James K. Moorhead,. .Fordham. 22 Robert McKnight, Bloomingburg. Gettysburg. Washington. Allegheny City. .Lockport Station. 23 William Stewart,.. .Mercer. .Kingston. .Kinderhook, 24 Chapin Hall, Warren. 25 Elijah Babbit, Erie. 8 Horace F. Clark, John B. Haskin, 9 10 Charles H. Van Wyck, 11 William S. Kenyon,. 12 Charles L. Beale,. 13 Abraham B. Olin, 14 John H. Reynolds, 15 James B. McKean,.. 16 George W. Palmer, 26 Emory B. Pottle, 27 Alfred Wells, 28 William Irvine,. 29 Alfred Ely, 30 Augustus Frank, 31 Edwin R. Reynolds, 32 Elbridge G. Spaulding,. 33 *Reuben E. Fenton,.. .Troy. .Saratoga Springs. ..Delhi. ..Fulton. Watertown. .Syracuse. Palmyra. .Naples. .Ithaca. 1 Christopher Robinson, ......Cumberland. William D. Brayton,................ Warwick. 2 123456 SOUTH CAROLINA. [Vacancy.] [Vacancy.] [Vacancy. [Vacancy.] [Vacancy.] [Vacancy.] ..Salisbury. .....Asheville. 1 *Ezekiel P. Walton, 2 *Justin S. Morrill, 3 Homer E. Royce, ..........Stafford. ..East Berkshire. VIRGINIA. OHIO. 1 1 *George H. Pendleton,.... 2 John A. Gurley, .Cincinnati. ..Cincinnati. 2 Muscoe R. H. Garnett, John S. Millson, 3 Clement L. Vallandigham,...Dayton. 4 William Allen,. .Greenville. 5 James M. Ashley, .Toledo. .Batavia, 6 William Howard, 7 Thomas Corwin, 8 Benjamin Stanton, 9 John Carey, 10 Carey A. Trimble,. Charles D. Martin, 12 Samuel S. Cox,... 13 John Sherman, 11 14 Harrison G. Blake, 15 William Helmick,. 16 Cydnor B. Tompkins, 17 Thomas C. Theaker,. 18 Sidney Edgerton, 19 Edward Wade, 20 John Hutchins,. ..Lebanon. Bellefontaine. Carey. 3 Daniel C. Dejarnette,. 4 Roger A. Pryor,.. 5 *Thomas S. Bocock, 6 Shelton F. Leake,. 7 *William Smith, .Loretto. ..Norfolk. .Bowling Greene. ..Petersburg. Appomattox, C. H. ..Charlottesville. Warrenton. 8 ALEXANDER R. BOTELER,...Shepherdstown. ..Harrisonburg. Wheeling. .Green Bottom. .Salem. 9 John T. Harris, 10 Sherrard Clemens,.. ..Chilicothe. 11 Albert G. Jenkins, .Lancaster. 12 Henry A. Edmundson, .Columbus. 13 Elbert S. Martin,.. .Mansfield. 21 John A. Bingham, ..........Cadiz, 1 John F. Potter,... .Lee, C. H. 2 *Cadwallader C. Washburn,..La Crosse. 3 Charles H. Larrabee,........Horicon. Delegates from Territories. KANSAS. 1 Marcus J. Parrot....... .Leavenworth City. ...........Omaha City. NEW MEXICO. 1*Miguel A. Otero, UTAHL. ..Albuquerque. 1 William H. Hooper,.........Salt Lake City. WASHINGTON. 1 Isaac I. Stevens, + Opposition, elected on People's ticket. 1865..Stephen A. Douglas 1867..Henry S. Lane. IOWA. 1865..James W. Grimes. 1867..James Harlan. KENTUCKY. 1865..Lazarus W. Powell. 1867 *J. C. Breckinridge. LOUISIANA. 1865..Judah P. Benjamin 1867..A Democrat. MAINE. 1863..Lot M. Morrill. 1863.. Charles Sumner. MARYLAND. 1863..ANTH'Y KENNEDY. MICHIGAN. MINNESOTA. 1863..Henry M. Rice. MISSISSIPPI. 1863..Jefferson Davis. 1863..Trusten Polk. NEW HAMPSHIRE. NEW YORK. 1863..Preston King. NEW JERSEY. NORTH CAROLINA. 1865.. Thomas Bragg. OREGON. 1865 *Edward D. Baker. 1867..George W. Nesmith PENNSYLVANIA. 1863.. David Wilmot 1867.. Edgar Cowan. RHODE ISLAND. 1863..James F. Simmons. 1865..Henry B. Anthony. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1865..Vacancy. TENNESSEE. 1863..Andrew Johnson. 1865..A. O. P. Nicholson. TEXAS. 1863..Louis T. Wigfall, 1865..John W. Hemphill. VERMONT. 1863..Solomon Foot. 1867..Jacob Collamer. VIRGINIA. 1863..James M. Mason. 1865..Rob't M. T. Hunter. 1863..Zachariah Chandler 1863..Benjamin F Wade. 1867..Lyman Trumbull. 1865..Kinsley S. Bingham. 1867..John Sherman. WISCONSIN.-1863..James R. Doolittle.........1867..Timothy R. Howe. Republicans (in Italics), 29; Democrats (in Roman), 32; Americans (in SMALL CAPS.), 1; Vacancies (which threaten to remain vacancies), 4. The figures before the names denote the expiration of term of service. *New Members. ARKANSAS. HOUSE OF 1. Thomas C. Hindman. FLORIDA. *R. B. Hilton. INDIANA. 1. John Law. 2. *James A. Cravens. 1. Elihu B. Washburne. Wm. A. Richardson. IOWA. 1. Samuel R. Curtis. 2. William Vandever. MAINE. 1. *John N. Goodwin. 1. Thomas D. Eliot. 2. James Buffinton. REPRESENTATIVES. 5. *WILLIAM APPLETON‡ 15. James B. McKean. 16. William A. Wheeler. MICHIGAN. 1. OREGON. *James Shiel. PENNSYLVANIA. William E. Lehman 2. E. Joy Morris. 3. John P. Verree. 4. *William D. Kelley. 5. *W. Morris Davis." 6. John Hickman. 7. Thomas B. Cooper. 8. Francis W. Kellogg. 25. *Theo. M. Pomeroy. 8. *Samuel E. Ancona. 4. *R. E. Trowbridge. MINNESOTA. 1. Cyrus Aldrich. MISSOURI. 1. Francis P. Blair, Jr. 2. John L. N. Stratton. 2. John A. Gurley. 3. Clement L. Vallandig-22. 4. William Allen. 8. Isaac C. Delaplaine. 15. *George Nugent. Edward Haight. 