The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-23
SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1917.
The Senate did not sit to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


! The Senate did not sit to-day
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The journal having been read in part the further read
ing was dispensed with
! HOUR or MEETING
! Mr. a. d. SIMS submitted the following resolution:
Rsxarsf That from and after Monday next the hour
meeting of this House shall be II O'Clock a.
! Mr.. ASHNfUN objected
! Mr. SIMS moved suspension of the rules in order
/ to permit the introduction Of the resolution.
! Mr.. COBB demanded the yeas and nays.
The demand for the yeas and nays being seconded they
were taken, and resultedyeas es, nays a. follows:
YEAS-Messrs Stephen Adams Atkinson Barringer
hoh, BnockenbEough, w liam g. Brown, Cathcar Chip
mns, DaTgu, De Mott D5bbin. Dunlap, Edsan ErdIna
Faran Ficklin Giles, Grover, HamIin, Hannanson, Has
nand W, Hnbard hungeriori, Hunter. James H. John
son, Andrew johnson, George w. Jones Seabon Jones
Ligon Lumpkin, MCLEAN NIcCleliand Mcdaniel Joseph
| Mcdowell, Mckay Barclay Marin Morse, Mouuon
Pilsbu5y, Rathbun Reid Rells, Rilsr Roberts, saw
.ele, Sawyer, Scammo1, Setidon Severance Alexan-
der d. Sims, Leonard II Sims, Simpson, Thomas Smith,
Robert Smith, Stanton, Starkweather, Stephens Stewart
StrohIn, TloInasson. Tibbars Tredxay, Wentworth
Wheaton, Wick, Williams, Willnot, Wood, Woodward,
NAYs-Messrs. Abbott. Ashnun, Bowiin, John H
Dixon Dackery, Edwin II. Ewing Foot, Order Hale
Harper, Elias b. Holmes Samuel D. Hubbard, Hudson,
jenkins, Daniel z. King, Thomas b. King, Lewis, Ma
clay, Mcllyainr Marsh Miller; Pollock, Julius Rockwell
smith, Albert Srh, Caleb b. smith, Toorubs Vance
yinton- White. Winthrop Woodruff, Woodworth, Wright,
| So the rules were suspended
| Mr.. RATHBuN moved to amend the resolution b.
striking ont all after the word 'resoyei and substu-
ting clause fixing the hour of meeting at 10 o'clock
MI. WINTHROP moved TO amend the amendment 10
the amendment by adding the following words: and that
all the standing and select committees be discharged
the further consideration OF the business before them"
Dir. HANLlN objected 10 the amendment to the amend
men as being out OF order. He asked what conaexion
it had with the amendment;
4 The SPEAKER The Chair regards the amendment to
the amendment relevant. The meetings OF the CON-
mLtees must be dependent the hour OF meeting OF the
House
The yeas and nays being demanded upon the amend
men to the amendment, ordered, and being taken
lresued--yeas IS nays 1877.
So the House refused discharge the standing and Sc
lec committees from the further consideration OF the
business before them.
! The question being then upon the amendment fixing
the hour OF meeting at 10 o'clock rejected By
s., nays 90.
The question was then taken on the original resou-
ton which was agreed to-
T-RouTEs IN TEXAS.
Mr.. REID, from the Committee on the Post Office and
Pos. Roads reported back the B to provide for the
establishment OF additional post-routes in the State Of
! Texas with anne ndment
The question being on concurrng in said amendment
the reading OF the bill eei for and the bill having
! been read
Mr,GRINNELL said that many of the post-rou,es
proposed to be established by this bill located in dis
puted territory He opposed to the bill so far as
hoped that those provisions OF the bill would not be car
Mexico
| Mr. WHITE moved that the bill be referred to the
Committee OF the Whole on the state OF the Union
Upon this question the yeas and nays were demanded
and, being taken, resutei-yeas 10, nays 9s.
80 the motion was lost.
The question recurring upon concurrng with the com
mitee their amendment Striking out the Sd section OF
the BILL the SAID amendment was concurrei in.
Mr.. ViNTON moved to amend the bill BY aiding the
following. viz
Pcoridsd, That nothing in this shall be understood
contain expression by Congress of it, opinion the
question OF boundary between the territory of the United
States and Mexico.
Mr.. VINTON addressed the House in support OF this
amendment he sad that the establishment custom
house at Brazos Santiago, part of the disputed terri
tory had been taken by the President ground upon
which to found excuse for bringing the present
with Mexico, and he desired that a provision might
be engrafted upon this bill guarding against any further
claim Of title in said territory by inference
Mr.. PlLLSBURf then rose and male few remark
IN opposition to the amendment just proposed and in sup
port OF the bill itself He reminded gentlemen that they
had possession OF the territory and that it rghuly
belonged TO the United States In regard this bill there
was no intention on his part to avoid discussion.
Texas had been banded about in thatIIouse sufficiently
already They were always ready to talk about her, but
when anything was TO be done objections thrown in
the way They had had no regular mails for year
ball was hastily passed al the last session establish
routes, but their increased expenses rendered it moss.
DIS 10 make q contract
Mr.. GENTRY then rose and interrupted the gentleman
from lexas by putting nteogaory about the disputed
boundary; and conversation ensued between the gem
temen the subject which the reporter did not dis
tncty CATCH and which understood to be of re-
Tnarkable importance
| Mr.. PlLLSBURY then proceeded TO make few re-
marks IN support OF the bill He said that Texas want
ed nothing but justice, and he fully confident that her
wishes would be amply gratihed.
Mr. DROMGOOLE then rose and said, that he had
been not little astonshed at the OF the honors
bic gentleman from Ohio, Mr. VISroSl II that gem
teman had reflected for moment, he would have seen
how utterly idle II suppose that the establishment
OF question OF boundary could be at all affected by
such bill that now before the House II the
first time that he (Nfr d. had heard that the
portaon OF mail could affect the decision of a bounda
~ question.
Mr. VfNTON here asked the floor for a moment, and
the honorable gentleman from Virginia assentng he said
that he did be understood entertaining the
opinion that this bill would settle the boundary question
II had nothing do with that question But had II not
much to do with the question the establishment
OF collection district at Corpus Christi which the Pres
dent OF the United States had alleged OF the
of his marching the United States troops there order
execute the law Would the honorable gentleman from
Virginia tell him whether the establishment OF post
route would not be much an afhrmance OF their title
as the establishment of a custom house,
Mr.. DROMGOOLE proceeded. He supposed that
neither the transportation OF mall nor the establish