American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-01-28
fyeported for the American Republican,
es,s, roycR tSS--sECOND SESSION.
WAsHlNGToN, Jan. 81, is
SENATE.


SENATE.
MIR. Foster, of N. York, presented the Gre
.en,ials of Messrs Dickinson and DIX, the ioi-
,ler elected to ill the vacancy OF hlr. iaii-
naadge, (untl 18th Of March next and the ls-
Ter for the vacancy of Mr.. Wright, whose term
INNS tiIl 1919. MIR. F. moved that as Mr.. Dix
was present, he be qualified-and having done
so, Mr.. F. retired from his place, when was
directly occupied by his fortunate rival.
Mr.. Choato presented the credentials OF Dan
81 Webster, elected Senator from Massaehu-
sets. ",
Communications were received ltotli Ihe w
and Navy Departments.
Resolutions IN favor of a distribution OF the
decisions Of the Supreme Court, passed by the
Legislatures of N. Jersey and Maryland, were
presented by Messrs Miller and Pearce, and
rnfcrred to the committee on the Judiciary.
Mr.. Archer presented a memorial from Penn
s,lyan;a in favor of reform in the Naturaliza-
ton laws.
Memorials against annexation were present
ed BY Messrs. Dickinson and Buchanan, and in
favor of the same by Mr.. Woodbury..
Mr.. Huntington, on leave, introduced bill
explanatory of the Act of 1885, making appro-
priations for that year. Mr.. II. explained that
IL
anon collectors, to whom money was paid I'M
der protest, to put it to the credit of the Trea-
snrer, and the construction of the Courts had
been TO deny TO importers the power of bring
.nr suit arainst the collector-t was to reverse
this construction that the bill presented was
drawn.
Measures in writing were received from the
President
MIR. Berren, from the judiciary committee
.aported, in part performance of the duty as
stoned them, a bill 10 amend the Naturalization
Laws.
The Joint resolutions for the annexation OF
Texas were read by the title and referred, on
motion of Mr.. Archer, to the committee on To-
reign affairs.
On motion of Mr.. Merrick, the Post Office
bill was taken up and Mr.. NJ. made long
speech in the premises.
The following are the data Of this important
bill. The sum estimated necdful for carrying
on the department is 81, 100000, In 1887, be-
fore private expresses and other disturbing
causes existed, there were more than 30, 000, 0Iu
letters of chargeable character passed through
the mails; fair increase would give us now
$4,000 900 letters-whereas we have but about
94,000000 The bill proposes but two rates
iowance, 90 per cent. for the increase arising
out of this reduction of postage, in the cores
pondence onhe country, gives 8 800 900 more in
all upwards of5l ,00O,O which, at l-2 cts,
the average postage, gives $3.50, 60s-add to
this the postage on drop letters, it gives $780,
OOO-wIlat will be derived from government
letters sl27, 255-what will probably be gained
by correcting the abuse of the franking privi-
lege, &C., is Sl25 900 more-from newspapers
and other private matters $50, 900, and you get
4 total of 81 ,499, sos, within tritie OF the a
mount estimated as necessary for carrying Oh
The Department. =, =,
At the suggestion of Mr. Huger, MIR. Mer
rick Welded to a motion to go into executive
session. .
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Elmer, of N. Y, presented some reso
tons from his state on the subject OF distrbut
ing the decisions of the Supreme Court, which
were referred to the judiciary committee
Mr. A. V. Brown moved that the House re
solve itself into committee of the whole ant
take up the Oregon bill. After some della,
this motion prevailed.
Mr.. Weller was called to the chair.
The land bill was laid aside, and the bill t.
establish a territorial government III Oregon
and for other purposes, was taken up.
The subject of purchasing number OF CO
pes of Grecnhough's work on Oregon wa
first discussed, at great length, by Messrs Cav
Johnson, Schenck and others, and finally
bill for purchasing 1900 copies was agreed tt
The committee then rose and reported the bill
In the House Mr. G.. Johnson moved to la
The bill on the table, which was rejected, aye
81, noes &C.
The bill was then passed by vote of 10
TO 10.
On motion of Mr.. Brown the House agai
went into committee, and took up the Orego
bill itself.
Mr.. Adams desired that the subject be post
poned for few days. He wanted time for tn
distribution of the book Just ordered, whic
was said to contain authentic aud indisputabl
evidence of our title. He also wanted to kno,
what progress had been made in the negota
lion with the British Ambassador lie had n
doubt about our title to the 49th degree Q
North latitude, but he was not so fully satisfies
as To the claim of $40 49, which is the limit O
this bill. He was anxious to have the Oregon
title settled, and was in favor of termnatin!
the ;uint occupancy of that territory. FL
wished. however, that the subject should b
nostponed for the reasons suggested above.
MIR. A. v. Brown replied.
Afier few remarks from MIR. Preston King
and an amusing scene between Messrs. Drnca
and Weller 1.-THE latter being chairman) as
the right of the former to the floor, and the
sno,her exclamation from MIR. G. J. lngersol
in which he told what he did not mean, (b'
not what he did mean) when he limited tn
,no,,ep was wanted by Mexico the other day
n rofion was carried that the committee ris
The House adjourned.
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