The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-18

sand free white male citizens OF the United over the
age OF twenty and under the age OF hy years there
shall be raised by voluntary enrolment otherwise one
company of oae hundred mismen, TO be OrganEad and
disciplined may be provided BY law; and the whole
any part OF them may be called nto the service Of the Uni
tsd states whenever Congress may order u
Whenever any part Of the militia shall be called into
the service Of the United States they shall be bound TO
serve for five years. unless discharged.
All noneommissiOnsd officers and officers Of the line
hsh as me rank OF captain, shall be elected by the men
COMPOSING each company from among themselves
Az Officers above the rank Of captain shall be appoint
advice aad consent Of the senate. Proud That no Of
hSsF shan be appointed unless he be taken from the
ohgst' OF men composing the miai and all promotions
to merit
ceive psy for tn time, not exceeding one week
Zach company TO drill year or ollener II they
think proper
REPORTS OF coMSnrTLEs
Mr.. ASHLEY, from the Committee on the Judi
cary, reported bill to refund fine imposed upop
Thomas Cooper, under the sedition law, accom-
panied by reports which was ordered to be print
Mr. FAIRFIELD, from the Committee on Ma.
val Affairs, submitted an adverse report upon the
petition OF Elizabeth Sewer; which was ordered TO
be printed
HRIyrr AND sTATT RANK.
| Mr. BENTON, from the Committee on Military
Affairs, submitted the following report; which was
ordered to be printed:
The Committee on Military affairs, to whom
was referred the memorial of sundry officers Of the
army Of the United States at Corpus Christi, in re-
lauon TO staff rank and brevet rank,
REPORT
That they have seen an order Of the President of
the United States dated on the 10Th day Of the
present month, re-establishing the regulation OF
August 18th, 1929, by President Jackson, in rela-
ton TO breyet and staff rank, and abrogating all
subsequent regulations IN relation thereto; and be-
eying the said regulation of August 18th, 1929 to
be correct exposition OF the rules and articles OF
war in relation TO the subject and that the re-es-
adjustment Of said regulation has applied the ade-
quate and appropriate remedy TO the evils COM
planned Of IN the memorial, and has superseded the
necessity for legislation on the subject the commit
tee bring back into the Senate the memorial COM
mitted to them, and pray to be discharged from its
further consideration.
Mr.. JOHNSON, of louisiana, from the Com.
mitiee Pensions, submitted adverse reports upon
the petitions of Eli Kinds, Jemms Flood, and Ez.
abeth Gsssaway.
| Also report recommending the indefinite post
ponemen, ofth bill grantinga pension to Noah Con-
ner; which were severally ordered to be printed.
Mr.. }. also, from the same committee, asked that
said committee be discharged from the further con-
sIderatlon Of the petitions Of Samuel r. Read and
George GuIer, and that they be referred to the
Committee on Naval Affairs; which was agreed TO-
Mr.. }. also, from the Committee Pensions
reported, without amendment, a bill explanatory
Of the fourth section of act making appro pria.
tons for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the
government for the year ending 30th Jsne, 1886
and for other purposes, approved March Sd, l545
Mr.. NILES moved that 5000 copies of recent
report of the Postmaster General be printed for the
use of the Senate; which was agreed to.
REPORT or COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS
Mr.. ATTENTION moved to take up the report
Of the Committee on Printing recommending the
printing OF the report Of the Com missioner Of Pa
tents, and briefly advocated the printing Of the num-
Der Of copies recommended by the committee, who
had evinced their desire TO economic by recommend
ing the printing Of much less number than las
year.
Mr. SEWER entered into some historical details
relative to the origin and progress of the paten
Office, and expressed his great alarm in beholding
the magnitude which it had assumed. 1t had ac
uIelly grown up to be branch of the government
He was quite alarmed at this. Their fathers haG
got on very well in their good old moderate way
with patent office confined TO a single room in tn,
old post Office. But now they had got grea
granite bulldlng-and commissioner-and a team
Of clerks-and connected with it, he believed, ,
squadron of the navy, which had gone over tn,
whole world to bring back stones, and fossils, and
birds, and Fejee wigs.
Mr.. CASS. Egyptian mummies.
Mr.. SEWER. Yes; and also Egyptian mum
mies-and all sorts Of seeds-turnip seed, and
cabbages, and lettuces-n fact, almost everything
he had heard OF, and great many things Of which
he had not heard, with names which he could no
make out at all, and had get his friends from Ala
bama and Pennsylvania TO make out their meaning
for him. They had gone far enough in this bust
ness He was tired of this spending money for tn,
printing of a book about buckwheat and Indiar
corn. or the documents accompanying the Prest
dents message full OF valuable information relative
to the foreign relations, the finances, army, navy In
dian affairs, and everything else Of the country only
hfteen hundred en-
office had gone too far ahead! II had absorbed thu
public printing IN great degree. Ii had all turned
out just as he had anticipated years ago when i
was proposed to build that magnificent structure
tie supposed If the revusion Of 1897 had not come
they would have proposed to build a grea
national church alongside the patent Office so tina
they might all worship there beside that nationa
curiosity. lie thought q stop should be nut some
where to that magnificent humbus-the paten
office; which had actually lecturers attached to it
yes lecturers to teach farmers! He was a farme
himself, and he could those lecturers-he could
Let senator's only think ofit-lecturers 10 teach mer
how to sow OATS He went to hear such lee
lures How much did the patent Office cost
Could his friend from Pennsylvania, Mr. CAME
ROM tel' No; he shook his head, he could mo-
tell. Nobody could till. He supposed it cost NOR,
than the State Department. All of their old com
modores and their captains instructed TO fill NJ
their vessels with seeds and plants, and all sorts o
trash, and to bring them to the patent Office. II
hoped his friend from Connecticut, [Mr, NILES,
who, with himself, generally stood at tho door o
the tresnry, and took Of all the money they hat
got there, would limit the number to five thousand
that would be quite sufficient A cart load Of thi
document had been semitic his village, (he did no
live IN one OF their great cties;) and he did moi
carry on great correspondence-he had a goo
character in that respect, and he recommended hi
example to other senators; he did not answer any
letters at all; that was by far tho best pan-he die
not often hear from the postmaster, but one day hi
found him in terrible pucker because the docu
mens filled up his room 30 that he could not turl
himself about The fact was, that was no, very
scientific place, and he (Mr. 81 did not move in
literary circle; 1t was true they had some literary
characters in the village, but he did not belong t.
them. He thought that six men could be found il
his village who would read the document, and there
fore lie would agree to take six copies of the docu
ment.
Mr. BENTON regarded the question one mucl
more important than the printing of docu
ment He was opposed to the system of ex pend m,