The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-07
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
FRIDAY, February 6, 1852

FRIDAY, February b, 1901
Resolutions Of the State of Rhode Island were
submitted and referred to the Committee on Naval
Affairs.
mend the rules to enable him to submit resolu-
lion. authorizing the committee appointed to en-
oure into the stability of the foundations OF the
extension of the capitol, to send for persons ana
papers, and to examine the former under oath'
which was carried, the previous question having
been voted
Mr.. HALL, Of Missouri, moved that the rules
be SUSPENDED and that the House resolve itself
into Committee of the Whole on the state OF the
Union which having been agreed to, the commit
tee proceeded with the further consideration OF
the bill, authorizing the assignment of bounty
land warrants.
The amendments before the committee were to
allow receivers in land offices to receive htty
cents for registering warrants or forty acres OF
land-one dollar, when for eighty acres-and two
dollars, when the warrant embraces one hundred
and sixty acres; another amendment, allowing
one-half of those sums, and another to strike out
the second section OF the Senate bill, and insert
the second section of the bill reported from the
select committee; which were negatived
The remaining amendment was, to strike out
all the sections in the Senate bill; except the hrst,
and substitute the second section OF the Din re-
ported BY the select committee.
There was considerable excitement when mat
ters had arrived at this stage but which was soon
terminated by an amendment being proposed to
extend the act of 1850 to pereons who had defend
ed their homes against the Indians.
Mr.. CARTIER, of Ohio, said the bill provides
that lands shalt be bestowed on persons who have
been called into the service OF the United States,
and who have been paid by them. lie proposed
to include in the amendment those who have per-
formed similar services, and who had not peen
maid and not that the bounty OF the country
should be limited to those who had served IN the
Mexican and preceding wars, but that those
should nartake of it who had constituted living
Ratification, and presenting their breasts to the
enemy, and assisted in the advancement of civiIl-
cation in the far west 80,
MIR. COBB, Of Alabama, said when the bill OF
1850 was under discussion, the entire ground al
nresent contested had been fought over; but owing
TO the construction placed upon 1t by the Secreta-
nv OF the Interior, the assignment OF warrants
had not been permitted. He could vote for the
fourth section as it stood ;sand should the PROPOSE.
ton of the member from Ohio Mr.. CARTTERl
COVE nm. he would be willing to vote for it.
MIR. WILLIAMS, Of Tennessee, Sgd the
friends of the receivers did not agree among them
selves. He would therefore suggest that the bill
should pass in the manner IN which 1t was pro-
posed to amend it, and let them afterwards oring
in a separate bill, providing remuneration FOR any
additional services they might be called upon to
perform.
MIR. EVANS, Of Maryland, proF ied to strike
ont the date in the bill, and insert 1906, giving 1t
retrospective operation. large number of per-
sons had never asked payment for services they
had performed, and who, under the provisions of
tho hill would not receive bounty lands; this was
Umited to those who had already got all they
could from the public chest--they must have had
their hands in the public treasury, before they
could come under the provisions of the bill
He hoped his proposition would be agreed &C.
He subsequently moved an amendment to the
fourth section of the act of 1881 providing that
persons belonging to the land and sea forces OF
The United States should be entitled tol6O acres OF
the public land, prohibiting any one person from
r.ceivinp more than one bounty land warrant.
| He explained that there two classes OF per-
sons included in this amendment; the first OF these
were flotilla men, who had served on shore with
soldiers; precedents for paying whom, would be
found in the treatment of those of similar class,
whether they served on shore or not. The second
class included those who had been in actual ac-
ton. and whom he proposed shall receive grant
Of I6O acres There are thousands, he said, in
| MARYLAND who had served during the war of 1912,
when Admiral Cockburn lay of the coast with q
large force, and there no knowing where he
could land. who had never asked for remunea-
,;,p and who could not receive it under the bill
A variety of other amendments were proposed,
chiefly embracing subjects that had been pre-
v;ousIv fully discussed; all of which were mega
lived And, finally, the original amendment was
mt TO strike on, all the Senate bill, except the
frst section. which had been amende" so as to al
| low persons ho.ding warrants to enter upon any
public lands subject to private entry, ana ina,
when the minimum price OF such land exceeded
Al 25, that the locator should pay 10 inc Uhitsu
States the difference in cash; which amendment
was agreed to.