New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-23
Seu@E ors 1egisIdturs.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. ls

! ID SENATE, after Inc presentation OF PETITIONS
ard the reception OF reports on motion Of MIR.
RucER, the State Printer was called upon to re-
port the amount received and charged for legal
advertisements for the last three years. After a
discussion OF uninportant business, the Senate
went into executive session and soon adjourned.
In ASSEMBLY great number of petitions were
presented for and against the rereal of the exemp-
toniaw and for other purposes, and a number of
reports from. Committees were made, mainly up
on matters of local interest. Mr. DAILY gave no.
tce of bill to amend the lien law of this city.
| The Senate bill relative the Public Printing
then came up. Mr. CEuRcH moved to strike out
all after the enacting Clause, and insert the Assem-
bly, bill. Questions OF order then concerning
amendments already offered, which were discussed
| for some time. Mr.. CHURCH moved TO make +.
! Croswell State Printcr-Lost 80 to Go; ard g mo-
ton OF Mr.. CALDWELL TO substitute for the first
section of the Senate bill the first of the House
was adopted. The several sections Of the amend
ed House bill were then successfully substituted.
| Among the ameadmen offered was one by Mr..
Brooks, that the law should not 60 into effect until
Jan. %, 1914, and urged the binding force OF the
existing contract with the State Printer. The
amendment lost, and the bill reported to the
House. Mr.. HALL moved to substitute the words
:. or printers instead of " firm of printers
Lost by party vote of &c to 81. Mr.. Brooks
amendment came up ard Mr.. Hall supported IL,
citing The Message as establishing the point that
% the doctrine of regulating contracts is one
which should find favor with no party" To save
! the State from the dishonor which the dominant
party was about 10 bring upon it, however, he said
that he was fully authorised in behalf of the State
Printer TO release the State from the existing con-
tract, which he thereby did. Mr. Brooks then
withdrew his amendment, and by Of 50 TO
% the report of the Committee was agreed to.
| The House then adjourned.
| THURSDAY, Jan. 10.
| In SENATE, after petitions and reports, the bill
20 change the day of holding town meetings in
Day and Edinburgh, Saratoga Co., was ordered
to third reading. The bill to provide for the
Public Printing was returned with amendments
from the Assembly, and was discussed at length
by Messrs. FOSTER, DICKINSON and RooT, until
the Report of The State Printer was read, when
the debate upon it was renewed and continued up
| to the latest hour at which the Evening Journal
could report proceedings.
In ASSEMBLY, after variety of petitions had
been presented, MIR. Z. STRONG reported bill 10
fextend tie time for the collection of taxes through
the State for 1912. The Puolic Printing bill was
then taken up and passed.
Mr. ALLEN laid on the table bill to 90 into the
election of State Printer Saturday. The bill TO
extend the time for the collection Of taxes for Do
was then taken UP and discussed for some time,
when it was reported to the House. The report
of the Committee was then agreed to and ordered
to third reading, and then the Heuse adjourned.
The MARQUEsAs ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC
OCEAN have recently been taken possession OF by
French squadson which sailed with secret or
ders from France, and of which the destination
was not known uatil the intelligence, thst the
Marquesas eroupe had been formally occupied
for the King of ,he French. These islands ex-
tend from 7.5l to 1925 5. lat and from l39.49
TO 14Ol6 W. long.
The principal island of the groupe is Nooa
heeuG, which lies in sd and HUBS.
Under what pretext or for what purposes the
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apparent. They were first discovered in 1896
hy MEYDANA, q Spanish navi gator and were long
known BY his name They were lost sight of Till
again seen BY Captain Cooke on his last voyage,
in l77o-and by Vancouver. We next heGr OF
them from a Yankee Captan Insraham, 30 WIS.,
tied them in Holland In the same year Captain
Marchant, of the French snip Soide, having, as
Commodore Porter in his journal alleges, heard
at Canton Of tina discovery OF Captain lnsranam,
visited the groupe aud called it Rero!uttoa ISL
ends. Commodore Porter in his famous cruiZc
| in the Essex flisate during the last war, passed
some tine ut Nooaheeva, the finest of the groupe
landed his stores, stripped and repaired his ship
and by the aid of the natives erected dwellings,
store-houses, &c.
The climate is delightful and the bread fruit
tree abundant. The natives are tne race--Lhe
women hand some, the men bold and hardy. as the
Commodore, wao permitted himself to take sides
with his marines in an intestine war, had occa-
! sion 10 Gnd The record o. the slaughter there
committed by his oroer upon the unotiendlng ma
| tves and of the licentoGsness which he sane
toned in the intercourse with the native women,
are among the "reminiscences which the Journal,
addressed bv the Commodore to his son! might
better have omitted
But the material point at this moment, and IL
reference to this French movement. is that Com
modore Porter on the 18th November, 1913, made
formal declaration OF his taking possession OF
these islands on tie part Of TIE United States,
and received the submission of the natives, as
founded on priority of discovery, conquest and
possession, which could nor be disputed. He
secuted the professions in behalf of the French,
as wholly unfoandsd. The Boston Daily Adver-
tiser we perceive, chaysc;erzes the inhsbients as
! canuibals. Commodore Porter examined into
this, and although white man who was found
among them insisted tina; they were SO, the Com
modore, who spent long time on the island. and