Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-02-19
The Republican Measure-..The Home.
sSs-xgaxssz. stead Bill.

The Republican measure.-.The Home
stead Bill. ,,,,....ss.n
The following is, an exact copy. Of , 4r.
Crows Homestead bill, which passed the
House of Representatives, Feb: +: 3fai@E =
"A BILL to secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on
az the Public Domain. H.f fo,s,.. r .,;g-g .; ...
BE it enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
e se T TsteS stass e 1;sa n con
OF family, or who has arrived at the age of 81
years. and is citizen of the United States or who
shall have filed his intention to becoIue such as
required by the naturalization laws Of the United
States SHALL from and after the passage OF this act
be entitled to enter free of cost one quarter sec
ton of vacant and inappropriate public lands
which may, at the time the application is made be
subject 10 private entry at lips per acre, or q
qu..ntl equal thereto, to be located in body, in
sonormity with the legal subdivisions of the pub
lie lands, and after the same shall have been pur-
veyed =. -.,.,-t r,...,.t al, =. 49,. -,
u SEC, 2. And be it further enacted That the per-
son applying for the benefit Of this act SHALL upon
application to the Register of the land Office in
which h. or she is about to make such entry, make
ain affidavit before the said Register that he or she
is the head Of family, or is u years or more of
age and that such application is made for his or
her exclusive use or benefit, and those specially
mentioned in this act, and not directly or indirect
" for the benefit of any other person or per-
sons whomsoever; and upon making the affidavit
eboye required, and fling the affidavit with the
Register, he or she shall thereupon be admitted to
enter the quantity of land already specified Pro.
ruled hoaUere, That no certificate shall he issued
therefor until the expiration of five years from the
date Of such entry; and if, at the expiration of
such time, or at any time: thereafter, the person
making such entry, or, if he be dead his widow, or
in case of her DEATH his heirs devsee or in case
in case her death shall prove by two credible wit,
nesses that he, she or they have continued to re-
side upon and cultivate said land and still reside
upon the same, and have not alenated the same
OF any part thereof then, in such CASE he, she or
they if at that time citizen Of the United States
shall, on payment of ten dollars, be entitled to q
patent, as in other cases provided for by law And
prouided further, In case of the death of both faith
er and mother, leaving an infant child or children
under twenty-one years of age, the right and the
fee shall inure to the benefit of the infant child or
children, and the executor administrator or guar
dian may at any time within two years after the
death OF the surviving parent and in accordance
with the laws of the State in which such children
for the time being having their domicil, sell said
land for the benefit of said infants but for no other
purpose; and the purchaser shall acquire the alb
sonte title by the purchase, and be entitled to a
patent from the United States. ~. !. .. az -
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Reg
lister of the Land Office shall note all such annlcs
tons on the tract books and plats of his Office and
keep register of all such entries, and make re-
turn thereof to the General Land Office, together
with the proof upon which they have been FORM
ed. .-....E ri; .s ..-- IN
Sec. 4. And belt FURTHER enacted, That all lands
acquired under the provisions of this act shall in no
event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt
or debts contracted prior to the issuing the patent
therefor. ..-..7--.....- -
SEC. 5. And be at further enacted, That if at any
time after filing the affidavit, as required in the
second section of this act, and before the expira-
ton of the five years aforesaid it shall be proven
after due notice to the settler to the satisfaction of
the Register of the Land Office, that the person
having filed such affidavit shall have actually
changed his or her residence, or abandoned the
said entry for more than six months at any time,
then, and in that event. the land 80 entered shall
revert back to the Government, and be disposed of
as other public lands are now by law subject to an
appeal to the General Land Office. =, .r
Sec. 6. Ind be 1T further enacted, That no indi-
vidual shall be permitted to make more than one
entry under the provisions of TINS act and the
Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby
required to prepare and issue such rules md reg
ulations consistent with this act as shall be nee.
essary and proper to carry its provisions into eff
feet; and that the Registers and Receivers of the
several Land Offices shall be entitled to receive the
same compensation for any lands entered under the
provisions OF this act that they entitled to
with money, one-half to be paid by the person ma
king the application, at the time of so doing, and
the other half the issue of the certificate by the
person to whom it may be issued; Pr0Uided That
snail ne construed as TO impair
or interfere in any manner whatever with existing
redemption rights. r-l.l ',..r.'7
: An analysis of the vote on the final pas
sage of Mr.. Grows Homestead Bill, which
passed by l2O to rs, shows that there voted
for the bill Republicans, 80; Democrats
80. against it-Democrats, 60; Americans,
10; Republicans, (Mr. Nichols) The
Northern Democrats who voted against it
were . Messrs. English, Hughes, Niblack,
i. ei,shail. shaw. (ili.) and Leidy. About 20
'.arth"n Democrats lodged. :. -,.- 70
From The complexion of the vote in the
House, we are led to fear that. this bill will
not pass the Senate; but We shall at least
have the satisfaction Of knowing who are re-
sponsible for its defeat: ss-'.7saa- z
From the Chicago Evening Jodrnal
WHICH IS THE PEOPLES PARTY "A CoNCLU.
. sIvE TEST. ... /
The recent vote in Congress on the Home
stead bill, Which is emphatically the Poor
Mans law-providng as it does that every
poor man with a family may receive, gratis,
one hundred and sixty acres of the public
lands of the United States, if he will settle on
ard cultivate it afforded as fair test as was
ever presented to prove which of the political
parties is and which is not the friend of the
free laboring classes of this country. ~
That question was decided, as far as the
House of Representatives is concerned, favor
ably to the poor man, but, let the fact be re-
marked and ever hereafter kept in mind, that
while every Northern vote except seven, was
in favor of the bill, all the Southern votes ex-
cept three only, were against 1t Siz North
ern and the aohole Delegation Of Southern DEM
ocrats yoted against this most beneticsnt bill
for the benefit Of the poor man.! Only one
Republican, land we are heartily sorry to know
there is even one such, opposed the measure,
namely, Mr.. Nichols of Ohio all the rest of
the Republican members were strong supper
tiers of the bill, thus showing conclusively,
that while the Republican party is the people,
party, in truth, the Democratic party is DEM
ocratic only in name! '3' "a.
This bill would do more for the advance.
ment of the material interests of the West,
and of the Nation as a whole, and more to in
sure the success of Free Labor in the future
States of the Confederacy, than all other laws
enterprises or measures that have yet been
adopted or inaugurated in this country. And
vet Democracy, processing to be the party o
the people and the friend of the poor laborer
does its utmost to crush and defeat it. Every
SiaVe-nOlOer Ia ConSreSS VOteS against IL, NC
cause it promises to benefit the free laborer
and the Northern Democratic Doughface.
(among whom are two Dougiasites from Ill
also vote against it, because they would rath
er serve the shareholders than to benefit tn
free " sons of the soil" The Republican
vote for it, because they know that what il
| calculated to benefit and advance the interest
of the free laborers of the land, is sure ais
| to advance the interests of the Nation and o
Humanity. ..
We have but little hope that this great ant
beniicent measure will become law, just yet
The pro-slavery Democratic majority in tn
| Senate will kill it. At all events, if they d
not, we shall be agreeably disappointed.
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