The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-27

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To pay the legal representatives of Thomas H. storms
or balance due to him as agent at Baroadoes
To reimburse the owners the specie value ofloan once
hnsi settlement certificates which may DC produced ana e
appropriated shall be carried TO the surplus nd as IN
~ cases but shall remain subject to the direction Of the &C
counting officers Of The treasury 10 meet the claims tina
may arise from tins to time and provided that greater
amount Of interest be allowed the said certificates thar
would have been allowed had they been funded under the
act oil the 4th Of August, 1890
Mr.. BR0CKENBRoUGH moved an amendment
appropnang 1899 for compensation to the keeper
Of the public archives in Florida. Rejected
The following item being under cons Iteration,
TO wit:
For surveying the copper region of Michigan with ref
dollars per mile for township boundaries and five dollars
per mile for section lines, $4,000.
Mr.. Mckay moved to amend it by striking out
the words 'for township boundaries, and FIVE
dollars per mile for section lines" Agreed to.
Mr.. MCKAY moved further amendment, insert
ing after "Michgan," the words wisconsin and
Iowa" Agreed to.
Mr.. WINTHROP offered an amendment appro.
priatng SlS 600 for salary and outfit Of minister to
Mexico whenever The President shall have ascer-
tanned that he will be received.
The amendment, by ayes so, noes 81, was re-
iected.
Mr.. JACOB THOMPSON offered the following
RArHBUs) to the item for the salary of a commits
sioner to reside in China!
PrOrd,d That 20 part Of this sum shall be paid unless
this commissioner actually resides In China.
The amendment, by ayes "a, noes 81, was
agreed to.
5000 for the consul at Paris.
MIR. PRESTON KING raised the question of Or
der.
The amendment was declared by the Chairman to
be out Of order
Mr. Mckay offered an amendment appropra-
ting $50 900 for the contingent expenses Of foreign
intercourse. Agreed to.
amendment, which, by ayes 70, noes Sc, was agreed
to;
lind bet further enacted That the Secretary Of the Treas
ury hereby authorized TO increase diminish the num-
Der Of inspectors ggassr weghen, measurers. mark
number Of such officers in the Union shall time ex
coed the number in service at the present time.
Mr.. J. P. MARTIN offered the following amend.
ment:
find be further enacted That from and after the close
Of the present session OF Congress- the pay for mileage Of
each and member Of the House Of
of the United States and the delegates from the Terrific
ries shall be as follows to wit: For every twenty miles
between the residence Of each member and delegate and
senator and the Capitol the OF S. the distance to be
computed by the nearest mail route such distance to
be aseeained by the books ofthe Post ONCE Department
Mr. JOSEPH J. MCDOWELL moved to amend
the amendment by reducing the pay TO Sc per diem,
from SO.
Mr.. COBB offered an amendment, which was
accepted by Mr.. MARTIN, and thus became part of
the original proposition.
The committee then rose and reported progress.
Mr.. MCKAY moved that the Committee of the
Whole on the state Of the Union be discharged from
the further consideration Of said bill.
THE ARMY OF OCCUPATION.
L. he IF he dau N -, III
been received from the President the United States
by the hands Of J. X Walker, esq., his private sec
rotary.
In obedience to a very general call, the message
was now read.
1t transmitted Tin answer to the resolution of this
day. copies of all official dispatches from General
Taylor in relation to the battles of the 9th and 9th
instant.
The message and documents, on motion of Mr.
were referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
A motion was made that the House adjourn;
which motion, by yeas 81, nays 81, was rejected.
MILITARY TACTICS.
Mr. HARALSON on leave given, from the
Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to
provide certain military tactics for the use of the
volunteers authorized to be called into the service
of the United States by the act approved 18Th
May, 1916; which bill was read twice, and commit
ted.
MIR. MCKAY moved that the House 90 back into
A motion was made that the House adjourn;
which motion was rejected
The question then recurring on the motion of Mr.
MCKAY, it was taken and decided in the affirma-
tive.
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL.
So the House again resolved itself into Commit
tee of the Whole on the state Of the Union (Mr
HopKNs, of Virginia, in the chair,) and resumed
the consideration of the said bill
The question was the amendment to the
amendment reducing the per diem to &c.
Mr. BOWLiN moved the following amendment
That no member be allowed pay any day that he does
not actually attend the sitting Of the House. If in session
that day unless absent by its order business of the
failure Of any member to answer to his on the cali Of
House the call Of the yeas and nays shall cons
journal Of the House that he absent by its order
excused for sickness the certificate of physician, and
member absent from the House for his business
pleasure and with without the leave of the House. shall
receive any pay for the time he Is absent.
That shall be the duty of the clerk of the
every day to furnish the sergeantat with list
those members who the preceding day failed at any
time to answer to their either upon call of the
House the yeas and nays and the
upon receiving such list shall charge the
and shall take from his gross pay in the settlement of
his account the amount of days pay for every day so
absent.
Which amendment was agreed 10.
Mr.. COOKE offered the following. amendment;
which was agreed to-
Propided That when the mileage of a member or dele.
gate aforesaid shall amount to the OF then the
residue of the mileage shall be computed the Of So
for every twenty miles travel aforesaid qnd provided
further That after the first four months of any session of
Congress the daily of each member delegate shall be
four dollars per day and no more.
Mr.. DOCKERY moved to strike out the whole
amendment as thus amended, and insert the follow
ing, which was agreed TO:
THAT from and after the end Of the present session of