Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-18

MT. DCNtON. Dunng TWO weeks the hnest lands IN
America were exposed for SALE the register and receiver at
tending, and receiving their per diem (S6 day) The
lands were cried, and not bd-not single person appeared
to take them at the minimum price Of dollar and quarter
an acre ..
The article then says:
"All the entries at the land office being made with
rants, the spectators there"
Yes the spectators here sir but old soldiers
there not one
The speculaors there they have large
number OF warrants on hand, find difficulty getting rid
OF them. They do in this They enter quarter
ton for farmer with of their warrants and then give
him bobd for Decd the deed be executed in year
from the date on the payment of hundred dollars in
cash."
Tha, is the way they did Fairfield, in Iowa and this
is only way.
There a thousand ways in which thew do the same
thng-somemes undersellng for ready money-sometmes
giving cred-and always getting between the United States
and the purchaser and monopozng the market The paper
says: .@"
sThe feels satisfied because he gets wears ere
dit and pays for his land the end of time
than the Government asks for it, the specuator is
satisfied because he makes sixty to seventy by the
speculation" .u: ~. .-s. -.
And soy the United States seems to be satisfied with this
Of things for have made ourselves and are taking
steps TO counteact it. And vehementy urged to
consummate by giving greater facilities for the assignment
Of the warrants so that the spectators may have less trouble
than they have in selling these 9 900 Of Of
much would make the entire supercies of the State of
Ohio four times over lacking only five millions of acres.
B
the Secretary counts count hundred Millions setting
down five millions for the good countees that will Re
passed upon
Here are then, with the United States actually thrown
of her market for sixteen years. and that so
completely that not only the lands which have been
picked and culed be sold by the United Sates but
the lands, and the finest in the world be sod
We condition in which shall get from
the public lands for sixteen years come, things
stand, and in the time keep up the machinery
Of the land Office for the benefit Of those who chase
Of the market-and these are slight burdens showed
items weeks ago which made up $4,000 annually for
the expenses Of the land system. Multiply that by six
teenthe number Of years this to continue-and you
have sum Of 81, 100000. That is one branch Of the
expense Another is that of the expense Of the registers and
receivers who have labor than in dsposing
of the public lands, for which they get compensation
think the labor is four times great heretofore.
Mr.. DODGE, of Iowa. Il is at least four times great
Mr.. BENTON. We know that the little of five
hundred dollars is allowed to each register and receiver
cover the expenses Of his Office If they live in towns,
they generally do does not doi Their compensation
per all sales. This they do receive,
and they will of petition Congress pay it. and if
Congress does not they will give up their places for
they cannot work for nothing and find themselves One per
centum upon $780, 00Q 900 worth of land will be 900
which will have pay them that head. Then
another head larger than that where those will demand who
will have power to demand than the registers and
ceivers. speak Of the tateshe States which gave up
the right Of taxation upon the public lands under compact
with the Government that they 10 receive five per
their saes r their benefit either for the purpose
Of making roads can, within the State to the State.
Five per centum upon the sales Of the public land the
sideraton which the States receive for giving up the
right of axng right which, if they had retained and
ercsed it would have been than ten times the five
per centum. But here that five per centum at struck
off the $780, 600 worth of land for sixteen years. and for
the States get during all that me Is
it to be supposed that they will lie still under such loss
such evasion of the compact that they will not apply
here to the General Government to pay that five per cen,um
They will certainly applywll demand the money. And
will not their demand. SO jns, be complied with Now put
all these together to the States in lieu of five
per centum 900 registers and receivers for their
per cenum and Sill 200 900 for the expenses of ad
minsterng the land system, and you have got O0O
which you pay account Of this land SYSTEM during
these sixteen years that you keeping up the system
for the sole benefit of Spectators who taking hun
ded and twenty millions Of dollars from you and the United
States receiving shilling during the whole time.
Sir, this state of things is actually upon isno long
speculation Is longer in contemplation but it is
positively upon Us, and operating while taking This
state Of things is ntoerabe must the country. 1t
must attract the serious consideration of Congress- Some
thing must be done Il would be bad enough- would be
fsnby two acts-should pass over to specuatorsfur
old soldier will have benefit Of every ones experience
tells him thatwhen Congress- by two strokes OF the Pen
to spectators much territory will make our
such States Ohio lacking only five millions Of and
pays Sls 40O 900 enable them to enjoy the gift at
pense It would be bad enough at tine-oo bad at any
time But what is il time when have just out
Of with debt Of Sl3 0O0 600, principal and INTEREST,"
And cuosy enough the last item Of the debt becomes due
exactly at the end of these sixteen years. So that duiIng
these sixteen years. while should be Outstanding
pay off The annual interest and part of the principal
of this debt every year, have ampuated whole branch
of off and thrown away the second
branch of revenue and pay Ss 600 to administer
for the benefit Of SPECTATORS thereby throwing upon the
alone the whole current expenses of the Govern
ment now about $780, OOO, 900 year-the whole Of this
debt principal and neresand the whole expenses OF
administering system Of public lands for sixteen years to
come All this to be thrown upon the customs and up
goes the tariff higher than ever.
Sir, we are in deplorabe condition. We want roung
up. And am glad that the Senator from Wisconsin has
brought forward bill which brings the subject before the
Senate and the people, and gives opportunity Of bring
ing up sooner than could have in its regular course
proposition which offered the Senate in the shape
Of bill two weeks ago, and which is intended to combine
rapid acquisition Of with the great subject of exn
gushing the federal title the land and pass them rapidly
into the hands of cul'vatos now offer as an amendment
to this bin the one which lately brought in upon leave,
titled bill to accelerate the sales of the public lands and pay
the public debo extngush the federal title lands with
in the new grant donations and preemPtlon rights
to actual seer-and to cede the unsod and unsaleate
lands to the States in which they lie. Z,
The amendment read and ordered TO be printed.
The further consideration Of the subject then post
poped TO Wednesday next and made the special order for
| that day. ,.
FRENCH sPoLIATIoNs.
On motion of Mr.. SMITH, the Senate proceeded to the
consideration of the bill provide for the asceanmen and
satisfaction Of claims Of American citizens for spoiatons
med by the French prior the 3st day Of July, 1901.
Mr. SMITH obtained the floor, and the further considera
t;on Of the bill was then postponed to tomorrow.
On motion of Mr.. MASON, the Senate proceeded to the
consideration Of Executive business and after time spent
,beru;n he doors re-opened-