The register. (Monroe, La.) 185?-1861, 1859-12-15
Letter fsozn Hon. J. M. Sansdidge.

Ncssrs, Editors Of tie De'ta--Somc one having
sent me the printed g Exposition of the Hou
mas Land -Clnim, and ofthe Second Section of
the Missouri Land Bill approved June 9, 1883"
by Frederick Weber Hart and Romania Tiliot-
son, representing themselves as "dclosaics Of
the settles on the l!cumas Claim" ! notice y
reference to myself, so wholly unnecessary for
the ostensiLle porposc of their "rxrusiioa -
so unwarran,able and so untrue in part lint l
deem 1t not unbt coming i'll he 10 reply to it
through the columns of your paper.
Oa the a9lh Of April last, Messls. Hart and
Tillotson addressed To me very much such Il
letter Of inquiry rs the one sent to the Hon.
T, G. Davidson. and which is published, with
The response thereto, in their exposition"
To this letter. on the 10th of May, replied as
fellows:
Nessrs. iint and 74lotoa- III your communi-
cation of the 29ih ult., just received you state
that 1T was proposed by the citizens of Ibcr-
willie aud Ascension to propound the following
Undergraduates TO all the Representatives of
Louisiana in the last Congress- Did you know
daring the previous stages of the Missouri bill
before it became n law, that The second section
of that bill comrrchendcd, or lcgislatcd on the
rights of the settlers on the lioumas lands, or
in any wise comprchendcd or cgslatrd (on)
the interests ofnny part of the State of l.ouisi-
ana? To which you respectfully require an
answer
"Prosumns that you refer to the act of Con-
gross approved ri June, 1858, :lor the location
Of certain confirmed Private Land Claims in
the State Of Missouri, AID for other purposes
l have to sny that | did not know the lloumas
lands we're included In the bill until some
mon,as after it became law but | did know
the fact tho, reference was mad III the bill to
a report from certain Land Commissioners up-
on large number Of private land claims in
Louisiana. The report of the Commissioners
embraced near two thousand cases, and in nc
krowledging my ignorance that the Houmas
grant-in, perhaps some other name was in
cludcd, may he accused OF Il greater amount
of inattention than is charged upon one of my
colleagues Taylor
"rhe bill TO provide for The location of Ger
tain Private Land Claims in Missouri, and for
other purposes which was reported to the
Senate in February, 1867, if passed by that
body, was never taken up by the House, FOR re-
ference to Committee, OF for consideration in
any other way.
On the 9TH of January. lS5S-tirst session
of the last Congress, Mr.. Polk, of Missouri, in
troduced into the Senate--as gather from the
journals, "a bill for the relief of Manuel Leisa,
Joachim I.eisa, and others, and to provide for
the location of certain confirmed private land
claims which, having been referred to their
Committee on Private Land Claims. was on
the 18th of March following. reported back
with an amendment striking ont all after the
enacting clause, and inserting that which finally
became Law on the I'd June, with amended
title"
Now, had Messrs. II. & T. acted towards me
as with Mr. Davidson, and confined themselves
to what properly belonged to the case in which
they are Interested, I should have been spared
the necessity of this communication, and the
settlers on the Houmas claim, the modification
of knowing such unwarrantable statements as
are made with reference to myself, might we'll