Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-06-02
rHIRTIETn CONGRESS. 1st sEss ION
SATURDAY, May 70.
The Senate did not sit today.


The Senate did not sit to-day.
In the House, message from the President
was read, in reference to the Cherokee treaty,
and the measures necessary to carry 1t into
effect. <
The House, in committee of the whole,
again took up the private calendar, and a de-
bate of great length ensued on the bill ''to
provide for the purchase of the manuscript pa
pers of the late James Madison, former Presi-
dert of the United States," which was partici
pated in by Messrs Jones and Johnson, of
Tennessee, Bayley, Mcdowell, Palfrey, Clarke,
of Kentucky, Stephens Bowlin, Brodhead,
Vinton, Holmes, of South Carolina, and others.
The bill provides ''that the sum of twenty
five thousand dollars be, and the same is here
by appropriated out of any money in the trea-
sury, not otherwise Appropriated, to purchase
of Mrs. D. P. Madison, widow of the late
James Madison, formerly President of the o.
nited States, all the unpublished manuscript
papers of the said James Madison now belong
ing to and in her possession, and upon deliV-
cry thereof to the Secretary of State, 18th a
proper conveyance of title to the United States,
the said sum of money, upon the certificate of
the Secretary of State of the delivery and con-
| veyance 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 of State, j.
Y Mason, Secretary of the Navy, and Rich
ard Smith, Esq, of Washington city, to be
held, put out to interest, vested in stocks, or
otherwise managed and disposed of by them
or the survivor or survivors of them, as trus-
tees for the said Mrs. Madison, according to
their best discretion and her best advantage
the interest or profit arising from the said prin-
cipal sum to be paid over to her as the same
accrues-the said principal sum to be and re-
main inalienable during her lifetime, as per-
manent fund for her maintenance, but sub iect
to be disposed of as she may please by her
last will and testament"
Mr.. Brodhead offered an amendment, ap-
propriating $4,000 for the purchase of the
Jefferson papers, but the chair decided the a.
mendment to be irrelevant and was not in Or
der.
Mr. Bowlin offered an amendment, striking
out that part of the bill which provides thai
$4,000 ofthe same shall be managed by trus-
tees for the benefit of Mrs Madison. Lost.
Mr. johnson, of Tenn moved to strike out
the appropriation of $4,000. Lost.
HC LIlCl HION Gu W OllAhC
out that part of the bill which authorizes Mrs
Madison to dispose of the $4,000 as she
pleases in her last will and testament, and tc
insert in lieu thereof that at her death it shall
revert to the treasury of the United States
Lost
On motion of Mr. Stephens the committee
rose and reported the bill to the House. Mr.
Bayley moved the previous question, and thu
bill was ordered to third reading-when Mr.
Johnson moved to reconsider the vote BY
which it was so ordered, and proceeded t.
make speech at length on the merits of thu
bill, having thus obtained the right to speal
his hour, of which, by the operation of thu
previous question ne would have been other
wise deprived
At the conclusion of his remarks, the mo
ton to reconsider was laid on the table, anC
the bill read the third time and passed, by
yeas and nays, so, to SO.
F And then the House lin conformity with
resolution previously adopted this morning
adj ourned to o'clock, A. NJ, on Monday
MONDAY, May %
The Senate did not sit to-day.
AS anticipated, only few members of Ell
Their House were present to-day; and an i'm
mediate adjournment took place, without tn
transaction of any business whatever