New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-02
The [. y. senate Land Reform.
Correspondence OF The Tribune
U.-tfr~av,x ThurssaV Ian a IFi


Yesterday. IN senate. some practical and philan
throPic views were taken OF the uses to which the
public domain nigh, be applied views which come
nearer and nearer 10 those Of that energetic and
philosophical class OF rejecting men known as Va
lional Reiomers
Gen. HorsroS proposed TO instruct the Commit
tee on Public Lands 10 inquire whether Il would
not be eXpedient to grant to every family -naiVe
or immigrant, If the latter come before the next
iih OF March, and are not landowners nor worth
sl5OOl60 acres OF land, by patent free Of al cost
when they shall have erected suitable buildings,
cleared ten acres and resided three years on the
lot substantially Mr.. WEBsrER's plan
The defect in the Generals proposition $, that
oaths a. to settling duties and residence would
often prove worthless unless faithful inspectors
were appointed whose imperative duty il would be
TO visit every lot periodically, OF unless some other
efficient check were provided Many years ago. IN
pper Canada, settling duties were required 10 be
done previous TO the issuing OF patent but class
o. persons appeared, aud swore through thousands
OF POO acre lots they never saw, and the perjury
was winked at. The difficulty is. TO secure the land
10 the real settler instead OF ertne a bill for
the relief OF overcrowded cities and the settlement
OF the wilderness into scheme for placing rHE
PICKED LOTS in new states in the hands OF mere land
iobbers who. unless real checks were Enforced,
would soon buy thousands Of lots for 4 mere nom
nal consideration.
Mr. Houston stated that ms pn,lect was in
tended as an Improvement upon Mr SEWARD :
resolution on which Sir. FooTE asserted that the
Senator for TeXass plan was merely bid tor
popularity This the latter denied as he well
might and asserted that IN a thinly settled State
like Texas It was right 10 act upon the principle
that an independent aud wei establshed popula-
ton is OF tar more advantage 10 society than the
possession OF Improbable public lands, neither
paving taxes Masking roads nor contributing 10 the
general wealth and welfare Thousands OF mil
lions Of acres We have OF unoccuped lands, while
in the cities of the North and elsewhere. millions
of landess citizens are found miserable depend
ents On their daily labor renting illventilated
rooms damp cellars, crowded gsrets, or wretched
novels and often obliged to rely Oh public charity
WIN not transplant these millions TO the free and
b1undless West % the borders OF the Hepubllc,
and thus place them Ia position 70 educate Their
children, acquire wealth, and secure independence,
and respectsbiity, the fruit OF their honest daily
toll and labor and thls create q desirable society
on our frontiers distinguished alike i0r energy,
patriotism and Intelligence
Mr. MASGrA seemed inclined 10 throw rdicule
On Messrs SEW ARD DOUcLAss, WEBSTER and
Houston land resolutions. MIR. SEWARD pro
position following upon those Of Messrs DorGLAss
and WEBSTER. asked that the Committee on PUB
he and, might be directed 10 inquire into the pro
priety OF granting lands 10 the Exles OF Hungary
already arrived aud 10 arrive IN the United states
a. irdl as 10 tie er,ies fSeihg from oppression ~
ether European coHafue.. Mr.. ). desired simply
to consider the American wilderness refuge 10
the oppressed, a being In our day what II had
proved in hyeone ages q refuge a. the Puritan the
Quaker. the Roman Catholic. The liberal and The
pnor and destitute 81 far distant lands.
T. IS Gen. Cas- believes il had become qlrs
ton whether Austan barbarities Ia Hungary bad
Mt placed her Government beyond tie pale II civi
lzatOn il was surely the III time tn decide whai
great aud powerful Republic could m shouli do ior
the victims who had He'd from the iciter OF the
scsfodl Governor SFwARD's plan was essential
is that q Mr. HorsroS. only the latter had carried
ut the principle little further. Judge DorclAss
agree. substantially with Messrs HocsToN. Sfw
ARD and WEBSTER. He II will be recolected has
brought in resolutions and bill upon the SUBJECT
There has been 40 lack OF bills also IN the House
rom wear 10 wear, but somehow ~ other theN Al
gavs come a. nothing.
Messrs HINSFGAV and FoorF isunted the
when ! see such men as SEWARD, WEtstHh
H0UsrOS and DOUGLASS. taking hold @ Land n
hrm thus early IN the long session. begin 20 THINK
hat ere long the first fruits of their patriotic Abors
NAV find their way into the statute BOOK MI
DOrGLAss wished 10 see the foreigner who SEEKS
home here put upon an entire eguahiy Win ine
native born and as his fine and fertile state sends
one distinguished Irish Catholic immigrant TO the
! 1 uited States Senate and also the only adopted
citizen whom prejudice has allowed seat IA the
House of Representatives rom among iour Hilnns
certainly not less intelligent OF faithful 10 freedom
than their brethren who are R9ffrt born and repre-
senied ST the Capitol, 4 IS not Nery ProoaDie that
Illinois Will find fault with the sentiment Urged OF
by BrRKBEcK, her first Secretary OF state an Eng
fsh Quak err she stood mp for freedom N l---i and
| bv majority OF one in her State Convention,
pobly resisted ever effort ., the General Govern
nlepi. the Slave boders and ri interested IN buy
ins men Ike cattle 20 convert Der magnIncent Yer
ritory into another Missouri Her prosperity last
Increasing "a evidence even OF the r0rtdiy wisdom
nj he fon1ders Of her Institutions IlliDoians may
sonnd'v sleep-the conhasratIons so eloquently
ooyt,avcd bv Nj CLAY on Tuesday last val never
a,s,ur6 ,heiI dreams e. DO You would be done
by i. bouestvH-al-aysf Ae bes' policy for Ho'kiad
pa tis loay ruH Come 70 i We must
This is the age Of wonders Eyen Gen CAss
whose principal source Of wealth y ms ooogs' %
bond, and mortgages, the result Of ages Of land
snscnlstion lef il necessary 70 chime IN with Sen
To- DorcIAss. He was highly favorable To the
principle! shall keep an eye upon his move
ments and see if the PrinHpie thus taken IN
charge snail produce = eonespo1ding action he
hopea. he said. that the time bad arrived In which
the pubI;c Sou,sn would be held for the benefit OF
actual settlers.
NJ R.ncrR asked home question. VIZ wheth-
=, ~. nDbl;r lands were not pledzed by Congress
Tor the money borrowed TO aghi Ns1ico and A. !,
gaire Texas Cor the use o. s11venosdehsi ana y
ser.ro,ityi irsther think an act Of last session
repeats the pledge under which Pari Of the war
deb. was supposed to be oonr.ced-
S.ns tor SEwARD stated why he had On the
| crescent occasion. given some preference 10 the
strange whose rssoluis efforts 70 establish Inde
psndencs had driven him fi5m has home and Orced
| I'm 10 sen an asylum N tins Tree land He want
Al no revenue from the pubic lands, the common
proD.rtv Of the whole people but that they should
remain great fuBd applicable 10 great object. o.
ustiop.I sdvancenenf and improvement, and 70
ncts of national charity or kindness 10 dose whose
safserings and whose wrongs clam our vsrIaes'