Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-01-04

which fit for that property those that The
buyer and the seller mutually profit by such bargain
and what rarely happens in matters Of revenue the relief Of
the subject will go handnhand with the profit OF the exche-
The to be derived from the sale OF the forest
lands Will not be considerable have imagined anu
conceive would be unwise up to the utmost or
to suffer bidders enhance according to their eagees
the purchase Of wherein the expense of that purchase
may weaken the capital to be employed in their cultivation
The principal which propose to draw from these
uncuyated wastes is to spring from the improvement and
population OF the Kingdom events infinitely more advantage
the OF the than the rents OF the best
landed which hold 1t is thus would dispose Of
he mass Of private PROPERTY by which they will come,
through the Of circulation and through the political
cretions of the State into wellregulated revenue"
Mr. President quoted this passage from Burke twenty
four years ago in this chamber deeply convinced OF its
found wisdom that time have had occasion to think Of
il often since, and earnestly than at present
have the sales Of lingering and anguish
ing, involving great expense IN their administration,
great Federal influence in the States, great injury in
divers ways in these States; and after all producing little
,h.t requires elaborate tables be constctsd
and some large erss af their fcs.sSlo ?. iaf ,,ut i
show that they have produced any and now Is ndsPu
bic that they produce nothing for sixteen yearsto pro-
duce nothing costing S700 900 year for their adnsra-
onkeepng up army of idle ocers-depriving the new
States both of their and the i've per centum In lieu
of hemand keeping large portions of the State out OF the
hands of cutivacrs In the mean time have the cu
vaon of the lands through the custom houses-hrough
what Mr. Burke calls the political secretons OF the State
bringing in large increasing, and perennial stream OF
revenue All the custom house comes from that
source The one hundred millions of agricultural products
which 60 abroad bring back upwards OF hundred millions
Of foreign goods which pay the duties which fwhch have
filed filing and will f-he treasury. The orty-ive
millions counted upon by the Secretary OF the Treasury
as the sole resource Of the Treasury all from that
Cultivation and improvement OF the country, then
and the sale of land the Of and to that
have mainly looked in the plan have submitted have kept
in view, in every part OF the plann the reduced
in fho epffIar
seersand the cesson of the unsod and unsaeabe lands
to the States in which they ie am an enemy to public
debt and had the satisfaction to large one eIngulshed
We see another one created impute no blame about 1t
but want TO it extingushed see no such chance a
present As things stand cannot pay the In
except by creating deban issue perhaps OF these
eIcheque bills called by US treasury notes. by which nation
easily sided into debt aud by which Sir Robert WaPoe
laid the foundation Of the present British debt eschew his
example, and his resource and go for facing and meeting our
public debt Rapid sales Of the public lands will
do part economy and rerenchment must do the rest.
Mr.. B. then asked leave to bring in his bill
BILL to accelerate sale of the public lands and pay the
public debt; exnguish the Federal title to lands within
the States homes actual settlers and to cede
the unsaeabe and refuse lands to the States in which they
BE il enacted Sc That all the public lands which shall
been offered private SALE and shall remain unsod on
the Sh day Of june 1885, shall thereafter be offered at one
dollar per until the S0h day OF June 1855 and there
after all remaining unsod that price shall be offered at
venty6ve per acre. until the soh day OF June 1855
and thereafter all remaining then & uaod @ shall De ssa eereo u
thereafter all such land still remaining unsod shall be offered
twenty per until the SOth day june 1851
Sec. 2. 4nd be further enacted, That every head OF
family widow single the age OF eighteen years
who shall the S0h day OF June be an actual settler
on any Of the public lands then offered for sale at dollar
per acre shall be entitled donation of forty to in
cude his settlement and to pre-emptye right 70
quantity exceeding one hundred and twenty acres ada
or contiguous the douaon sevenve cents per
but not aelade any other actual settler and thirty
days shall be allowed such actual settler to enter his or her
Il lie har, F,fgOn And
such person settled the S0h day OF june 1885,
public land then offered at seyeny-hve cents per acre
shall in like be entitled toa ike donation, ana 70
preemption fifty per And every such person
settled the S0h day June, shall be entitled 70
like donation, and to like pre-emption at twenty-five cents
per And every such settled on the SUN o.
June, 1857 shall be entitled like donation and to ike
pre-empon at five cents per And where TWO or more
settled contiguous tracts then
he empye right of each may be satisfied of the
vacant land and all questions between actua se.ers
shall be decided Immediately and equitaby BY the register
and receiver
Sec s. 4nd further enacted, That all persons owning
lands to which public lands offered at graduated prices
the first section Of this bill shall be adong and when sha
be entered BY actual settler within the respective t
days limited for his preempve right such person sna pc
entitled for thirty days after the expiration OF such
peempve purchase the same to the exene Oh one
hundred and sixty the price fixed in the said first
ton of this and it said public land should adJoin TWO OF
more owners of which should apply for the same then
the adjacent land shall be divided equally between the and
the quantity Of hundred and sixty acres made up TO eac
if required of any contiguous public land, free from set
Sec H. And be further enacted That in all cases in which
the public lands in State shall have been or may herea-
ter be reduced less than three millions OF acres the
shall be granted the State in which it lies and all
the public lands which shall have been offered at the radua
ted prices established in the first section OF this bill and
which shall remain unsold the 30th day OF June, 1887
shall be ceded to the State in which they lie.
Leave was granted and the bin read first and Sc
cond time bv its title and referred to the Committee on the
Public Lands
AUSTRIA AND THE HUNGARIANS.
message was received from the President of the United
States by Mr. NJ p FILLMORE, his private Secretary dated
the 30th instant communicating in reply TO resolution OF
the Senate of the 26h instant certain correspond ence De-
tween Government and Austria. The correspondence
read, and is follows:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 80, lsoo
To the President of the United States:
The Secretary of State whom has been referred ne
resolution Of the Senate of the 26th instant requesting te
President ssto communicate to the Senate, II not lncom
patble with the public interest," copies OF any
if any has taken place. between the Department Oh oac an
the Austrian Charge dAaes, respecting the appointment
proceedings of the agent sent out 70 examine ano
upon the condition and prospects OF the hungarian
during their recent struggle for independence mas the
to lay before the President copy OF the
| for by the resolution.
! Respectfully submitted.
Chevalier J. G. Hulsemam 10 Secretary OF State.
rTropsl.tion AUSTRIAN LEGATION,
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER ~, leoO.