New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-30
FROM WARRINGTON.
THE PUBLIC LANDS-RAILROADa-
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FARMS.
| Editoris, Correspondence Of The n Y. Tiibure
WASHINGTON, Friday June q, 1856.
There Is ore more Railroad Land bill now on tia
stocks-that TO aid in running Roads through Mis
sissippi-uhich ! suppose 10 be included in the
general combination or understanding a. to what
was to be passed at this session. This being put
through believe it is calculated that each new o.,
Public Land State will have received it's fair pro.
portion, and the approp iation Of Public Lands for
Railroads, so far a. they are concerned, will have
been rounded out and completed. do not know
who keeps the tally, nor do make myself ia any
manner responaible for the accuracy Of this eslsu.
lation. Suffice it that understood it to be geo:
orally agreed that, when Mississippi shsl have re-
ceived her allowance, the allotment or distribution
of Lands in the Public Land States for Railroad
purposes will have been equalzed and perfected.
A very great pressure is brought to bear upon
Congress in favor Of the extension Of this system
to the Territories, and number of plausible pro.
jects well autographed are commended to the
favor of the respective Public Land Committees,
looking to the construction of Railroads, aided
by Land grants, through Minnesota, NebrAsks
AID Kansas, from the Upper Mississippi or
Missouri toward the Pacific Ocean. Without OK.
pressing any hostility to the general policy of
granting Public Lsnds for such purposes, and cer-
tainly without being sctuated by either repugnsnce
or Indifference to the growth and welfare Of the
embryo commonwealths above named, / trust
Congress will pause before consenting to shingle
the Territories with Railroad grants Of Public
Lands. Let the pioneers have the first chance to
make locations and create homes thereon in the
Territories az they had in those lately rpened into
States. Let population be attracted to the new
lands, and let Railroads be INSTRUCTED to accom-
modate the settlers rather than 10 attract them.
A delay which tends to cover a route with thrifty
settlers need not obstruct the building of Rail
road even though il should very considerably
diminish the area q land open to selection and ap
in its behalf And besides, the session
draws toward close and the remainder Of it must
mainly be devoted to matters Of pressing urgency.
trust time will be found or made for taking up
and passing Mr.. GROWS bill granting quarter
section for the mere cost Of survey, registry and
transfer to every actusl settler. could prefer
some modification iD the details, but the principle
is 80 Just and beneGcent that it s not possible that
majority of the House should resist it. 1t cannot
be said with truth that the Free-Land men have
thrust their hobby acrsss the path of others. The
soldiers in all manner of wars have had bounty
lands voted them in unexampled, unmeasured pro-
fusion, and the spectators In warrants have re-
allied fortunes. The Railroad projectors have
been generously dealt with, until not less than
Twenty Millions of acres of choice lands have been
conceded them IN aid or one tito and ouother' It
surely 10 the Settlers turn next. At this moment
Wisconsin, Iowa.. Illinois, Indiana ana Sousnern
MICHIGAN are either exhausted Of Public Lands
tbrouah Railroad Grants and county Warrants, or
heir Land Offices are shut up to await the seiec
ion of conceded lands BY tkis or that Railroad
so that the emigrsat in search OF
uarter section may travel fast and fer with
ut finding ono open to him except at
REGULATORS prices Congress is impOrtuned
o open new LsndOfiees in the Territories
md the President to proclaim now surveys as open
10 sale by auction and afterward ut private entry
al to the prejudice of the moneyess squatter who
has spent all his means in finding his location re-
moving to it, getting cabin ever bis head, team,
and few acres into crop. Let the lands be put
up for sale, and be must put his head between the
avs of some usurer, let said INSURER buy bis land
over his head, on his agreement to redeem it within
few years at fifty per cent interest or forfeit all
claim to it. Thousands in every new State are
.hafng under that very haussw at this hour And
more terrible TO the Free settlers Of Kansas than
he alarm of Q new inroad Of Border Rufians would
be proclamation BY the President putting their
ands, into market. Tho great majority Of them are
utterly unprepared to buy them on any terms which
INVOLVE present cash payment
Mr.. Grows Free Land bill stands very high on
he calendar of the House. By resolu ton and con-
,ert among its friends 1t may be reached, taken up,
md passed. trust ID soon will be. H.G.
KANSAS IN THE HOUSE.
sSsori. Correspondence of The N. Y Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June %, 1856.
The debate on the Free. Kansas bill draws toa