I do not now remember. but gentlemen around nme assure ie that it did pass the House at the last session. And I beg pernission of tle Iouse. as many gentlemen v:e here now who were not present is the discussion on that question. to call attention to the fact that we have endeavored persistently for years to so arrange the remaining lands of the United States that the men who will till and cultivate them shall alone be entitled to acquiro them from the United States. As I have already stated. and repeat now. speculators of great wealth in the East have for forty or fifty years been absorbing the best lands in the country. so that the immigrant. when ie endeavors to lind a new home for himself and his children. finds that tie titleis held at a great distance. inaccessible to him. and at a price beyond his means That ought to be amended. As good hinds are raipidly disappearing from the power of the immigrant. I appeal to the House to take no step backward from the position that lies already been taken. but rather that we may hope fron this Committee oii the Public Lands a favorable report which shall extend the homestead law exclusively as a means of acquiring public lands from tho United States. Hence I beg we may not rove that principle fron the four States mmd in this bill. but rather extend it over every State it the Union.
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