The Whig standard., 1843-12-15
TWENTY EIGHTH CONGRESS-,
~ FIRST SESSION. 4
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1s43.
SENATE.

Petitions and resolutions were the order Of the
day, and The following were offered and appro-
priately REFEREED: a e M i
Mr.. CRITTENDEN presented petition
from large number of persons in Delaware
county, for the establishment Of dry docS in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. WRIGH'r,a a memorial from the sureties
Of Samuel Swartwout, praying Tor compromise
With the Government. sf+H 4g
MIR. WALKER asked leave to withdraw from
the files the papers Of John Grant
Mr. MILLER, q memorial from the President
and Directors Of the Bank Of the Metropolis, sta
ting that their charter would expire on the 4,h
Of July, and praying an extension of the same.
Mr.. STURGEON, a petition, with sundry
right name,) praying that he may receive the
difference between the pay Of messenger and
clerk, for services rendered in the latter capacity
Mr.. ATCHlSON, petition from one hundred
and five lawyers in ST. Louis, that the circuit
court may sit there in October.
Mr.. BERRIEN, in behalf Of Messrs. Clinch
and Mcintosh. IA
Mr.. KING, from General Hernandez in rela-.
ton TO Florida war claims.
Mr.. WOODBURY.. from citizens Of Ports
mouth, N. H, for reduction Of postage.
NJ MIR. TALLMADGE, from sonle individual
asking naval pension.
Mr. FULTON, in relation to General Jack
sons fine; also for a naval depot and dock yard
at Memphis, Tennessee.
Mr.. ARCHER, sundry petitions names not
heard.
M. WOODBRIDGE one from Charles Nor
gan, praying for revolutionary pension. IA
.s Mr.. HANNEG AN, praying for grant OF land
for the Wabash and Erie Canal.
III Mr. DAYTON, from the widow OF George B.
Z McCulloh, asking pension.
Mr.. FULTON gave notice of bill to provide
for drawback upon goods exported to Chihuahua
and Santa Fe. M
Mr.. ATCHIsON something, not distinctly
heard, in reference 10 the Oregon emigrants.
Mr.. EVANS. offered resolution to refer the
annual report Of the Secretary of the Treasury,
with some specified exceptions, TO the Commit
tee on Finance.
i Mr.. HUNTINGTON presented memorial
from John Ward S Co., in reference to the loan
of l84I; they entered into contract to furnish
"a large amount. (some five millions,) and only
received certificates for little upwards of three
millions. They and their associates ask indem-
nifty for loss sustained in making the monetary
arrangement. They impute no blame, however,
to the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Mr.. MILLER gave notice Of bills for an in
sane hospital and the Improvement OF Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, in the District OF Columbia
II Mr.. BARROW submitted a joint resolution,
directing the Secretary Of War to detach from
the Engineer corps competent officer to pro-
ceed at once to the mouth of Red River and
make the necessary survey Tor removing OBJ
struclions to its navigation, and that the sym Of
$4,000 be appropriated for this purpose; adopted.
Mr.. BATES introduced bill, which was
twice read and referred, for the relief of Henry
Newman; also a bill to refund the balance due.
from the General Government to the State Of
Massachusetts.
Mr.. JARNEGAN, a resolution for printing
four hundred additional copies of the Post Office
report for the use of the Department
.7s Mr.. HENDERSON, a resolution that the Sec
retary Of the Treasury furnish a statement of
what is due to Mississippi out Of the two per
cent. fund, and also uuder the land distribution
Mr.. BREESE,a resolution calling upon the
President 10 state why an additional land Office,
in the northern part Of Illinois, had not been es-
tablished in conformity with an act OF Congress.
MIR. DAYTON gave notice Of bill to settle
the title to the Pea Patch island
Mr. BARROW,a a resolution (submtted for
one offered the other day. calling upon the Sec,
reiary Of War to report upon plan, proposed
by a Mr.. Heron, for permanent wharf and
dry dock at Pensacola
message was here received from the House
in relation TO their order upon the decease OF the
Hon. Barker Burnell, and
Mr.. BATES rose and pronounced brief and
chaste eulogy upon the deceased, whom he rep
resented as native OF Nantucket, q man OF SIN
gular purity OF character, of ardent temperament,
and great devotion to his duties as public man.
1t was in an over anxious discharge of these du-
ties that his life was sacrificed. He died in this
city, but "moriens dulces renanisciiur Argos"-
dying he remembered his Island home.
In conformity with resolution in honor Of
the deceased, for the third time upon similar
occasion this session, the Senate adjourned
81 (. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,. NIX
Immediately after the reading of the journal,
Mr.. ADAMS rose and pronounced the follow
ING eulogy upon the decease OF the Hon. Barker
Burnell:
At the general session of the 9th Congress it
became my duty, amidst the arduous labors and
important deliberations Of the House, to announce
the decease of one of my then colleagues, a
member of the House from the Commonwealth
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