The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-08-26

Virginia seem to ne TO prove conclusively
thas the proper course on the present occs-
sion 10 to take up and dispose OF the Home
a4ead bill. had hoped chat bill like this,
| simply carrying out In form wei matureo
and we'll digcstcd, policy that has been sub
mitted to Congress every year since nave
| been . member of this BODY, and mas been
discussed fully before the whele country, -
we'll in the debates Of Congress ~ in the press,
might find the Senate Of the United States
prepared to act without further discussion
but since we are advertised by the hon orable
Senator from Virginia that such is not the
case, and that debate 10 necessary, and that
even extended debate il to be had upon the
subject, it il very clear, there being only
twelve or fourteen days more Of this session,
that it 10 high time for that debate TO be.
GIN"
"The appropriation bills concern the BUSH
ness to-day; they provide the means for car
rying on the administration Of the Govern
nent for single year. The Homestead bill
settles indefinitely the policy Of the Govern
ment in regard to the public lands. 1t is q
measure OF permanent importance and inter-
est. 1t 10 business that concerns not only
to- day, but Tomorrow, next year, ffty, and
a hundred years hence. The States Of this
Union will be settled, and the resources Of
the United States will be developed; the
strength and power and integrity of the Union
will be established; the force and vigor of
the Republic Will be perfected, just as soon
as the public lands, hitherto held for the pur-
pose chiefly of speculation by capitalists, at
the cost Of the labor and industry Of the
| country, shall be taken out Of that market"
After conversation on points of order
between Mr.. Seward, Mr.. Hunter and the
Vice President, Senator Wade urged the
friends Of the bill to stand by it and make q
test vote on this question to postpone, for if
it was postponed now ii could not be passed
this session.
Thereupon the vote was taken, and result
ed as follows:
YKAs-Messrs. Allen, Bates, Bayard, Ben.
jamin, Bigler, Brown, Clay, Ciingman, Da-
Wis, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Ham
mond, Hunter, Iverson johnson of Arkansas,
Kennedy, Lane, Mallory, Mason, Pearoe,
Reid, Sebastian, Slidell, Toombs, Ward, and
Yulee-28.
NAYs-Messrs. Bell, Bright, Broderick,
Chandler, CLARK, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle,
Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster,
Hale, Hamlin, Harlan, Houston, johnson Of
Tennessee, King, Pugh, Rice, Seward, Sim
mons, Smith, Stuart, Trumbull, Wade, and
| Wilson-28.
The Semitic being equally divided, Vice
President Breckenridge voted with his party,
and thus virtually killed the bill.
| Every Republican voted against postpone
ment, and the great body of the Democratic
party, including the Vice President, under
the lead Of Hunter and Mason, voted for the
postponement with expressions of bitter hos
tlity to the measure. Douglas gave silent
vote with the Republicans, but had no word
to say in behalf Of this measure for the vel
fare OF the masses. He felt no inter-
est in the Homestead measure, and did
not condescend to manifest any; indeed he
was too careful of his position to risk offend
ing the Shareholders by contending with them
for "a bill so fraught with mischief" SEN
ator Jones Of our State, who had turned
traitor to our interests and sold himself to
| the Shareholders for o consideration, since
paid by Buchanan, was conveniently absent
on this interesting occasion. KS
So, the Slaveocracy, aided by the active
efforts of such Northern doughfsces as Big
Ter, Gwinn, Fitch & Co., and the quiet treach-
cry of Jones, Of Iowa, and Shields, OF Min
nesota, who lodged the vote, succeeded once
more, by "indirecfion," in defeating the
friends Of the Homestead bill. This question,
however, came up again, before the close OF
| the session, and we will devote another arti-
| Gle to the history Of that struggle between
the claims and interests Of the people and the
power and grasping ambition OF the slave
holding Democracy.
Salaries AT Des MOines anu Mt
| Wnshi n ton City.
"The people have lately felt to such a de-
| gree the pressure OF high taxation, and the
yearly increasing drain upon their pockets to
afford extravagant salaries to Republican Of
ticials," &C., 90.
SO sings the Dubuque Herald, and the To-
cofoco presses Of the State take up and pro-
long the strain in endless variations. a very
large majority Of the Locofoco members of
the Legislature voted for the present sala-
ries OF the State officers, and voted against
reducing them. But at Washington CITY
Democracy prevails in all departments, and
has ample time, space and opportunity to de-
velop its economical principles in the admin
istration Of the government just to suit its
own tastes. Let US, then, compare the Lo-
cofoco policy at Washington with the Re-
publican policy at Des Moines, that the peo-
pie may realize how much will be made by
the substitution OF Democratic policy in tho
place Of Republican policy at our State
Capital.