American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-05-16

MIR. DIX replied briefly. The practice had
been heretofore, in raising new regiments, to
leave the appointment of officers unrestricted,
and the officers had been taken partly from the
army, and in part from private life. lfthe Off
GERS were taken from the army it would be ne
cessary to supply their places from private life
Mr. Crittenden thought it strange, indeed, if
with skeleton army and mutitudes of super
numerares, we had not officers enough for a
single additional regiment. If the motion to
reconsider prevailed he should move to strike
out from the House amendment the Cline" Of
the army, so that the appointments shall be
from the whole corps of the army.
The discussion was continued by Messrs.
Cass, Dayton, Crittenden and Houston, and
finally the yeas and nays were called, and
stood thus: ayes %, noes 22-the Chair voted
no, and so the motion to reconsider was lost.
The Indian appropriation bill was then
taken up.
Mr. Atchison moved an amendment to pa
the Wyandots the value of their improve
ments according to treaty, viz: 100000.
This amendment was discussed at length by
Messrs. Evans, Corwin, Woodbridge, and
others, and finally agreed to.
Some other amendments were made, and
the bill was ordered TO be engrosseG.
The Senate then adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
On motion of Mr.. Daniel, the House agreed
to proceed with the consideration of the pri.
vate calendar, this being Friday.
Mr.. DelaHo, of Ohio, asked leave to make
personal explanation, which, after some OBJ
lection, was granted, when he made some re-
marks in explanation of what had been attri
buted to him by his colleague, Mr. Thurman
in his speech of yesterday.
Mr.. Thurman replied, after which
The Private Calendar was taken up. bill
having been rejected in accordance with the
recommendation Of the Committee of tho
Whole, another was taken up, for the relief o.
the owners and crew ola fishing schooner sup
posed to have been lost at sea. by vote Of
50 to so the bill was ordered to third read
ing. Having been read third time, a call OF
the House was demanded and refused. The
bill was then passed by yeas IS, nays 50.
On motion, the House went into Commit
tee of the Whole, (Mr. Foot, Of VT, in the
Chair,) and proceeded with the consideration
of the Private Calendar.
A bill for the relief of Thos. APP Catesby
Jones coming up, an amendment was propos-
ed which occupied the Committee i'll its dis
cussion, and fruitless attempts at its final dis
position, for the remainder of the day. The
amendment provided for the liquidation of the
claim of B. E. Green, (son of Duff Green
and Mr.. Blackwell, Secretaries of Legation,
for discharging the duties of Minister at Next
co and Venezuela respectively, in the absence
of an American minister.
No question could be taken on the amend
ment, as the Committee found itself without a
quorum whenever the effort was made. The
fact was reported to the House, when unsuc-
cessful attempts were made 10 adjourn, for
call of the House, adjournment again, sc.
Returning again into Committee, the result
was as before--the fact of no quorum voting
was again reported to the House, when
A motion to adjourn prevailed.