The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-21

on spirits destroyed by the Chicago fire
The bill to extend the time for the State
OF Wisconsin to complete the Lake St.
Croix R4ilroad was taken up.
Mr. KetchAm, Chairman OF the Com.
mlttee on Public Gands. gave notice that
he would move the previous question at
O'Clock to-day. He proceeded to give 8
history Of the road, and to call attention
to some facts which had come to bis
notice, and which warranted him in op-
posEng Legislation revivirg the grant.
The bill made what was virtually new
grent in lands, which were as much the
property of the United States as any other
part of the public domain. He moved s.
substitute for the bill, 1ecIGring the lands
All forfeited to the United States, and re.
serving them for homestead entry and
SCI element, under the Homestead act of
1862.
Mr.. Holman moved TO amend Mr..
Ketcham's substitute by adding to it q
provision that NO part of these lands shall
be selected by or inure to the benefits of
any railroad company under any assumed
grant from the United States, but they
HRall be expressly reserved for the beae-
tt Of actual settlers under the Homestead
act
Mr.. Ketchap accepted the amendment,
&ad modified his substitute accordingly
Mr.. Garfield, fir IN the Conference Com
mittee on the bill for st. Louis Custom
ftouse, made report appropriating $500,
GEO for a site, snd $l,750,oQ for the build
ing. The report was attested to. Mr
E-ctcham's substitute ON the Lake st.
RCr"ix Railroad provided that all lands
granted by Congress in 1850 and 1864
for lands for the construction of the St.
Ccoix and Lake Superior Railroad, such
grants having expired By limitation, are
declared forfeited to the United States,
and shall heRcefOrward be subject to
homestead entry and settlement under
the homestead act of the Goth of May,
1852 and that no part of such lands shall
he selected by or inure to the benefit of
any railroad company under auy assumed
gy the United States, and that no land liz
the grant % the St. Croix Railroad Com
pany shall in any case revert to the North
err Pacific Railroad Company; and re-
peallng eli acts or parts of acts inconsist-
ent with this provision. The last clause
relative TO the Northern Pacific Railroad
was added to the substitute ON motion of
Mr.. Banks. The substitute was finally
ladop.ed by vote of 81 to IS.
I TIE bill as thus amended was passed,
and tue title changed, on motion of Mr..
Ketcham, so far as to read, IAN act to
declare forfeited to the United States Ger
tain lands granted TO the state of Wiscon-
sin, and to reserve the same under the
Homestead laws to active settlers"
Under call of the States several bills
were introduced including one by Mr..
Burnell concerning lands granted for n
railroad from ST. Croix to Lake Superior,
allowing settlers WHO paid two dollars
and fifty cents an acre to the Government
for lands on even sections to enter equal
quantities in tie oddnumbeIed sections
without cash.
Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, moved to
suspend the rules and take from the
Speakers table the Senate bill to con-
tract with the proprietors of the Con
gressional Globe for reporting and pub
fishing long debates of Congress for two
years.
After some discussion and several votes
by yeas and nays, the House adjourned
without disposiDg Of the bill.