Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-11
Thirsieth Congress.

In the House. on the 26th, Mr.. Wash.
ington Hunt gave notice that he should,
on the next day, offer join. resolutions.
returning the thanks of Congress and the
country,to Maj Gen. SCOTT. his officers
and men. for their brilliant services in
the campaign which terminated in their
taking possession of the apital of Mexi.
co.
Mr.. Sawyer offered resolutions having
in view the proper regulations of trade
and intercourse between the whites and
Indians.
Mr.. Caleb B. Smith. of Illinois, pre-.
scented petition asking for the abolitionof
slavery in the District of Columbia.
MIR. Cabell, of Florida, moved that it
be laid on the table.
This motion was carried by majority
ofsir. The House then adjourned.
In the Senate, nothing was done in the
way of legislation. The Senate being
engaged in preparations for the funeral of
Mr.. John Fairfield, member Of that
body-whose death was announced on
the previous day.
SENATE, Dec. 2g.
Report ofthe Secretary of the Navy in
relation to the expenditure of appropria~
ton and contingent fund-and of the
Secretary of the Treasury in relation to
Public Lands at Sault St. Marie. Read
and ordered to be printed.
Cass from Military Committee report.
ed bill relative TO additional volunteers.
Atherton reported House Bill for Army
appropriation.
Ashley reported bill for a general
pre-. emtion law.
Wolcott reported bill to increase the
number of Clerks in the Post Office.
Dec, 90. 1s47.
Senate-TheVice President laid before
the Senate report from the Secretary Of
the Navy, in relation to the expenditure of
the contingent appropriations. He also
laid before the Senate report from the
Secretary Of Treasury, in relation to the
overhowed public lands in Arkansas.
Also a communication from that function.
airy, relating to the public lands.
Mr.. Cass from Committee on Military
Affairs reported bill to provide for the
farther prosecution of the Mexican War
he also reported bill relating to the vol
unteers.
Mr.. Anterior, from the Committee on
Finance reported bill from the House
providing for the deficiency in subsistence
appropriation. Read a third time and
passed.
Agreeable to notice, the bill relating
to the presumption laws, came up.
House-Mr. Stewart of Michigan an
nounced the death of Edward Brady. of
that State. The eulogy will be delivered
to morrow.
December 80.
Nothing Of any Importance .ranspired
in either House of Congress to-day.
December 81.
SENATE.-The following nominations
were communicated by the President to
the Senate. for their approval, viz: Elk.
Speaker Davis, of Indiana, to 6e Minis.
ter to China. vice Mr.. Everett, deceased;
John Rowan, of Kentucky, to be Charge
d Affairs to Naples, vice Col. Polk, resign.
ed: MIR. Niles, oil Baltimore, formerly Sec.
rotary Of Legation to Paris, to be Charge
d Affairs to Sardinia, vice R. Wickliffe,
resigned.
The Senate resumed the orders of the
day, being the bill for the purchase of
the Madison papers. The bill was read
a third time and passed. Yeas %, nays
ID.
A resolution calling upon the secreta-
ry of War to report the number of troops
now in the services of the United States
Army, the number dead, discharged, &c.
&C., came up for consideration, and was
agreed to.
After few words explanatory by Gen.
Cass. it was moved to take up the bill
for raising additional troops, An inter.
eoting debate, of considerable length en-
sued, in which Messrs. Calhoun, Berrien,
Hale and Mangum, opposed the passage
Of the bill. Messrs. Cass and Allen de.
Tended it. When the debate was ended,
he yeas and nays were ordered, and
stood as follows: yeas 10, nays 10. The
Vice President gave the casting vote in
he afr native, and the bill was made the
order of the day for Monday,
Arrival of the
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