The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-09-21


change, the specuIator viii be required to
pay 81 % al acre, AID the settler viii on
y pay % cents an acre Tie legal effect
will be - make one dollar an acre differ
ence between the man who buys for spec
uIatlon without 4 settlement. and the nan
who settles upon the and and makes it
his home that Is ny object il the amend
ment.
Mr.. Pugh thought tie amendment might
give the spectators undue advantage over
the settler, to which Mr. DJug,a, replied !:
Tie effect Of This amendment IS, that
there shall be one dollar an acre difference
between the =pecuIator and the settler
Mr.. Davis, Of Mississippi, raised some
objections to tie proposed amendment, to
which Sir. Douglas replied as follows:
have listened with interest aud pleas
IRE 10 tie very clear exposition Of the
land system given by the Senator from
Mississippi. Il is true that this amend
ment 10 the bill will make radical change.
Tie change is simply THIS; As the land
system now stands, the speculator and the
actual settler are on terms of entire equal
iry. taking the land at 81 % an acre. but,
according to the proposed change. the
specuator will Ue required to pay 81 %
al acre, aud the settler will only pay 70
cents ar acre. TIE legal effect will be to
make one dollar an acre difference between
tie man who buys for speculation with
out settlement, and the raan who settle.
upon tho laud r"d makes il his homr, dat
is my ebiect in the amendment.
Dt,.,I .lorsrLt d.,
might give tie spectators undue adyan-
1aee over the settler, to which Mr..
Douglas replied:
Tho effect Of til. amendment IS that
there shall be one dollar an acre difference
between the Spectator and the settler;
that the actual settler may take land at
twenty-five cents, and that tie syeculator
shall pay 81 ,25. Bat tie Senator from
Ohio >ays the specuIator will send in adj
vance his agents, to 20 and get claim
under tie homestead. Sir 10 YOU think
that in order to reduce tract of ard
from {125 an acre to % cents, the
speeula'or will send his pgent there to
nnhl the land five years, and pay five
years salary, i'll order 10 save 500? No,
sir. You protect tie settler against the
SPECTATOR, by requiring FIVE years resi-
dence under tie bill, and cultivation upon
the land Tie speauiator cannot bear
the expense Of keeping sot,er for five
Years IN order 10 reduce the price. It
would cost him three times As much as lie
would gain by it. This bill, therefore,
furnishes the only efficient preventive
against his system Of fraud and -peeuIa
tion that | have seen devised.
am aware that the effects Of this bill,
with ny amendment, will be to make the
lubIic lands cease to be a large source Of
revenue. | DO not ;l;nk tic country viii
suffer by Withdrawing that source OF
revenue; and for this reason: Any one
Who viii trace the repor:s of the sales of
the public lands for the last thirty years
will find that whenever the country was
prosperous, whenever money WAS plenty,
and YOU had a surplus revenue in tie
treasury that you did not know what TO &c
with, your lana sales ran up TO ten,
twelve, fifteen, twenty, twenty four
million dollars year; but the moment
revulsion came, and money became scarce,
and your imports began to fall Of, the
land sales stopped; you could scarcely
get dollar into the tr@a.ury during the
year you needed il most. THIS source -
revenue failed you when You wanted It
1t creates Z surplus when the surplus lie
comes curse to you, and fails when You
neei it to supply the deficiency IN the
treasury. This very system If }Ho'ic
!aud sales IS one Of the causes Of pecuuiary
revusion in this country; ana it viii
benefit the country, benefit the treasury,
benefit the commercial community, and
the monevel affairs Of lie entire Union to
have the system cut OIL 1t will remain
partially under the bill Where lands are
entered foF speculation, out it will cut of
in regard to the actual settler lie paws
only twenty five cents an acre, which is
about the cost Of the administration Of the
land system.
Mr.. Mason-I wish to ask the Senator
from Illinois whether the effect OF this
amendment will not be to enable the pre-
emptioners who now are such to take their
pre- emption lands at quarter Of a dollar
an acre
Mr. DougIas-UuquestiouaLly.
The amendment, however, WIS lost by
vote Of 20 ayes to 81 nays. \ voc was
'hen taken on substituting the House bill
fDr the Senate bill, but it was rejected by
the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Bingham,
Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Dixon, boo
little, DoUGLAs, Durkee, Grimes, Hale,
Hamlin, Harlan; King, Rice, Seward,
Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Toombs,
TrumbulI, Wade, Wilkinson and wilson
90
NArs-Messrs Bsyard, Bigler, Bragg,
Bright, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Cljngmau,
Davis, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin,
Hammond, HempuiIl, Hunter, IveFson,
Johnson Of Arkansas, Johnson Of 1euues
see, Lane. Latham, Mason, Nicholson Polk,
Powell. Pugh, Sebastian S.ide.i, WigfalI
and Iulee-30.
twill be seen by tn, that Mr. Douglas
preferred the House Iii! to the Senate bill.
and vo,el accordingly. Bat this was de-
f,ated. and the Senate bill coming 10 vote
the same day-10th Of Maybe voted for
it. Beiag a consistent friend Of the