The Arkansas advocate., 1835-01-23

ters at the Seat of Goyernment, and the members of their respective legations, and JOHN QUlNcY ADAMS, be requested to as- semble at half past 12 o'clock, P. M, in the Senate Chamber, and that they, with the Senate, shall be attended by the Joint Committee to the Hail of the House of Re- presentatives;
 That the galleries of the House, under the direction of it's officers, shall be open on that day for the accommodation of such citizens as may think proper to attend
 MT. Clay, in continuation observed, that similar report would that morning be made in the other House, and that, as the resolution under which the committee had acted, originated there, 1t was not deemed necessary to proceed farther until after some action was had in that House. He moved, therefore, that the whole subject be for the present laid on the table.
 FRENCH INSTRUCTIONS.
 Mr. Clay rose and said: The Senate would recoilect that that part of the Presi- dents Message which relates 10 foreign af- was ICRGliCQ u tltc Oil tlidb subject shortly after its organization. It was deemed essentially necessary, in order to form correct judgment on the measure recommended by the President, that the instructions transmitted to our Diplomatic officers, near the court of France, together with the correspondence that passed be- tween the two Governments since the 2d of February, IS32, should be submitted to the Committee, for the purpose of enabling them 10 form an opinion on the subject. Entertaining this view of the matter, let ter was addressed by the Chairman of the Committee to the Secretary of State, who very promptly transmitted the documents; but he did so, based upon the condition that they were to be eon6dentially commu- nicated. Now 1t seems that the President had recommended public measure, and that recommendation had been publicly re- ferred to the Committee on Foreign Rela- lions, and as that Committee was to make public the report, they could not recom- mend any legislative action under the re- strictions imposed upon them by the Seere- tary on transmitting 10 them the cores pondence. That officer, in his letter, inti- mated that if 1t should be deemed of im- portance that these documents should be made public in any contingency, he expee- ted thai call would be made on the Exc eutive in the usual form. It was on that ac- count that he presented this resolution, which called for the documents 10 which he referred. It would have been his personal wish that the Senate should have adopted the resolution to-day; but, in consequence of an intimation which had been given him by an honorable Senator, that he wished it to lie upon the table ore day, he forbore to press it ai the present time. Mr. c. then offered the following resolution, which was laid upon the table for consideration until tomorrow:
 Resolped, That the President be reques- ted to communicate to the Senate If in his opinion it shaii not be incompatible with the public interest," tic instructions which have been transmitted from time to time, since the 4th of July, 1881, to the Representa- lives of the United States, at the Govern ment of France, relative to the execution ot the treaty which was signed on that day between the United States and France, and also all the correspondence which has pas sed at Washington or at Paris, between the two Governments, respecting the execution of the said treaty.
 HousE OF REPRESENTATIVE Dec. p.
 On motion of MT. Ewing, of Indiana, it was
 Re8olued, That the Committee on Mill tary Affairs be instructed to inquire into the justice and eSpediency of making provision for the widows and orphans of such officers and soldiers in the service of the United States, as died on the frontier in the late h. dian war with Black Hawk.
 The bill authorizing the Registers and Receivers of the land offices to administer certain oaths, in connexion with the entry of public lands, was read third time and passed.