment
Mr.. ATCHlSON. concur with the Senator from North
Carolina in what he has said this subject My recoec-
ton as to former laws granting bounty lands are that they
were generally passed during the war; and particularly that
with Mexico; and can remember no grant Of such lands
made subsequent to the 1t part Of the considera
ton and inducement for enter the army during the
war; and particularly was part Of the pay Of soldiers