The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-30
DAILY CRESCENT,
Proceedings i'll Congress.
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From the Baltimore Sun.
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SENATE-Hay 20-Senate not in session to-day
HoUsE.-A message from the President was read
in reference to the Cherokee treaty, and the mea-
sures necessary to carry it into effect.
The House, in Committee of the Whole, again
took up the private calendar and debate of great
length ensued the bill 6 to provide for the pur-
chase Of the manuscript papers OF the late James
Madison, former President of the United States, :"
which was participated in by NIessrs. Jones and
Johnson of Tennessee, Bayly, Mcdowell, Pafrey,
Vinton, Holmes of South Carolina, and others.
The bill provides :: that the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appro-
pfaed out OF any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, to purchase OF Mrs. ID. +. Madl-
son. widow of the late James Madison, formerly
President of the United States all the unpublished
manuscript papers Of the said James Madison
belonging to and in her possession, and upon deli
very thereof to the Secretary of State with pro-
per conveyance of title TO the United States, the
said sum of money, upon the certificate of the Sec
retarV of State of the delivery and conveyance of
said papers, shall be paid at the treasury agreeably
to the wishes of the said Mrs Madison, and in the
manner following, namely, five thousand dollars of
said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to be paid
to her, and the residue of twenty thousand to James
Buchanan, now Secretary orState, and John \.
Mason Secretary of the Navy, and Richard Smith,
ESQ.,, of Washington City, to be held, put out to in
terest vested in stocks, or otherwise managed and
disposed of by them, Or the survivor or survivors OF
them, trustees for the said Mrs. Madison, &C
cording to their best discretion and her best advan
tage-the interest or profit arising from the said
principal sum to be paid over to her as the same
accrues-the said principal sum to be and remain
inalienable during her lifetime, as a permanent
fund for her maintenance, but subject to be disposed
of as she may please, by her last will and testa-
ment.''
Mr.. Brodhead offered an amendment, appropri-
atng S25 600 for the purchase of the Jefferson pa
pers, but the chair decided the amendment to be
irrelevant, and was not in order
Mr.. Bowlin offered an amendment, striking out
that part of the bill which provides that $4,000 of
the same shall be managed by trustees for the bene
fit of Mrs. Madison. Lost.
Mr.. Johnson, of Tennessee, moved to strike out
the appropriation of S25 600 Lost
The same gentleman moved then to strike out
that part of the bill which auhorses Mrs. Madison
to dispose of the 25 600 she pleases in her last
will and testament, and to insert in lieu thereof,
that at her death it shall revert the treasury of
the United States. Lost.
On motion of Mr.. Stephens the Committee rose
and reported the bill to the House. MIR. Bayly
moved the previous question, and the bill was or
dered to third reading, when Mr. Johnson moved
to reconsider the vote by which it was so ordered,
and proceeded to make speech at length on the
merits of the bill, having thus obtained the right to
speak his hour, of which, by the operation of the
previous question he would have been otherwise
deprived.
At the conclusion of his remarks, the motion to
reconsider was laid on the table, and the bill read
the third time and passed. by yeas and nays, Soto 59
And then the House Tin conformity with reso-
luton previously adopted, this morning. adjourned
to nine o'clock, A. M, on Monday.