The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-29
THIItTIETH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.

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sury and Navy Departments, Several petitions and
reports on private business were also submitted by
Senators; which were seyeraly read by their ttles
and appropriately referred.
Gen. CASS introduced n bill from the COMMITTEES,
on Foreign Relations, providing for the further pro
secution Of the war with Mexico. Also, one pro-
vdng bounty Jus he understood) for volunteer
serving in the army Of the United States. They
were read twice by the tellcfs, and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. ATIERToN moved to take up House Bill
No 9, making appropriations for supplying, in part,
the deficiencies growing out OF the expenditures q
the War Department for supplying tho regulars and
volunteers serving In Mexico The bill calls for
100000.
Mr.. JOHNSON, oil Maryland, asked the chat !
man Of the Committee on Finance what the whole
deficiency was 2
MIR. ATHERToN said that ii amounted 70 near
81, 600, 900.
The bill was then read three times and passed.
The Clerk Of the House Of Representatives np-
peared at the bar of the Senate and announced the
two resolutions Of that body, which he was instruct
ed to report to the Senate One in reference to the
appointment Of Joint Committee on Printing, the
other relating to the death Of the Hon. EDWARD
BRADLEY
Mr. CRITTENDEN called up The special order
Of the day, which was in reference TO the purchase
of the Madison papers.
The CHAIR having put thequestion
Mr. HALE said he hoped they would not come
up now, us Senator WAS absent whom he knew
was DESTROYS of offering his views on IT, He said,
that If II did come up the Senate would not agree to
it, as 1t was more like in form, though not in sub
stance, sort of civil pension list
The bill was then read twice and ordered TO be en-
10 L 80 l..s-.
and the ayes and nays being callel for
Mr.. BUTLER rose and said that he would like to
the bill passed over for the present. until he could
have an opportunity to examine, he not alto
gether prepared to give il his sanction now: and
further said, that he had many difficulties in
gard to it, If 1t was now pressed upon him. he might
be forced to vote against It. He was willing to give
Mrs Madison $1,000 now, and $4,000 in trust, for
the papers, or such other sum as they may be worth
and it only in relation to the proper distribution
of this sum, that he wished to have his mind made
up ON it.
Mr.. b. further said that he wished 10 have il post
poned until tomorrow, 80 that he may have an OPP
porunity to examine ii and it WIS probable that he
would give up all his objections toit II was con-
trary to his feelings to oppose any measure of this
sort, but, under existing circumstances, he could not
go for IT,
Mr.. WESTCOTT said he objected to the bill not
because he was unwilling to purchase the papers,
but because he thought Congress had no right over
the subject of appointing trustees for her to keep or
dispose of the funds which would be hers by the
purchase of these papers
Mr.. BADGER explained, that if Congress did so,
It was with Mrs. Madsons consent, and he saw no
objection to Congress doing for 50 venerable re-
lect Of one of the public men Of this country. The
bill was then laid over till tomorrow
T Mr.. FELCH then arose and announced the death
of Mr.. BRADLEY, after which the Senate passed the
usual resolution, and then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REpRES ENTATIvEs
In the House of Representatives prayer was said
by the Rev. Mr.. Slicer The Journal of yesterday
was read by the Clerk
Mr.. WICK rose TO correct an omission Of the
Journal in not having notice of petition relating
to patent rights that he presented yesterday.
The CHAIR thought it was not read in the House,
but would be inserted on the Journal in the usual
Mr.. STEWARD then .aose and announced the
death of the Hon EDWARD BRADLEY, member elect
from the State Of Michigan. In doing SO he delivered
some appropriate remarks upon his general moral
and political character. The usual resolutions were
then offered and agreed to, when the House adjourn
ed.
SoMETHIso ABOUT Mr.. WEbsTER--Mr. Webster
looked well. He was full dressed. No man knows
better than hcto pay proper respect to the assembly
he appears before He compared advantageously in
this respect with the appearance Of his young oppo-
nent, who, both yesterday and to-day presented him
self In an undress irock-coat. If tho judges take
the trouble TO put on their gowns, | SEQ not why
those who appear in their presence, should not ex-
hibt corresponding care in their dress.
Mr. Webster had put on his most becoming dress.
He wore blue coat buff vest with brass buttons.
This was the old Fox colors in England over fifty
years since. The followers of Charles James Fox
wore them to distinguish themselves from the Pitt
ties.
Mr.. Webster has given this dress an almost equal
reputation in this country. He wore it, ! have I'M
derstood, the ever memorable day of the reply to
Hayne. He also wore il when, in 1888, he repnlscd
in the Senate, the premedtaed attack OF Calhoun
and again, in angry parle," he snote 1ngerso and
his coadjutor Dickinson.
1t will have n historical Importance like the dress
that Cnsar on his assassination by the Senato-
rial eonspirafors of which Antonyssays reported
by William Shakespeare
------" remember,
The first time Caesar put Il on
Twas on Summers evening in his tent;
That day he overcame the Nervii----"
l don't know that Mr. Webster ever adopted the
dress out Of compliment the great English orator
probably he wears Ii from lis becomingness--but II
is a rather singular coincidence that in his appear
ance he somewhat resembles Fox--certainly more
than any Of the English statesman's great conlem-
poraries. For though Mr.. Fox was short and cor
pulent which Mr.. Webster 10 not-still in other re-
spects he resembled him--his chest was capacous,
his shoulders broad his hair dark and thick, his eye
brons black and bushy and his complexion swarthy.
There is certainly more resemblance in the perso-
nal appearance of these two eminent men than there
was in Fluellin's comparison between Macedon and
Wales. Men York Tribune.
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LIVING SrATu4RY.--A number of young women
and men, carried away by DR., Collyers exhibition Of
Living Statnary, got together last Sunday evening
in New York, and undertook TO reduce TO life seve
raj interesting passages in Scripture History of not
the most delicate nature. They were cut short in
their lasciSious performances by the police.
TERniBLE MuRpER.A negro man of Louisville
recently stabbed to the heart the son of his owner
youth of 20 years because the youth undertook TO