Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-06-20

were In collision with the conihc'oiH ="
cheat the government and taking the
lions share. with the appreciation Of the
President himself. TO be employed Ia brib'
ing the press and carrying on corrupt in I,
triRues with party leaders. to betray their ;
con6diug partixans into the false position
of fghting for an administration TO which
they we're opposed.
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Homestead House aud senate Biii.
The Homestead had its origin with
Democrats, and a bill passed the Senate
this session giving 10 every citizen home
| IN the public domains To the extent OF l6O
acres for the sum Of twenty five cents 40
i acre, making his farm cost him $40. In.
stead Of al % al acre, which ID now The
! legal price. aud makes the 100 acres cost
him 5000 The Republican House Of Don.
press can see no merit in this law OF the |
Senate, which puts tho price OF a farm
down TO $40, and will not adopt II The
fact comp lelely offsets all their professions
Of giving "frce farms 10 free men.-Jonr'
nal
An individual who IL not reader Of the
Terre Haule journal, and who Is not
thinker Of what he does read. will hardly
believe any editor would 80 grossly mis-.
represen, the plain truth. as does Mr..
Cookery in the above paragraph. which
we copy from his paper Of the 18th inst.
, The Democratic party, rs we have shown
in former articles, II opposed TO a Hone
stead Law, and have uniformly. almost 10
; a man. voted against 1t. The Southern
|, Democracy tomahawk il on every occasion,
D and Democratic Senate has hut recently
: killed il.
= Ii is known 10 all Of our readers that the
j. present House of Representatives passed,
J. many weeks ago. a Homestead Bill, giving
e l60 acres TO every citizen over q years Of
IS age. out Of the public domain. anywhere.
!, the settler paying the small sum Of $40 for
u the same This bill. so just, so proper and
% 80 beneficial. after receiving the votes of
l.. all the Republican members OF the House,
E. went to the Senate and was there forever
strangled. by that body substituting
N another bill for it. The friends OF the
Ut measure looked upon this as the defeat oi
D. a Homestead Bill. II was the cowardly
In manner the Democratic Senate adopted OF
TO destroying a bill, which they intended
n should never become the law. The Re.
rs publican House became alarmed ut thi.
I'd action OF the Democratic Senate, and ap
of pointed a committee Of conference. That
is committee met and could not agree A
n. second one was appointed, aud IL was un.
n. able to agree, aud the chairman Of this
he last committee, Hon. Mr.. Colfsx, of Thu
an State, in making his report tp the House
Vt, shows the difference between the Senst,
by and House bills; and so clear is this dis
de tinction, we here give his very language
I'D that our readers may have a full under
ia standing Of the same. He said "they diff
ir. fered ia FIVE prominent features--as re
-e. CARDS the persons who are TO be the benifi
x. Charles, the preemptors now on the govern
ment land, the description Of land brough
al within the puryew Of the law, the price
nd aud the policy Of the Government M L
lis compulsory land sales. First, as to per
IL. sons: The House bill includes all citizen
x. over 81 years old. and all who have de
he clared their intentionsi the Senate bill ex
on eludes all but heads Of families, cutting oil
u. young men over 81. large aud valuabi
Ol portion Of our population. Second. III
Of House bill includes in IT, benefits all pro
'as smptors now on the public land; the Sen
Of ate bill excludes them but allows them tw
p. years 20 buy their land at the government
at price; under the Senate bill preemplor
ief now on tho land cannot take the quartz
oil. section they are on, but must abandon o
pay for IT, Third. the House bill apple
to all land subject TO presumption. whiel
GU covers all Government land not reserve
'ts for special purposes. whether surveyed O
-, not; the Senate bill il confined TO land
his subject to private entry. which are onl
lrs those remaining after u public land sale
U.s. aud the spectators have had their pick
OH land warrant spectators. after land sale
could acquire title aL Onee under the Sen
~. ate bill. but an actual settler would hav
81, to walt Ave years. aud then pay % cent
Iar per acre, and the Land Office Fee Fourth
a the House bill gives the land to the settle
ne at $40 for a quarter section; the Senat
n. bill requires $40 for quarter section
lat twice AZ costly as the graduated lands 4
ny Missouri. Fifth, the Senate bill compel
tho President to expose the public land b
at sale in two years after survey the Hous
he bill does not, but the House has passed
be separate bill. now pending in the Senate
preyent'ng sales until ten years after ID
survey. Mr.. oolfax added, there was u
land OF apy consequence in Minnesota
Of Washington or Oregon, to which the Sen
m ate bill would apply, and but little In Ga!
ifornia, Kansas and Nebraska. Under tn
at. House bill The government land every
he where would be open to the pioneer"
Here the reader has a clear understand
- ing Of what the House bill IL, and what |
:. the Senate bill. Here is synopsis OF th
- Senate bill, which the editor Of the Journa
- says "gipes 10 epevy citizen a home in The pub
:. Ito dOmaia," when, in truth, il excludes al
young men og, lwenty one years Of age
y" aud only include Il .ads Of families. 9TH
M Senate bill is confined to lands subject I,
~ private entry" thus giving the Speculation
=. the privilege of vast speculhtions. aud the
a charging the settler $40 for 100 acres
- whereas the House bill gives 30 the settle
l6O acres, taken anywhere, and charge
him but SO for the same
Why then does the editor of the Jourus
80 misrepreseDt the plain, palpahle truths
ice ----------s.s Ut
ig' ANOTHER SUICIDE FROM SrIRuUALIsM. =
Ito Dsa Tunbull committed suicide ut Nsh
for awake. Ind. on the 2sth ult by takiu
oh laudanum. Mr. Turnbull formerly live
b. near Three Rivers. Michigan. where h
to leaves family. The circumstances whicl
he induced the rash act are these: He embrs
he ced the doctrine OF Spiritualism, left hi