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Committee where these routes were Were any OF them
between the Nueces and the Rio Grande'
MIR RUSK said he would answer the question. There
one from Corpus Christi TO Brazos Santiago,
PointIsabe, and Fort Brown.
No amendment having been offered the bill was report
ed to the Senate.
The question beng upon ordering The bill 10 thlfd
reading,
Mr.. CRTrTENDEN said he would like TO have some
explanation to the necessity OF this posroute from
Corpus Christi to Brazos or Point Isabel
Mr. RUSK explained that the route was but little over
100 miles in length and that its establishment was OF
great Importance to the people OF some portions OF Texas
or the transmission of their letters to and from the army
II il not established would cause great delay IN the
forwarding of their letters which would have to be sent
some 200 miles TO Galveston to be forwarded by water
He believed the earnings upon the route would pay Its
Mr. SIMMONS said that this was the route to which
he had objected in committee lie thought the best route
would be by water from Galveston As the senator from
Texas however, had said that would involve no ques
OF jurisdiction, and represented as earnestly desired
by the people of Texas, he had assented TO the bill being
Mr. RUSK considered the establishment of post
route from Corpus Christi to Point Isabel having no
of effect upon the question of jurisdiction OF the ter
rtory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande Ii he
thought that it did, he would not press it.
Mr. SPEIGHT said they had question present.
ed by the objection OF the senator from Rhode Island
Mr.. SIMMoNs] The senator ought to have made his
objection on the former bill.
Mr. SIMMONS said that he had objection to the
route to Corpus Christi The only difficulty laid in going
farther west, country VIGOROUSLY in possession of
the enemy-that is the people that were now enemy
by the war-before drove them out
Mr.. MOREHEAD hoped the question of jurisdiction
would not be permitted to interfere. The senator from
Texas mr. RusK had expressly dsclamed that the es
risdcton. He hoped the bill would pass.
Mr., SIMMONS would like to be understood He said
that he WG "I we had ssa s to ina S%
committee upon the recommendation OF the President.
| He did not intend to make any objection.
Mr. NILES said the question OF jurisdiction would not
ho afa hy s We had est
the TO foreign countries but il did not give us
territorial jurisdiction We had right to establish mail
routes to any port where we had jurisdiction
The bill was then ordered to be read third time and,
on motion by Mr. RUSK, it was read third time, by
unanimous consent and passed.
THE THREE MILLION BILL.
Mr. SEWER gave notice that tomorrow at |
O'clock he would call up the BILL reported from the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, making appropriation of
three millions of dollars to bring the with Mexico to
an honorable termination
THANKS GENERAL TAYLOR.
| The Joint resolution from the House presenting the
thanks of Congress to General Taylor, and the officers
and soldiers under his commando having been read first
Mr. JARNAGIN moved that it be passed by informally,
and that the special order be taken up.
The motion was agreed TO.
THE ARMY BILL.
The Senate then proceeded the consideration of the
bill from the House of Representatives to raise for linn
tied time additional military force, and for other pue
poses.
Mr. HOUSTON moved that the bill be recommitted to
the Committee Military Affairs, with instructions to
amend the bill to conform to the amendments with
some notification heretofore offered by him and dis
agreed to by the Senate, while the bill before it in
Mr. H. addressed the Senate length in support
of his proposition He regretted TO occupy the valuable
time Of the Senate, but deeming it, he did, to be
measure of great importance to the country, well as to
the efficient organization of the army he felt bound to
make more effort to press II upon their consideration
He had been in favor of the declaration of the war; and
was in favor of its energetic prosecution He could not
but believe that volunteer force would be efficient
and ready than regular force-more ready, be-
cause the volunteers already organized had long
since rendered their services to the and
expecting to be received. The season advancing,
and regular force to be raised would necessa
rily delay any movement until spring The raising of
regular force would necessarily months-not
weeks, but monhs-and the fatality which had already
obtained in the south should warn us against de,
laying until the slcky season sets Numbers had
been swept off and those who recovered from the fevers
contracted in the summer time necessarily recovered
slowly, and it would be long time before they
again fit for duty If an army was despatched at once
it would arrive by the 4h of March, and could reach the
table lands of Mexico before the sickness sets in To
raise regular force would at least the months
of February March, and April, and they could not get
to Mexico before the sickness would commence These
of the reasons why he opposed to raising
regular army. Another reason was the great national
expenditure which would be incurred by it. If the ten
regiments of regulars could not be raised in twelve
months, the officers would be all that time on pay, cost
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the government
The volunteers in readiness had required bounty
no pay for quarters and subssencoand they present
ed themselves ready for any service which might be
qured of them. Mr.. H. then went with further argu
ments in support of his proposition for volunteers, and
read from the laws passed during the last war to show
presidents for it and defend ts consttuonaty In
cuson he dsclamed any intention to delay evade the
BILL
| Mr. HUNTINGTON did not intend to renew the dis
cussion respecting volunteers He in favor of that
description of force hut he could for the instruc
tons proposed by the senator from Texas There
two objections to them First the field well the COM
pany officers to be elected by the soldiers. That
was enough in itself but the second was, that the
President should commission the officers elected
That was unconstitutional He aware of the act
passed during the last war; to which the senator from Tex
as had referred but look and what was the first
ton of it. Not that the soldiers should elect but that the
officers should be appointed under the laws Of the States
They volunteers organized and Differed by States
The third section of the act referred to- authorized the
President to accept the services of volunteers other than
those organized by the States, who be organized
according the rules governing the military establish
ment of the United States The officers of these
be commissioned by the President provided for in
ed This provision could apply the officers of the
volunteers organized by the States, for they already
commissioned by such States and it could have been
inended that they should receive second commits sion
Mr. H. said, that motion had been made to recomm
the bill with Instructions he hoped if il to be
mted it would be with other instructions than those
named by the He should move, therefore,
TO strike out the instructions proposed and insert
instead instructions to strike out the provlsO to the
9th section adopted the motion OF his friend from
Rhode Island, Mr. SrMMoNs,] giving the soldier the OPP
ton of taking 300 certificate OF stock, IN lieu OF his 100
acres of land To his mind there strong objections
to this provso He opposed to it because created
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