The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-21
Correspondence of Crescent.

washington Correspondence of Crescent.
WAsHIseroN, August 10, 1913.
The Senate after an Executive session OF tour OF H'e
hours confirmed the Brevet nomination OF zen. he@y'
The vote was tirtywo for the nomination and fourteen IN
oonostion Col Benton was fierce to the last and seemed
the very embodiment of bitter discomfort aiteI the o
were opened No nomination for many years mas peeh ~
bitterly opposed as this but the result shows that the inends
of the nominee were than his enemies ana ta' te'
were not actuated by the same fierce opposition
The Army Bill has been amended in the Senate ana lne
appropriations largely increased. The army Is %sIeeu
there shall be 800 rank and file, and the compaes
80 EACH instead Of A. proposed in the House Inc O
gon regiments it proposed shall number 100 men for each
company The bill is increased million IN amount lOm
the bill as it passed the House
The Post Route Bill reported to the Senate with
large number of amendments, establishing new post routes
Most of agreed to- and the BILL with some oil the
most important of the session. an trGRSH between the
two Houses This will be the state of fact to the end
of the session. The Senate and House now holding
two sessions day and ransactng business in hurry
which ought to have been done leisure the early part OF
the session.
The Army Bill was before the Senate in the night session.
apprOpnang, the Chairman remarked, $lO6NOOO In the
whole. An amendment moved and carried, appropn-
atng $l2 coo for the settlement of certain claims OF Com
Stockton and Col Fremont This however, was soon
found to be small amount and Mr.. Atchlson moved an
appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars to settle GER
tain claims growing out of the California expedition lniOr
nation was called for and given in ali directions but all
were not for such hurried expenditure OF money MI
Johnson of louisiana moved and urged with determined
zeal an appropriation of $1,000 for fertilization at New
Orleans 1t opposed in determined spirit by the ChalT
man of the Finance Committee, and others Col Benton
advocated it, and amused the Senate after having been very
Serious solemn and piteul during the day The amend
ment was lost from hostility to the payment OF money
asked but as out of place and med The yeas and nays
were asked and the stood for the amendment ~ and
against e. Many other amendments were agreed TO- ana
the bill to-day will be returned to the House.
The River and Harbor Bill passed the House last evening,
with great number of amendments. An attempt was
made the bill last evening" and liz to % members
were favor of ths-nOt enough carry the BILL but want
ing only votes OftwOlds The bill will pass to-day
and be sent TO the Senate.
The Lighthouse Bill has also passed the House and Sen
ate Some of the items both bills of particular interest
your readers. will note anon.
The Civil and Diplomatic Bill was the third bill considered
in the House. 1t said by the Chairman OF the Commit
tee Ways and Means that the Senate had added ninety
nine amendments the BILL and the Ways and Means had
reported against about onehaf of them The amendment
of $1 900 for the Creek Indians gave rise to warm debate
The Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means op-
posed the em but the Committee of Ways and Means
in favor oft This amendment debated for three hours
and would have been for three months, if it had not been
promptly brought close last night and the session had
lasted as long. -
WASHINGTON. August II. lS48
senate was yesterday scene OF the
and interesting debate of the session. The Oregon Bill was
the subject of discussion and the question Of slavery
made almost the only topic of controversy Mr. Webster,
though suffering from bodily nmity took part in two brief
speeches. emarkng that it with reluctance that he did
He ready for the bill passed the House,
but for the amendment recognizing the Missouri Com
promise He could consent, he said, that there should
be additional compromises upon the question OF slavery nor
that there should be additional slave representation in Con
grssS. He mad said this after the annexation of Texas and
repeated it He had warned the Senate and the cOun
try of all the consequences likely to flow from this war and
he rOced that he had only opposed the commence
ment OF the but the treaty of which had been
ratified at the present session OF Congress.
Mr. Webster further called up to speak Of the
Union He apprehended disrupture and could not but
regret the frequent discussions of this subject He chose for
himself rather the Union above all such cacu-
sOns and to heed the advice of the Father of his Country
when he declared it to be subject dwell upon TO
contemplate He should not he said prepare his mind
to consider such result TO countenance it
The Union would last All of us, North and South, East
and West bound to by past renown present good
and the blessings of time to The territory we have
acquired had served only agtae and njure the country
and ve-fth of the people would have preferred that it
should have been lost that should go from at once
rather than that the Union should be endangered DuniOn
might come, the earthquake might come, a volcano
burst it. DEunOn would be than this result
Mr. Calhoun spoke two three times and with great
and eOquence in defence of the Institution of
slavery WHICH he one OF
embOdymg Just prosperous and natural state of society.
Mr. Butler of s. e. spoke with much feeling and regret
ted that the South had consented the Missouri Com
promise; but she had yielded much to patriotism and
love of the Union and for the future he hoped that the South
would yield In the Oftherrght he would have
them the territory, and there armed in order to
repe any infringement of their rights which the North might
attempt.
The debate became general and occupied good part of
The day In the evening, Mr. FOoe of Miss, moved to lay
f,l1 JpnnuN do tho
time, and the motion lost, 36 to Is.
NAYs-Alen, Anterior, Baldwin, Benton, Bradbury,
Beese Bright, Clarke COwin Davis of Mass, Davis of
Fech fitzgerald Greene, Hale Hamiin HsnRegsn, Hous
ton Johnson of Nd, Johnson of La Mason MecaIte Mil
Ter Niles, Phelps, Spruance, Underwood, Upham, Walker
YEGs-Atchson Badger Benien, Borland, Butler Foote
Turney Westcott, Yulee-l5
The debate renewed with yiruence than ever
and many were ready the amendment and then
against the bill Othes ready to vote for the
bill without the amendment and thus the North and South
in opposition The Southern members willing to
for the Missouri Compromise for the whole territory
Oregon, New Mexico, California, and all-but this not
cOncured in. The Senate by vote of two to orywo
jecsd the amendment of the committee recognizing the Mis-
soun Compromise.
Mr. Douglas of Illinois, moved the Missouri Compromise
for all the territory, and after debate it carried by
the handsome majority Of 80 to ga mixed vote North and
South In this form the bill goes the House. but there
the bill which passed the Senate week since.
Mr. Davis of Miss, proposed to this Compromise
but withdrew the proposal at the urgent solicitation of Sena
tors all around him from the South
The House have devoted the day the Civil and Dplo
matte Bill rejecting most of the Senate amendments and
of them of great importance.
The Lighthouse Bill passed, and most important of
all, perhaps statement received from Mr.. Speaker
T addressed to the Speaker and charging the President
with subOmatiOn of perjury, and demanding his mpeach
ment The letter and accompanying papers referred
to the committee Foreign Relations, who have the sub
jeCt under consideration. ORLEANS.
WASHINGTON, August II, 1913.
The House in interesting session to-day, and with
than two hundred members in the Hail. rejected the Mis-
sOun Compromise, which was yesterday evening incopO
rated in the bill upon the motion of Mr. Douglass Marked
the favor with which the Senate received this proceed
ing, and large the majority there (33 81
Ieced by overwhelming vote-l2 to 81. There but
four members from the North who voted for the Compro