New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-19
CONGRESSIONAL PRocEE8INGS.
BY TIE REPORTER OF Inh SE"'io'N F"S'@.

~ -ar REPORTER or me SEw-loES rRIsrM.
w..alNcros Apri! L. rA
In the House. OF REPRESENTATIVE to-d4yrs
norris were received IN great numbers aLaaas
them, C,,,;,.,.
FOREIGN Affairs, reported bill to pEoviae io' 9e
asccri,inmen, OF French claims OF American cit.
izens prior to July, lo0l, by board OF Con-
Neutrality-suspicious. not to exceed Si@'pVVl
Mr. Mckay. from the Committee oil Ways
and Means, reported bill appfopFatng ioF he
oxnenses OF the Post. Office Department for The
present year ...,
Thc preceding orders were postponed on mo-
ton of MIR. Mckay, N order TO come al inc lxo
harbor bills The Western bul, By Lcgs!atve
lecerdemain was pushed IN before the Easlsa,
which clearly had the regular precedence end
Mr.. DOUGLASS OF lll.-thc demand tor the pre-
yious question having been withdrawn on bis
urgent appcal-spoke warmly Tor an hour IN q.
fence Of the constitut!onaliy OF western Id.
provcments of navIgaDlc waters, reierTihg' as mc'
dental confirmation Of bis position, TO Gen. Jsck.
sons ve,oes OF the Maysvillc Road and Wabash
River bills, and to other documents from The same
source, rs well as from Madison, Monroe &C.
Mr.. Rusrr argued with much eloquence and
Z
the principles of Mr.. DOUGLASS carried out would
/ tend to the destruction OF State Rights and tome
worst system OF Consolidation.
Mr.. HOLMES, in MS usually pointed manner,
! showed, Mr. Douglass's inconsistency (as well as
that of many other Western Locosl IN conlend'
ing for the constitu;ionaty o: these aPpoPrla-
tons while DENYING that OF similar ones for the
/ Eastern and Middle States, and upbralted the
Loco party for having for local purposes yielded
the great and vital principle of opposition to lnle
nal Improvements.
After some other remarks Mr.. KENNEDY Of Ia.
moved an amendment INTENDED 10 strike out the
/ Wabash and Illinois Rivers and moved the pre-
vious question but afterwards finding that 1t
was not of the purport designed, he attempted TO
withdraw it, and thus involved the House and
! himself in an almost inextricable snarl on points
OF order, which, after contending for nearly an
hour, was temporarily escaped from by ADJOURN
ment.
In SENATE, after the usual presentation OF me.
MORALS, among which was one by Mr.. BUcHnH
from an Abolition Society of Pa. of 30 years stand.
| ing, and having enrolled among its members the
name Of Franklin,
The House bill approprIatng Sll6,00g Qhe
proceeds OF condemned naval stores for continue.
ton OF repairs in the Navy, opposed by MIR. HAY.
WOOD was passed.
The amendments of the House 10 the Invalid
Pension bill were concured in, and thus the bill
finally passed.
The postage bill occupied the remainder Of the
day principally by discussion An amendment
I of Mr. REESE to reduce the rates Of all letters to
) cents, was rejected, finding but six in favor OF
it. Various other amendments were rejected. A
motion by MIR. McDuFFIE to postpone indefinite
ly was withdrawn for the present. The prospect
OF agreement in the Senate upon any salutary re-
form is doubtful, and still more so IN the flouse
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