The Arkansas banner., 1844-03-20
TWEEN NTY-EiGHTH CONGRESS,
 FIRST SESSION.
SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS.
FoRT WAYNE.

IN SENATE. Feb. 21.-Mr. SEVER presented pet- ztion of citizens of Benton county, Arkansas, spraying the establishment of military force Eat or near Fort Wayne, on the frontier of sthat State.
 Feb. 22-The PRESIDENT pro tem. laid sbefore the Senate a communication from the sWar Department, transmitting, in compliance
 swith resolution of the Senate of the 9th inst. sall the correspondence on the files of that de- Apartment on the subject of the selection of tthe site of Fort Wayne, on the frontier of Arkansas; which, on motion of Mir. SEVER. swas ordered to lie on the tahle, and be printed OREGON.
 Feb. 19.-Mr ARCHER, from the Commit stee on Foreign Relations, reported bill ap- propriatng e3,000 for the purchase of 1,5OO scopies of Greenhow's History of Oregon, Cal tilornia, Sc. A discussion ensued, in which Messrs. BENTON, ARCHER, and BUCHANAN participated, when the bill was laid over till tomorrow.
 Feb 22-On motion of Mir SIMPLE, the
 Senate took up for consideration the resolu- tions submitted by him some time since, di- recting the President of the United States to SlNC uOliCC lO tC DiltlSl iOl tllC termination of that provision of the treaty al- lowing joint occupation of the Oregon Ter ritory.
 5 From Mfr. AToHIsoN's speech in favor of the resolutions make the following extract: sThe senator from Virginia, in deprecatine < the evils of war, painted wildly the dangers
 { to which the seaboard States would be sub- ject, as if to show that those States would be the only sufferers, while the western States { swould rest in comparative security, and have nothing to do, in the event of victory, but to share its benefits and glory; but a reference
 s to the history of the last war, and to the geography of the country, would at once
 ] prove that Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, 2 and Arkansas, exposed far greater. and still less defended, frontier to the attacks of the enemy than the seaboard States for which 2 sthat honorable senator felt so much interested : In denying the lmputation so endeavored to
 s be cast on the senators of the west, let him 4not be understood to say they have no inte- srest in wishing to dissolve the treaty which E sprovided for joint occupancy of the Oregon
 } They had an interest, and he avowed it-ii Twas an interest in preserving involate the Hhonor and dignity of the nation; and to dc sso, in their opinion, the first step to be taken, ! though perhaps not absolutely necessary, was { to adopt this resolution, so as to lead to the gannulling of the treaty; and by doing SO leave our people at large to occupy, as they < had right to do, the country in dispute.- As to negotiations for settling boundaries or ! limits, he, for one, had no faith in them; for. fwhether the demands on the part of this seountry were just or otherwise, she was sure { to come of. loser. The treaty settling the Maine boundary, on the borders of the Allan tic, which took from us one-fourtil of thai State, left us little benefit to hope from q treaty to be executed here to settle the boun- diaries Of country lying thousands of miles from tho Atlantic The treaty of 18lS- | which gave to Great Britain joint occu-