Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-02-19
FROM WASHINGTON

EAOS0 WASu4N0lON
Little Of importance has transpired at
Washington since the dates in our last, ex-
ecpt the passage Of the Oregon Notice BY the
House. On Monday, the 9Th inst, after a
Ong discussion in Committee of the Whole.
The Committee rose and reported the
resolution MS thus amended Ia the House,
and It was ordered to a third reading
Yeas l63, Nays 54-lO9 majority. The
following are the yeas aud nays:
fEAs-MeSsrs. ]. @. Adams, s. Adams,
Anderson. Arnold, Atkinson, Baker, Bar
ringer. Bell, Benton, Briggs, ]. Black, J. A.
Black, Blanchard, BOwlln, Boyd, Brink
erhuff, BrOckenbrOugh, B.Odhead, w. G.
Brown. Burlington. w. w. Campbell, ].
H. Campbell, Cathcart. r. Chapman,
Chase. Chapman, Clarke, Cobb, Collin,
Constable, Cullom. Culver, Cummins,
Cunningham, Daniel, Darragh, jefferson
Davis, Delano, DeMoti, Dillingham;. Dob
bin, Douglass, Drnmgoole. Dunlap, Ed
sail. Ellsworth, Erdman, ]. H. Ewing,
Faran, Ficklin, Foster, Fries, Garvin, Gid
d'ngs, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon, Graham,
Order, Grover, Hamlin. Hampton, HAIR
alison, Harmanson, Harner, Henley. Hill.
lard, Hoge, E. B. Holmes, Hopkins,
H"ugh. G. s. Houston. Hungerford, w.
Hunt, J. B. Hunt, c, ]. TngersoII, Jenkins,
J. n. JOhnSun, ]. Johnson, A. Johnson, G.
w. Jones, S. Jones, Kennedy, P. King,
Lawrence. Leib, Lerr, Lewis, LEVIN, Lei
gon, Lumpkin, Maclay, McCl"un. Nc.
Clelland, McClernand, Mcconnell, Nc
Crate, Mcdowell, McGaughey, McHenry,
McIlvaine, Mckay, ]. P. Martin, B. Mar.
tin, Morris, Morse, Moulton, Nivin, Nor,
ris, Owen, Parish, Payne, Perrill, Perry,
Petit, Phelps, Pollock, Price, Ramsay.
R,hbun, Reid, Rolf Ritter, Roberts,
Root, Runk, Russell, Sawtelle, Sawyer,
ScammOn, Schenck, Seaman, Severance,
L. H. Simn's, a. Smith, +. Smith, r.
Smith, Stanton, Starkweather, Stewart,
st. John, Strong, Sykes, Thomasson, jas.
Thompson, Thurman, Tibbatts, Tilden,
Towns, Trumbo, Vance, Wentworth,
Wheaton, White, Wick, Williams, Will
mot, Woodruff, Woodwork, Yell, Young,
Yost-l63.
NAYs-Messrs. Abbott, Ashmun, Bay.
ley, Bedinger, Milton Brown, Burt, John
G. Chapman, Augustus A. Chapman,
Cooke, Collamer, Cranston, Crozier, OAR
gan, Garrett Davis, Dixon, Doxerv, Ed
win II; Ewing, Foot, Gentry, GrinneIl,
Herrick, Isaac E. Holmes, john w. Hous-
ton, Edmund W. Hubbard, Samu, i ID.
Hubbard, Hudson, Hunter, Joseph r. In
gersoll, Daniel P. King, Leakp, Long,
Marsh. Miller, Mosley, Pendle,on. Rhei,,
julius Rockwell, John A. Rockwell, Sed-
don, A. ID. Sims, Simpson, Truman Smith,
Caleb B. Smith, Stephens, Strohtn, Thi-
b"deaux, Benjamin Thompson, Toombs,
Tredway, Vinton, Winthrop, Woodwa rd.
Wright, Yancey-54.
The resolution passed, is in the following
words:
ResolUed by The Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United Siates nf A.
naericG in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States cause notice
to be given to the Government of Great
Britain that the convention between the U.
States OF America and Great Britain, con-
eerning the territory on the northwest coast
of America, west Of the Stony Mountains, of
the 9th of August, 1897, signed at London,
shall be annulled and abrogaled l2 months
after giving said notice.
2. And be il further Resolued, That
nothing herein contaided is intended to in
terfere with the right and discretion of the
proper authorities of the two contracting
parties 10 renew or pursue negotiations for
an amicable settlement of the controversy
respecting the Oregon territory.