11. John B. Steele. 12. *Stephen Baker. 21. James K. Moorhead SOUTH CAROLINA. 9. 10. Charles H. Van Wyck 17. James R. Morris. 18. Sidney Edgerton. 19. Albert G. Riddle. Luther Hanchett 21. John A. Bingham. 8. Chas. Francis Adams 13. Abraham B. Olin. Republicans (in Roman), 99; Democrats (in Italics), 51; Independents (in sMALL CAPS), 8; Elected on People's ticket, and supported by the friends of Lincoln and Bell. Elected on Union ticket, and sympathizes with the Americans. Elected as an "Independent," and was supported mainly by friends of Bell and Lincoln. FREE HOMESTEADS. ACTION OF CONGRESS ON THE PUBLIC LANDS. IN THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1860, we and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre; or presented a brief and concise history of two dollars and fifty cents per acre; to be located eighty acres of such unappropriated lands, at the action of the Federal Legislature, up in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions to the close of the XXXVth Congress, on of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed. the great question of granting to each SEO. 2. And be it further enacted, That the landless citizen who might see fit to set-person applying for the benefit of this act shall, upon application to the register of the land tle on the public domain, a free home-office in which he or she is about to make such stead. That record clearly discloses the fact that the Republican and Democratic parties-the one representing the interests of the free labor of the whole country, and the other the pretensions of the Slave masters of the South-have come to a distinct issue upon this all-important question. The subsequent action of both the Legislative and Executive branches of the national Government, during the First Session of the XXXVIth Congress, fully confirms this view of the case; hence, that action becomes a matter of so much public interest, as to justify a continuance of the record. In the House of Representatives, on the 6th of March, 1860, Mr. Lovejoy, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill (previously introduced by Mr. Grow), which was read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole. A BILL TO SECURE HOMESTEADS TO ACTUAL Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be entitled to enter, free of cost, one hundred and sixty acres of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar entry, make affidavit before the said register or or is twenty-one years or more of age, and that receiver that he or she is the head of a family, such application is made for his or her exclusive in this act, and not, either directly or indirectly, use and benefit, and those specially mentioned for the use or benefit of any other person or vit with the register or receiver, he or she shall persons whomsoever; and upon filing the affidathereupon be permitted to enter the quantity of certificate shall be given or patent issued thereland specified: Provided, however, That no for until the expiration of five years from the such time, or at any time within two years theredate of such entry; and if, at the expiration of after, the person making such entry-or if he be dead, his widow; or, in case of her death, his heirs or devisee; or, in case of a widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee, in case of her that he, she, or they have resided upon and culdeath-shall prove by two credible witnesses tivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit aforesaid; then, in such case, he, she, or they, if at that time a citizen of the United States, shall, on payment of ten dollars, be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided for by law: And provided further, That in case of the death of both father and mother, leaving years of age, the right and fee shall inure to the an infant child, or children, under twenty-one benefit of said infant child, or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State in which such children for the time being have their domicil, sell said land for the benefit of said infants, but for no other pur pose; and the purchaser shall acquire the absolute title by the purchase, and be entitled to a patent from the United States, on payment of the office fees and sum of money herein specifiled. