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lae of the area on the let of January, 1860. Of uOie
lands IN each Of TIE States remaining 1ssso after hGcins

Thu we Southern States much the larger pro
portion Of land uader this section While Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota nothing Arkansas and Missouri snd Alabama and
Mississippi get millions Of think tAs shows that there
was no design N TINS respect % o un!u 70 tns se
States where land has been offered at pubic
sale their citizens may privilege going half
resrvng the other for the Government to derive revenue
from.
to the conclusion surrender the
public lands to which they e and thereby with
draw the jurisdiction Of the Federal Government without their
limits and INACCURATE system by which the jurisdiction OF
the Federal Government would How this power can be
questioned now matter OF some aonshmen when te prn
cp recognized from the origin Of the Government to
the present making grants individuals, corporations,
Territories and States for internal improvement educational
agricultural purposes has been conceded by nearly every
in the States for schools, and in nearly al
the old ones for other purposes where the public lands M
forty million transferred to the States in the shape OF
swamp lands twenty four mien to aid in the work OF internal
of the United States it has
ali at unconstitutional after the public lands have
half cents per scre scarcely eying the of keeping
the land ocs in the respective States to be unconstu
tons 20 surrender the States in which they e Ia there
which the Federal Government get clear Of these
lands Does the Constitution prohibit the from sur
by the President against the
anas Is SIMPLY 80 t os ~ rsvinS The ssnctian ~
nearly every Of the United states The policy OF
Granting lands to by tue Government homeeads
Was approved by Washington by Jefferson, and cher
immortal Jackson, whose names and memories viii
my opinion, avoraby with that Of the present
Adnstraon General earnestly looked forward the
day public lands would be source Of public
revenue and pass into the hands Of the honest cnator 1t
was his anxious the time when every head in
United would be dGmicated and would have abiding
for his wife and for his children Wheher CONSIDERATIONS
NATIONAL Christian. have ever penetrated the
brain yet sweed witt emotonsfor
wife or children enlightened public to determine
point with reference to preempto There
large of 0mptOrs the public lands AID the sales
havebeen suspended again and again why Because ese
upon the lands and they unable to pay Fifty
six million have been out Of the market because the
preempsrs were required to prove up their CLAIMS am pay
sale could take place. under the law as now stands
important relief to them important
to have the public lands placed such position that We could
derive from them. Then what done in this bill We
ahaII hafa fNxnu tn
prove up and pay the Government puts the land into
for sale and in addition to that by way 81
by way OF raising of smuant those who
on lands who have subjected themselves to the hard
ships and pvaons Of frontier life we say to them within
two years yoa pay sixty and BALI cents an asre the Gov
shall patent as now provided by the pre-
until the receipts from public lands are only $500
By extending this relief to the peempors and giving them
two Year,, you Executive anybody
~ Sn mo the market sxy million acres land his own
discretion raise from it. and MI the co1rs OF the
nation there anything hard in that anything wrong
Where then Is the departure the honorable Senator from
Arkansas seems to intimate the general teno: Of his
sncb from any principle laid down the original bill There
The committee on the part Of the senate IN goo
faith and they consulted with their compees here before ey
even yentured 10 MAKE the proposition which finally
ported concurred in, by the Senate rms 70
sixty AID half cents an acre was confined q tne
tors at the date passage Of the law and did not extend to
mSt hereafter You can ina1gursts no new
in reference to public lands unless tnere 9
price from present existing system II this Dill passes se
ting the pre- emptOrs out Of the way stepping se s
the Executive the privilege Of bringing the snqs n.o
will increase the incoming year DO not see mat
liant to those who upon the lands to pay up Nln
II is that million acres in
within two years Won you'd bring yout Golfers many mil
lion dollars the public lands in the State Of Minnesota.
with commendable zesla which and others admired
made to-day argumnt to JUSTLY hm:e IN us am
this Veto holds expectation or Htahon tat
the President will approve homestead bill Spon any
principle But honorable friend himself onereo 'hs
nent to the bill which originally introduced:
THAT every actual settler upon offered or unonere aha
shall be entitled his one quarter section Of
graduated pri:e proof that he has hvo upon tne
s me OF sctrsi residence: rODdsd That be shall
make oath that he has never a. any E AZ
md proper execution this shall be prescribed BY the
Secretary Of the Interior"
his amendment applied unfortunately to surveyed and un
surveyed lands provided not for getting ana maj
cents sn acre y cents acre. IL what respect nave
one OF this committee Of conferences, departed rom ne
laid down by himself and alter having offered hls
ent and standing by the lcrgna Senate bill how can pc oSe
forward to Justify and sustankhs Executive Ve! loo
nv worthy friend can desert At h stage DO nosee nov ne
abandon great that he has upon
ple has exerted all his influence toWAras
because President Of the United saeI thinks proper 70
withhold his signature always have resysc Ior nn so
Ellis the place Of the President Of the United so1eS,
pAry and would be very natural pr me to have more re-
sPct for President Of own party than 81 a5y one =,
site politics But does the fact OF the fres1en.
change the nature and character OF great s us
sss wrong right or right Wrong o,eed with Govern
ent ana the great Of humanity the TACT hAt
ferry Presidents with fry ssststs to write out vetOeS,
sn stand by this bill and giveit the sanction oil my 0
But sir the Executive calls attention gate discovery
which ne seems to have made the BILL cannot bseVe taat
ne has examined the bill with think be has read
as ne ought 70 nave it, very good reason
that there great press Of bills his attention aud consde
ration at the close Of long session Of Congress- and he has not
had time to DO it. infer that it has OF the
Of time that he has not READ understood this measure
He speaks OF the sixth section OF the bill Now mark the
Iestion
person who the head family and citisen
the United States, SHALL from the passage Of this
be entitled enter quarter section Of and unAP
proprsed public lands less quantity located
body conformity with the legal Subdivisions public
ands shall have been follow
ng conditions that the applying for the benefit OF this
.ct SHALL application the register Of tho land
which be or she ke such entry make affidavit before
he register or receiver Office
IN ACTUALLY sErTLED the quarter
ecton notexceeng quarter section.
,osed Il be entered"
But this IDEA poor foreigners somehow oher be-
hSunts the Of great many, who imagu