New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-02
nv THIS MORNINGS MAIL.


beings in Congress.
TUESDAY, Fet. 2s. 1885,.
7, ,be SENATE. Mr. EVANS, from the Commit
too an Finance. reported, with an amendment Tue
House bill authorizing reissue OF treasury notes.
Also. the bill to prohibit tbs allowance si eS'fa
The bin 10 amend the laws regulating imPrisoa'
ment for debt in the District OF oeiuii'D'" "'t'
read third time and passed
The bill TO reduce the rates CT fos'ase "a' -
ken up, when -. ,,.,.;,,
Mr.. MgRRlcK proposed to amend it by reducing
the rate OF postage a. follows on iettefs, no' e
ceeding thirty miles. 1--WE cents over 'n'r6y' ano
M, exceeding one hundred miles, ,ea cents; over
,ns hundred and not exceeding two hundred and
twenty miles. fifteen cents; ever two hundred ana
,vsn,y miles. and not exceeding tour hundred
miles. twenty cents; for all distances over tour
br,d,ed miles. twenty-five cents. He said tha'
,h;s scals was that proposed BY the fost ofi1ce
Department. Il would reduce the postage some
what. and also eeualize the rates OF charse 10 lne
decimal coin, of the United States
The que ton being taken on the atnenoneht Oh
ar. Merrick, it was agreed to.
The bill was engrossed for third reading
The bill for defraying the expenses OF treaty
.,ipulstions with various Indian tribes, was caleu
u, bv Mr.. EVANS, the appropriation reduced ano
,be hill amended, passed and sent to the housc ior
concurrence in the amendments
Mr.. Archer from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. reported the bill regulating intercourse
with China; and the bill was placed upon the CAL
endar. Z;
The Fortiication bill was reported from the RI
nance Committee and subsequently passed.
The bill to limit and control the trank,ns r'V-
ieee was called up and explained by MIR. MERRlcN'
the Chairman of the Committee on the Post oitce
and Pos, Roads, and then laid upon the table by
vote of % to TO-
The Naval Pension Bill was called up, discus
IA s,a rarored TO the Senate with an amend
,,ent. which was ordered to be engrossed, and
the bill was passed.
\ Bill 10 extend the charters of the DistrIc,
from 1910 1854 was ordered 10 be engrossed
for third readsg. :
A Message was received from the House OF
Representatives, stating that they had passed
dill to provide for carrying into effect the late
Treaty between the United States ana Great
Britain.
On motion of Mr.. ARCHER the bill was referred
10 the Committee on Foreign Relations
The Senate, at ! clock, welt into an EXecu-
tive session.
In the House.. resolution was adopted to meet
hereafter at ten o'cock, A. NJ.
Mr. KENNEDY from the Committee on Commerce
70 which was referred memorial from gen.
eral convention Of the friends Of African COLOMBIA
tien, made report thereon, concluding with JOINT
resolutions to appoint an agent, to reside at some
convenient point, with power to form treaties or
conventions with the naive tribes Tor the advance
mont of our trade with Africa, and the suppression
of the slave trade; and requesting the Secretary
of State TO report thereon at the next session OF
t,,I ia ,bo
with the map, be printed.
The motioa to print the ordinary number OF
copies agreed to.
Mr. ALLEN, from the Committee on conference,
reported that they had come TO the conclusion to
recede from its amend uent to strike out, and that
the Senate had insisted on Is provision 10 allow
the appointment of ten additibna Cadets a. large.
The House subsequently concurred in ihe report,
and consequently this proviso temains in the bill
MIR. ADAMS, from the Cotnmittec on Foreign
Affairs. asked to be discharged from the further
consideration Of certain resolutions from the LIE.
.isature of Alabama, in favor OF the annexation of
Texas to the United States, and also sundry pe,i-
tions Of contrary character. As an individual
member of the Committee, he submitted two Feso-
lutions the first declaring that, by the Constitu-
ton of the United States, Congress has no power
10 annex to this Uaion any foreign State far the
Texas to the Union, therefore, would be in viola
ton of the Constitution of the United States, and
null and void and which the free States ought not
to permit
MIR. MERlwETHER objected to the reception of
the resolutions
MIR. ADAMS maved that tney be printed, and re-
ferred 10 The Committee Of the Whole on the state
of the Union.
The Speaker informed him that the motion
could not be entertained as objection had been
made to the reception of the resolutions.
Mr. STEESKoD reported bill for the cohtinua.
ton of the Cumberland road East of the State Of
Ohio; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee of the Whole.
A large number Of Reports were made from the
Standing Committees, and sundry bills from the
Senate were read twice and appropriately referred.
The bill from the Senate, amendltory OF tho laws
regulatisg imprisonment for debt in the District OF
Columbia WAS read third time and passed.
The bill making appropriations for the civil and
diplomatic expenses of the Government for the
year lS44. was taken up.
The amendment agreed to in Committee OF the
Whole approrriaring $4,000 for commissioner
to the Sandwich islands concurred in by a
vote Of So to As.
The question was then taken on the proviso that
no part OF the appropriation Tor d'P'oha'ic eA'
p-nses shall be applied TO the payment of any
salary or outfit of any Minister, Charge d Afiaires
or other foreign representative, who may be ap-
pointed to any post now vacant or in which va
canoy may exist during the session of Congress,
unless the appointment be made by and with the
advice and consent cf the Senate.
The amendment was not concurred in: Yeas 60,
Nays l0l.
The other amendm Of the Committee hav-
ing been concurred in the bill was read third