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office shall note all such applications on the tract-books and plats of his office, and keep a register of all such entries, and make return thereof to the General Land Office, together with the proof upon which they have been founded. SEO. 4. And be it further enacted, That all lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in no event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if, at any time after the filing of the affidavit, as required in the second section of this act, and before the expiration of the five years aforesaid, it shall be proven, after due notice to the settler, to the satisfaction of the register of the land office, that the person having filed such affidavit shall have actually changed his or her residence, or abandoned the said entry for more than six months at any time, then, and in that event, the land so entered shall revert to the government. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That no individual shall be permitted to make more than one entry under the provisions of this act; and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby required to prepare and issue such rules and regulations, consistent with this act, as shall be necessary and proper to carry its provisions into effect; and that the registers and receivers of the several land offices shall be entitled to receive the same compensation for any lands entered under the provisions of this act that they are now entitled to receive when the same quantity of land is entered with money, one-half to be paid by the person making the application at the time of so doing, and the other half on the issue of the certificate, by the person to whom it may be issued: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to impair or interfere in any manner whatever with existing preëmption rights: And provided, further, That all persons who may have filed their applications for a preëmption right prior to the passage of this act shall be entitled to all the privileges of this act. Subsequently, a motion was made by Mr. Lovejoy, to reconsider the vote by which the bill had been referred to the Committee of the Whole. On Monday, March 12, Mr. Lovejoy called up this motion, and under the operation of the previous question, it was agreed to, 106 to 67, as follows: Train, Trimble, Vallandigham, Vandever, Republicans in Roman; Democrats in Italics; Americans in SMALL CAPS; Anti-Lecompton Democrats in Roman spaced. So the motion was reconsidered, and the bill was before the House. Mr. Lovejoy moved that the bill be engrossed and read a third time. Mr. Branch (N. C.) moved to lay the bill on the table. Lost, 62 to 112, the yeas being all from the South, except Mr. Montgomery, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, and the nays all from the North, except Mr. James Craig, Democrat, of Missouri. So the House refused to lay the bill on the table; and it was read a third time, and passed. The vote was as follows--the Republicans in Roman, the Administration Democrats in Italics, the Americans in SMALL CAPS, and the Anti-Lecompton Democrats in Roman s paced: YEAS. MAINE.-Foster, French, Morse, Perry, Somes, Israel Washburn-6. NEW-HAMPSHIRE.-Marston, Tappan—2. VERMONT.-Morrill, Royce, Walton-8. MASSACHUSETTS.-Buffinton, Dawes, Delano, Elliot, Gooch, Rice, Thayer, Train-8. CONNECTICUT.-Burnham, Ferry, Loomis, Woodruff-4. RHODE ISLAND.-Christopher Robinson-1. NEW-YORK, - Barr, BRIGGS, Carter, John Cochrane, Conkling, Duell, Fenton, Frank, Graham, Haskin, Hoard, Humphrey, Lee. Maclay, McKean. Olin, Pottle, Sickles, Spin YEAS.-Messrs. A drain, Aldrich, Ashley, Babbitt, Bingham, Blake, Buffinton, Burlingame, Campbell, Carey, Carter, Case, John Cochrane, Colfax, Conkling, Cooper, Corwin, Covode, Cox, James Craig, Curtis, John G. D'avis, Dawes, Delano, Duell, Dunn, Edgerton, Elliot, Fenton, Ferry, Florence, Foster, Fouke, Frank, French, Gooch, Graham, Grow, Gurley, Hale, Hall, Haskin, Helmich, Hoard, Holman, Howard, Hutchins, Judkin, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg, Kilgore, Killinger, Larrabee, De Wittner, Van Wyck, Wells-21. C. Leach, Lee, Logan, Loomis, Lovejoy, Mac- NEW-JERSEY.-Adrain, Riggs, Stratton-8 lay, Marston, Charles D. Martin, McCler- PENNSYLVANIA.-Babbitt, Campbell, Covode. mand, McKean, McKnight, Millward, Moorhead, Florence, Grow, Hale, Hall, Hickman, Jun Morrill, Edward Joy Morris, Morse, Olin, Pen-kin, Killinger, McKnight, McPherson, Millward dleton, Perry, Porter, Potter, Pottle, Rice, E. Joy Morris, Schwartz, Scranton, Verres Riggs, Christopher Robinson, James C. Rob--17. inson, Royce, Schwartz, Scott, Scranton, OHIO.-Ashley, Bingham, Blake, Carey, Cor Sedgwick, Sherman, Somes, Spinner, Stanton, win, Cow, Edgerton, Gurley, Helmick, Howard Stout, Stratton, Tappan, Thayer, Tompkins, Hutchins, Charles D. Martin, Pendleton Sherman, Stanton, Tompkins, Trimble, Vallandigham-18. MICHIGAN.