Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-11
.THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1854.
The Senate did not sit TODAY.
HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES,,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr.. RUSSELL, from the Committee Printing,
ported joint resolution for settling the accounts Of A.
Boyd Hamilton which read three times and passed
Mr.. APPLETON, by consent, presented resolutions of
the Legislature of Massachusetts, in favor Of cheap
postoge which laid the table and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. FULLER by consent presented resolutions of the
Legislature Of Maine instructing the Senators and
questng the Representatives of that State in Congress
oppose every practicable way the Nebraska BILL so long
it contains any provision repeating abrogatng,
scindng in any invaldating the Missouri
promise Of 1926 which were laid the table and order
ed to be printed. @
HOMESTEAD BILL.
On motion of Mr. DAWSON, the House then went into
Committee Of the Whole on the state Of the Union Mr.
OLDs of Ohio, in the cha and resumed the oonsidera
ton Of the Homestead bill a.@"
Many amendments were offered and discussed under
the FIVE minutes rule Substitutes also respectively
offered by Messrs COBB aud GROW but they were dis
agreed to.
The committee, having got through the BILL and
reported it to the House. .a '.4.
The question being coneurring in the amendments
made in Committee Of the Whole .e.
Mr. DAWSON demanded the previous question, which
was seconded o..
Mr. GOODE, in order to test the sense of the House,
moved that the bill be laid the table, which motion
was disagreed to: Yeas 60, nays ia.
The question was then taken the first amendment,
which to insert in the first section the words free
white as to confne the provisions of the bill to free
che persons" and it was decided in the affirmative,
follows: a-a
YEAS-Messrs. Abercrombe Aiken, James G. Allen, Willis
Allen, Ashe, Thomas H. Bayy, Barksdale Benton, Bococ
Breckenridge, Bridges Brooks Bugg Caruher Cakie Cha
Culom, Cumming John G. Davis Dent, Disney, Dowde,
Dunbar, Edmundson, English Ewing, Faulkner Florence
franklin Fuller Green Greenwood Grey Hamilton, Samp
W. Harris, Wiley p Harris, Harrison Haven Hendricks
HEM, Hill, Houston Hunt johnson, George w. Jones' j.
CLANCY Jones' Roland Jones' Ke Kidwel, KuTtz, Letcher
Lindey Lindsey MeDougall, McMullen McNair Mcqueen
Maxwell, May, Middeswarth, John G. Miller, Smith Miller,
Nilsson, Mordeca Oliver, Bishop Perkins, John Perkins,
Phelps Phillips Preston, Ready Richardson Thomas Rchey
%Gss soWs sm
snodgass Soller Frederick p Stanton Richard H. Stanton
Vail Vausant Walbdge Warren, Daniel Wright Hendck
NAYS-Messrs. Appleton Banks Belcher Bennett, Ben
Lewis D. Campbell Carpenter, Chamberlain Chandler
Chase Clark coswin crocker Cutting Thomas Davis Daw
ton, Edmands Ellison Everhar Farley, Gamble Giddings,
Goodrich Grow, Hastings Howe Hughes D. T. Jones, Kitt
Mescham Morgan, Morrison Nichols Noble Norton 6ds
Andrew Oliver Peckham, Pennington, Pratt Prnge Pur-
year. RUSSELL sabn Sage sapp Seymour, Gerrit Smith
Tracy, Trout, Tweed Upham Wade, Ehu B. Washburne,
Israel Washburn, John Wentworth Tappan Wentworth West
brook, Wheeler, and Yates-7S.
