The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-24
TWeMtp=&gnenth Congress.
SECOND SESSION.
IN SENATE,
TUESDAY, March %, 1912.

TUESDAY March %, 1912.
The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate com
muDication from the Treasury Department. In reply
m resolution of the Senate of the I'd Instant direct
ing the Secretary TO transmit to the Senate state
ment exhib ting the amount Of duties arising Inn
ports and tonnage the port Of New Orleans IN the
wears 1882 1910, and l64l, and also the amount OF
moneys received from the sale Of the public lands in
the State of Louisiana in the years and also
what portion Of the public derived from the
aforesaid sources expended within the limits OF
said State during said years.
Mr.. YOUNG presented petition from number
of citizens OF Illinois, asking for grant OF land Tor
the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
MIR. WRIGHT presented memorial from New
York, demonstrating against the admission OF Texas
into the Union.
MIR. ALLEN presented petition from w arren county,
Ohio prayng Congress amend the act relating to the
writing on the margin of newspapers and complain
ing that the Interpretation given to that act b
the Postmaster General is unsound ana oppressive
Also the proceedings of large Democratic meeting,
held in Muskingum county, ONO ana resolutions con
demnatory of National Bank, high tariff the
distribution of the proceeds Of the sales Of the public
lands the twelve million loan and the general course
of Mr.. Clay, especially his proposed amendments to
the Constitution; approving OF the two vetoes OF
President TYLER and expressing the opinion
that he would confer benefit the country by dis
missing any man. whether in the Cabinet or occupy
ing situation as petty postmaster, VINO is not
friendly to the Administration; also, denouncing Mr.
Adams and Mr.. Giddings, as traitors in the employ,
ment of the government of Great Briatan, etc, and
speaking of the violated promises of the Wings, and
other matters too numerous to recaplluate.
Mr.. BUCHANAN and Mr.. CLAY severally
presented petitions from Pennsylvania asking Tor the
protection Of domestic manufactures.
Mr.. MANGUM, in pursuance Of notice previous
ly given introduced
A bill for the augmentation of the Marine Corps,
and for other purposes;
A bill for the regulation OF the pay and emouments
Of pursers and warrant officers OF the navy and
a bill to authorize the appointment of board to
cepare rules and laws for the regulation and govern
nent of the Navy; which severally read first
aad second time, and referred to the Committee on
Naval Affairs.
PIE TARIFF, AND INFRINGEMENT AND REFORM.
AT an early hour the galleries were filled with visit
ers large proportion of them ladies, who had been
attracted to the Chamber by the announcement that
Mr. CLAY would address the Senate in conclusion of
the debate upon the resolutions heretofore submitted
by him, proposing augmentation OF the tariff and
a dminution of the expenses of the Government.
They were however unhaPpily disappointed tor al
ter the transaction Of the MOI ming business.
Mr.. CLAY arose and said that he felt very unwell
and that he laboied under indisposition produced
by charge of weather He would, therefore ask that
the further consideration of the resolutions be post
poncd until tomorrow, when he would endeaVor to
address the Senate
The resolutions then passed over informally
and the Senate proceeded to the transaction of BUSH
ness and took up the bill to the office OF Sur
veyor General, and to change the location OF the
land Office in the Greensburg district in the State OF
Louisiana the bill for the relief of Robert B. Lewis
and the bill for the relief of Valeran Allen; which
were read third time, and passed
On the motion of MIR. LINN, the Committee on
Military Affairs instructed to inquire into the
expediency Of paying certain Missouri volunteers Tor
services rendered in the Florida campaign in 1887.
THE DISTRIBUTION BILL.
The Senate took up the bill to amend the act en-
titled An to appropriate the proceeds OF the sales
of the public lands and to grant pre-empton rights
the question pending being on the amendments here
tofore submitted by Mr.. McRoberts: to remove the
restrictions to pre-empon rights in the following PAL
acuIars, viz: so much excludes from the right OF
pre- emption those who settled upon the public lands
before they surveyed; SO much as denies the
right TO those who own three hundred and twenty
acres of land elsewhere, those who removed iron
.hsir own land TO reside upon the public lands; an.
much as denies pre-elnptlon to all persons wh'
are not citizens Of the United States, who had no
filed their application to become citizens before they
settled upon the lands.
Mr. McROBERTS addressed the Senate in sup
port of his amendments.
Mr.. SMITH, of Ia, briefly replied.
The question was then taken, and the amendments
were adopted and after some further modification o
the bill il was engrossed for third reading.
On the motion of Mr.. MOREHEAD, the Senat
took up the bill to extend the time for selling the land
granted to the incorpoI rated Kentucky asylum 70
teaching the deaf and dumb which ordered to b
engrossed for third reading, and it was read thir
time and passed.
The Senate then ad ourned