The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-22

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pcable 10 class OF lands not heretofore subject 10
the pre.empiion laws. The principle is precisely the
same.
II we attempt to give this verbal and legal precision to
all OF our bills 10 framing them, shall be kept here
during long and tedious session, and hen leave inll
calendar Of bills which ought 10 be disposed OIL but
which will not be for want OF time have offered 10 the
consideration of the Senate the highest evidence thai
is bill, framed al the Land Office and passed in the
House, has the legal effect without The amendments
as with them ard vet the senator MIR, USDERwooDl
81 nds on upon difference o opinion between the Com
missioner Of the Land Office and the Committee on Pub
lie Lands What Is the consequence IL the hill should
pas here without going back TO the House af Represent
anyes Il effects Just what il would effect i we should
sick number al amendments 80 "a 10 send II back
10 the House--amendmens which DO not alter The legal
effect OF the bill al ALL and which viii cause II 10 be lost
for want Of time TO act upon IT, must therefore insist,
in matter o so Little Importance that we REJECT
The amendments now, that the une OF the Sease shall
not be taken up with this affair agal hope sir, The
bill may be shaped so that we can put u upon lis inal
passage now.
! Mr.. UNDERWOOD really think il a strange thing
upon the part OF my friend that he has no! furnished Inc
letter OF the land commissioners 10 the Senate The pres
eni letter says nothing at all about this amendment
do not how the Senate be governed BY The con-
strncon of letter which ii has never seen.
Mr.. SEBASTIAN The letter was handed to the
Committee on Public Lands supposed the senator
himself would be satisfied if he has seen the letter at
least, knew the chairman oil that committee was sas-
fed and supposed the rest Of The committee were.
Mr. UNDERWOOD. Ibave no recollection that the bill
has up for consideration before The Committee
il has, The fact has escaped my recollection and
really, under such circumstances am not willing 10 ne
governed by my fend's recollection OF letter which
has not been submitted 10 me or 10 The Senate, and the
contents oil which we cannot we'll decide upon. When
stated that conceived This to be the Introduction oi q
principle --One that has moi been heretofore sane
uoned referred to thai portion OF the bill which au
thorzes the payment 10 be sde within year after thr
passage OF this act there is no PRIOR public sale Now,
sir il The payment is required To be made prior to the
public sale Il seems 10 me i, good why the
ura- n he
that payment twelvemonlh alter the passage oil thus bl
That is the feature the committee would not sanction
hope therefore, the amendments ol The committee VIII be
adopted II the Commissioner says that they Will not
alter the construction of the law, do not that they
can do much harms But what object TO mainly is, the
fact that The Land Commssoner in his letter is silent as
to this particular amendment Now, would il not be bet.
ter under snch circumstances 10 adopt the amendment
consider il my duty, as am member OF the Committee
on Public Lands 10 make these explanations; and as
the amendments reported by that committee, think
they ought 10 he concurred 10 allow the bill TO
go back with The amendments to the House OF Represent
atives II this course be pursued everything will work
Mr. RORLAND One word upon this subject Al
though member OF the Committee on Public Lands, !
not present at the meeting when the subject was
last before II but sr, the bill as 1t has been read. with
the proposed amendments TO place the subject be-
fore he Senate in light so clear and PLAIN that there
be misunderstanding OF the merits OF the question
The proposition. sir is a single and simple one. IL IS
merely place the remainder OF the military reservations
in The Stale of Arkansas which mol now called Tor
by lis military clams back in the same condition with
the other public lands OF the State and 10 subject them
10 precisely the condition with regard To The pre-
enpton laws which now exist with regard 10 all the
other lands. That is the sum and substance OF y. u
proposes arrangement whatever. Now, can the
Senale hesiatecan any senator hesiate-a moment as
to the propuely OF doing this To satisfy the military
land warrants arising from the war OF 1872 certain lands
in tha Stale of Arkansas set aside 10 be located by
these warrants All these outstanding warrants, so Tar
be asceained, have been satisfied Here par.
eel OF the public lands held back from settlement and
direct proposition TO these lands not
sary for the purpose for which they were originally
served, the public lands, aud 10 subject them to
precisely the conditions with the other public lands
The question is neither more nor less than that.
The senator from Kentucky Mr.. UsDgRwoop] is Ger.
tanly wrong in my opinion. Tor sayng that this Is the
introduction OF princpleol the credit system IN
the sale Of the public lands He certainly fails TO look al
the BILL he would see that the credit extends no fur.
iber than the credit TO all pre- emponers now extends
Any nan can go 70 any portion Of ine reserved pnolc
ton law he Is not required 10 make his payment until
the lands TO be sold. II s always part oil The
notice when new lands are thrown open, that pre-
epptoners are required To come forward and make
proof, and pay up before the public sale Ths bill
requires that, and nothing mors. II fixes the condl-
tons in which these lands placed upon precisely the
footing with all the other public lands No inter-
est OF the government is put In hazard q, all NO a1.
vantage is given those who may settle IN this portion
OF the public lands over that which they could acquire
By settling upon any ober public lands These lands
have been lying there long that persons not familiar
with the public survey have settled npon them ibadyert-
emily and the land ole tseli has been
at loss to know whether they reservations or not,
and patents have been actually issued This - to per-
nit individuals who have inadvertently gone upon these
lands and 10 whom the land Office has Inadvertently ia
sued patents to confirm those sales IL they had been
made upon other public lands. The only claim s, that
they shall stand like other pre- enpuontrs and pay Tor
The land before is offered for public SALE That ~ the
whole object OF the provision.
II is important that this should pass without these
amendments, because. my colleague MIR SEpAsriAsl
has sad IT, nj this period OF the session, when the cal.
enlas in both houses heavily loaded and u ~ ex-
ceedipgly dcnl, to get up bill al all for considerations
when hundreds pressing upon us for
we put amendments To this bill, goes back TO The
House OF Representatives, and the chances that u will
be lost for want OF time the other House Indeed is
almost certain that such will be the case; and this meas
OF public policy, for The interests Of the United States
well as Of the settlers upon the public lands w'ihou,
giving any advantage 10 single individual TO make
dollar on Of the government. which enables the govern.
ment 10 receive the money for lands which we cannot now
sell at ALL will be delayed, and thrown perhaps Tor
whole Congress, when the passage oI the bill az
came from the House OF Representatives viii enable us
to avoid all these difficulties and 10 pass the bill at once
Before this bill came from the other House, bill SIM
liar 10 this reported by the Committee on Public
Lands but this bill coming from the House, and having
passed there il deemed by its friends best 10 take
that bill from the House, and no. 10 pass another bill
and send there So far all The substantial provisions
OF the bill are concerned they have been avoraby passed
upon and reported BY ths Committee on Pablo Lands
and have been before the Senate This - merely a
Honse bill varying 10 words but not in meaning or sub
stance from the bill long since reported TO the senate
Mr.. SEBASTIAN. | have come 10 an understand
ing and accommodation with the senator from keoiucky
aud will ask that the vote be taken now tis evi-
dent that IL not expedent that avoie be taken nst now