St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-12-20
Congressional.

soldiers as to bounty lands.
Mr.. Sherman of O.. from the finance
committee. reported the House bill for
il reduction of the officers in the inter
nal revenue bureau. with amendments
providing that the office of assessor
and assistant assessor shall cease to cX-
ist at such times, in the various dis
trictS respectively. aS the commissioner
of internal revenue may find practica-
bic prior to July |. 1873: authorizing
the appointment of - additional agents
until July |, IS7l, i'll addition to those
provided for by the existing law.
HoUsE. The consideration of the
soldiers bounty land bill, which was
taken up yesterday, was then resumed.
Messrs. Dunnell of Mimi. and Town
send of Pa. both opposed the bill. and
the latter stated that the committee on
public lands WAS unanimously of the
opinion that the measure proposed
would he an immense disadvantage to
the soldiers and the nation at large.
Mr. Hawley of Conn. also opposed
the bill, and showed how unfairly and
injudiciously the bouuty-land system
had worked as applied to the soldiers
of the Mexican war. He calculated
that those soldiers got $:H.OOO, 900 from
the sale of their lamdwarrantS. and that
actual settlers had paid 5000, 600 for
it. the difference going into the pockets
of land spectators. The pending
measure would work infinitely more I'M
fairly than that one had, because now
ANY one could settle on the lands under
the homestead and prccmption laws.
Under this bill 2,U0O.00O persons would
he entitled to land scrip. If only one
tenth Of them applied within the year.
that would throw on the market b.,
OOO. OOO. 600 acres. and the scrip would
only hold good for Il year. The effect
would he that the soldier, VIII" had
spent at least $40 III getting his VAL
rant. could not sell it III the market for
-. The measure would therefore
prove To he practically Il fraud on the
soldier. He held most rigidll t" the
policy of preserving the public lands
for actual settlers.
\ conversational debate on the hill
continued until the close of the morn
Ing hour. when the hill went over until
tomorrow.
The Indian appropriation hill WAS
taken up. The usual annual debate on
the Indian policy of the government.
the nh>rlditN of making and continue
lug treaties with the Indians. and the
possibility of ciNililing the Indians took
place.
The committee then rose and report
ed the hill /" the House. when it WAS
passed 10y Il vote of II Ia i3.
SENATE. Dee. - Nh. Morrill, of Yer
mont introduced Il hill /" authorize he
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