The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-25
SESSION OF TRE SENATE.
The Revenue Marine-A Statue o.
Gen. John Stark.


The Revenue Marine-A Statue of
Gen. John Stark.
WASHINGTON, April "a In the Senate
this morning, on motion of Mr.. Gray, the
House bill to transfer the revenue marine
service from the treasury department TO the
navy department. was again taken up for
consideration. The amendments reported
from the committee on naval affairs were
agreed to.
STATUE OF GEN. STARK.
The Senate bill appropriating $4,000 for
an equestrian statue at Manchester, N. H. +,
of Maj. Gen. John Stark was taken up and
passed by vote of 81 to 15.
Consideration of the revenue cutter bill
was resumed, but at 2 o'clock it was dis
placed by the land forfeiture bill. The for
feiture bill was read, and the committee
amendments, after explanation were agreed
to.
Consideration of the land forfeiture bill
occupied all the remainder of the afternoon.
NEW SECTION OFFERED.
Mr.. Walthall offered as an amendment to
the land forfeiture bill a new section con-
firming the sales and entries of lands on the
line of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad in
Mississippi; and providing that, if the COM
pany shall relinquish its claims to such
lands within sixty days, the forfeiture pro-
vided in the bill shall not apply to it until
one year after the passage OF the law. This
was agreed to. 5VBn Y9aJ
Mr.. Hoar offered as d d amendment new
section that whers railroad has been sold
or conveyed in the, state Of Alabama for
state or county taxes, and where a grant
has been or may be forfeited the tax pur-
chasers shall have the prior right to pur-
chaos such lands from the United States at
the government price.
Mr.. Pugh opposed the amendment on the
ground that the tax sales alluded to were
illegal, that lands containing valuable tim
Der had been sold at mere nominal prices
40 or 10 cents an acre. and had been pur-
chased by Massachusetts capitalists, and
that they should not be put in a position to
purchase them now at government prices
HoAR CARRIES HIS POINT.
Mr.. Hoar said he should not press the
amendment against the objection of the
senator from Alabama. But the same
amendment had been inserted in the land
forfeiture bill of 1887 with the appreciation
of the two senators from Alabama, and had
only failed to be carried into effect because
of a misconception in the land office.
He explained that the purchasers under
tax sales had previously been
purchasers of alternate sections: and
having thus become owners of both the odd
and even sections they had gone on and con-
structed at large expense a canal on which
to remove the timber. If they could not
have all the lands through which the canal
ran they would have of course to abandon
the whole thing. After further discussion,
Mr.. Pugh withdrew his opposition to Mr..
Hoar's amendment, and it was agreed to
(modified so as to make the government
price 50 so an acre.)
Mr. Call offered an amendment declaring
forfeited the grant of railroad lands to the
states Of Alabama and Florida in 1856,
with reservation of the rights Of bona fide
purchases and settlers, and made long
speech in explanation and advocacy of it.
Mr.. Call did not conclude his speech, and
his amendment was still pending when the
Senate adjourned.