The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-03
gwemtp-Asoenth Congress.
IN SENATE,
WEDNESDAY,, March 2, 1912,
SESSION.

| Mr. WRIGHT presented the proceedings oil a
meeting held at Ridgeway, Orleans county, New
York, asking the President of the United States 10
interfere in behalf Of the American prisoners al Van
Dieman's Land, in Australia; also, the petition Of
| Mrs. M. A. Askins, praying that her name may be
placed upon the navy pension list
! Mr.. STURGEON presented the petition Of Jordan
l.. Mott for the passage of an actby which the rights
Of proprieors of new designs and patterns may be
protected from piracy and may be secured IN SAFE
cheap, and expeditions manner, to the end thai me
manufacturers and mechanics of the United States
may be enabled fully to compete with those OF any
other country.
Mr.. ALLEN presented petition from citizens OF
| Cincinnati, asking that the mileage allowed to mem
| bers of Congress may be reduced 10 one-fourth OF
what it is wiz TO two dollars for every twenty
miles y also, memorial from Jacob Benner, ct ,
zen of Ohio, proposing plan for United States
National Exchequer, the capital to be two hundred
millions of dollars in coin, to be composed of the
baser metals such copper brass instead OF gold
and silver the Secretary of the Treasury to take the
whole of the stock and hold It for and in behalf OF
the United States; and the machinery to be conduct
ed under the supervision OF board Of control, a.
provided for in the plan.
| Mr.. BUCHANAN presented petition from cit
zens of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, atIlputlng
the evils which exist in the country to the Compro-
mise Act, and asking for protection also, two memo
rails from the State, asking that the duty on
foreign imported iron may be restored 10 what was
| in 1889
| Mr. EVANS introduced bill TO establish port
which read first and second time, and referred
to the Committee on Commerce.
| Mr.. ARCHER, from the Committee on Military
| Affairs reported bill for the relief of DR., Boyd
| Rely, which read first time and ordered to
! second reading.
! The bill for the relief of Hezekiah Cunningham
was ordered to be engrossed for third reading.
| The resolution Of Mr.. ALLEN to open the doors
of the Senate during the transaction of Executive blu
sness except when engaged on treaties was made the
special order ofthe day for Wednesday next.
| On the motion of Mr. LINN, it was
/ Resolped That the Commissioner of the General
Land Office be directed TO send to the Senate statement
showing the construction given by him, in practice, to
the act Of July 1886 confirming the reports othe board
of commissioners appointed to lnv esgale private land
claims in Missouri under the acts of July 0, 1882,
and March2, 1888, and whether, in his Of nion any
further legislation is necessary to enable him 10
| out effectively and justly said act of July 4, 1886
| Resoloed, That the Postmaster General be request
ed to communicate to the Senate statement
| showing the number of post routes which
| the mails suspended the Sabbath
| day and the amount saved to the Department by
such suspension with the name of the State or States
| to which such routes exist
| Mr. TAPPAN submitted resolution that the
| three hundred and thirty copies of the Land Laws
and opinions, printed under resolution of the Senate
Of the 2Sh of February, 1887, now on hand, be dis
| tributed to such members Of Congress have not
received the same until the copies exhausted and
that the fourteen hundred and fifty copies Of the State
papers the public lands, in five volumes folio, be
|
to be by them distributed IN their respective States and
Territories.
On the motion of Mr.. BARROW, it was resolved
| that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to
transmit to the Senate statement exhibiting the
amount of duties arising on imports and tonnage al
the port of New Orleans in the years 1882 $40,
and lS4l, and also the amount of moneys received
from the sale of the public lands in the State Of Lou
siana in the years. and also what portion OF the
public revenues derived from the aforesaid source,
was expended within the limits of said State during
said years
! The resolution heretofore submitted by Mr. WAL
| KER, calling upon the President Of the United
States for information with reference to the proceed
ngs of the board appointed under the convention be-
tween Mexico and the United States for the settle
ment Of claims, was taken up and agreed to-
THE TARIFF AND INFRINGEMENT AND REFORM.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the resou
tons of Mr. CLAY with regard to the revenue, etc,
to which Mr.. WRlGHT had offered series of amend
mens, and which were published in the Madsonian
| yesterday,
Mr. " RIGHT, after preliminary remarks
said that by the resolutions Of Mr. CLAY, they were
called upon 10 set boundaries, when they could not in
troduce bill revenue; and appeared to him
| that when the Senate undertook, in advance of the
House of Representatives in the metaphor OF the SCI
nator from Kentucky, Mr.. Clay to 'set the stakes
and mark out the limits and grounds for the limlta-
| tons they might subject themselves, to soae
| extent at least to the same censure that he had
! heard bestowed the Executive when that officer
policy with respect the enactment of.laws. He
piled to the remarks of Mr.. CLAY, and particularly to
the assertion that the average expenditure Of Mr. Van
| Buren's Administration S35 900 coo and he did
this for the purpose of showing how easy it was in
such matters, to mislead themselves facts, and
how extensively and injuriously others might be mis-
| led. But from report of Mr.. Ewing, the late Sc
cletary of the Treasury, the stood differently as
there stated that the expenditure in 1887 was
1871 600, 600; in 1888, 1871 100000; in 1889, $25-
900 ,0O0 and in ls40 $22000,000. AS to the impo.
sition of duties upon foreign mporations, even taking
ninety-one millions accord ng to the calculation Of the
Senator from Kentucky, for the basis of the revenue
twenty per cent would give more than eighteen mil
lions which, added to the three millions which would
undoubtedly accrue from the public lands would al
ford more than twenty millions of for the
support of the Government, which, in his opinion
ought be sufficient for all economical purposes He
then entered into defence of of his ndmenls
which assumes the principle that the provision in the
act of the extra session for the distribution Of the
proceeds of the public lands requiring the operation
of that act to be suspended in the contingency of a
higher rate of duty than twenty per cent presented
the ground upon which only Congress assened TO the
distribution OF the land revenue to the States and
this exhibited the naked question whether this Go
vernment could impose taxes for State purposes and
the Senator from Kentucky stated some days since
that it question between direct and indirect tax
alton whether the States should lay taxes for State
pendture, or whetherthe General Government should
by imposts collect money for State purposes. After
dwelling for some time upon this subject, he concud-
ed his remarks by showing the advantages which
would result from the adoption of his amendments to
the resolutions particularly those relating TO the
! Thanking privilege, the contingent expenses, and
the charges books, pamphlets and other print,
ed packages, transmitted through the mails
Mr. SMITH, of Indiana, then obtained the floor,
AID on his notion,
/ The Senate adjourned
/ On Monday last the Senate of the United State
rejected the nomination of Mr.. Bradford Judge OF