posed, t was read the third time and
posed, it was read the third time ant PASSED.

 yasy 5.-On motion of MT. Beatos the bill to graduate the price of tic pub lIc lands, to nuke provision for actua settlers, and to cede the refuse upoi equitable terms, and for naeritofioas oh lJeets, to the States in which they lie was resumed and

 on motion of Mf. Rhyme, the sixtl section was stricken out. ahls sectionprovided for ortransferring to the States in which they lie, all land. that remain unsoid or unsettled at the expiration of five years from the 30tt day oi June next, upon condition that the States respectively engageto apply the lands to the purposes of education and Internal improvement, and to refund to the U. States the expenses incurred in surveying the land so transferred, at the rate of S2l6 for each township of 23. 040 acres.

 On motion of hfr. HTtood5ug, the fourth section was stricken out.

 Persons in indigent circumstances might, under this section, receive a do- nation of st acres.

 Other amendments were made 10 the bill, on the suggestions of Mir. Hagne and Mir. Woodbny, until the provisions were reduced to

 l. All lands subject to entry at private sale since the 3ath June, 1897, at SI $, may, after a0th June next, be entered at one dollar the acre,

 /. Heads of families, single men over the age of q years, and widows, may enter, each, quarter section of land that has heen offered at one dollar the acre. and re- mans ansoid, on the payment of = cents the acre, and forthwith settling and eulti- vatIng the same for five consecutive years.

 ;. Pfe-emptions granted to settlers on quarter-seetions by permits at 75 cents per acre.

 I. Fixes the fees to the officers in the ex- eeutlon of the provisions of the act.

 ,. Closes the Land Offices in the districts in which the public lands shall be sold out and otherwise disposed of under the pro- visions of the act.

 Considerable discussion took place. on the principles of the. bill, as 1t stood before the amendments were made. and lon the bearing ofeach amendment as it was proposed, in which Messrs. Hagne, Bentoss, He!',ses, 4 Aifsg , AF05b}e AF05b}e, Rans, Yet ster3 Jd klaley, Johnson, Bi5b, 1T Led1a, land C7zYton, took part.

 Mr. Clqgton moved to postpone the bill indefinitely, not because he was op- posed to an equitable graduation or re- duction of the price of the public lands according 10 the real value) that had remained in the market at the minimum price for length of time and unsold, but because he objected 10 the principle as established by this bill, ofequalizing the value of the seventy millions of the public lands upoawhich it is intended to operate. This motion was nsgotiDed gees %. qaaais g.

 Mir. Bel, then moved to lay the bill lon the table until tomorrow, in order that it might be printed as amended which vas aegatiped by yeas and nays -s!2 to g.

 The bili was then ordered to be en- grossed for a third reading, by yeas and Inays, as follows;

 Yecs.-Messrs. Adams, Barton, Benton, Bibb Brown, Ellis, Forsyth ,Grundy ,Hayne. Hendricks, Iredell, Johnson, Kane, King. Livingston, Mckinley, Mclean, Noble. Rowan, Ruggles, TazewelI, Troup, White, W oodbury-24.

 .Nays-AIessrs. Bernard, Bell, Burnet Chase, Clayton, Diekerson, Dudley, Foot FTelinghuysen, Holmes, Knight, Marks Naudain, Robbins, Sanford, Seymour, sils. bee, Smith of 5. c. sprague, Tyler, Web. ster, Nilley-22.

 HOUSE or REFRESHMENTS.

 .Mgg 3.-Mr. Buchosaaps, from the committee on the Judiciary, reported q billfromthe Senate, e,concerning the pow. CTS of the Superior Judges of the Terri tory of Arkalsas, with an amendment which was committed. This bill was afterwards considered in committee oi the whole, and the amendment made theretoby the Senate wasagreed to, and subsequently concurredin by tie House.

 0n motion Of AIrr M SEWER, it was Ordered, That the Committee of the Whole House, to which had been commit ted the bill to authorize the selection oi certain School Lands in the Territory oi Arkansas, be disehar0ed froro the fa rfhcr