Excerpt from Andrew Johnson and the Early Phases of the Homestead Bill: Presidential Address Read Before the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, at St. Paul, May 9, 1918

For the next two or three years no land measures were eu acted comparable to the law of 1841. But in the second congress of Tyler's administration, the twenty-eighth congress, - which assembled in 1843, there was a democratic house of representa tives; and in this congress the plan of graduation and reduction, which in the thirties had been the chief rival of distribution, made its appearance anew. Henceforth, the graduation bill was a hardy annual, until in the session of 1853-1854 it at last be came a law.

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