The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-25
DAILY CRESCENT.
Nem MrIeans.
MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER IS, 1913
Congressional.

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WASHINGTON, Dec l5.-The Senate was not in
session to-day, having adjourned over TO Monday.
House of ReDresent1tiUes.-M McLane present.
ed the memorial Of Elizabeth Haughery, and re-
ferred the same to Committee on Invalid Pensions
On motion of Mr. Rockwell, of Connecticut, the
House then went into Committee of the Whole; Mr..
Cobb, Of Georgia, in the chair, and resumed tne
consideration Of bills on the private calendar, In the
order in which they were left unfinished at the close
of the last session.
A bill for the relief of Lyon & Howard, after de-
bate was uniformly passed over
A bill for the relief of jeremiah Moore, after con-
siderable discussion, ordered to be reported to
the House, with recommendation that II do
pass"
The Committee then rose and reported according
ly, when, on motion of Mr.. Stephens OF Georgia, 1t
was ordered that, when the House adjourn, 1t ad-
journ to Monday next.
On motion of Mr.. Stephens, the House then. by
a vote Of 66 to So, at 20 minutes before 8, adj
journed.
THE bill Yesterday reported by Mr.. Ben ton, in
the Senate, authorizing the Government to con-
tract with Messrs. Aspinwall and others, OF New
York, for the transportation by steam, of the pub
lie stores, mails, ETC., across the isthmus of Pana'
ma, when their proposed railroad over that sthmus
shall have been completed, is likely to give rise %
an important and interesting debate, when 1t shall
come up for consideration-involv not only the
relative advantages Of the Panama and the Te-
huantepec routes; but the policy which induced
our Government TO yield their demand TO the right
Of way across the isthmus of Tehuantepec, as one
OF the conditions Of the late treaty of peace be-
tween the United States and Mexico.l
The Mexican COMMISSIONER it will be recOl-
lected, declined complying with this demand Of
our Government, on the ground that the grant had
previously been made to the British Government;
and an expired arrangement it is understood, has
since been reHeDed with Mr.. Macintosh BY the
Mexican Government.
The proposed Tehuantepec route, (by ship ca
nall is nearly thousand miles nearer to New Or
leans, by water, than is the Panama route, over
which the railroad Of Mr.. Aspinwal and others Is
70 be constructed.
The distance across the isthmus of Panama, it
will be seen from the map, is about 60 miles, and
across the isthmus Of Tehuantepec about 100 miles
A ship canal across the latter, It has long since
been ascertained, by surveys, can be very easily
made, and with very slight excavations, except In
the very few miles Of territory which lie between
the head waters of the Huasacuasco river on the
Atlantic side, and those of the Chimalapa river, on
the Pacific; both of which rivers, it has long since
been ascertained, can be easily rendered naviga-
BILE to within these few intervening miles.
Il was probably 10 this route and to this arrange
ment with Mr.. Macintosh, that Mr.. Cameron re-
ferred, in his remarks of yesterday.
As we, however, have failed to secure from
Mexico the right Of way over this route, and have
secured such right from New Granada, across the
isthmus Of Panama, the contract Of Messrs. Aspin-
wall and others, with the latter Government, and
their proposition to transport the mails, Govern
ment supplies, ETC., at three-fourths the sum now
paid for the transportation of the mails alone from
New York TO Liverpool, have become matters of
great importance to this conuntry, as upon the
granting oftheir application to Congress, it is I'M
derstood the construction or nom construction of
the proposed railroad will in some measure depend