Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-04-26
Thursday, .7prii 81. 1912.
IN cENATE

MIR. BUCHANAN presented memorial from ci,i-
zens of Pennsylvania in which the memoriasts desire
that the obligation TO restore fugitive slaves under the
Constitution, shall be binding such States only as
conform 10 the original compact MIR. b. presumed
that the memorias,s, when they forwarded the memo
rial were not aware of the decision of the Supreme
Court on this subject
The question Of reception was raised and laid on the
table.
Mr.. SIMMONS presented memorial from several
American merchants in the city of Paris, France, pre-
sentng their views the subject of the taffon French
goods and making suggestions to prevent rauos on the
Tevenue: referred to The Committee on Manufactures
The engrosscd bill entitled net to incorporate the
Washinpton's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan
ASYLUM of the District of Columbia, came up OH its
third reading. TIE bill was read the third time and
the question now being, "Shall The bill pass
| Mr. ALLEN demanded the yeas and nays-whlch
were ordered and tuken and were-yeas Ill nays o as
| follows:
Yens--Messrs Archer, Barrow, Bates, Buchanan,
Choate, Clayton, Conrad, Crtenden, Cnthbert Evans,
| Graham, Henderson, Huntington, Kerr, King, Man
gum Miller Morehend, Phelps Porter, Preston, Rlves,
Simmons, Smith of Indiana Southard Sprague, Stur-
peon. Tallmadge, Wilcox, Woodbridge, and Yonng-3l.
Naus-Messrs. Allen Benton Fulton, Linn. Sewer,
Smith of Connecticut, TaPpan, and Wrlght-S.
So the bill was passed
On motion Of Mr. MOREHEAD, all the previous or
ders of the day postponed and the bill to provide for
the satisfaction Of the claims arising under the treny OF
the Choctaw Indians with the U. S. at Dancing Rabbit
| MIR. MOREHEAD explained that the decision OF the
Committee on Indian Affairs TO take the sense OF The
Senate had been grounded on peculiar circumstances.
MIR. SEWER observed that this wns bill of great
inheritance. 1t had been reported, in ts present shape,
this morning only; and the amendments proposed being
eonally important he hoped they would be ordered TO
be printed, and that the matter would be passed over
till 10. morrow.
The printing of the proposed amendment was then
ordered; and the bill was passed over informally.
L. ntinn far he IutI
and diplomatic departments was taken up and read a
first and second time, and referred to the Committee on
Finance.
Il On motion of Mr.. EVANS, the bill ordered to
be reprinted as amended by the House.
u The Senate then went into Executive Session, and,
shortly after, adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. MEDlLL presented the proceedings and resou-
tons Of large meeting Of the citizens Of Hooking Val
lev in the State Of OHIO, in relation to the pending
potations between this country and Great Britain
insisting upon maintaining the North Eastern
Boundary our Claims in the Oregon, in the case OF
the Caroline to the last extremity and RESOLVING
"That is duty to resist TO Tie last extremity, all
attempts by England, or any other power on earth 10
search our merchant vessels in the African any other
seas under the pelence Of suppressing the sayerade
or retaining her citizens and that, American ms
and phiIanhropsts, feel much adherence Tor the
African slave.trade can be claimed by England
whose merchants furnish the facilities for the nhu
On the motion of Mr.. EVERETT, the House wen,
int.a Committee Of the Whole the state of the
Union and took up the .9pporiionment Bill The cues
ton pending the ndment Of Mr. Everett, rs
a,nen on motion of MIR. Stewart of Illinois, pro-
vding for striking G. 900 the ratio, and inserting
!, $1,000.
MIR. TlLLlNGHAST opposed the amendment, be.
cause if it should be agreed to- it would deprive Rhode
Island of one Of her and he expressed
himself in favor of the ratio of $4,000.
Mr. THOMPSON of Ia, opposed the amendment,
and said that he would, when in order, move to insert
100000.
A brief debate took place between Messrs Thomp-
son. Bolts and Brown, Of Penn, when the vote was
taken and the amendment rejected, ayes 81, noes not
counted.
On the motion of Mr.. BRIGGS, the ratio Of 6S 900
proposed in the BILL stricken out, leaving the bill
in blank
By general consent the members of the committee
then agreed 10 send to the clerks table such numbers
as they might desire for the Committee and the House
to vote upon They were then read-in ALL some fifty
land proposed from less than forty to one hundred and
FORTY one thousand as the ratio.
After voting upon twenty nine ofthe amendments
The ratio of60 500 agreed to, which will give $50
Representatives.
The Committee then rose, and the House djourned
In the Senate, the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation
bill was received from the House, and referred 10 The
nm Finance