The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1846-06-20
lCoyesp)n lsacs Of the BI!timore American
WASHING TON, June |.

In The Senate M DIX, of New York, reported
from the select committee the bill in relation to
the Smithsonian beques', with amendments.
Mr. DIX also presented a memorial from citl-
zens of New York, asking Congress to send a
special mission TO certain counre Of The East
for commercial purposes. The memorial was
referred to the committee on Foreign Rela.
TINS.
The Paymasters' bill from the House ives
read twice and referred 10 the Committee on
Military Affairs
Mr. Speight of Miss asked the Senate 10 take
up the bill proposing an alternate section ofland
for the purpose Of granting the means or rem
derlng navigabie the Pearl river, which runs
through Mississippi, and which rises IN Louis
Iana.
Mr. Bagby opposed the bill. Tne Pearl river
he regarded As siuIce and a slash, and called il
by other hard names which excited the ire OF
the SENATOR from Mississippi.
Mr. Speght said he had seen steamboats, upon
this slulce, and several of them during the SEES
sion Of the Legislature The river runs into tn
rive, runs INTO the heart OF The cotton cuuntty.
There were five hundred thousand acres Of pub
Dc land upon il, and mos, OF it was worthless to
the general government, some OF It having been
IN ma rket for forty years.
- Pho deba'o raa ,nto dry arg ont upon ilaa
CONSTITUTIONS! question, and ceased 20 be Of pub
lie interest.
Without action upon this bill, Mr. llannega0
called for The order Of the day and the motion
W agteed to.
The question pending was the motion to re
commit HE Oregon Ii use bill 10 the COMMITTEE
on the Judiciary, with ms ructions
Mr Cass took the floor for the purpose,
vowed by himself, of rc5uscilating the line If
"a 40 lie argued Justify against M. Benton,
without GtsproVng one single tactproved by NJ
Benton. M Jttitrson and Mr. Madison were
regarded as Ia the way in the discussion OF the
question, and Mr.. C&gs frank'v said he desired
80 remove these gentlemen out OF the wav, aud
il was plain, because their words destroyed the
claim Of Mr.. Cass to 54s 4O'.
The fact that they had spoken before the trea.
ty Of 1919. Nc, Cass regarded as shutting out
,hei. testimony entirely. Mr.. Cass insisted that
the Utrecht line was not run, and that all re-
ference to it was entirely out Of place. Mr.
Benton was treated in conclusion as occupying
and inconsistent position, and a speech deliver
ed in 1912 was quoted against hlm.
MI. Benton heard this speech with marked
patience, but with some apparent internal feel
ing
Wnen Mr.. Cass took his seat, ater speech
OF about two hours, Mr.. Benton rose, and II
some thirty minutes replied with great force
and point. lie said that the treaty OF Utrecht
in the 10Th article provided that the line shoult
belrun, not by surveyors, but geographically
and automatically. They were to run the line
forthwith, and this had been done.
Mr. Benton said the Senator from Michigan
hoped lightly over all the points OF his argu
ment, and abandoned every one OF his man
points, to Jump at new conclusions, or rather tt
revive old ones. lie had professedly washed
his HANDS and wiped them of Mr.. Greenhow
and yet for an hour and half he had Rugged
him and lis errors to his bosom.
Nv argument, said MT. Benton, had beer
oulbbed at and distorted by one Of those fifty
four forties, and all in defence Of error, known
error. These 81 40 men under mis- axe had
aroused and excited the country. They hat
committed great error and Rugged 1t to thelI
bosoms. The question was that of senseles
war, and war Of ignorance on our part, in de
fence of Frazer's river and New Caledonia,
country covered all over with British posts an,
settlements.
The Senator from Michigan knows it. II
has not once mentioned New Caledonia or Fra
ger river. He will not pronounce the name of
country for which he is ready to plunge III.
country into war, and to which he kIows tn
country has no title. He is ready for war, an
to take q country to which we have no It'll
whatever.
Mr.. Benton spoke with great earnestness, bu
in 80 low tone Of voice that the words did nc
reach any distance beyond the immediate neigh
oorhood in which he was speaking.
The Senate then voted TO commit all the bill
10 the Committee on the Judiciary.
The question REQUIRED upon the instruction
70 run the line Of 40, as proposed by Mr., Bento'
MI W, Westcott, opposed the instructions, and NJ
ztsh
against some. His impressions were that tn
time had come when !, was necessary to d
something He INDUCED in the hope or fel