Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-01-01

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. !
i SENATE-Various memorials were pre-.
sented mostly asking for pensions.
On the joint resolution TO adjourn from
the ED of December to the sixth Of .Janua
ary, Mr.. Foote called the yeas and nays
The resolution was adopted, the following
Senators against it:
Chandler, Clark, Clingman, Collamer
Dixon. Davis. Doolittle, Durkee, Fessendcn
Fitzpatrick, Foote, Foster, Gwin, Jones
Hamlin, Hammond, Hunter. johnson O.
Tennessee, Reed, Rice, Wade, Ward--22.
Mr.. Rice, Of MIMI, offered bill which
was read twice and referred to the commit.
tee on Territories, to organize the Terrific.
~ of Dacotah.
Mr. Crittenden moved to take up the
French spoilation bill for the purpose Of ar
ranging some day for its consideration, and
gave notice that he would call it up on the
9Th of January.
The Pacific Railroad bill came up as the
order Of the day.
The following is the substance or 9 bill
which was introduced by Senator Rice on
the 4th inst, read twice and referred 10 the
committee on Public Lands. 1t is entitled
a bill to aid IN the construction of certain
railroads TO the Pacific to encourage a settle
ment on their lines and for other purposes.
Section list authorizes the President to
cause Public lands to DO surveyed to the
extent of forty miles on each side of the
route, after stationed, and the Indian title
extinsuishel, and that on payment of ten
cents per acre by present settlers, the pre-
emption laws to he extended thereto.
Section 2 provides that every alternate
section for ten sections in width on each
side Of the said roads and branches be grant
ed to the States and Territories upon the
lines of the proposed roads, viz: From Lake
Superior to Puget's Sound, with branch to
the navigable waters If the Columbia, from
the western borders Of the Sta'e of Texas
to San Pedro and San Diego, ard the Bay
of San Francisco.
Sec. 3. Tie said lands so granted tO the
States and Territories shall be subject to
the further disposal Of the Legislature there
Of for the purpose above expressed and for
no other
Section defines the conditions of sale
of said lands; that $50 sections may be sold
along every 20 continuous miles of the road
as completed, but if such roads or branches
BE- not completed within twenty years, all
unsold land shall revert to the United States.
Section 5th requires that the United
States mails shall be transported over the
said roads at prices to be fixed by Congress,
the President is auhorizedto name the price
Temporarily until fixed bylaw.
Sec. 6. Government shall have priority of
right for all purposes Of transportation.
Section 7th sets aside the 18th aud 36th
sections for school purposes. -..I...
Sec. s. The President shall determine
the terminus with the consent Of the States
and Territories in which tits situated.
MIR. Folks amendment II strike out from
the Missouri; River between the mouth Of
Big Sioux and Kansas Rivers, between the
49th parallel on the boundary of Minneso a
and the southern boundary of the United
States, was rejec ed by ayes II, nays 20.
Mr.. Foster discussed the merits Il the
road chiefly in regard to, the question of a
tariff on the material and moved as an
amendment that the road be built exclusive
| ly Of American iron. This elected consid-
cradle discussion. =
Mr.. Gwinn considered that the bill at
present provides for !: legitimate protection
to American Iron interests.
Mr.. Steward was strongly in favor of the
use Of the best materials as a matter of econ
omy, even if it should cost double, but
there was no doubt that the requirement of
300, COO tons, if offered by contract, would
hriu MT <bo II 1uo,,I1
be profitable to manufacture it at, and he
did not want it any less
Mr. Clingman asked the Senator from
N. I. whether there had not been break
ing Of American iron on the Erie Railroad.
Mr.. Seward replied that he had not heard
So and thought not. lie went on to dis
cuss the relative cost Of iron in England and
America, and proving that from the lower
rates of wages, England can produce it cheap
er inasmuch as nine -tenths Of the manutac-
ture of iron consists of labor.
Mr.. Bigler also spoke in favor Of the use
of American iron, and instaaced the case Of
Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road, saying one was built with American
and the other with English iron.
Mr.. Ivcrson opposed the amendment, as
likely to produce combination of iron
mongers to rise of iron. lie agreed with
Mr.. Clingman to admit iron duty free.
M Fosters amendment was then Car.
ried by yeas Is, nays 70.
Mr.. Rice then spoke at length on his Pa
cifc Railroad Bill introduced on Thursday
last.
Mr.. Rice introduced a bill to organize the
Territory Of Dacotah.
Adjourned.
rims WAsHlNGToN Dec FL.
A letter was received in this. city to day
from a responsible commercial house in
| Tampico, stating that the arrangement be-
tween the Spanish feet and the Governor Of
the city for the settlement Of their Difficult
ties. had been brc ken off, and that two Span
ish steamers are now blockading the harbor
Information has also been received here
that Spanish force was expected daily to
land at Tampico and tax, possession of that
lcity.
The telegraph for the Northern Associate
ed Press Of this morning states An asso-
cation called the Mexican and Central A.
merican Colonization Association is said to
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