granted should have been sold, or the right of pre-emption should have attached, before the line of the road was definitely ascertained, agents appointed by the Governor of Illinois should select other lands; none of such lands, however, to be farther than fifteen miles from the line of the road." Sec. 3 provided that the land which shall remain "to the United States within six miles on each side of said road and branches shall not be sold for less than double the minimum price of the public lands.' Sec. 4 reserved the right to the United States to use the said road free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States. Sec. 7 extended the provisions of the act to the States of Alabama and Mississippi to aid in the continuation of the Central railroad from the mouth of the Ohio river to Mobile. The estimated amount of land inuring under this grant was 2,595,053 acres,* all of which has been certified. The bill was introduced by Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, reported from the Committee of Public Lands by Mr. Shields, of Illinois, and passed both houses by the following vote: IN SENATE, May 2, 1850. YEAS†-Messrs. David R. Atchison, George E. Badger, John Bell, Thomas H. Benton, Solon Borland, Jesse D. Bright, Lewis Cass, Thomas Corwin, Jefferson Davis, Henry Dodge, Augustus C. Dodge, Stephen A Douglas, Solomon U. Downs, Henry S. Foote, Samuel Houston, George W. Jones, William Rufus King, Willie P. Mangum, Jackson Morton, William K. Sebastian, William H. Seward, James Shields, Truman Smith, Daniel Sturgeon, Joseph R. Underwood, Isaac P. Walker-26. NAYS-Messrs. James W. Bradbury, Andrew P. Butler, SALMON P. CHASE, John H. Clarke. William C. Dawson, William L. Dayton, Robert M. T. Hunter, Jacob W. Miller, Moses Norris, jr., Samuel S. Phelps, Thomas G. Pratt, Hopkins L. Turney, John Wales, David L. Yulee-14. NOT VOTING-Messrs Roger S. Baldwin, John McP. Berrien, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Jere. Clemens, James Cooper, John Davis, Daniel S. Dickinson, Alpheus Felch, Albert C. Greene, JOHN P. HALE, Hannibal Hamlin, James M. Mason, James A. Pearce, Thomas J. Rusk, Pierre Soule, Presley Spruance, William Upham, Daniel Webster, James Whitcomb-20. Of those not voting Messrs. Greene and Spruance voted "aye" on the same proposition two years before, and Messrs. Callioun and HALE voted "no." IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Sept. 17, 1850. YEAS-Messrs. Nathaniel Albertson, CHARLES ALLEN, William J. Alston, Josiah M. Anderson, George R. An drews, George Ashmun, Edward D. Baker, Kingsley S. Bingham, William H. Bissell, David A. Bokee, Franklin W. Bowden, Richard I. Bowie, James B. Bowlin, George Briggs, James Brooks, Albert G. Brown, William J. Brown, Alexander W. Buel. Lorenzo Burrows, Thomas B. Butler, E. Carrington Cabell, Samuel Calvin, Joseph Casey, Joseph R. Chandler, Chauncey F. Cleveland, Thomas L. Clingman, Williamson R. W. Cobb, Orsamus Cole, Moses B. Corwin, John Crowell, James Duane Doty, James H. Duncan, Cyrus L. Dunham, CHARLES DURKEE, Samuel A. Eliot, Winfield S. Featherston, John Freedley, Meredith P. Gentry, Edward Gilbert, Willis A. Gorman, Daniel Gott, Herman D. Gould, James S. Green, Joseph Grinnell, Willard P. Hall, Ransom Halloway, Andrew J. Harlan, Sampson W. Harris. Thomas L. Harris, Andrew K. Hay, Thomas S. Haymond, Moses Hoagland, Volney E. Howard, David Hubbard, Samuel W. Inge, Joseph W. Jackson, Robert W. Johnson, GEORGE W. JULIAN, David S. Kaufman, James G. King, John A. King, Emile La Sere, Shepherd Leffler, Horace *Rep. Com. Land Office 1867, p. 253. +Democrats in italics, Whigs in roman, Freesoilers in SMALL CAPS. Mann, Orsamus B. Matteson, John A. McClernand, 101. The bill was signed by the President, Zachary Taylor, September 20, 1850. Grant to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The first grant of lands made to any corpora tion to aid it in building its railroad was to the Union Pacific Railroad, in 1862, by an act entitled "An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes." Section 1 creates the corporation and provides regulations for its government. Section 2 provides That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to said company for the construction of said railroad and telegraph line; and the right, power, and authority is hereby given to said company to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road earth, stone, timber, and other materials for the construction