The other amendments were then all concurred in,
when the bill was read the third time and passed. by the
following vote:
YEASSMessrs Abercrombe, J. Allen, W. Allen, Banks
Bennett Benton, Breckenridge Bridges Bugg Campbell Car
Churchwe Clark, Cobb, Cook, Corwin Cox, John g. Davis
Dawson, Dean Dick Disney, Drum Dunbar, Eastman Edg
erton Elliott Ellison English Ewing, Farley, Florence Gam
ble Goodrich Green Greenwood Grey Grow, A. Harlan,
Harrison Hendricks Eenn Houston Howe Johnson
Daniel Jones George Jones' Roland Jones' Knox Lane
Lindley Lindsey, McCuoch, McMullen, Macy, Maxwell,
Maya Middleswarh J. G. Miller Morgan, Nichols, Norton,
Olds A. Oliver NJ Oliver Peckham, Pennington, Phelps
Preston, Prnge Ready Richardson Rtchie Robbins Rus
SELL Sapp Shannon geton, s. A. Smith, William R. Smith,
Frederick p Stanton Richard H. Stanton, H. L. Stevens
sratton A. Stuart John L. Taylor, Thurson Trout, Tweed
Vail Vansant Wabridge, Warren, E. B. Washburne, John
Wentworth Tappan Wentworth, Westbrook, Wheeler H. B.
Wright, Yates and zoicofer-l07.
NAYS-Messrs. Aiken Appleton, Ashe Thos. II. Bayly,
Barksdae Becher Benson Bocock Boyce Brooks Caskie
Chastain Clngman, Colqut Crage, orocker, Cumming,
Cutting Thomas Davis Dent De Witt Dickinson, Dowde,
Edmands, Edmundsop Faulkner Franklin Fuller GoOde
Haven, Hibbard, HILL Hunt ]. G. Jones, Ket Kerr Kid
we'll Kittredge KurE Letcher NcDouga, Mcqueen, Mat
kin r. Perkins, Phillips, Pratt Puryear Rogers Rowe, Ruff
fin Sabin Seward, Seymour Shaw, Gerrit Smith, William
Smith, Smyth snodgrass Tracy, Upham Israel Washburn,
and Daniel D. Wright-72.
On motion of Mr.. JONES, of Tennessee, the title of
the bill amended as to read a bill to grant
homestead of hundred and sixty Of the public
lands to actual settlers" ....
The bill as passed is as follows:
enacted de- That any free white person who is the
head family who has arrived the age of twenty
years and is citizen Of the United States shall from
the passage Of this act be entitled to enter free of cost
Of vacant and unappropated public lands
which may ut the time the application is made, be subject to
private entry dollar and cents per acre. or
quantity equal thereto to be located in body in conform
with the legal subdivisions Of the public lands and after
the same shall have been surveyed.
Sec q Aaa further enacted That the person applying
for the benefit of this shall upon application regis
OF the land office in which he she is about make such
entry make affidavit before the said register that he she is
the head OF family or twenty of and that
such application made for his her exclusive and be-
and those specially mentioned in this act and not either
directly or indirectly for the benefit Of other per-
persons and upon making the affidavit as
above required and fling the affidavit with the register he
she shall thereupon be permitted the quantity Of land
already specified: Procide hoece That certificate shall
given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five
from the date of such entry and IL the expiration Of
such time the person making such entry or If he be dead
ls widow in of her DEATH his heirs devisee in
OF widow making such entry her heirs deyise in
of her death shall by credible witnesses that
she, or they have continued reside and cultivate
aid land and still reside upon the same have not aenat
ID the same, part thereof them in such he she
they shall be entitled to patent other provided
or by aw And prorded further In Of the death of
10Th father and mother leaving infant child children
nder years Of the right and the fee shall in
TO the benefit Of said infant child children and the
nso administrator or guardian ut time within two
after the death Of the surviving parent and in accord
with the laws Of the State which such children for the
ime being have their domc sell land for the benefit Of
aid infants but no other purpose and the purchaser shall
squire the absolute title by the purchase and be entitled to
patent from the United States
Sec. And be further enacted That the register Of the
and office shall note all such applications the tracbooks
md pias OF his office, and keep register Of all such entries
md make return thereof to the General Land Oe together
nth the proof upon which they have been founded.
Sec T. And Be q Jartaer enacted, That all land acquired
nder the provisions of this sha event become liza
ne 70 the satisfaction Of any debt debts contracted prior to
he issuing the patent therefor.