The daily union., 1854-02-15

NAYS-Messrs Adams. Bell, Butler, Csss. Clay, Clay
ton pongas' Msams' se,as
Siidel. Stuart, Walker, Weller. and wlllisms-2i
So the motion lost.
ceeded to the consideration OF executive business and
after time spent therein the doors were reopened
and
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met at IL o'clock, m.
PRAYER by the Chaplain of the House.
The journal of yesterday was read aud approved.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
The committee appointed 10 investigate the mistakes
and frauds relative the disbursements OF the appropria
ons TO the Collins and other mail steamers cons,ss oil
the following members: Messrs MACE, GooDE, WALSH,
Rrrar KrrrERIp0E, PENNINGTON, ELLIOT, ALLEN, and
The following members are appointed as the select
committee 10 inquire aud report whe'het lne aPpon.nen'
Of military officers TO supefntend civ WORKS IS eompa
ibe with the public interest and consistent win me ma
ture and character OF our clvii govsInmepl; Messs'
STANTON OF Kentucky. DAWSON, DIcKEasoS' FAULKNER
VANsAET, SAPr, and kEITr.
EXECUTIVE coMMusIcATIoss.
The SPEAKER laid before the House a communica-
ton from the executive department. transmitting from
the Secretary OF the Navy report OF the exploration oil
the Amazon and its tributaries by Lieut. Clark, under
instructions from the Navy Department: laid the Ia
Bile, and ordered TO be printed.
Also comn,u uncaton from the Treasury Department,
transmitting 4 copy OF memorial TO Congress iron
Charles Homer, for the construction OF the
San Francisco marine hospital laid upon the table, and
ordered to be printed. -
isr,or transmitting a copy oil report from the Com
missioner OF Inean Affairs dated the 9Th instant, recon-
nending that ates be made with the Indian tribes In
Oregon and Washington Territories; which was refer
red 10 the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered 10
be printed. Sc ,r
transmitting information relative to the survey OF Crow
Sboal: referred TO the Committee Commerce, and
ordered TO be printed
.~--F.f.s PUBLIC PRINTING.
On motion Of Nj MURRAY the Committee on Print
ing discharged from the consideration Of me fesolu
on Of the House in reference TO the printing OF 500 ex-
Ira copies of the Blue Book also from the consideration
OF memorial asking Tor the printing OF extra copies
of the message of the President and other public docu-
ments for the OF public schools.
Mr. STANTON, from the same committee, reported
resou,ion for printing 80 900 copies oil ihe mechanical
portion of the Patent Office report or the use OF the
House. and copies OF the same Tor the use oil ihe
Commissioner OF Patents -.
ing of liberal supply for the use OF the Commissioned
of Patents bu, he thought 10000 Tor the use OF the
House unnecessarily large number. lie would
prefer TO print less OF the mechanical portion OF that re-
por, and more the agricultural portion which he con-
adhered of far greater value to their constituents espe
cialy az mechanics found that the descriptions oil ma
chinery in that report were TOO imperfect 70 ne OF nucp
value.
MIR. sTRAUB moved to amend The resolution BY stri-
king out 30 900 and inserting 30,oOe
Alter some debate, the resolution so amended was
agreed 10.
THE HoMEsIEAD BILL
MIR. JONES' Of Tennessee, said, this was the day on
which the homestead bill to come under consdera-
ton, he would move that the House resolve itsei into
COMMITTEES OF the Whole on the state OF the Union
The House accordingly resolved itself into committee
and proceeded (Nr 0LDs In the char) 10 the consdea
tion OF the following bill;
A bill to encourage agriculture. commerce, manuiac'
tures and all other branches OF industry by granting g
every m an who is the head o family and citizen oi
the G,ied States homestead OF one hundred and sixty
acres OF land of the public domain upon condition
o occupancy and cultivation oil the same ior the period
The biil which has already been printed length in
our columns. then read through by The Clerk.
Mr. DAWSON. proceeded 10 address the House al
length on the claims Of the bill TO congressional and public
support The disposition OF the public domain and espe-
ciay the mode of distributing il proposed N The bill
which had lust been read involved policy OF vast i'm.
portapcs winch be trusted would receive the full debera
lion well favorable action Of the House. Whether
considered 10 reference TO The change proposed IN our
laad policy in developing The OF the nation,
the benefits il proposed to confer upon large mass OF
iellowczeas, there was no measure TO which the
propositions OF this bill yielded 10 importance. He con.
e,sed to interest in The principles OF the BILL and their
enactment into law-prine'pes which were paramount,
he would venture to say to those OF any measure which
in the present session st all likely to engage the at
enton OF Congress The persuasion that il
OF great public interest, the consciousness that egs-
a,ve body they possessed the power TO benefit to in
cacuable extent, physically apd morally large
OF their ellow.mep, and al the same time 10 greatly ad.
vance the interests ot the nation, should be sufcien, to
awaken the patriotic desire that that power should be
speedily exerted
Mr. b. then proceeded TO advert 10 The objections which
had been urged against the passage o the bill to which
he ably replied He copiended that the reasons 20 favor
Of the bill were felt IN both branches oil the legislature,
when debated at the last session OF Congress, IA rresst
ible and overwhelming and the only opposing arguments
bad arisen from an anxiety TO preserve IN s purify me
principles OF the constitution The proceeds OF the Gus.
toms afforded ample security 10 the public eredtor II
was well known that land in the wllderbess--in un-
improved local,es---increased in vaoe Just In pro-
portion IL became located; and alternate sections OF
land which the government would retain, would be so
wh.n such alternate sections offered for sale they
would realize amount equal 70 what would have been
received had the whole been disposed by sale II was
feared by hat fatal opposition awaited The bill IN
the Senate He could moi say he participated In that
apprehension. II true, ~ other oounfies, under
other forms OF government the higher branches Of egs
a'ure generally proved great obstacles to measures OF