The Columbian fountain., 1846-03-04
T rwExTf-NISTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.
-le olLlNA i Il.
TUESDAY, March 3, 1916.


by the Secretary, but were inaudible from the
reporters gallery They did not seem TO be of
much importance, TO judge by the attention
they received.
Memorials and petitions, mostly of private
nature, were presented by Messrs. Cameron,
sewer, Niles, Breese, Bright, and Dix. Many.
piils, mostly OF private nature, were reported
Dy Messrs Sewer, Semple, Cameron, Bagby,
and Johnson, of Md.
several resolutions asking for information
from the Executive and Departments were Of
Tered, and laid over under the rule
Mr. Ashley moved to postpone the previous
orders, Tor the purpose Of re-committing the
Oil in relation to tine non-recovery OF costs by
seamen suing and recovering less than $l0O.
Ihls Oil would preclude sailors in almost any
case from recovering, and no doubt was passed
inadvertently on the exparte statements of
ship owners, who are generally inclined to
grind down the hardy sailor as manufacturers
their operatives.
The previous orders were postponed, and
the bill was committed, for extinguishment it
is to be hoped. y,
Mr. Clayton offered resolution calling on
the President for copies Of any correspondence
which has taken place in reference TO the Ore
gon question since the 4th Of February last
The resolution which laid over from yester-
day, offered by Mr.. Dayton, calling on the Pre-
sldent for an expression of his opinion whether
the present state of our foreign relations does
not call for an increase of our military and ma
val forces was called up, but on desire being
expressed by Mr.. Sewer, its consideration was
postponed for day or two.
The morning hour having expired, the spe-
cial order on the Oregon question was taken
up, and M
MIR. Dayton took the floor. He described the
state OF the question as affected by the several
amendments under consideration, One was
naked notice, another a notice manifesting our
peaceful intentions, &c. There was no pre-
else point before the Senate for discussion, nor
no precise point of principle. Were he as
anxious for all Oregon as some Senators on
the other side OF the chamber, he would have
the question reduced to point Of 'notice or
not.". He stated that as to the objections
against compromise, Presidents Monroe. Adj
ans, Tyler, and Polk had offered the 49th de-
gree Of north latitude In relation to Mr..
Buchanan's rejection of the proposal to arb
trate. first as to division and second as TO title;
he said that our unfortunate negotiator was in
a corner, He, however, added that Mr. Bu-
chanan's Argument was an able one, and he
had hapdled il as well as that side of the argu-
ment would admit Of. He, however, said that
there was scarcely an idea or fraction of an
idea, in Buchanan's argument that differed
from those heretofore urged by Henry Clay.
In relation to a division of our territory bv ar
bltratlon, he said that our constitutional right
to transfer our lands away was doubted; but
disregarding Tor the present, what was the We
ry question IN dispute, viz: " are they our
lands;' ne would say, that our constitutional
right was as plain 10 cede away lands as to ac-
quire them, which had been actually done.
He rldlculed most ldelicately the questions
put by Mr.. McLane, our Minister at London,
to Lord Aberdeen, in relation to England's
activity in arming.
Mr.. McLane must have felt littleness when
he put the questions, and less when he received
the answers. France had asked, but France Law
almost within gun shot OF the batteries. II had
been said that England looked on passively
while we were negotiatiating with Russia as
to her claims on the North West coast She
did not she was wide awake, as he could
show from the Journal of the Cd session of the
18th Congress 1t was the correspondence be-
tween Mr.. Middleton and Count Nesslerode,
while we were negotiating to establish the
boundary OF $40 40' between ourselves and
Russia. That boundary, by the way, was not
a settlement OF rights, but division to suit the
wants and necessities Of both Governments.
His reading from the book was objected to by
Mr.. Sewer, inasmuch as the Injunction OF se-
crecy had not been removed from that corres-
pondence or proceedings.
Mr.. d. then reviewed, with severe criticism
and happy raiery, part of the speech of MIR.
Breese, in which MIR. B. had regarded war
with England as trihing affair, ''lllat we
might lose few Ships" &c. He, Mr.. D.,
would not have been surprised at such depre-
eating OF momentous consequences from
squater on the other side Of the mountains,
but he was asonshed that his friend, u s..
Senator, should entertain such views. He was
astonished, until he was forced to conclude
that the gentleman's remarks only meant
54o4O!" He eloquently stated the real con-
sequences OF war and Engand's great power
The havoc and destruction she could infict up
on us; and that if this government wantonly
provoked and sought war with England, and
plunged US into it on the extreme question of
54o4O, this administration and its advisors W0uld
be brought to the block ?
Mr.. Haywood rose when Mr. d. concluded
and stating that it was late, and it would be
later before he could finish what he wished to
say; and not wishing to divide what he had TO
say between two days; he moved to go into
executive session. 1t was negatived, and MIR.
Haywood moved to adjourned, which was de-
cided in the affirmative.
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