The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-07-21

| - Benuet's land bill, we see, passed the
/ House Of Representatives on the Goth of June
1t will be seen that This bill grants to each o.
the land States certain number of acres fol
the purpose Of building railroads, and to all the
other states $50 thousand acres for each Senator
and Representative in the 33d Congress. There
is provision in the bill which deducts from the
specific amount granted to the land states all
| the lands they have heretofore received for in
ternal improvement purposes; and hence the
whole IF the Des Nnines river improvement
grant, and the 100000 acre grant which has
been appropriated to public schools will be de-
due ed from the 3,0U0,00o Of acres granted to
| Iowa; these together amount to near two mill
IONS of acres, leaving only about one million OF
acres to this State, to be divided up and parcell-
ed out to the various extensive projects of the
| state, so that we may reasonably anticipate that
| the whole will be frtitered and squandprpd with
out building any roads, and without being Of
any practical benefit to the State. But not only
is the above provision inserted, which reduces
the grant to this State to an significant amount,
but the alternate sections are resei we'd alon the
line of the road by which the government will
be enabled to compensate itself fully for every
acre Of land thus granted. In our humble opn
ion no greater outrage and insult was ever at
tempted to be pa!med off uniustly neglect
ed people, in answer 10 their just and reasonable
shadow of pretended grant. it gives TO the
State of New York, without deduction, consid-
Grafton, or alternate sections, 5,259GG0 acres Of
land, and to Pennsylvania ,0J0,00U acres, and
to all the States where there are no public Ian DIS
in the same pr portion 1t is mockery and pre-
| tence, a violation Of the democratic doctrine
against land distribution 1t effectually puts an
end to all revenue from land sales, and takes
the real control of the disposition OF the public
| lands from the general government and gives it
to the States. 'fhrs immense nnourt of 81, ,090,
| 900 acres, in the form of land warrants issued
to the states viii be kept constantly in the mar
ket, and not only permanently depress the price,
but make it subject TO all the fluctuations with
in the power OF stock jobhng and brokerage
Such in our view Is the bill which has pass
ed the House of Representatives, which our
tell lie gra phic news men say will pass the San
ate.
Nothing but the fact of its passing the House
of Representatives, would ever induce 10
haibor suspicion of the passage, through the
Senate, of this condemned scheme Of. .sIand dis
trbution," odious t. the people that it is
abandoned and repudaed in the new platform
of its old advocates And besides this n w phase
Of tha, old cast off measure of the enemies Of
democracy goes far beyond theirs in blasting the
fIupes and running the prospects of all the land
| ed states of the west, tantallZ'ng Us with pre-
tended GIFT for which in the end we pay double
price, as consideration for having the interest
and prosperity Of The entire west subjected for
twenty wears to the control Of the other States.
1t is worse than giving the proceeds Of the pub
lie lands to the States. Ii is worse than Under
wood amendment giving the lands themselves
directly t, the States - being subject al any lime
TO be thrown INTO the speculating, STOCK j"bbing
market, to abide the caprices Of this g.mbling
business And besides all these evils, 1t will be
the source Of inlerminablc dom, stlc qaarrels
which has already rnned the brightest prospects
OF this State. We hope that bnnest men in tn"
east viii spurn the splendid br:be which this
bill offers them; and that western men Will
''neihcr give sleep to their eyes, mr. s'nmbor
to their eyelids, until this IN In~tr"hs Sc'rmc 81
deception, corruption and venaiy shall De finally
and fully disposed OF.