The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-29
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
-7n.n,y MORNING. JUNE 90, Is4s.
Congregational.
"WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2s, lS4s.


!, o..o,s nrvae bills were reported by Messrs'
m. ~ .n' porI,nd Johnson of Louisiana, and reioh
. Atbenon reported the House bill making aPpiopii-
M ',, Tor foridcatons, with an amendment
auons io 80 resolution for the relief OF John McGarr
Tto hi; for the addition of the Texan navy 10 hat Oh
T;,A States was made the order OF me DAY Ior
Thursday, the 9th jury ,; o,;l.n.a IN
III ;ont resolution relative to taking evidence IN
LOS Of applicaion for pensions, was passed
The oint resolution TO relieve certain io ui'
Inc on. nnde the act of Sd March, 1886, was
, an and amended so as to provide mat IN each
aAe" ", Tho Postmaster General removes any dsa-
ha b,Il report the same to Congress, and passed
onl,eS, nc hin Granting pension to Jonathan Fitz
water was passed r.e.
The bill making appropriations ioi ioiuii'auo,,' was
lam The amendment appropriatng $4,000 for the
r,on If a fort on Pea Patch island, in the river
delaware. was agreed to and the bill was laid aside
The bill TO establish the Territorial government OF Or
gon was again taken up; and Mr. Beren addressed tie
Senate at length on the subject, and argued that Con-
49, had no power 10 impose any limitation by which the
stov of Oregon should be given to the people OF the
sayeboldng States, exclusively; and that, if they
hJ nv such power it was inexpedient to exercise it.
Mr. Underwood brought to the notice OF the Senate an
.aanJmant which he said he would offer to the addi-
aona section of which Mr. Bright yesterday gave notice
Mr. Brighfs proposed amendment is as follows:
S. 4ndbe further enacted, That in all the territory
d Inv the United States including Oregon, New Mex.
o and Upper California. which lies north OF thirty six
degrees and thirty minutes north latitude slavery and IN
EEnt,ry servude, Otherwise tan in the punishment of
WINES whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted
ba be- and is hereby forever prohibited Propided al
@dy servce lawfully claimed, in any State Terri
v Of the United States such fugitive may be lawfully
reclaimed and conveyed TO the person claiming MS or her
labor service rs aforesaid.
Mr. Underwood proposes to add the following,
poridd further, That citizens of the United Suites emf
Grating with their slaves into any OF inc Territories OF the
1e1 States south of said parallel OF latitude shall be pro-
c,aJ in ,ber property their slaves long the Terri
tory to which they emigrae continues under territorial
government
Mr. Phelps took the floor and the bill was passed over
ill tomorrow.
The Senate, after spending short time in executive
session, adjourned.
In the House. Mr. Stewart of Pennsylvania proposed
resolution requesting the President to furnish statement
of the amount of extra compensation allowed to General
Lewis Cass over and above his regular salary while
gagged in the service of the United States This resolu
ron was modified by Mr. JONES' of Tennessee, so as to
make it call for statement of all the moneys received
from the treasury by Gen. Cass and Gen. Taylor, from
the period which they respectively entered the public
service down TO the present time, designating the amount
received by each which modification accepted by
Mr. Stewart But the resolution, as thus modified, was
the proposition not considered
resolution was adopted directing inquiry into the
nopriey of establishing collection district in that part
Of the State of Tennessee bordering the Mississippi
river
In the orders of the day, Mr.. Howell Cobb's amend
nen to the resolution TO print ten thousand extra copies
oi the financial report from the majority of the Commit
lee on Public Expenditures to include in the same
order the mnoriyrep from said committee, was con-
,dered and adopted
Mr. Rockwell of Connecticut proposed further to
mend said resolution by adding proposition to the
fleet that the Committee Public Expenditures make
examination of the Treasury Department, espe
,ay with reference TO the loans on treasury notes All,
hozed by the acts of July %, lS46, and January 2s
S4 and that said committee have authority TO send for
persons and papers, and to employ clerk to be allowed
The usual compensation; which being agreed to, the
esoluton, as thus amended, was adopted.
On motion by Mr.. Johnson of Arkansas, the balance
Of per diem and mileage due to the Hon. Archibald Yell
who fell at Buena Vista, ordered to be paid to his
administrator out of the contingent fund.
On motion by Mr.. Tallmadge, the bill to incorporate the
Washington Gas Light Company, with the pending amend
ment was taken out of Committee of the Whole, the
amendment concurred in and the bill put upon its pas
sage, and carried.
Onmoton by Mr.. Meade, the bill to change the times
Of holding the United States district courts in the western
lSuCt OF virginia. ana LOT OueT purposes, was taken
out of the hands Of the Committee of the Whole; and,
liter debate and an amendment striking the third
ectona proposition to raise the salary Of Judge Brock
enborough to 81, 5OO-the bill passed
The House then resolved itself into Committee of the
Whole (1r Root in the chair) and resumed the con-
sderation of the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill
Mr. Holmes of South Carolina having the floor, made
hour speech, enforcing the justice of the memorial of
sundy merchants and citizens of the city of Charleston,
asking for appropriation of hundred thousand
dollars, for the purchase of site for custom-house
near that cy-making his appeal on this subject from
the will Of the Executive the representatives of the
people.
Mr. Sims followed, repelling the charge of injustice
The part of the Executive, because the appropriation for
this object was not recommended to Congress.
And then, after few explanatory remarks by Mr..
Woodward
Mr. Pollock took the floor, the committee rose, and
the House ad jouned,