The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-01-22

itself then +" hurricane OF wind must nothing
more move TO strike out the words cot wind" and
10 leave It " hurricane" alone.
The motion agreed 10.
No further amendment being offered, the bill re-
CURED ia, and the bill ordered 10 be engrossed for
third reading.
WIN. X. LATMER.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration OF the fol-
lowing resolution, submitted yesterday by Mr. GwN
Resolved That the charges and specifications and also
the report and opinion OF court OF Inquiry Ia the OF
William X Lamer and the letter of Tho Secretary Of the
Navy transmitting the same and the general order in said
Senate.
The question being put the adoption Of the resolu-
ton, il was agreed TO.
CANAL IN ILLINOIS.
The Senate then proceeded, as in committee OF the
whole the consideration OF the bill (S 74 author
ze the State oil Illinois select the residue OF the lands
TO which she is entitled under the act OF I'd March, ls27,
granting land to aid that State in opening canal TO
meet the waters OF the Illinois rver with those OF Lake
Michigan
Mr. HUNTER asked for explanation OF the bill
Mr., DOUGLAS. Mr.. President, will only state that
in 1927 the Congress OF the Emitted States passed an act
granting TO the State OF Illinois certain amount OF alter
nate sections OF land TO aid in the construction OF canel
to between the Illinois river and Lake Michigan.
The grant was made under the supposuon tnai The land
woud be sufficient for the completion OF the canal, the
engineers having reported that 100000 would make the
canal We commenced under that suppositon. The
State pledged itself 10 keep the canal free Tor the OF
menced the work estimated the expense at 81 $780, 900.
Before got through, the estimate three millions oil
dollars, and al last completed il, with expenditure
of nine millions, and the canal is finished In the
selection OF land, they omitted to select small quantity
to which they entitled The department acknowl-
edged, under the law, that we entitled to few
thousand than obtalned-twenty thousand
We wish to avail ourselves OF the privilege OF Sc
Letting all the land we were entitled to under the original
grant The State did not ask the government give any
more money in consequences OF the canal costing ten
times much as il was at first calculated.
Mir. HUNTER asked il they were entitled to select
lands anywhere, only along the line OF the canal
Mr.. DOUGLAS. They were originally confined to al
ernae sections opon the line OF the canal The reason
why could not get the land which the government
of the land entitled to along the line OF the
nal This small deficit be selected elsewhere, for
the reason that the government long since sold the land
Mr. DAWSON | would inquire whether these lands
of which the senator speaks were not sold prior TO the
MIR. DOUGLAS. Not at all. Every acre was sold
since We do not wish to disturb the title of what the
government sold out enormously of the grant made to
us. We only ask permission 10 make up this deficit
The bill was then reported to the Senate without
amendment.
No proposition being made to amend, il was ordered TO
be engrossed for third reading.
GRANT OF LAND TO IOWA FOR A RAILROAD
The Senate then proceeded, as in committee OF the
whole, TO consider the next general order-being bill
granting the right OF way and making grant OF land TO
the Stale Of Iowa. in and Of the construction OF certain
railroads in said State y which read through.
long debate ensued upon this BILL portion OF which
is reserved for revision. Pending the consideration
of the bill, on motion
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
After the reading Of the journal
THE ASSIGNMENT OF BoUSTY-LASD WARRANTS ISSUED
UNDER THE SEPTEMBER %, 1850.
The SPEAKER announced that the first business in
mtee OF the Whole on the state of the Union the bill
ported by Mr.. DUNHAM from The select committee 10
whom referred the JOINT resolutions OF Mr. HARRIS
OF Tennessee TO make assgnabe the warrants issued
under the law OF September IS, $780, and for other pur
poses; on which question Mr.. FITCH was entitled to
the floor.
Mr. FITCH stated that the bill was crude and mper.
ec but hatiact was in manner surprising. when the
diversity OF opinion IN the committee from which the bill
remembered by those who heard the sparring
between its several members on Thursday last. To the
first section as 1t is he opposed Ii would defeat its
own object by nteposing so many difficulties IN the way
OF assignment oil warrants The second section, he said
recognises and acknowledges the justice OF paying regis
and receivers for locating bounty Land warrants, but
is mockery 10 the manner and extent 10 which pro-
poses payment
Mr. F. then proceeded 10 read from the remarks OF the
chairman OF the committee MIR. DuSHAMl from which
the bill came, and TO show that they no, consistent
with the facts TO the duties oil registers and receivers
in locating bouny.land warrants, and the compensation
they have received for the discharge OF such duties
which compensation, he proceeded to prove,
pensaton at ALL but, the contrary, deprived them,
the form OF cerkhlre oil part oil their small salary of
$500 per To the fourth section he objected that
il repealed The poviso 10 the first section OF the act OF
September IS, 1850; which provso for the benefit of
the wounded and thanksgiving them the bounty to
which they would have been entitled IL they had served
out their entire term OF enlistment The repeal OF this
proviso, he urged, was OF the most Objectionable
features in the BILL and OF great injustice TO the
mertorious of those Tor whose benefit the act OF
1850 was designed
Mr.. F. also maintained that the bill cut off wound
ed men, who, account OF their wounds had been pre-
vented from serving out the time OF their enlistment
from enjoying the benefits OF the bill OF September 2s
ls5oan accidental deficiency in the proposed ACT he pre-
sumed
Mr.. CLARK said that he did not know that he should
need apology for asking the attention OF the House TO
some remarks which he desired to make upon Of
the provisions OF the original bill and the substituted but
If he did, il would be found in the fact that his cons
uens interested directly and generally and some of
them deeply and personally Perhaps the people OF no
State would be essentially affected by the provisions
the examination which he should bestow upon the sub
ect would not include all the sections OF the BILL but
those only which he considered OF engrossng importance
TO bis constituents.
He was glad TO have perceived that the chairman OF
the special committee who reported the substitute had
on previous day sent up amendment, which pro-
vides that the assignment Of should be effected
by form 10 be prescribed by the Secretary OF the nte
ror. He thought II would create confusion IL they
should be assigned by thirty-one different modes Be-
sides, the fact of assignaby pesupposed the fact that
Congress designed TO give 10 land
and commercial value, and such will benefit the war
raniees This then, is the leading idea-he greatest
value TO those in whose behalf they were created
The natural which these warrants would take
would be ist TO find market in the eastern cities and
then in localities the land Offices TO be sold to set
tiers. II any doubt attended their assignabily, it
tallxf thai