His friend from Kentucky near him, [Mr. Gaines] told him he
himself was one.
There was still another proposition touching this matter; that was, that
persons entitled to bounty lands should by law be entitled to locate
these lands in parcels, and not be required to locate them in one body,
as was provided by the existing law.
Now he had carefully drawn up a bill embracing these three separate
propositions, which he intended to propose as a substitute for all these
bills in the House, or in Committee of the Whole on the State of the
Union, at some suitable time. If there was a disposition on the part of
the House to act at once on this separate proposition, he repeated that,
with the gentlemen from Arkansas, he should prefer it lest they should
lose all. But if there was to be a reference, he desired to introduce his
bill embracing the three propositions, thus enabling the committee and
the House to act at the same time, whether favorably or unfavorably, upon
all. He inquired whether an amendment was now in order.
The Speaker replied in the negative.
TO ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS.
WASHINGTON, April 30, 1848.
DEAR WILLIAMS:--I have not seen in the papers any evidence of a movement
to send a delegate from your circuit to the June convention.
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