The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-01
And he gives statement of prices fully sustaining this

At such prices these except the horses and cattle
which are below the price of the same in the United States
and without money TO pay down, amounts soon run up
hgh but still small for the great results produced in con-
querns the country and pacyng before the United States
troops arrived
great error prevails in the minds of some Senators as to
the authority for mourning these claims. The Senator from
Virginia Mr. MAsoN classes them all as unauthorized 1t
great mistake. The claims arising from unauthorized
operations limit themselves about thirty days of time,
and the expenses of force Of less than three hundred
men, They limit themselves to the operations under the
flag of ndependence-from the first week in June the
lOh fJulywhen the flag of independence Abandoned
that of the United States adopted, and the battalion went
into service with the navy From this time forth all ex-
penses duly authorized the naval commanders acting
under special orders from the President conquer retan
and govern California These orders began October 1885,
IN anticipation of the and were continued by success
sve orders of the urgent kind Those of July r.
1886 though they did arrive until operations over
issued in the very time that Mr. F,emont in the
act of joining the naval forces and show what the intention
OF the government at that tmc They were addressed
to Commodore Sloat and said:
Pepious instructions have informed you of ,hSns
tons of this government pending the war with Mexico 10
object of the United States is, under m rights belger
H S as;.s st en nth of dpgps, Sn
of the u posdetis shall be established The government
eTpG9 nsst roIg yG to be oap h. in ne b1
the necessity of cipa administration Such government
should be established under your protection
These instructions positive themselves and refer to
previous instructions. They correspond with all the pre-
Wous orders the navy That branch Of the public force
charged in advance and in anticipation of the war; with
the conquest of California, whenever broke They
were to conquer the country they to hold possession
OF till peace and they to establish civil govern
men for its temporary administration. The naval com
manders to do this and did do it. Commodore Stock
ton took command in July, Immediately after Mr. Fremont
came TO Monterey and under his orders all subsequent mil
ay operations carried on, and the civil government
established the expenses of which remain be paid
Commodore Stockton received the thanks of the
or prosecuting the conquest OF California; Commodore
Soat was censured and recalled for doing and Mr.
Fremont and his battalion part of Socktons forces
and acted under orders from him.
The very day this letter of the 10Th Of July written at
Washington, Mr.. Fremont his way Monterey,
and Commodore Sloat to do the very thing which these
lerated Instructions required him to do He fulfilling
to the letter. that day. the orders which emanang
from washington AT the distance of 5000 miles, and
without ORDERS he doing what the government wished
done and what the naval commanders could not have done
without lard force
The letter of recall to Commodore Soat, dated August
49, 1916, shows only that the naval commanders
required to conquer RETAIN and California but that
they would be censured and superseded for doing
Hero is that ORDER have said, August ID, 1886 by
strange coincidence the very day that Stockton and FIRE.
mont were entering the city Of the Angels and putting the
hoshing hand to the conquest of California Hear it,
GU s. NAVY DEPARTMENT.
Washington, August ID, 1876.
"CoMNopoRE. The department has received your letter.
No 81 of June g. from which it appears that while Won
were aware of the existence of actual oar between the
activity, and did carry the instructions of June "a
o'5, framed to be executed even in the event OF
declaration of war, much more in the of actual
hostles Those instructions you ordered carry
out at once
my letter of August s. 1915, the receipt Of which
you acknowledged the 18th January 1876, referring
them said In the even. of ,car, you viii obey the in
slruc'ons recently addressed to via Panama In my
receipt on the l7h of March. 1886 referring to these in
sIuenons once more, said further In the event Of actual
you win dispose of your whole iorco carry
'ns0ay tho objects specified in tbs instructions forward