thereof; said right of way is granted to said railroad to the extent of two hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds for stations, buildings, workshops, and depots, machine-shops, switches, side tracks, turntables, and water stations. The United States shall extinguish as rapidly as may be the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of this act and required for the said right of way and grants hereinafter made." Section 3 provides "That there be, and is hereby, granted to said company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores thereon, every alternate section of public land designated by odd num-J. Crittenden, Alexander S. Diven, W. McKee Dunn, bers, to the amount of five alternate sections per A. Harrison, Philip Johnson, William Kellogg, Anthony James E. English, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, Richard mile on each side of said railroad, on the line L. Knupp, John Law, Owen Lovejoy, Robert McKnight, thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on Robert Mallory, Justin S. Morrill, James R. Morris, Wareach side of said road, not sold, reserved, or other-ren P. Noble, Moses F. Odell, Frederick A. Pike, Albert G. Porter, William A. Richardson, James C. Robinson, wise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed: Provided, That all mineral lands shall be excepted from the operation of this act; but where the same shall contain timber, the timber thereon is hereby granted to said company. And all such lands so granted by this section, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and preemption, like other lands, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty, five cents per acre, to be paid to said company.' Section 5 authorizes the issue of bonds to the amount of $16,000 per mile, which shall constitute a first mortgage on the road. Section 6 provides that all compensation for services rendered for the Government shall be applied to the payment of the bonds and interest, and that at least five per cent. of the net earnings of the road shall be applied annually to payment of the same. Section 18 provides that when the net earnings of the road shall exceed ten per cent., exclusive of the five per cent. to be paid to the United States, Congress may reduce the rates of fare thereon. It is estimated that there inures to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, under this grant, 35,000,000 acres. This act was reported in the House by Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, from the Pacific Railroad Committee, and passed both Houses by the following vote: John P. C. Shanks, William P. Sheffield, William G. IN SENATE, June 20, 1862. YEAS-Messrs. Henry B. Anthony, Orville H. Browning, Zachariah Chandler, Daniel Clark, Jacob Collamer, Edgar Cowan, Garrett Davis, James Dixon, James R. James A. Pearce, Morton S. Wilkinson, Joseph A. Wright NAYS- Messrs. Timothy O. Howe, Preston King, -5. Grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1864 an act was passed granting to the Northern Pacific railroad the right of way over the route proposed, and every alternate section, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of the road wherever the route lies through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections mile wherever the route lies through any State. It provided that no money should be aid in the construction of the said road, and "that drawn from the treasury of the United States to no mortgage or construction bonds shall ever be issued by said company on said road, or mortgage or lien made in any way, except by the consent of the Congress of the United States." per The route proposed was from a point on Lake Superior, in the State of Minnesota or Wisconsin, by the most eligible railroad route, within the territory of the United States, on a line north of the 45th degree of latitude, to some point on Puget's sound, with a branch, via the valley of the Columbia river, to a point at or near Portland, in Oregon, leaving the main trunk line at the most suitable place, not more than one hundred miles from its western terminus. This bill passed both houses by the following vote: IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 31, 1864. IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, April 8, 1862.