Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856.

DEBATES OF CONGRESS. 521 JUNE, 1834.] Adjournment. [tH. OF R. been amended by the House, was returned by The House insisted upon its amendment the Senate with their non-concurrence in the (requiring the minimum price for the land) to amendment. the bill —yeas 82, nays 68. [The amendment provides that the land titles shall be granted after ten years' settle- Post Office. ment thereon, upon payment of the minimum The following gentlemen were announced to price.] compose the committee to sit in the recess to Mr. CLAY, of Alabama, said he must move investigate the affairs of the Post Office: that the House do adhere to its amendment, Messrs. CoNonR, POLK, WHITTLESEY, H. Evand went into an explanation to show that the ERETT, BEARDSLEY, WATMOUGIT, and IlAWEs. bill, as it came from the Senate, was a depart- Mr. POLK said he perceived, from the readure from the constitution, being a donation, ing of the Journal this morning, that he was for which there was not any precedent that placed as a member of the select committee he was aware of to authorize their making, of appointed to sit during the recess of Congress the public domains. One donation of the public to examine into the condition of the General lands had been given by Congress to certain Post Office. Mr. P. said he had never shrunk emigrants from France, but that grant had from the performance of any duty assigned to some public ground to recommend it; those him, since he had been a member of the persons being required to plant the vine and House. It was well known to the House that the olive. he had, during the present session, been a The amendment proposed by the House gave member of a most laborious committee, the to these individuals advantages which were duties of which he had attempted to perform. not given to the people of the United States, He had been at all times willing to give his namely: if they went on the lands, after ten whole time and attention, whilst Congress years they would only be called on to pay was in session, to the business of the House. therefor the lowest price, viz.: $1 25 per acre; The committee, however, were to sit at and this was sufficient, in his estimation, for Washington during the recess. The state of Congress to grant. his private affairs, he said, would render it very Mr. CAMBRELENG held that Congress had the inconvenient for him to be at Washington earlier power to make grants of the public domain, than the meeting of the next session of Conwith a view to their actual settlement; and gress. He must therefore respectfully ask the said he did not believe the people of the favor of the House to excuse him from serving United States generally would refuse their as a member of this committee. assent to the grant for men circumstanced as Mr. POL:k was excused, and Mr. STODDERT these Poles were known to be: men who had appointed in his place upon the committee. been bravely fighting the battles of liberty in Duties on Church Bells remitted. the old world, and in resistance to the march of despotism. He considered this an offering The bills remitting the duties on bells prein the cause of liberty, to which it was the sented to the Roman Catholic church at St. duty of the House to respond. Louis, Missouri, having been called up by Mr. Mr. J. Q. ADAMS expressed his hope that ASHLEY, occasioned some debate on the conthis nation would not act on a niggardly prin- stitutional question of appropriating for the ciple towards these brave but unfortunate men. establishment of religion; but the bill was at He did think that we were imposing too many length passed-66 to 58. conditions with the grant. Mr. BURGES would, in reply to the constitu- MAissouri Land Claims. tional doubts of the member from Alabama, Mr. ASHLEY endeavored to have a reconinquire from every son of freedom throughout sideration of the vote laying on the table the the land, if the public domain could be better bill to confirm certain land claims in Missouri, disposed of than it was by this grant, given as but failing in that effort, he moved a resolution encouragement to those who had so bravely requiring the report of the commissioners who battled in its sacred cause? The eyes of the passed upon the claims to be submitted to the world, he said, were upon them; and no man Secretary of the Treasury; which was agreed to. in the United States, no free man, would or ought to say it was unconstitutional to pass this bill. The usual message was sent to the Senate Mr. McKIm moved the previous question; it and President, informing them that the House was seconded, and the main question having was ready to adjourn; and both Houses adbeen ordered and taken, journed at about 7 o'clock.

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Title: Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856.
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Publication: New York, [etc.]: D. Appleton and company [etc.]; 1857-61.
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