The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-17

bins ~itA 81 object sno,hsr<h., Of deriving sss
snSs - carving i promptly nom the public i.ses
For that purpose wish to oder amendment, before
st10wu 70 the bill Of ths senator from Wssoo0AS
And will now take occasion 10 say that mink INC
unss Ms when the circumstances an which ths pub
lie lands are placed viii iocs legislature ot the coun
tyr wil tofcs Cong apply s MUD seriously 10
their eoadlon and 10 beso@ upon Tue suolGs! esleig
den has sh0Wn his annual report that according TO
the bsst computation. there ninetyhve millions Of
o land 70 DC SS these mon. a. ou
market puices worth hundred and twenty mil
lions OF dollars And be has Shown that at the rate At
which the lands taken by the purchasers il will
quire sixteen years dispose OF these and.
the esn tHe these lands granted soldiers sold
cheaper than the lands OF The United States. they will
monop0lze the Market that the United States cannot
expect TO make sales until these ninety millions are
first disposed Of.
believe that the Secretary entirely right in all these
calculations. and that 10 look toward Tor the pc
rod Of sixteen years, things now stand during wheh
time to derive revenue from the pubic lanas,
and 70 keep up the whole machinery OF the public
land system for the benefit OF those whom we have en-
ablsd TO expe us from the market believe we have
had lately OF the strongest illustrations Of inc run
OF the Secrearys supposhon IN what has occurred lh
Of the land districts in the State OF lowa-that young
Stais holding much public land aud IN which the sales
up0n the part OF the United States, at late pubic sale OF
fresh and rich land have been stopped and IN manner
which wish the senator from Iowa. who sits near me,
[blL DoDcEl would state to the Senate ,
= Mr. DODGE, OF Iowa. | will state, Mr. President,
that have account in wspaper of the sale to
which the senator from Missouri audes II is this tina,
in consequence of the great number Of land warrants at
the land sale the heart Of that State and among
the richest lands in the world although the lands OF the
government exposed at pubic sale outcry, as the
law directs, single sold and Tor the rea
that. the sales over, the lands would
be subject to private entry Tor these Mexican land war
rants.
4 Mr. BENTON Yes, sir; wished the senator from
Iowa 10 make his statement, and he has made IT, And
Z here Is a paragraph which have in the newsPa
pers which relates 10 the thing, and confirm what
he says:
.LArp WARRANTS u.s. LAND SALES We learn from the
Burlington ows papers ha during The ~so, Term N e.
last single bidder appeared all the entries
the land offices being made with warrants The spesula
hand, find difficulty in getting rid of them
They do it in this way They enter quarter section for
bond for deed the deed to be executed in from
date on The payment OF Two hand'ed dollar: IN cash The
psys for his land The end Of that time than the
oa ne makes SIXTY 0'sSsn per cent 0' Tue 'ps'0'
.Ws learn from the Burlington dowa) papers that
FarSsd. in that State, in November last not not single
bidder appeared p Not bid for an acre during the term
for which the lands were cried The term used to be
period of three weeks. Is that the time now
s. MIR. DODGE. of Iowa. 1t is weeks.
Mr.. BENTON. During two weeks the finest lands in
America were exposed for sale the register and receiver
attending and receiving their per diem. 80 day The
Iands were Cried and not bd-not single person ap
pearsd 10 take them at the minimum price OF dollar and
aquartsr an acre
The article then says
"An the entries the land office being made with
rants, tho specnlators there"---
Yes the SPECTATORS there, sir but old soldiers
are there-not one.
'The spectators there. Notwithstanding they have a
large number Of hand, find difficulty get
quarter seolon for a farmer with of their and
then give him bond for deed, the deed TO be executed
y one year from the date on the payment OF two hundred
That j. the way they did at Fairfield. in Iowa; and
this 10 only one way.
Thars are a thousand ways in which they do the same
thiag--somehmes undertaking for ready money-some.
times giving credit-and always getting between the
United States and the purchaser and monopozing the
market The paper says
The farmer fses satisfied because he gets years
S and pays no more for his land al the end Of that time
.dshed because he makes sixty to seventy per cent by
And lay the United States seems to be satisfied with
this sAAs al things for have made ourselves and
ass taking no steps 70 courieract IT, And veht
mently urged 10 oonsummaie it by giving greater fac
eA for the assignment OF The warrants 90 that The spse
the eatre suPerces Of the State OF Ohio four times over
lacking only five millions OF That is all. Butin
ssead OF the nnety-i millions, which the Secretary
counts, count one hundred millions setting down five
millions for the good counleeits that will be passed upon
Here we are, then. with the United States actually
thrown out OF her market for sixteen years. and
that completely that not only the lands which have
bean picked and culed cannot be sold by the United
SlAoG> 0u the new lands, and tne nnest IN the world,
cannot be cold We a condition in which we
sAa got revenue from the public lands for sixteen
ysass 70 come. things stand and in the time
10 keep up the machinery of the land Office, for
the bsna6 OF those who chase us out OF the market
and theae no slight buraens / showed items some
wsoks ago which made up $780, 900 annually for the
penses oil the land system Malnpy thai sum by six
.e>hthe number OF years this is TO continueand you
have OF Gil ,200, 600 That is branch of the
exRense Another that OF the expense of the registers
ep4 SscsiveEs. who now have labor than in
debcslng OF the public lands, for which they get
pessnaion. think the labor is four times great
horeAofore.
Mr. DODGE, OF Iowa |, is at least four times as
greAt. LII
70 Nj. BENTON. We know that the little sum of five
hundred dollars is allowed 10 each register and re-
esivcs the expenses OF his Office II they live in
towns, ~ they generally do, il does do IT, Their
coupensati0n per cent all sales This they
do not receive and they will OF petition Con-
G!eas to pay it, and Congress does not pay it they will
give UP Their places for they cannot work for nothing
ana ma themselves One per ceDtum upon 900
wot oil land will be 81 900 which will have TO
pay mem on that head Then another head lager
than ihafs where those will demand who will have more
4 power 10 demand than the registers and receivers
speak OF the Saies-the States which gave up the
right Of taxaton upon the public lands under compact
With the government that they to receive Eve per
sentsn their sales, for their benefit either for the pu
pee n making roads or canals within the State the
STATE Five per cenum upon the sales OF the public land
10 The consideration which the States 10 receive
fog giving The night OF taxng-a right which, if they
had cd and exercised it, would have been than
Ten tines the five per cenum But here that 1--WE
per centum once struck of the $3.50 100000 worth OF