The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-08

rF,oa he Washing on Union Of he s0th uitl
Late congrsssional Proceedings
y,tae I'm tie Senate, DIR. Jollns9n, q Lealsi-
ana. from the COMMITTEES on Private Land Jams
reported JOINT resolution relative 70 the sppinis-
s;i,,y, Of certain claims 10 arbitration.
Mr. Butler from the Judiciary Committee, re-
p0Fted the House bill giving Texas jurisdiction e
he middle Of the Sabine which was consdefea ana
passed.
Mr.. Rusk, on leave. introduced BID TO estap-
Hsha collection district at Brazos. Texas, when
was referred
Mr. Johnson. of Louisiana, submitted resoiulon /
to print 10000 copies OF the memorial Of tie I'm
cago Convection; and after some remarks rom .l
MessFs Butler, Niles and Johnson, Of by y
further consideration was postponed until to-aoI-
row e
The bill providing for the survey Of the mouth Of
Red river. was taken up and passed.
Tie Senate then proceeded 10 the consideration |
of the bill to establish the territorial government 81
Oregon.
M. Phelps addressed the Senate at great length
IN opposition to the extension of slavery into any OF
the territories of the United States
Mr.. Mason took the floor, and the bill was post
Doned until Monday
The bill making appropriations for Notifications
was taken up Mr.. Underwood moved to amend
by inserting an item for the repair Of the breach IN
the dam at the head Of the Cumberland island, IN
the Ohio river, which after some discussion, was
rejected.
Mr. Johnson, Of Louisiana, offered an amend
/ rneut providing for a fortifcation on Proctor,s
/ island in Lake Borgne, La, which was rejected.
| The bill was then passed, and the Senate, alter
| brief executive session, adjourned.
| HoUsE-Mr Smith, Of Indiana, introduced
bill to surrender to the State of Indiana the Cum
/ berland road in said State.
| The Senate Joint resOutionin relation to the ma
! val pension of John McGarr, and the Senate joint
resolution directing that the portrait OF Major Gene
] raj Baron De kalb, presented by his family, ne
placed in the Congressional library, were seVeray
! read three times, and passed without amendment.
In the orders of the day, the resolution reported
from the Committee on Accounts, on Friday OF last
! week directing the Committee on the Library 10
| procure / monument Of Quincy marble, and cause
the same to be erected in the Congressional buy
| ing-pround to the memory of the late John Quincy
Adams was taken up, and after debate by MI
Johnson, of Tennessee, and Mr., Woodward, the
subject was laid on the table,
The consideration of the civil and diplomatic APP
proriaton bill was again taken up in COMMITTEE OF
the Whole on the state OF the Union Mr. koot ~
the chair when Mr.. Pollock resumed the floor, ana
| smoke an hour upon the evil consequences OF the
Mexican war. which he most zealously charged
upon the democratic party He denounced the
constitutional veto power, in passing, and closed
with an argument in favor of the tariff OF 1857
Mr. French succeeded to the floor, and addressed
the committee on the power OF Congress>to eglslale
with reference to the right OF private properly III
slaves and the power of Congress over the terri
torv beIonuina to the United States He showed
that the right to private property was cassed WIN
the right of personal security and personal liberty
which rights it was the province OF governments 10
protect-not to destroy; and that the power OF
Congress over the territories was simply IN the ma
ture of the power of guardian, restricted by the
constitution in the exercise of legislative power
over them.
Photographed to the st, Louis Republican,
SENATE. - June 30 Mr.. WestcOtt, from the
De-. Onyoa Committee rpnortad bill relative to
the employment of public steamers to carry the
mail along the Atlantic coast.
Mr. Johnson submitted a resolution calling on
! the Secretary of War for information as to the
amount that would be necessary TO torify Proctors
Island in the defence Of New Orleans
SENATOR DODGE AND THE BARNBURNER No
M1NArIoN.-By the following letter, which we fine
in the Washington Union of the 3Oth uit 1t viii bs
seen that Senator Dodge declines the nomination
the Utica Convention;
washington Cry, June p, I849
Thave seen in the published proceedings OF the Convention
Vice President of the United States on the ticket with Mr.
Van Buren, No information has been given to me by tn
Convention or its Order OF this nomination; ana nay
waited some days for that information, as furnishing tn
suitable occasion for making my answer but Deghhlng
doubt whether any such communication VIII s InGIe. az
seeing nv name placed many papers as candidate iC
The Vice Presidency by virtn OF that nomination. deem
proper to delay longer amt TO declare at once ana IN m
| public manner my inability to accept IT. Inc STAG !
whch belong was represented in the BALTIMORE Co4yenqon
The vote OF that State was gventO Nessrs Cas- and Butler
hev were nominated and as of the citizens Of that STATE
that nomination Immediately received my cordial eoncu
u | renee and support, and will continue to do so.
have long been the friend personally as wei as pollt
caly Of Mr.. Van Buren, and under DINER % ms
would be proud to have name associated win ms IN an
way but the acceptance OF thsE nomination Is Impossible
and have 10 request the members of the Convention an
I The public to receive this defamation as my answer and
o excuse this mode OF making beng the only mode whc
the want of communication from the Ionvehqoh leaV'
IS open to me- HENRY DoDGE
It later from AfriC9,