New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-01-07
rWEsTY-lINTH cOsGREss..First Session.
reported Specially tor The !se.v- York Tribune.
SENATE.

Small
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5th, 1916.
The Senate was only about half an hour in ses.
sion 10 dav. There very little business trans.
acted.
Mr. NILES reported 3 Joint Resolution regulating
he Printing OF Congress. and also bill TO establish
post-routes 10 Texas
The Senate then adjourned.
HOrsE OF. REPRESENTATIVES.
After the Journal was read, Nj. c. J. ISGERsoLL
Chairman OF the Committee on Foreign Relations.
renor,ed resolution advising the President 10 give
the notice to Great Britain OF the termination OF the
.Ioin, Commercial Occupation. He moved that i;
be made the Special Order OF the Day for the first
Monday Of February
MI. DAVIS OF Ky. read minority report, declaring
tina; this House has nothing 10 do with il. That the
subiect is a proper one for the action of the Pres
dent and the Treaty majority OF the Senate.
A motion was made te make i, the order of the
day 10 morrow.
the notice He was very severe upon the gentle
men vino voted to acquire and have territory in
Texas and surrender tree territory in Oregon. H
expressed mis- opinion that MI FOLK would yet be-
trav his party On this question
Mir MCDowELL of Ohio was in favor of the no
tice Immediately His speech was principally ex-
tracts from the President Message and the accom-
panying documents.
When he took his seat, Mr. RHETT of S. c. took
the floor and made strong speech against the rash
measures now precipitatcd by the War party in
Congress He had voted this morning in Committee
against the Resolution for the Notice.
He said no war but defensive war was Unsuitable
If we 90 10 war about Oregon, we can never get it
I'LL we yanqaish England on every sea and CONT
ncnt.
Mr. RHETr made some illusions to Mr.. ADAMS
that he was opposed 10 the last war
Mr. ADAMS asked if the gentleman charged him
with opnosing the last war.
Mr.. RHETT.-l DO.
Mr.. ApAus.-Then the gentlemen is mistaken
Uaugh,er.l
Mr. RAgrr reiterated his opinion.
Mr.. ADAMS said that tue gentleman from s. c.
might not know the history OF one so humble as him.
self but he should not misrepresen, him He was
Amounted Minister to Russia by Mr.. Madison Tor his
slpport of MIR Jeffersons and Mr.. Madisons meas
ures The gentleman reminded him OF the KING
In Don Quixote, who insisted upon flashing his
Squire for the sake oil his beloved Dulclnea. de
probably wished TO lash his Mr.. Adamss) back Tor
MASSACHUSETTS, He veneraIed Massachusetts, but
he was not responsible for all the acts OF that State
Here Mr. Adams's eye kindled with fire, and he
pointed his finger over the way TO Mr. Rhett, and
said am glad 10 be able TO say that is more from
ignorance than mahgn'ty that the chargeis made,
Mr. RaETr then took up the Western and New
York Loco. + ocos and handled them tetty roughly.
There had been talk OF rumorS u games, &c
He 100 had heard OF rumors, aud he would mention
some of them. Here Mr.. DOUGLASS of ILL., wished
10 explain. but Mr. Rhett refused 10 waste his time
II was run1ored that the West wished TO plunge
this country into war in n species of political
gambling with the lives, liberty and blood OF the
people to make Western man next President.
Ii was rumored, too that theNewIo rS section OF
the party now in power wished TO take vengeance on
the South for having defeated their candidate al
Baltimore, and therefore they would de'uge this
country in blood 10 clothe their iavorite in imperial
purple.
The South would not be wanting in Patriotism
whenever danger came. If war did come the South
would be found in the thckest OF the battle But
he protested agans. war OF aggression Every
Renubic that has gone for foreign ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
has fallen He did not wish a similar fate Tor this
Government The West might well clamor tor
war. They were never 10 see British soldier IN
their part of the country while the sea board would
have 10 bear all the loss Still he did not doubt The
patriotism OF the West
He did not believe Negotiation at an end-He
was not for war till that war became imperative or
National Homer
Mr.. SINS of Mo went for all Oregon or none,
now or never He said the only time he ever felt
happy was one Sunday at church when the news
of Folks election reached his neghborhood. If he
could only walk into English soldiers as he did into
English Grammar the British would stand no
chance.
Mr. billiard of Ala. having obtained the floor,
the House adjourned.