The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-20


Pensions, reported joint resolution explanatory of
the Pension act of 1888.
MI. BUCHANAN presented the memorial OF
James OConnor of Philadelphia, who states that he
has made great improvement in the steam engine in
point OF economy efficiency and security and asks
the patronage of Congress in favor of his invention
if it should be found answer the purpose for which
it is designed; of which Mr. Buchanan said he had
little doubt. The memorial was referred to the Com
mittee Patents
Mr. PRES TON, on leave, introduced resolution
providing tnat all moneys expended by The Govern
ment to extinguish titles to lands shall be reimbursed
lands
Mr.. PRES TON.'a asked It's second reading at this
time.
Mr.. VIII TIE remarked not to-day
Mr.. PRESTON said that he was no: inclined to
move the reference of the resolution TO COMMITTEE
ne was desirous o! making much progress in rela-
tlon to he subject as he could to-day
Mr. SEWER hoped that it would be printed.
The PRESIDENF pro tenn. said that il would as
a matter ofcourse.
Mr.. LINN would suggest that if the vote on the
second reading was TO be test question: it might
wei be taken Tomorrow as at any other time. BY
giving tins notice now, the Senate would be full
4'i- hA-''i CAN opscINtil tIdt ne would nave no
objection to taking the question at any time. If the
resolution should come up tomorrow he would avail
himself OF the occasion to submit few remarks
and he expressed the hope that the resolution would
be passed
Mr. WHITE was DESTROYS that the resolution
should lie over until tomorrow, and in the mean.
lme be printed, SO that they might then have il UNI
der their eyes.
The resolution was ordered to be printed.
Mr. CRlTTENDEN, from the Committee Oh the
Judiciary, report d. with amendments bill further
To amend the Judicial system of the United States
Mr. SEWER hoped ihatth Senator would make
1t the special order for some day next week.
Mr. CRITTENDEN, Will the Senator suggest a
day.
Mr. SEWER named day after tomorrow
And the motion was agreed to.
The bills ordered to be engrossed Yesterday. were
to-day, read third time and passed
The bill to carry into effect two resolutions of the
Continental Congress, directing monuments to be
erected in memory of Generals Francis Nash and
William Davidson, was taken up
Mr.. SEWER inquired of the Senator from NORTH
Carolina, by whom, and where, these monument.
were to be erected
! MIR. GRAHAM replied, under the direction of the
Governor of the State, either the place where one
OF these officers was killed or at any other which
might be selected lie believed that all similar reso
utions OF the Continental Congress had been carried
into effect 1t was a mere matter of honor to those
whose lives were sacrificed in the service of thei
country The expense was tri1ing; and it was neces
sary to inscribe upon the monuments that they were
erected at the instance of the Government of the
United States.
Me. SEWER remarked that the sum in the hill
was small and was an amount which would not ia
much honor to the dead. 1t would be derogatory tc
the Government; five hundred dollars was not more
than would erect monument even like those in the
Congressional burial ground.
MIR. GRAHAM would inform the Senator that the
named the bill ed NV tho Iutio n
the Continental Congress.
Mr.. SEWER, Notwithstanding, wished to increase
the sum- SO to make it comport with the dignity OF
the Government.
Mr.. CALHOUN remarked that, as a great many
resolutions OF this had not been comp led with he
would submit whether it would not be better 10
permit the whole matter to go to the next ses-
sion, and appoint committee to look into the subject
involved, and propose some plan by which the views
oil the Continental Congress could be carried out
lie would be very loath to make opposition to any
measure designed to honor those who rendered val
liable service to the country; but he merely threw
out this remark for the consideration of the Senate
Mr. GRAHAM would adopt the suggestion of The
Senator but for the fact that he had looked into the
subject and discovered that nearly if not ALL of 81 nj
lar resolutions had been carried into effect both with
regard TO officers of the Revolution and those of the
late war with Great Britain. Al the time the resou.
ton directing the to be erected was ass
ed, North Carolina was overrun with the enemy az
wen as curing the following year and he had no
doubt that they would have been erected but for this
fact. This obligation which the Government
ought to fulfil and he desired in accordance with
the gratitude for services rendered during the Revo-
luton that they might be able to inscribe upon the
monuments that they had been erected at the instance
Of Congress
Mr. SEWER would suggest to the Senator to eff
feet, in proper manner, the Object designed by vo-
ing an Appropriate sum. Five hundred dollars
which the bill Appropriated would not buy the ma eri-
al. For himself he would be disposed to leave the
matter to the President of the United States tha, he
might take for having the monuments erect
ed on the public grounds in Washington However,
he moved to strike out five hundred and insert five
thousand dollars.
Mr. GRAHAM remarked that the monume nj
was to be simply granite shaft which, as a mark of
respect would be as suitable any other and he
hoped that the Senator from Arkansas would not en-
barrass the bill by insisting upon his amendment.
Mr. SEVlE said he would not and withdrew his
amendment and
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for third
reading.
large number of bills were passed, among which
was one to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to
bits anliatrition metal and mother to extend the
time of payment of jud gmen against the Planters
Bank and the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi
And the Senate Adjourned
From The Journal of Commerce.
CRUEL DELAY OF JUSTICE.
The Army and the Navy Appropriation bills re-
main in the hands of Congress, not yet passed The