The daily union., 1854-02-21
NEBRASKA AND KANSAS.

of The bill
Mr. CASS briefly replied.
On motion by Mr. SUMNER,
The Senate adjouTned
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIyEs
The House met al II O'Clock.
Prayer By the chaplain OF the Senate
The journal of Friday read and approved,
PRE-EMprIoS LAWS FoR CALIFORNIA.
MI. LATHAM reported sack from the COMMITTEES on
Public Lands The bill OF the Senate for extending pre-
empiion privileges 10 California
Mr. L remarked that by the act OF March, 1858. pre-
emplion Fshs were gwen on unsuFyeyea lands 10 Cali
fornia for The period OF year This right will
70 exlst next March. aud the exigency that in.
duced Congress TO pass the act still exists. This bill
passed the Senate unanimously, and is agreed TO by the
Committee on Public Lands unanimously. Ii would be
several years before The public lands in California could
te surveyed, and unless some such provision shall be
passed. all permanent settlements will for the lime
being The BILL which was read, extends pre-empnon
privileges Tor i@o years - California aaIng vach i.He
II Is presumed the lands be surveyed Oat oil
nneiy-thfee millions Of there, fifty two millions
are mineral nineteen millions cannot be irrigated and
therefore cannot be cultivated leaving but twenty mil
lions OF acres capable OF cultivation Ten twelve mil
lions OF these are claimed by Spanish grants
! The bill was read third lime and passed.
| BOUNTY LANDS
MIR. WARREN made an adverse report from the Com
mittee Publc Lands upon The bill extending the pro-
visions OF several laws granting bounty lands 10 soldiers
| OF the United States
Mr.. FLORENcE moved TO reier The bill and report
TO The Committee w hole The The Union.
MIR. JONES, OF Tennessee, moved TO lay the bill on
the table, accordance with the report OF the Committee
on Public Lands.
LOCAL TERRITORIAL BUSINESS.
| Pending the motion OF Mr JosEs
/ Mr.. RICHARDSON, from the COMMITTEE on TER to-
ries reported Iesoalon for setting apart Tuesday Wed
nesday, Thursday OF week for the oonsidera
non OF important local business in relation TO organized
MIR. JONES, of Tennessee, asked if il in relation
| 10 establishing ierltorles only
/ Mr. RICHARDSON replied IN the affirmative.
Mr JONES suggested lnat the resolution be amended
so that business The SPECIAL order Tor the
| tuesday, "Wednesday, and Thursday OF the week aef
next 10 order 10 give The douse lime 10 consider the
/ Mr. RICHARDSON adopted the suggestion, and the
resolution agreed 10, that Tuesday, Feb 2s and
Wednesday ard Thursday the Isl ard I'd OF March, are
! set apart ior The consideration OF sad business.
( The House then into Committee OF The Whole,
proceeded 1E 0Lpi ia the chair 10 Inc consdera-
| ton Of the homestead oil.
TONNAGE DUr.Es.
4 Mr. NOBLE rose 10 address the committee sub
Iecl which ueepiy interested the West. IL was which
involved OF eleven millions OF people upon
he MIsssippi and upon the lakes, and which involved
the u i've hundred and sixty millions OF dol
lars relation 10 commerce, He referred 10 The plan
which proposed, substitute tonnage duties IN lieu
0. dTect appropriation for the improvement OF rivers and
har0ofs The gentleman from Kentucky, lAfr EWING
and The gentleman from Missouri, 1r. OLIvER,l who
had addressed the COMMITTEE, had assumed thar tue mes
which he President had lad upon their table
nded those duties He cunendta that the lang uage
used BY that nd not differ essentially from the
lang used By the Presidents distinguished greteces
sors He referred 10 Mr.. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, Mr.
Monroe, ard General Jackson. Dir. Jefferson submitted
10 TIE VISION OF Congress that they should devise some
plan 0g which those PROVISIONS Tor yer and harbof in
pfoyements could be made slT Madison used smliai
language. General jackson used almost verbatim The
words which had been used by The pfesic.nG and Dir
Jeerson 10 his celebrated letter 10 Mr. Macson IN ls25
discussed tbs subject oi internal Improvements IN The
same manner III fact be could refer to no less than
thirteen annual and special Of Pesdenisn which
were The identical sentiments expressed in The message
ol President Pierce, suggesting that plan should be
formed by Congress 10 inquire into" &c There nc
legitimate inference from that thai The President in
favor Of tonnage dulies As well nigh, they charge al
the IiusirIous who had used similar language with
ayofng tose duues as TO charge the present President
u with such views
Br. ~ then proceeded TO refer 10 the remarks OF The
gentleman iron South Carolina, IMr hErT,l 10 reference
10 DIR. Calhoun having been The hTsi 10 suggest The
ercse oi the legitimate oil the general government
on this subject He would not admit that he could be
surpassed by that gentleman in bis admiration OF Mr
Calhoun, but he differed from him IN the nierences be
Il had drawn. Mr Calhoun bad never advocated such
plan was now on the table OF the House MT. Cal.
houn had taken The ground that not constitutional
10 levy tonnage duties upon the Mississippi upon The
lakes tie had expressed those opinions his celebrated
IePon made TO the Ssaaie in ls46, acknowledging the
iali power Of the federal government 10 make sppfopna
tons for and harbors, but depecatng toe aliases
10 which IL SUBJECT, the inequalities which u pro-
d1oed, and tie Jsaiouses which y excited an dlheTen
sections OF the country IRON The inequalities with which
the appropriations made The plan OF Air Calhoun
was to divide The Union into three distnetsone
posed OF The Atlantic, another OF the lakes and anoibe
Of the MississIppt-2nd thai the federal government
shoad lay tonnage duties and duties freghis thai
they should be collected BY The federal ocers, pad in'c
the federal treasury and disoused BY Congress % tbs
proportion in which they bad been collected " was nc
such pan giving the States the power 10 levy ion
mage duues; simply another mode OF exercising
the federal power II bad for s object simply TO attain
10 equality between the sections OF the country II
was without having any reference 10 ts opinions OF MIR
Calhoun, ee laT. NJ was niofmes ihai The Com
miuse on Commeee the session OF Congress al
tempted 20 oisia something ike aggregate Of the
amount ia those works N order 10 appropriate a
portion 10 the Mississippi, snd another portion "a
the lakes. II was The puly plan Of tonnage duties
which he had which bad the merit OF being con
suiuliona. The plsB OF Mir Calhoun had but one
grand defect: il would have substituted Tor the reFe'
nues going in,o the federal treasury from TIE ImPosts
upon ioTelgn goods, a upon our own domestic
productions Transferring the duies now en- the lukues
Of The county 10 the proaacts ol The country he pm
eipe was that OF Congress should be gwen
10 .ach Stale 10 levy those duties when 4 was upon
n waters entirely within the State and over which ibe
federal government had larisdeuon ~ sueh cases
bad Mr. Calhoun recommended that Congress should
give eoBsen the leyyng OF tonnage dulies not upon
foreign commerce. not upon Interstate commerce, but
upon vessels going from port another 10 the same
State Thai was the foil extent Of the plan ol Mt Ch'
houn.
Il Mr. ~ then proceeded to discuss with ably The sew
era plans OF tonnage duties and 10 oppose The imposition
OF sach duties domestic commerce. Tor the p1rpose pro-
posed.
rHr MISSOURI oosPRoslse AND Ma. cIaT
After some explanatory remarks iron Mr. kEiTT,
~, 80. m