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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 152

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Could not hold them constitutionally.
Defeated in this idea, he favored a gradation of prices in public lands. A bill which received his approval provided that after Nov 1828 public lands should be sold for $1 an acre, after 1830 for 75 cents an acre, after 1832 for 50 cents an acre and after 1834 for 25 cents an acre: after that time the lands were to be relinquished to the states in which the land lies. 1
Mr. McKinley urged an appropriation for a canal around Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee river. In spite of the strong opposition of Thomas Cobb of Georgia the bill was passed by a vote of 22 to 13. Congress later appropriated 4000,000 acres of land for this purpose. 2
Mr. McKinley opposed the practice of giving secret presents to Indian
1 Congressional Debates Vol. 4 pp 504-521
2. Congressional Debates Vol 4 p 453

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150 Could not hold them constitutionally. Defeated in this idea, he favored a gradation of prices in public lands. A bill which received his approval provided that after Nov 1828 public lands should be sold for $1 an acre, after 1830 for 75 cents an acre, after 1832 for 50 cents an acre and after 1834 for 25 cents an acre: after that time the lands were to be relinquished to the states in which the land lies. 1 Mr. McKinley urged an appropriation for a canal around Muscle Shoals in the Tennessee river. In spite of the strong opposition of Thomas Cobb of Georgia the bill was passed by a vote of 22 to 13. Congress later appropriated 4000,000 acres of land for this purpose. 2 Mr. McKinley opposed the practice of giving secret presents to Indian 1 Congressional Debates Vol. 4 pp 504-521 2. Congressional Debates Vol 4 p 453