The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-01-30
sEvENTn WEEK on TlIE SESSION

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SEVENTH WEEK or THE SESSION.
We select Tie following condemned no
tee Of the proceedings Of Congress during
the seventh week from The National In
ielligenccr: 80.
More Than half Vi he present session
Of tongress has passed away itllou, a
single artnfaay consequence having been
consnmmaied. -.
BY far the mot importan; thai has vet
hecn transacted al this session. Is that
which belongs 10 the Senate iniis Execu-
tive character; and il mag he added. hy
the way, that the subject which has orcu-
pied one hal Of the whole time &c sitting
Of re Other. branch sc Congress /. bust
ness lihe annexation" question: which
prnpeh. bnlnngs Ia Ii,e Senate. md upon
which the House of Representative. c.n-
not act without usnrping authority that. 81
fM as either House "f Congress is con-
cerned, belongs 10 the Senate only.
The mnst important action ~ Tie Sc
nate du- ing the last week was upon the
! Treaty wlh Ihina. which had The rare
honor Of being ratified without descent
iEg vote.
The most interesting legislative trans
action of the Senate daring the last week
WA. the .rcpori back from The committee,
with amendments. of the bill I. carry in @
eiiec' L C Smithsonian bequest
In ho;h Houses, we need scarcely say,
the Texas question occupied lis full share
Of a;tet tion,lnrirg the last, week, as daring
,hetwo or three preceding ones, lis dis.
cnssinn his hcenpnrsuCd :, the House with
a good deal more OF pertinaci;y ,l1an Of no.
velty ar iurce on the part olils supporters.
\ Tennessee plan. less rash in is provi.
sions than the Others, has been brought IN.
Ia the Senate by Mr.. Foster, aud into The
House Nv Mr.. NJ. Brown. Further
schemes have also been inir. dured hv
Nr. Haywood In the Senate, and Mr.
Burke in the House. ~
Tha- far, as Ia ans thing like righ, OF
/! policy, the question has gone but lanely,
on single leg: another, however, seems
not unlikely IL he found in the iniroluc.
ton of some like measure for anneAing
!, Canada: far which. as we haze aIread,
apprizetl our readers. popular petition.
NAV be expected 10 com" in. .~
Should they do 81, and a j"in, resolu
ton TO " annex" i9llow, We see nnt by
what argnuenss the f,vnrer- of the Sou h.
! eru Annexation shoulioppese the Nur h.
e,n. They will themselves hasesuppl''
I'D system Of reasoning and If public
! mors's which. hnwever others may have
I couiuted, ihey cannot answer. Hos "sf7
-. Like the uther, i, vi be a" re-anncx
at,on;" for Canada aud the present Uni
ted States were on'e pats Vi The SAINT
empiIe. g. SO .f* %a>.@@Et-<@\ @5si IF
.z Tie acquisi'inn Of G nada will be
much mpre positive enlargement Of TN
."ate. of fr-tdnm" than that Of Texas
fu Texas already .njays Rspdblicsr
Government, aud Canada does mt.
Il will preyeat Smuggling. ~ an iuii
i nit,ls eieatet extenG fol instead oil mere
anterior borJet, huls accessible 70 lht
/ n.portauon, uf goods. and emily TIRE,
hund ed and ten, miles long, Canada OF
/ tsrs, by great liver, q lake and watei
,srress, al lsast two thousand o'lles IN OK
i te, t.. asf-., e.. ri 4aa e~ s~ at& @9 3ts -
/ |, will he far woIe advantageous TO Oh
manufacturers; f,r Cansda ennsa'ns
vastly larger popu'ation than Trxa.
Til. aann. xsnon OF Canada will Ger
| tanly be less hutuul to the Gotten plt''
ing States Than ,hr ni Texas; fer 1t VII
no, bring i a compettilu IN prcduc'io
/ already rxressisr.
/ Iv,be .ogaa. hs'ersei'' will not Aop