† YEAS-Messrs. Cyrus Aldrich, William Allen, John B. Alley, Isaac N. Arnold, James M. Ashley, Fernando C. Beaman, Charles J Biddle, John A. Bingham, Francis P. Blair, jr., Harrison G. Blake, William G. Brown, James H. Campbell, Andrew J. Clements, Schuyler Colfax, Erastus Corning, John Covode, William P. Cutler, William Morris Davis, Isaac C. Delaplaine, R. Holland Duell, George W. Dunlap, Sidney Edgerton, Thomas D. Elliot, Alfred Ely, Reuben E. Fenton, Samuel C. Fessenden, George P. Fisher, Richard Franchot, Augustus Frank, Daniel W. Gooch, John N. Goodwin, Bradley F. Granger, John A. Gurley, Edward Haight, William A. Hall, Samuel Hooper, Valentine Horton, John Hutchins, George W. Julian, William D Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, John W. Killinger, William E. Lansing, Cornelius L. L. Leary, William E. Lehman, Dwight Loomis, John W. Menzies, James K. Moorehead, Lucien Anderson, Augustus C. Baldwin, John D. BaldYEAS-Messrs. James C. Allen, William B. Allison, Anson P. Morrill, John T. Nixon, John W. Noell, Elijah win, Fernando C. Beaman, James G. Blaine, Jacob B. H. Norton, Abraham B. Olin, Nehemiah Perry, Timothy G. Phelps, Thomas L. Price, Alexander H Rice, Albert Blair, Sempronius II. Boyd, John M. Broomall, James G. Riddle, James S. Rollins, Aaron A. Sargent, Charles S. Brown, Amasa Cobb, Alexander H. Coffroth, Cornelius B. Sedgwick, Samuel Shellabarger, John B. Steele, Thad- Cole, John A. J. Creswell, Henry Winter Davis, Ignadeus Stevens, Charles R. Train, Rowland E. Trow- tius Donnelly, John F. Driggs, John R. Eden, Charles bridge, Burt Van Horn, John P. Verree, John W. Wal- 4. Eldridge, John F. Farnsworth, Augustus Frank, lace, Charles W. Walton, Elijah Ward, Ellihu B. Wash- James A. Garfield, Daniel W. Gooch, Josiah B. Grinburne, Edwin H. Webster, William A. Wheeler, Kelliannell, James T. Hale, William A. Hall, William Higby, V. Whaley, James F. Wilson, William Windom, Sam- Giles W. Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, John H. Hubbard, William D. Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, Orlando Lazear, Benjamin F. Loan, John W. Longyear, James Kellogg, Austin A. King, Anthony L. Knapp, Jesse M. Marvin, Archibald McAllister, Joseph W. McClurg. Daniel Morris, Leonard Myers, Homer A. Nelson, Warren P. Noble, Moses F. Odell, Charles O'Neill, James W. Patterson, Sidney Perham, Hiram Price, John V. L. Pruyn, William H. Randall, Alexander H. Rice, John II. Rice, Edward H. Rollins, James S. Rollins, John G. This was the test vote, on the first passage of the Scott, Thomas B. Shannon Ithamar C. Sioan, John P. bill in the House. uel T. Worcester-79. NAYS-Messrs. Sydenham E. Ancona, Elijah Babbitt, Joseph Bailey, Stephen Baker, Jacob B. Blair, George H. Browne, James Buffinton, Charles B. Calvert. Jacob P. Chamberlain, George T. Cobb, Frederick A. Conkling, Samuel S. Cox, James A. Cravens, John W. Crisfield, John * Rep. Com. Land Office 1867, p. 255. Steele, William G. Steele, Thaddeus Stevens, Lorenzo D. V. Whaley, Ezra Wheeler, Thomas Williams, A. Carter NAYS-Messrs. John B. Alley, Sydenham E. Ancona, Portus Baxter, George Bliss, James Brooks, John W. Chanler, Samuel S. Cox, James A. Cravens, John L. Dawson, Charles Denison. Ephraim R. Eckley, Joseph K. Edgerton. Thomas D. Eliot, Reuben E. Fenton, William E. Finck, John Ganson, Henry W. Harrington, Anson Herrick, William S. Holman, Calvin T. Hulburd, Ebon C. Ingersoll, William Johnson, Martin Kalbfleisch, Francis Kernan, John Law. Francis C. Le Blond, DeWitt C. Littlejohn, Alexander Long, Robert Mallory, Daniel Marcy, James F. McDowell, Justin S Morrill, William R. Morrison, John O'Neill, Godlove S. Orth, George H. Pendleton, Frederick A Pike. Theodore M. Pomeroy, William Radford, Lewis W. Ross, Robert C. Schenck, Glenni W. Scofield. Rufus P. Spalding, John D. Stiles. Henry W. Tracy, William H. Wadsworth, Ellihu B. Washburne, Joseph W. White, James F. Wilson, Charles H. Winfield-50. acre; M. Sweat, M. Russell Thayer, Charles Upson, Daniel W. | and forty miles of the remaining portion thereof Voorhees, Elijah Ward, William B. Washburn, Kellian each year thereafter, until the whole shall be completed between said points: Provided, That all lands hereby granted to said company, which shall not be sold or disposed of or remain subject to the mortgage by this act authorized at the expiration of five years after the completion of the entire road, shall be subject to settlement and pre-emption, like other lands, at a price to be paid to said company not exceeding $2.50 per and if the mortgage hereby authorized shall at any time be enforced by foreclosure or other legal proceeding, or