The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-07
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not cell the sd slit IL located. and they will promise
10 give portion OF Ii to the agent 10 have located
and n nine cs..s on, Of ten my Will cTmp'y vna these
respect for their honor in fulfilling their promises any
other people But BY forcing upon thsm the necessary OF
maxim these promises 10 the agents. you will only de-
pecais the value OF their property. aud foster specua
ton instead Of preventing And alter The locations are
made. they will know nothing about the qualify Of the
land and nothing about its vtalus and they win have
to take exactly what these agents. who employed
under such advantageous circumstances, may choose
give them for the little patent which they have located
for them That is exactly the way your present law will
operate
Bu, sir let me tell you further facts in regard TO
this matter These lands when located under the
stances that have stated. by promises made to these
agents. will be located in Just as large tracts they
would be if you allow the warrants TO be assigned Tor
the agent that undertakes 10 locate Tor everybody will
not have the time the disposition TO all the
country to make the best selection. Wherever he can
find land with the greatest ease and convenience he will
make the locations OF all the variants and he will locate
them all in body, particularly he nd large tract
Of good land, with view to Interior speculation
Again, the objection is raised that TO make the
raHs assgnable would be injury to the States
Now. affirm that the injury will DO just great by al
lowing the agents TO be employed IN locating the lands
as would be il you allowed them TO buy the warrants
already assigned If not greater. The injury would be
just the that there is no objection to the in
jury to the new States growing out of this
But, sir, permit touch upon one other idea, and
then really beg pardon of the Senate Tor tresassng thus
long upon their lime. That idea is founded upon ex
peence In the war Of 1912 ,yon had military dis
somewhere else Now, happen TO have good deal OF
knowledge in regard to these military districts Under
your present sysem i you refuse to make the warrants
sgnable you compel the soldier or widow 10 have their
lands located and their patents obtained. When that
is done. who will pay the taxes upon the land Of III 4.
widow that soldier! That the question. Who paid
the taxes the land OF the widows and soldiers OF the
war OF 1912 Nobody What becam. Of those lands
Millions and millions of acres were sold by the State OF
Illinois for the OF and the specuiaors
who purchased up these lands by tax titles
my section of the country, in Kentucky. and made bar
yains, and swopied them of for the purchase OF far
nerS plantations with good titles, giving twenty or
thirty Tor That was sp cuatioH which
know was largely INDUCED in. and know individuals
Who male fortune. o.. Of these military claims which
soil OF by millions OF these s,.culatDrs
And that is exactly the course you about to torce
u,on us now. Yon force The widow and soldier to oh
tain their pttrnls tor The LIANT which thy never Can
visit in person il order wha, II is worth, a. 10
make sale Of n; and they cannot employ an agent
without paying him at ea-, halt eprce OF the property
The consequence will be thar the lile ac, of land vii,
b. sold tor the paymen, of taxes, and you have the
old game led again You give, rs has been
Justly remarked, bounty TO the old soldier with one
position that you take il away with The Other You tan
alze him by holding on, rome little benefit in the form
OF these WARRANTS, and then you place him under such
of law that he absolutely loses everything After
having received what he supposes bounty, he lo-es
all in the hiring OF an agen, TO 20 and make the location
believe Sid would quit the subject after touching
upon this idea: but would like to refer to idea fur
ther, and then will surely qnit il Indeed there are
twenty other ideas that might be the subject OF remark
but there founded
received from one of these old soldiers that wish
to He said in his heart that he thanked Congress
for their grateful remembrance of the services which he
had rendered in the Of 1872 and considered j, an
honor to be remembered in the little gratuy rendered
him for those services "But," said he "wben they
coupled with provision which told me that was not
could not he permitted TO do what pleased with what
they chose 10 give me, felt good deal hurt. and
thought the government did not treat me exactly as !
ought 10 be treated" Now that is the feeling OF all OF
them They feel in their hearts, in regard to this little
ga,uty which you give them, that they ought 10 be al
lowed 10 dispose Of jus, as they please rney feel that
they capable OF managing their affairs IN that
sec unembarraesed by the legislation OF Congress and
they do not want any guardians They all feel hurt like
my old correspondent, because you amne them by this
restriction and they want 10 be placed IN condition
where IT they choose to sell Their warrants, they can 90
So and If they locale Them they can 60 10 new
country select their land and make their home They
desire 10 sell their warrants il they please or employ an
agent if they please To locate it Nov any thing be
reasonable than 10 allow this privilege TO these old
| men. when II graihes th6In so much!
/ Mr. JONES. ] am reluctantly compelled TO refuse TO
comply with the earnest r-qoes Of my TREND iron Ken
lucky, Mr. UKDrRwoop Il ny amendment 70 not ger.
name the subject of this bill, am quite certain u Will
not be any other bill tina, will be brought up at this
session OF Congress Some Two years since. al former
session, the honorable senator from Wisconsin made
-nllat proposition amend bill then before the Senate,
Tor the establishment OF custom-house. II was then
said by honorable gentleman here that that amendment
gernane 10 The subsc then under consideration
they agreed that the proposition to compensate these Of
fcers was very right II proposed at The proper me and
10 with the subject Now, that this
JOINT resolution amend the law brought directly Before
| US Tor action told that the amendment which
propose If not out OF order, at least relevant TO
the subject under consideration. The exact time will
never come, fear, if have 10 wait the pleasure OF
those who interested for these brave old Soldiers,
more particularly OF their assgns--thc warm hearted
| spectators.
/ When, in is47. the bill passed TO grant bounty
lands to those who served country in the with
Mexico, II was then understood at the General Land
Office, well the land Offices where the locations
n4Ha haf Niattn yvn al
per centage be paid the register and receiver The
consdera OF the law expounders at the department.
where was decided think wronguily, that the law
did not suihorze the charge and believe. upon the
ground tbai The bounty land gratuity 10
the soldier the land officers had be equally liberal and
g,pe their services we'll the labor OF their clerks
whom they had TO employ additional force in conse-
quence OF the increased duties thus imposed upon them
others no and have been opposing my and her
similar amendments and propositions, it j, is not Ilberal
and unjust. ct not 'Ilega and certainly ungrat, IN
these bepeiicaries TO refuse the hire to which these
mentonous aboers tthe registers and receivers) are
eutlledl
II swell known that the duties be performed in the
receipt OF these land instead OF money much
more onerous. diifc Il and responsible than when
nothing but hard gold received III pay ment Tney
times consequence OF the increased labor which
~ receipt Of tnese land waf6ants is thrown upon
them
bill similar In lie provisions TO the amendment which
now propose to have made pa -sed this body At earl,
hay at The last Session, and sli brfo The House ct
Repre- entatnes awaiting lis action. But SIR as pre-
herd it wi, SHARE the fate ui hundreds ol bDis l,trr
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