-Cooper, Francis W. Kellogg, De Witt C. Leach, Waldron--4. INDIANA.-Case, Colfax, John G. Davis, Dunn, English, Holman, Kilgore, Niblack, Porter, Wilson-10. ILLINOIS.-Fouke, William Kellogg, Logan, Lovejoy, McClernund, James C. Robinson, E. B. Washburne-7. WISCONSIN.-Lurrabee, Potter, C. C. Wash burn-3. IOWA.-Curtis, Vandever-2. MISSOURI.-James Craig-1. Total, 115. All from the Free States, except James Craig, of Missouri. NAYS. PENNSYLVANIA.-Montgomery-1. VIRGINIA.-BOCock, De Jarnette, Edmundson, Garnett, Jenkins, Leake, Elbert S. Martin, Wilson, Pryor, William Smith-10. NORTH CAROLINA.-Branch, GILMER, Ruffin, WILLIAM N. H. SMITH, VANCE 5. SOUTH CAROLINA.-Bonham, Keitt, MoQueen, Miles-4. GEORGIA-Gartrell, HARDEMAN, HILL, Jack son, Jones, Love, Underwood-7. ALABAMA.-Clopton, Cobb, Curry, Houston, MISSISSIPPI.-Barksdale, Reuben Davis, TENNESSEE.-Avery, ETHERIDGE, HATTON, All from Slave States, except Montgomery, Dem., of Pennsylvania. This bill was sent to the Senate, where it was referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and on the 17th of April, Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, the Chairman of that Committee, reported a substitute for the House bill, granting Homesteads to actual settlers, at 25 cents per acre, but not including preemptors then occupying the Public Lands. When this bill came before the Senate for action, Mr. Wade, of Ohio, moved to amend by substituting the House bill, which motion was lost, 26 to 31, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas, Durkee, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Hamlin, King, Rice, Seward, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Toombs, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, and Wilson-26. NAYS.-Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Bright, Brown, Chesnut, Clay, Clingman, Davis, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond, Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson of Arkansas, Johnson of Tennessee, Lane, Latham, Mason, Nicholson, Polk, Powell, Pugh, Saulsbury, Sebastian, Slidell, Wigfall, and Yulee-81. Yeas, all Republicans except three, Douglas, Rice, and Toombs. Nays, all Democrats. The Senate, finally, on the 10th May, passed Mr. Johnson's bill, 44 to 8, the Nays being Messrs. Bragg, Clingman, Hamlin, Hunter, Mason, Pearce, Powell, and Toombs. The House refused to concur; the Senate refused to recede, and the result was a protracted conference on the part of Committees of the two Houses, which committees finally came to an agreement, on the 19th June, by the House accepting the Senate bill with slight amendments. On that day, Mr. Schuyler Colfax reported to the House as follows: I am instructed by the Committee of Conference Mr. Colfax.-I rise to a question of privilege. the Homestead bill, to report that, after twelve on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on meetings of the three different Conferences that have been appointed, they this morning finally Committee, which can be read if any gentleman agreed. I hold in my hand the report of the desires it. But perhaps it would render the report clearer and more intelligible if I should briefly state its leading features. The Senate bill all the members of the House are familiar with. The Conferees upon the part of the House finding, after the most earnest efforts, that it would be utterly impossible for them to have been discussing what changes could be induce the Senate to agree to the House bill, made in the Senate bill, so as to render it acceptable enough for the House to accept, rather than the whole should fail. They have finally agreed upon a report, as follows: In the the Senate, provided that the preemptors now first place, I will say that the bill, as it passed upon the public lands might remain there two years before they should be required to purchase their lands, but should then pay for them at the rate of $1 25 per acre, thus removing them entirely from within the purview of the benefits which would apply to the settlers hereHouse Conferees refused to accede to, and if after upon the public lands. This point the persisted in, we should have again reported a disagreement. Finally, however, a compromise was arranged on this point, and to protect the preemptors now on the Government land, which was to be advertised this fall for sale, we changed the Senate bill so as to protect them for at least two years from land sales, and to allow them then to secure their homes at one-half the Government price, namely, sixty-two and a-half cents per acre. I need scarcely add, that, if |