Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-02-13
TWENTY-NlNTH CONGRESS.
MONDAY, Fen. 9, 1916.

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Mr.. MOREHEAD appeared and took his seat
He has been detained until now from taking hi:
seat, by indisposilon.
A message was received from the President
transmitting The recen, Oregon correspondence
which was ordered 10 BE- printed
| Petitions and memorials were presenicd-one
| for Dry Dock al Philadelphia.
Mr.. CASS offered resolution directing the
Secretary Of the Navy 10 inform the Senate
whether there is now any naval armament on
Lake Superor-whelher some such force would
nul be proper on that Lakeland what would be
he best kind Of defence, &c.
MIR PEARCE introduced a Join, resolution to
provide for the transmission of certain Books lc
the Minister of Justice in France, which was
read twice and referred.
A number OF adverse reports from several OF The
Committees wcFc concuned in.
The bill tor the relief of Nathaniel Goddard and
others was informally passed over, on account OF
the absence OF scycra! Senators.
The bill granting pension 10 the widow of the
late Col McRae was taken up, and advocated by
Messrs BENTON and MANGUM, and oppos-
ed BY Messrs. PEARCE and CRITTENDEN
Alter which, on MIR. Benlon's motion, i, was laid
on The table.
The Senate then considered the bill providing
for an augmentation OF the Navy.
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speech in its support, arguing in strong and
clear ligh! the necessity OF putting in better stale
OF defence, than at present, the southern and gull
coast.
Mr.. DICKINSON moved 10 lay the bill intor-
maly on the table, as The Senator who Introduced
it, Mr. Fairfield, was absent.
Mr.. MANGUM addressed the Senate on The
subject He thought the proposition OF the Sc
major from Missouri, (Mr. Ben'on,) made the
other day, TO postpone The bill until May next,
oush, 10 prevail. He launched cut with an At
tack upon the Administration for its whole course
on the Oregon question, charging il with decep
lion, lrickefy and duplicity, by camoring Tor
warlike measures, and pickering great patriotism
merely 10 gain political ends when they did not
mean 10 assert 10 The end all that they had been
pretending.
Mr.. CASS addressed The Senate, and repeated
MANY of his former remarks on the probabilities
of war, and called to mind the tauns that had
been thrown ont against him Tor urging The me-
cessily OF speedy measures of defence, and in
this connection referred 10 the state OF the Oregon
question, as the correspondence between The Two
Governments now exhibited il, as evidence that
he had been right in his apprebensions.
Mr. ALLEN addressed the Senate in strain
similar 10 that which he INDUCED in when he last
spoke on this subject.
Mr. BAGBY defended the Administration
against the attacks of Mr.. Mangum, and at the
same time commended there would be no war;
Before any action was had,
On motion The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House having been organized, and pray
er said, on motion, the House resolved itself into
Committee Of the Whole, and lookup the Oregon
resolutions.
Mr. T. B. KING OF Georgia spoke his hour.
He made vigorous attack upon the adminislra
ton for inconsistency and obstinacy on the Ore
con question. He imputed The blame Of the pre-
sent state Of affairs 10 bad influences operating on
the Cabinet Ministers. The claim TO the exclu-
sive right TO all Oregon, was first started in BaltI-
more, as political game, and was never heard
OF before.
The declaration in Mr.. Folks Inaugural, that
Hour RIGHT 10 The whole Of Oregon was clear and
unouestionable" came upon US like an unexpec,-
ed thunderclap. Then followed Engand's de-
claration, BY Sir Robert Peel, that she had rights
in Oregon which she would maintain; and then
followed the offer of Mr.. Polk TO make the 49h
parallel the boundary How dared Mr.. Polk TO
make such an offer, if he believed our claim was
good for the whoel Mr. King asked Mr.. Adams
respectfully TO give his opinion OF our right to all
Oreeon-whe,her he regarded it as clear and I'M
questionable
[Mr. King here withdrew the amendment he
had previously offered, for referring The question
10 arbitration
Mr.ADAMS replied, that the question OF MIR.
King was susceptible Of two meanings. II
question simply Of RICH, was meant, then ne con-
sidered i, clear and indispuable. But if all that
is di.putabe is meant, then our tile is not clear
and unquestionabe.
Mr. KING resumed He limited at DISPOSE
lion to connect Oregon and The Tariff and 10 OBJ
tain the whole of The former, at the sacrifice OF
The latter, and denounced all such bargaining.
MIR. ADAMS next got the floor. He had The
26,h, 9Th and 2Slh verses in first chapter OF &C.
nesis read by the Clerk as the foundation Of our
claim.