the mortgaged lands hereby granted, or any of them, be sold by the trustees to whom such mortgage may be executed, either at its maturity or for any failure or default of said company under the terms thereof, such lands shall be sold at public sale, at places within the States and Territories in which they shall be situate, after not less than sixty days previous notice, in single sections or subdivisions thereof, to the highest and best bidder: Provided further, That in the construction of the said railroad, American iron or steel only shall be used, the same to be manufactured from American ores exclusively. In the Senate the bill passed without a di vision. The estimated number of acres inuring under this grant is 47,000,000. At the present session of Congress-the second session of the Forty-First Congress-the following act was passed: A RESOLUTION authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to issue its bonds for the construction of its road and to secure the same by mortgage, and for other purposes. SEC. 2. That Congress may at any time alter or amend this joint resolution, having due regard to the rights of said company and any other parties. Approved, May 31, 1870. The final vote on this bill was as follows: IN SENATE, April 21, 1870. YEAS-Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Brownlow, Bucking ham, Cameron, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Fen- NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Boreman, Casserly, Fowler, Harlan, McCreery, Morton, Pratt, Saulsbury, Schurz, Wil ley-11. IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIves, May 26, 1870. Resolved, &c., That the Northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is, authorized to issue its bonds to aid in the construction and equipment of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage on its property and rights of property of all kinds and descriptions, real, personal, and mixed, including its franchise as a corporation; and, as proof and notice of its legal execution and effectual delivery, said mortgage shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Interior; and also to locate and construct, under the provisions and with the privileges, grants, and duties provided for in its act of incorporation, its main road to some point on Puget sound, via the valley of the Columbia river, with YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Archer, Armstrong, Atthe right to locate and construct its branch from Wood, Artell, Ayer, Bailey, Banks, Barnum, Barry, Bennett, Benton, Bingham, Blair, Booker, Bowen, Boyd, some convenient point on its main trunk line George M. Brooks, Buckley, Burdett, Roderick R. But across the Cascade mountains to Puget sound; ler, Cake, Calkin, Churchill, William T. Clark, Clinton and in the event of there not being in any State ener, Dickey, Dixon, Dockery, Dox, Ferriss, Ferry, L. Cobb, Conger, Conner, Covode, Cowles, Dawes, Degor Territory in which said main line or branch Fitch, Fox, Garfield, Gibson, Hamilton, Harris, Hays may be located, at the time of the final location Hoar, Hooper, Hotchkiss, Johnson, Alexander H. Jones, thereof, the amount of lands per mile granted by Lash, Logan, Lynch, Maynard, McCarthy, McKee, Kelley, Kellogg, Kelsey, Ketcham, Knapp, Laflin, Congress to said company, within the limits pre-Me Kenzie, Morphis, Daniel J. Morrell, Morrissey, Myers. || scribed by its charter, then said company shall Negley, Newsham, O'Neill, Peck, Perce, Peters, Phelps. be entitled, under the directions of the Secretary Schumaker, Lionel A. Sheldon, Porter Sheldon, Sherrod, Poland, Pomeroy, Prosser, Roots, Sawyer, Schenck, of the Interior, to receive so many sections of Shober, Joseph S. Smith, William J. Smith, Worthington land belonging to the United States, and desig-C. Smith. Wm. Smyth, Starkweather. Stokes, Stoughnated by odd numbers, in such State or Terri Trimble, Twichell, Van Auken, Cadwalader C. Washburn, ton, Strickland, Taffe, Tanner, Tillman, Townsend, tory, within ten miles on each side of said road William B. Washburn, Wheeler, Whitmore, Wilkinson, beyond the limits prescribed in said charter, as Eugene M. Wilson-107. will make up such deficiency, on said main line or branch, except mineral and other lands, as excepted in the charter of said company of 1864, to the amount of the lands that have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, subsequent to the passage of the act of July 2, 1864. And that twenty-five miles of said main line, between its western terminus and the city of Portland, in the State of Oregon, shall be completed by the 1st day of January, A. D. 1872, Biggs, Bird, James Brooks, Buffinton, Burchard, Cessna, Previous Votes. IN SENATE. 