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 from the debate on the pre-emption bill in 1S3S

 K. SENATE, January 30, 1888, Mr. CHAT of Kentucky, said

 sSHow was 1t with that White House, now so amply furnished--with that famous east room and the little man who occupies so small part of if! Suppose pre-emptioner was to go there and say, Mir. President, this house is too large for you, am an industri- ous cultivator, one off the bone-and- men and claim pre-emption to F<Ft oif this house. Would he not have ss much right to squat down there as to squat down on the public lands! When and where were these encroach- ments to cease Would this bill be the end of the. system, or would they not be called OH year after year until the best of the public do-s main passed from their possession f'

 Mr. WALKER replied, and concluded, by saving

 s.The Senator from Kentucky, (Mr, ClavJ has told us that if this system of squatting Is encouraged, some trespassers may squat even in the White House, and claim pre-emption for it. This is not the first time this session the Senator from Kentucky has referred to the White House 1t seems to haunt his imagina- ton, until he has become fearful that some squatter will claim 1t by pre-emption. Sir, said Mir Walker. never knew of but ONE SQUATTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE, who could he truly called an intruder there, and that was one who was placed there in 1925, with the aid of the Senator from Kentucky, against the will of the people. - Congressional Globe and .4ppendir, January, 1858, page 143

 Six years have rolled by since Mir. Clay was so fearful some sssquattern would sssquat down in the White House p Itnow appears that he wants to squat there himself. Is hc pfe-emplioner2 We know he once declared himself to be in the line of safe precedents, but the people did not ratify the bargain - Upon what does he found claim of pre-emp- ton to the White .House Is 1t upon his abuse of the real prc-emptioners His vote to raise the price of their lands Hisvote to expcl them from their improvements with government troops Or does he found it on his loue for the old countrymen, whom he voted to exclude from the pre-emption bill of 1S3S?

 We think these people will be apt to put tkeir veto now on Mir. Clay's claim to pre- emption on the White House, as he did on their claims ill 183S They will be apt to consider him an ssiatrudern as much as Mr. Adams was, whom Mr Clay put in the White House in l825