The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

should pass over the veto, the vote was
as follows:
YEAS Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chand-
Ter, CIark, DooliEie, Dwkee, Fessenden,
Fitch, Foot, Foster, Gwin, Hale, Ham
In, Harlan, King, Lane, Latham, Mich
olson, Polk, Pugh, Rice, Simmons, Sum
ner, Ten Eyck. TrumbuU, Wade, WI
EinsoR, and IViIson---28.
Republicans in italics, 10; Democrats
in Roman, 9---total 28.
NAYS -Messrs. Bragg, Chestnut Carr
TENDEN, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green,
Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, johnson of
Arkansas, johnson of Tennessee, NAL
lory, Mason, Pearce, Powell, Sebastian,
Wigfall, and Yulee---18.
AL from the South, and all Democrats,
except Mr.. Crittenden of Ky. Several
Senators were paired, which accounts
for the light vote. So the bill failed,
not having the two-thirds necessary to
pass it over the Presidents veto.
1t is unnecessary to add anything to
this record to fix responsibility for the
fate of the homestead bill upon the
Democracy, or to illustrate the artful
maneuvering by which they sought to
avoid it. The record shows that they
endeavored first to defeat any bill by
delay. Being forced to act, they sub
stituted graduation bill for the home
stead, and finally had this vetoed on the
shallowest pretexts. 1t was a game of
evasion and trick from beginning to
end. 1t was never intended that any
bill should pass. The effort was, when
forced to vote, so to emasculate the bill
that a majority of the Republicans
might vote against it; and the remarks
of Davis and Green above referred to,
and others to the same effect, were Of
ten repeated, and even their votes were
cast, as the sequel shows, to produce
this effect. 1t is manifest, indeed, that
it was arranged that the bill should be
vetoed if not killed in this manner, be-
cause all the votes necessary to sustain
the veto were promptly furnished, with
as little regard to consistency as the
President himself exhibited in vctoing
measure to carry into effect the pledge
he had given in his inaugural address,
"to reserve the public lands as much as
may be for the actual settler" That
this programme was known to their
leaders is now manifest from a circum-
stance which occurred on the 3D. of
April. Mr.. Green then said, in refer
ence to the bill, that it could not be.
come law without the Presidents sig
nature. Senator Trumbull Immediately
inquired, whether he meant to intimate
that the President would veto the bill,
and Green gave no reply.
The bill to prevent the sale Of the
public land to spectators for ten years
after they are surveyed, a proper sup
ploment to the homestead law, was pass
ed by the House, May 26, 1860, yeas
102, nays 67---every Republican voting
in the affirmative, while only 13 Demo
Gratis voted for the bill.
The Senate's Committee on Public
Lands reported against this bill on 9Th
June, (p. 2723,) and no action was af-
tcrwards taken on it in that body.
This record leaves nothing to be said
with respect to the positions of partie,
on the Homestead question. 1t is true
that few of the Democratic Senators
and Representatives vote with the Re
publicans for homesteads and bills to
stop land monopoly, but this argues
nothing as to their real wishes on the
subject; for whilst they uphold the pow.
er that overrules their votes, they them
selves render such votes inoperative.-
They are in fact the most effective sup.
porters Of the forestallers, spectators
and monopoizers, for, by their ShoW of
opposition, they are enabled to aid in
betraying the people to their opprcssors
Bg-The New Albany (Ind) Tribune
which supported Fillmore in 1856, i.
now doing good service for Lincoln anC
Hamlin. The editor, A. NJ. Han ncocb
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