New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-08

entirely forgotten He don't want home-a
home would be worth nothing to him All nc
wants is money, and the Warrants must DC usue
convertible into cash Wen; naNe en n-
Warrants from ruinous depreciation, by proposing
that he should have the option OF taxing lnsteau
~ a ouarter.section Warrant United states In
tarest. be airing certificate for SlOO In casa. DuI
that would not answer the purpose 10 preserve
tba moor soldiers Warrant from depreciation
yVss not the object The certificate could not be
materially depreciated-the Land-W arants may
and will be- And, to make assurance douoly
sure the Senate proposes, by its amendment en-
grated on this measure to multiply these w ar.
| rants to an enormous extent. We have no estl'
mates no calculation, no precise data but, ac-
cordng to the best information have been able
| TO procure this amendment will add about NtHe
| tv.fre Millions of Acres TO the Public Lands
| thrown upon the market in the shape Of Assign
| able w arrants by the original measure as here
modified. What will the Warrants be worth IN
view of such gutl What can the poor sol
der obtain for his w arrant Sir, this measure
will enure TO the benefit Of spectators in War.
rants and in Lands-they will amass fortunes
and create for themselves principalites out OF
their profits from it, while little or nothing OF SUB
stantial benefit will inure to the poor soldier
"Mr President, has the Senate earnestly con-
sidered this measure Has it reflected how en-
tirely the National Domain will be swamped by
II : NOL merely Will JOuE uOitC - anus SOoSO "
yield revenue under its operation-that is near
" the case now-but what vast sums must be
drawn from the Treasury to keep In operation the
machinery Of your Land Ofhces-what an i'm
mense amount of extra labor Will be thrown upon
the Departments here The temptations TO whole
sale fraud the certainty that the soil OF the New
States will be covered and monopollzed In whole
Counties by nonresident ownership the fruitful
source of 90 many wrongs and woes)-the certain
ty that much Of the land so obtained for tribe
will be held up for enormous prces-lt seems 10
me impossible that the Senate, having duly con-
sidered, should proceed to pass this measure.
To this brief but fOrcible appeal, Gen.
ArcHIsoN of Missouri, who seemed to feel
that he was on the wrong side, undertook
to reply. His leading idea was this 1t
sis a great evil that the Government should
own land; it is a general good to have it
Icease to be public and become private
property therefore, voted for the origi-
nal grant, and shall now vote to make the
Warrants assignable. '-That there was
any essential difference between such alien
alton in freehold farms or in principalities
between having the Cultivatcr own the
Soil or the Landlord own practically both
Soil and Cultivator-the man seemed to
have no more idea than a Hottentot.
Mr.. WALKER briefly rejoined; Mr.. BUT
LER had something to say; Mr.. WALKER
was ready for him; JEFFERSON DAVIS also
spoke on the right side; finally the vote was
taken and the Resolve as amended passed
Yeas 81, Nays 10.
But rapacity for once had overreached
itself. But for the Senate's amendment,
it is highly probable that the House would
have concurred mot without struggled IN
eusp o.. ding thu rel JviHO nuio Hnd S0nu-
ing this Resolve to the President tor his
signature. But the amendment rendered
it necessary that the Resolve should go
back to the House for concurrence therein
and determined minority of that body
were there watching for it. They were
enough to call the Yeas and Nays on
agreeing to the Senate's amendment, and
again on suspending the 18th Joint Rule,
and thus have consumed at least half an
hour. Had the session lasted an hour
longer, the passage of the measure could
not have been prevented. AS it was, the
Speakers hammer knocked down the
XXXIst Congress just as the amended Re-
solve was returned, or was about to be re-
turned, to his table. Others did and were
ready to do for its defeat, but the credit of
actually arresting it is mainly due to Sena-
tor WALKER alone.
And now, if the silent millions, who are
neither soldiers nor the heirs of soldiers
choose to step forward and demand of their
Representatives, elected and to be elected,
that this most baleful measure shall be
stopped, it will be; but if they choose to
slumber on in needless apathy, and let the
new aristocracy of land and scrip-jobbers'
which the Bounty Land measure oflsst SEES
sion has warmed into existence have 1t all
their own way, the benefcent Land Reform
whereby Free Homes are to be secured to
all who need them-not the Homeless Of
To-Day only, but those Of generations yet
unborn-must be postponed 20 an indefinite
future. The amended Resolve that passed
the Senate, will throw not less than Half
Million Land Warrants on the general
market two-thirds of which will soon be
in the hands of few spectators
of ample means and boundless desires, to
whom the Freedom of the Public Lands
would be pecuniary ruin, Men of earnest
thought and generous purpose; cannot this
be egertedl Will you not think of it in
the approaching Congressional Electionsl