1870, February 8-Mr. Ramsey introduced the resolution which on February 22 was reported from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, as follows: Be it resolved, &c., That the northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is, authorized to issue its bonds to aid in the construction and equipment of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage on its property and rights of property of all kinds and descriptions, real, personal, and mixed, including its franchise as a corporation; and, as proof and notice of its legal execution and effectual delivery, said mortgage shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, and when so filed shall be deemed to be a good and sufficient conveyance of all the rights and property of said company as therein expressed, and also to locate and construct, under the provisions and with the privileges and duties provided for in its act of incorporation and the amendments thereto, its main road to its western terminus, via the valley of the Columbia River, with the right to locate and construct its branch from some convenient point on its main trunk line, across the Cascade mountains, to Puget Sound; and in the event of there not being in any State or Territory in which said main line or branch may be located, at the time of the final location thereof, the amount of lands per mile granted by Congress to said company, within the limits prescribed by its charter, then said company shall be entitled, under the directions of the Secretary of the Interior, to receive so many sections of land belonging to the United States, and designated by odd numbers, in such State or Territory, within ten miles on each side of said road beyond the limits prescribed in said charter, as will make up such deficiency on said main line or branch. And that twenty-five miles of said main line, between its western terminus and the city of Portland, in the State of Oregon, shall be completed by the 1st day of January, A. D. 1872, and forty miles of the remaining portion thereof each year thereafter, until the whole shall be completed between said points. April 11-Mr. Thurman moved to insert at the end of the resolution the following: And the rights and privileges hereby conferred upon said company, and the grants of land hereby made to it, are conferred and made upon the following express conditions, to wit: First. That the alternate sections of land heretofore or hereby granted to said company, except such portions thereof as shall be laid out by said company in town or city lots, and such portions thereof as shall be used by it for depots, ditches, water-stations, round-houses, coal, wood, lumber, and cattle-yards, sites for workshops, and other buildings or structures necessary for said road or branch road, shall be sold by said company to actual settlers upon the same and to no other person or persons; and no such settler shall be entitled to purchase more than one hundred and sixty acres thereof, nor shall he or those claiming under him receive a deed therefor until the same shall have been actually occupied by him or by him and them at least two years. Second. The price at which said lands shall be sold by said company to actual settlers, as aforesaid, shall not exceed $1 25 per acre, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum upon deferred payments. Third. Such actual settlers shall respectively be entitled to purchase said lands, as aforesaid, in lots of forty, eighty, or one hundred and sixty acres. Fourth. All said lands for sale to actual set tlers, as aforesaid, that shall not be sold by said company within fifteen years from the passage of this joint resolution, shall revert to the United States. Fifth. Any mortgage or mortgages of said lands or any part thereof that may be made or executed by said company shall be subject to the conditions aforesaid in favor of the actual settlers or of the United States, and no foreclosure of any such mortgage or sale thereunder by any trustee or trustees, or under any judicial judgment or decree, shall operate to deprive such actual settlers or the United States of the rights and privileges herein before specified; nor shall anything in this resolution contained be held to waive the conditions upon which patents are to issue, specified in section four of the charter of said company. Sixth. Within ninety days after the passage of this joint resolution said company shall file in the Department of the Interior its written assent to the foregoing conditions, and if it shall fail so to do, this joint resolution shall become null and void. Mr. Wilson moved to strike out the words "heretofore or," in the first of the conditions, which was agreed to-yeas 30, nays 9, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Chandler. Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Cragin, Flanagan, Fowler, Gilbert, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Howard, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Rice, Ross, Sawyer, Stewart, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Williams, Wilson-30. NAYS-Messrs. Bayard, Casserly, Davis, Harlan, Howell, Johnston, McCreery, Pool, Thurman-9. Mr. Thurman's amendment was then disagreed to-yeas 15, nays 26, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Casserly. Cragin, Davis, Fowler, Harlan, Howell, Johnston, McCreery, Pool, Stockton, Thurman. Tipton, Wilson-15. NAYS-Messrs. Ames, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Drake, Flanagan, Gilbert, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Howard, Howe, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Osborn, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Rice, Ross, Sawyer, Stewart, Sumner, Trumbull, Williams 26. Mr. Wilson moved to insert after the word "branch," in line 35, the following: And the additional alternate sections of land granted by this resolution shall be sold by the company only to actual settlers, in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres or quarter-section to any one settler, and at prices not exceeding $2 50 per acre; Which was disagreed to-yeas 15, nays 22, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Casserly, Cragin, Davis, Fowler, Harlan, Howell, Johnston, McCreery, Pool, Thurman. Tipton. Trumbull, Vickers-15. Flanagan, Gilbert, Hamlin, Howard. Howe. Kellogg, McDonald. Morrill of Vermont, Nye, Osborn. Pomeroy, Ramsey, Rice, Ross, Sawyer, Stewart, Williams-22. NAYS-Messrs. Ames, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Drake, April 20. Mr. Harlan moved to strike out the following words: And in the event of there not being in any State or Territory, in which said main line or branch may be located, at the time of the final location thereof, the amount of lands per mile granted by Congress to said company, within the limits prescribed by its charter, then said company shall be entitled, under the directions of the Secretary of the Interior, to receive so many sections of land belonging to the United States, and designated by odd numbers, in such State or Territory, within ten miles on each side of said road, beyond the limits prescribed in said charter, as will make up such deficiency on said main line or branch to the amount of the lands that have YEAS-Messrs. Ames, Bayard, Boreman, Cameron, been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by home-fasserly, Harlan, McCreery, Morton, Pratt, Suulsbury, Wilstead settlers, pre-empted or otherwise disposed ley, Yates-12. of subsequent to the passage of the act of July 2, 1864. April 21.-Mr. Thurman moved to insert at the end of the resolution the following: And the rights and privileges hereby conferred upon said company and the grants of land hereby made to it are conferred and made upon this condition: That said company, its successors and assigns, shall forever transport over said road and its branches, free from any toll or charge, all troops, produce, stores, and munitions of war that may belong to the United States. Which was disagreed to-yeas 12, nays 35, as follow: Which was disagreed to-yeas 11, nays 41, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Buckingham. Casserly, Davis, Harlan, Howell, McCreery, Pratt, Suulsbury, Schurz, Thurman, Willey-11. NAYS-Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Brownlow, Chandler. Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds. Fenton. Ferry, Flanagan, Gilbert, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Harris, Howard, Howe, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Norton, Nye, Patterson, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Revels, Rice, Robertson, Ross, Sawyer. Scott, Sherman. Spencer, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Trumbull, Williams, Wilson-41. Mr. Howell moved to insert the following proviso at the end of the resolution: Provided, That all lands granted by this joint resolution, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within five years after the road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and pre-emption like other lands, at a price not exceeding $1 25 per acre, to be paid to said company. Which was disagreed to-yeas 13, nays 34, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Boreman, Casserly, Davis, Fowler, Harlan, Harris, Howe, Howell, McCreery, Saulsbury, Thurman, Willey, Wilson-13. NAYS-Messrs. Ames, Anthony. Brownlow. Buckingham, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Fenton, Ferry, Flanagan, Gilbert, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Howard, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill of Maine. Morrill of Vermont, Norton, Nye, Osborn, Pomeroy. Ramsey, Revels, Robertson, Ross, Sawyer, Scott, Sherman, Stewart, Thayer, Williams-34. Mr. Casserly moved to insert the following proviso: Provided, That all lands granted by this joint resolution, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within ten years after the road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and pre-emption like other lands, at a price not exceeding $1 25 cents per acre, to be paid to said company. Which was disagreed to-yeas 16, nays 28, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Boreman, Cameron, Casserly, Davis, Fowler, Hamlin, Harlan, Howe, Howell, McCreery, Saulsbury, Thurman, Warner, Willey. Wilson-16. NAYS-Messrs. Ames, Brownlow, Buckingham, Chandler, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Flanagan, Gilbert, Howard, Kellogg, McDonald. Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Norton, Nye, Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Rice, Robertson, Ross, Sawyer, Scott, Stewart, Thayer, Williams-28. NAYS-Messrs. Anthony, Brownlow, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Fenton, Flanagan, Fowler, Hamlin. Harris. Howard, Howe, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Norton, Nye, Osborn, Patterson, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Revels, Rice, Robertson, Sawyer, Scott, Spencer, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Trumbull, Williams, Wilson-35. Mr. Scott moved to insert at the end of the resolution the following: Provided, That all lands hereby granted to said company which shall not be sold or disposed of or remain subject to the mortgage by this act authorized, at the expiration of five years after the completion of the entire road, shall be subject to settlement and pre-emption like other lands, at a price to be paid to said company not exceeding $2.50 per acre. And if the mortgage hereby authorized shall at any time be enforced by foreclosure or other legal proceeding, or the government lands hereby granted, or any of them, be sold by the trustees to whom such mortgage may be executed, either at its maturity or for any failure or default of said company under the terms thereof, such lands shall be sold at public sale at places within the States and Territories in which they shall be situate, after not less than sixty days' previous notice, in single sections or subdivisions thereof, to the highest and best bidders. Which was agreed to-yeas 38, nays 8, as follow: YEAS-Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Boreman, Buckingham, Cameron, Cusserly, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Fenton, Ferry, Fowler, Harlan, Harris, Howard, Howe, Kellogg, McCreery, McDonald. Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Moiton, Osborn, Patterson, Pratt, Ramsey, Revels, Saulsbury, Scott, Spencer, Sumner. Thayer, Trumbull, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-38. NAYS-Messrs. Ames, Brownlow, Flanagan, Hamilton of Texas, Nye, Pomeroy, Robertson, Stewart-8. Mr. Cameron moved to insert at the end of the resolution the following: Provided further, That in the construction of the said railroad American iron or steel only shall be used, the same to be manufactured from American ores exclusively. Which was agreed to-yeas 27, nays 18, as follow: ingham, Cameron, Chandler, Cragin, Fenton, Flanagan, son, Yates-18. IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1870, May 25-Mr. Hawley moved to amend, by adding to the first section as follows: And provided further, That the privileges here |