The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-05-13
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Mny 3.

| In the Senate it was moved to take up the
Presidents Message in relation to Yucatan.
Mr. Hannegan moved that it be referred TO
the Committee oil Foreign Relations, which
was agreed 10.
Mr. Butler, Of 9. c., from the Committee
on the Judiciary, reported bill in favor of
facilitating The recovery Of fugitive slaves,
and imposing penalty OF $1,000 for aiding
TO rescue any slaves from the services oftheir
owners. Mr. Butler also presented report
on the subject, which was ordered to be prin-
ted. 1t was moved to print 10000 extra cop
les.
Mr. Hale, ofN. H., submitted resolution
instructing the Committee OH the Judiciary to
inquire and report what legislation was nee
essary to protect colored citizens from nom
slaveholding States in the enjoyment of their
Constitutional rights, &C., which was adopt
cd without debate.
Mr. Douglass, ofIll., moved to take up the
bill in favor ofgranting public lands for the
purpose Demonstrating railroad connecting
the Mississippi River with the Northern
Lakes at Chicago.
After some further discussion, il was pass
ed by Yeas "a, Nays IL.
The House assembled at II o'clock, A. NJ,
when Mr. McClelland, ofMicb., from the Sc
lect Committee to which the subject had been
|
Railroad proposing to connect Lake Michigan
with the Pacific The report was ordered TO
he printed.
WASHINGTON, May a,
For Senate's proceedings see another col
umn-the debate upon Yucatan affairs:
The House then took up the Senate bills.
The first called up was the Ten Regiment
Bill.
Mr. Boyd, of Kentucky, moved to refer the
bill to the Committee on Military Affairs.
On this motion the yeas and nays were de-
manded, and resulted i'll the affirmative, by a
close vote.
The House then took up the amendment of
the Senate to the Bill TO repeal the act re-
speeding the reduction ofthe number ofGen-
erals serving in the War against Mexico, al
the conclusion ofpeace.
| The yeas aud nays were demanded on the
same, and resulted in the affirmative.
| The Speaker presented a,petition, nuner-
ously signed, in favor of Congress making an
appropriation for the purchase Of the Mount
Vernon estate, on the Potomac, which was
duly referred to the appropriate committee
WAsHINaToN, April 6.
Mr. Upham, of Vermont, presented resolu
tons by the Legislature of that State in favor
ot yVhitney's Railroad from Lake Michigan
to the Fucific. Ordered to be printed.
After the trn csac:ion ofsome other unim
portant business, the bill for the aid and re-
lief of Yucatan was taken up.
/ Mr. Houston rose 81 made n speech ~ sup
I port Of the bill. He defended the war VIZ
Mexico, and charged that annexation caused
the war, and not the march oftroops to the
left bank Of the Rio Grande, which no more
produced the war than the march of Gen.
Taylor's forces to Corpus Christi.
Mr. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, moved
to take up the Volunteer bill, which would
give the President the necessary means to
/ act promptly.
Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, moved that the
} bill be laid on the table. Mr. Cass moved q
resolution calling upon the President for all
correspondence relating to Yucatan. which
was adopted.
} HOUSE. After the transaction of some
, unimportant business, the House resolved it.
self into u committee of the whole on the
State of the Union, and took up the land
; bounty bill in favor of officers, promoted
, from the private ranks of the army and 9th
; ers. The bill and the amendment was dis.
. cussed by Dir Vintor, Mr. Brown, of Missis'
r sippi, Holmes, of South Caroline, and Cobb
} of Alabama. The debate closed, followed by
t. confusion and uproar in the way Of numer:
:, GUS and ridiculous amendments, embracing
every thing.
, The Committee finally rose and reported
' the bill unamended which was read the thirt
time and passed.