The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-03
CONGRESS

In the Senate on Tuesday, Mr.. KERR presented
q memorial from manufacturers of New York asking
that inventions and designs connected with their
business may be protecte d,
Mr.. CHOATE presented memorial from Lynn
Massachusetts,, asking for repeal Of the law allow
ing premium on exported rum distilled from mo-
lasses.
Several bills were received from the House and ap-
propratey referred
| A communication from the Treasury Department
was read in answer to resolution adopted by the
Senate the 9Th misunderstanding thai since the re-
peal of the Independent Treasury law the public
money held to he credit of the Secretary of the Trea
sury, except the amounts previously placed in the
Mint and its branches and sundry balances in former
repositories has been either kept by public officers
authorized TO receive the same or by banks selected
by the Secretary of the Treasury &c.
| The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the
bill making appropriation to supply deficiency in
| the navy pension fund
! Mr.. ARCHER explained, and said that it was
well known ,hat the fund had been exhausted and
this bill provided for the payment of the sum which,
it appeared by the report of the Secretary of the Navy
required to meet the obligations already due un-
| der former law.
Mr.. CHOATE offered an amendment, in the form
of provso, to the effect that all widows or children
of all naval officers, n, Marines now de-
ceased, who were entitled TO receive pensions under
the acts of the 10th August, lS4l, and the third Of
March 1887 and as well after as before the present
session Of Congress, shall continue to receive the
same.
Mr.. CHOATE supported the amendment, as an
act of justice to the children and widows of those
who had peried their lives in defence of their
country.
Mr.. WILLIAMS briefly opposed the proposition
MIR. ARCHER followed upon the same side.
Mr.. WOODBURY. contended that this new class
of pensioners he'd swept off millions from the trust
fund.- and actually exhausted it.
Mr.. CiOATE modified his amendment by adding
''and pensioners on the rolls
And the question taken on agreeing to the
amendment and decided in the negative-yeas H.
nays 81, as follows:
YEAS-Messrs Bates, Choate Clayton Evans,
Huntington, Kerr Miller, Smith, of Ia, Sprague,
Tallmadge, White, and Woodbridge-l2.
NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Archer, Bagby Benton
Buchanan, Calhoun, Conrad, Crittenden, Cuthbert
Dayton Fulton, Graham King, Linn, McRoberts,
Preston, Rves, Sewer, Smith, of Connecticut Stur-
geon, Tappan, Wilcox, Williams, Woodbury.,
Wright Young-27
Mr. WILLIAMS moved to add at the end Of the
bill" All pensions to officers and seamen in the ma
val service shall be regulated according to the pay of
And the amendment agreed to-
Mr.. BENTON moved to add an additional section
to the bill, VIZ In all cases of application hereaf
ter made for admission on the Navy Pension list of
the United States, the said application shall he go
verned and decided according to the law in force in
relation to the granting of military pensions"
Messrs. BENTON, ARCHER, CHOATE and
WILLIAMS, submitted few remarks and the
amendment was then rejected; and the further con-
sderaon of the subject postponed until to-mor-
row
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of
the Revenue bill-the question pending being on the
motion of MIR. Buchanan, to strike out the twenty
seventh section, which proposes to repeal that part
the Land act which s,spends the distribution of the
proceeds of the lands in duties on imports shall
be made to exceed twenty per cent
| Mr.. BAGBY advocated the amendment, and in the
course of his remarks, reviewed the course of the
Wing party before and after the election. Although
gentlemen admitted that the revenue from the lands
was uncomfortable, they would not consent to
render 1t, because they required to do So in the
| language of the Senator from Kentucky, (Nr. Crit
tenden,) under the lash of Executive dictation.
Now to his mind, it amounted TO this. If Pre-
sident Tyler called on the Wing party to do what he
believed to be right, why did they reject his sug-
gesuons Simply, because they might be suspected