Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-15


than do to their position the joint committee the
latter OF the alternatives they have presented be accepted and
aa they BE- and hereby are discharged from any further
vice on said committee and the Speaker be requested to
MI me vacancies thus created In the Joint committee on
Mr. STANTON Of Kentucky said tina the great object
OF the gentleman from Indiana 70 misrepresent the
committee and riye its members to abandon their places
but he had no disposition to abandon his place at the die
| tation OF the gentleman except upon condition.
Mr. FITCH said that he did not intimate disposition
to drive the members of the committee from their places
only proposed to accept the alternative which the
mittee presented to the House. The gentleman from
Kentucky when this subject last up told the House,
in the most unequvoca language, that unless the
mittee could do as they thought proper they would wash
their hands Of the action of the House The committee
had presented alternative to the House should the
1 the alternativeg $500 NJ nv
Mr. STANTON said that he recollected what he stated
to the House the occasion which the gentleman al
luded What he then stated was that if the House should
think it the duty of the committee to obey the
sructons Of the House against the plain provisions Of the
the committee could not perform that duty and they
would be compelled to wash their hands Of the whole
matter He would repeat now that if the House should
deem that it possessed power than both Houses of
Congress and the President of the United States united
and should require the committee to obey instructions
which were against the law ITSELF the committee wouldbe
compelled to wash its hands Of the matter He had no
disposition to submit to he dication of the gentleman
from Indiana except upon the condition that the House
would put that gentleman in his Mr. s) place. the
House
him the instructions which had been sent the Commit
tee Printing he should like the gentleman to inform
| the House how he could obey them
Mr. s. then defended the action Of the committee,
stating that they had acted according law and to the
dictates Of their conscences and judgments They had
given such work the contractor could and would
not perform to Donelson Armstrong and Gideon Co.
This was but temporary expedient intended only to
last until the House should take further action
the subject In making this arrangement the committee
simply designed to secure to the House and Senate the
execution of that description Of printing which they need
ed for legislative purposes and which had been
| sarily delayed by the public printer.
Mr. POLK moved that the House 60 into Committee of
the Whole the state of the Union with the view Of
sdering the homestead BILL
Mr.. STANLY inquired if the House should 60 into
mttee when would this subject come up again?
The SPEAKER stated that it would be the first bust
ness in order when the House should again meet.
Mr.. STANLY said that the House had resolved to ad
journ from tomorrow until Monday and he did not think
this subject could come up again in two weeks. He
hoped the House would dispose Of it to-day.
Mr.. HOUSTON. We cannot dispose of it in two weeks
The question being on the motion to 60 into committee
Mr.. MEACHAM rose to privileged question. As the
House about be rearangd he said he would sub
nit motion that the chairs placed for members inside
the be removed and stated the inconvenience which
resulted from this state Of things.
The SPEAKER decided that this was not privileged
question.
the motion Of the gentleman from Vermont should be
submitted in order he would amendment thereto
requiring the removal of the desks from the hall that
aporon of the members should not be banshed to part
Of the hall where they would not be able to participate In
the proceedings of the House
Mr.. JOHNSON, of Arkansas, said that as the House
had resolved to adjourn from to until Monday he
would that when the House adjourn to-day it ad-
journ to meet tomorrow morning eight o'clock. This
the usual mode of proceeding the House met at
this early hour with the view of Immediately adourning
so to permit the workmen to commence operations
The motion was agreed to.
The motion to 90 into committee was then agreed to-
HOMESTEAD BILL
And thereupen the House went into Committee Of the
Whole on the state of the Union Nr. HrBBARD of New
Hampshire in the chair and resumed the consideration
lures and all other branches Of industry by granting to
every who is the head Of family and citizen OF
the United States homestead Of one hundred and sixty
of land out of the public doman upon conduon Of
occupancy and cultivation OF the same LOT the perou
The CHAIRMAN stated the question to be the sub
sttute moved by Mr. BRowN Of Mississippi for the orig
4 nal bill
TThe substitute proposes perpetuate presumption
actual settlers on the public andthat is to say, per
sons acquiring the right of presumption shall retain thu
without disturbance and without payment OF an,
kind the United States certain conditions, giving
the the right any me at his or her discre
ton the lands preempted by paying one dollar
i and twenty-five cents per acre.
And the question being taken, the substitute was agreed
4 to. AYES 81, noes Sc. teFag a
4 Mr. STANLY moved to amend the bill as amended by
adding thereto section providing that any person who is
the head Of family residing in any State in which there
is no land belonging the United States who is worth
the sum of five hundred dollars SHALL from and after the
passage Of this act be entitled to enter by his or her
agent free Of COST hundred and sixty acres Of land
provided said person shall make oath Of his or her nten
ton occupy reside such land within two years
| from the time of entering the same.
| The amendment was ruled out Of order.
On motion Of Mr. MASON the. committee then rose
| and reported the bill as amended to the House.
i And the question being on its adoption
Mr. JOHNSON, of Tennessee, moved the following as
| substitute therefor: rs ss vt ~
That any person who the head Of famyand citizen Of
the United States who Is the pead OF family
and had citizen prior to the first DAY of January
eighteen hundred and required the nauralza-
sage Of this act be entitled 10 enter free oscos quarter
section Of and unspproprated public lands guam
tty equal thereto 20 be located In body, conformity with
the legal Subdivisions Of the public lands nd after the
/ shall have been surveyed.
See q And Be further enacted That TIL person applying
for the benefit Of this SHALL upon application the regis
~, If the Land Office In which he she bout make such
entry make affidavit before the said register that he she is
the head of family and is not the estate In land
al the time such application and has MT disposed of
estatein land obtain the benefits Of this h and upon max
ing the affidavit above required and fling the affidavit with
the register be she shall hereupon bdpermed to enter
the quantity Of hand already specified: Poded hoerer That
certificate sh M be given patent ssuet therefor until the
expiration Of Eve years from the date Of sush entry and III at
expiration Of euch time, the mailing such entry or
be dead his widow in Ease Of her death his heirs
devisee widow making such entry her heirs
devsee In Of DEATH shall prove bytwo credible wit
that he She they have continued reside upon and
cultivate said land and still reside upon the same, and have
aenaed the any part thereof en in such case
he shall be entitled patent IN other cases
hxl fnd