Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-06

praying additional appropriations for the navy yard
Memphis which were referred to the Committee Ma
val Affairs, and ordered to be printed
Mr.. STANTON of Ohio by unanimous consent, pre-
sented joint resolutions of the Legislature of that State
requesting the Senators and Representatives of Ohn
Congress to procure appropriation for the construction
of ship canal the Falls of Ste Marie which were laid
on the table and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. STEPHENS, Of Georgia. by unanimous consent,
presented joint resolutions OF the Legislature of that State
against Intervention in affairs of foreign nations which
were laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
The regular order of business being called for
Mr. HALL, from the Committee Public Lands, made
an adverse report on the petition OF jacob Kerr praying
remuneration for four revolutionary land warrants BIZ
Government officer; which was laid on the table
LANDS FOR RAILROADS. -1
Also, from the committee to which was referred
the bill of the House, granting the States of Ohio
diana and Illinois the right Of way for and portion
the public lands to aid in the construction of railroad
from Toledo Ohio via Delhi and Lafayette in Indiana
Springfield, in Illinois, reported the same back with an
amendment, and the bill and amendment were committed.
Also, from the committee reported bill granting
to the States of Illinois and Indiana grants of land in aid
of the construction Of railroads therein which was read
twice.
Mr. MARSHALL, of Kentucky, said that this was bill
which passed the Senate at the last session. and lost
IN the House for want of time 1t proposed to grant al
ternae sections of public lands lying the route from
Albany in the State of Indiana above the Falls of the
Ohio to the city Of ST. Louis for the purpose Of aiding
the construction of work upon which three hundred
thousand dollars had already been expended and which
had been chartered by the two States of Indiana and m
no and upon which, and in the vicinity of which, there
was not foot of public land that had not been exposed
In the market for years 1t precious little
that the States Of Indiana and Illinois would best obtain
from this Donation and the principle having been settled
heretofore that grants of this description might be made
he thought that the House would be travelling very far
out Of the beaten path by passing this b gentlemen
from the North and East need not fear that by its
any very great robbery of the public lands would
The work to which this donation proposed
fall
valley of the Missouri with the great work of railways
that go to the South well as the North 1t would by
two hundred and fortyeght miles of railway
five hundred and fifty miles of the uncertain navga
ton, comprising the of the Mississippi river be-
tween St. Louis and the mouth of the Ohio which every
Western knew to be the most dangerous portion of
the stream and upon which accidents had occurred
within ten years past than upon all the rest of river
lie did not ask this for his State, but because the
commercial interest of his district connected with
the of this measure and he would the
House send it the tomb of the Capuets to the Com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union.
MIR. STANTON of Ohio also urged the adoption of the
BILL and said that the objection grants of this kind
the ground that the donations of these wild lands in large
quantities would them to pass into the hands of
SPECTATORS could not be used against the passage of this
The lands proposed be granted had been in
the market for forty years, and laid in region
thoroughly settled and he could no objection which
could arise to this BILL
On motion of Mr.. JONES, of Tennessee, the bill was
committed to the Committee Of the Whole the state of
the Union
Mr.. HALL, from the Committee on Public Lands to
which referred the bill of the House granting the
State of Indiana the right Of way and donation of public
land for the construction of ship canal around the Falls
of the St Mary in said State reported the back
with an amendment and the bill and amendment were
committed.
Also, from the committee reported bill granting
the right Of way and grant Of lands to the State of Wis
consin in aid Of the construction of railroad from Chi
cago to the head of Lake Superor which read twice
Mr.. GREY moved to amend the bill by adding thereto
section granting nine hundred thousand of the
public land to the State Of Kentucky aid in construct
ing railroad from Louisville to point the Mis-
sissppi river, in said State nine hundred thousand
acres to aid in constructing railroad from Lexington
Kentucky, to the Virginia State line and five hundred
thousand acres to aid in constructing railroad from Hen
derson Kentucky, towards Nashville, Tennessee on GER
tain conditions.
Mr.. CHURCHwELL moved to amend the amendment
by adding thereto provision granting million
of public land lying any where west Of the Mississippi
river to the South Carolina and Tennessee Railroad
Anderson Courthouse, in South Carolina to Knoxville,
Tennessee and the East Tennessee and Kentucky Rail
road, from Knoxville to Lexington Kentucky, in ratio
proporoned by the number of miles of said road to be
constructed in each State under the direction of their
respective Governors.
The bill and amendments committed
Mr.. COBB, from the Committee Public Lands, to
which referred the bill of the House granting the
right Of way and making grant of lands the State of
Alabama in aid of the construction of the Selma and
Gunter's Landing Railroad, in said State reported the
and print.
Mr. O. addressed the House in favor of the BILL but be-
fore concluding the morning hour having expired
BOUNTY LANDS
On motion of Mr.. JONES, of Tennessee, the bill OF the
Senate making bounty land assignabe and for
other purposes taken up.
Mr. j. said that il would be recolected that the House
amended the first section Of this b and then struck out
the remaining sections The Senate had non-concurred
in these amendments, and he moved that the House
insist on its amendments and ask committee OF con-
ference.
The motion was agreed to-
HOMESTEAD BILL.
On motion of Mr. RICHARDSON, the House then went
into Committee Of the Whole on the state OF the Union,
mr. JONES of Tennessee in the CHAIR and resumed the
consideration of the special order II being bill to en-
courage agriculture commerce, manufactures, and all
other branches Of industry, by granting to every man
who the head of family and citizen Of the United
States homestead Of one hundred and sixty Of
land out of the public domain upon condition of
pancy and cultivation Of the for the period therein
specified.
Mr. BRECKENRIDGE then addressed the House an
hour in reply to remarks made time since by Mr.
CABELb of Florida to the effect that the opinions of
Gen Butler Of Kentucky the slavery question were
not known This he denied and referred Gen. Buffers
political life to prove that he sound the slavery
question He referred to the action Of the Democratic
Convention lately held in Kentucky, recommending Gen.
Butler to Convention to be held in Baltimore in June
next as suitable person to nominate for the Presidency
and to resolutions adopted by the Kentucky Conven
ton reading letter from that gentleman endorsing the
resolutions adopted by the Convention In the name Of
the Kentucky Democracy, he denied the charge that
Gen Butler aboitonst and in conclusion, urged
harmony among the Democratic party.
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