The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-01-20
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY NIGHT, JAN. go, Is4s.
Congregational.

T. ,be Senate, the Vice President laid before the body
COMMUNICATION from the Secretary of the Navy, cover
e. report from the acting Commissioner OF Pensions
fe;og the number of persons whose claims on the
&C. neosion fund had been rejected.
Some private petitions were presented by Messrs AT
hoo Surgeon Hannegan, Breese, Corwin, Pearce, and
douglas
oored bill for the relief of Samuel w Bell, late of the
Cherokee nation.
Mr. Jefferson Davis, from the Committee on Military
r reported bill TO increase the efficiency OF the
4 mo by a retired list for disabled officers
4 Also from the same committee asked to be discharged
n The further consideration of the petition of Eugene
Van Ness and John w. Brush executor OF N Brush,
and that it be referred to the Committee on Claims
| Mr. Westcot from the Committee on Claims, made an
.4verse report on the petition of David Whelpley.
j Mfr Niles, from the Committee the Post Office and
Post Roads, reported bill supplemental to act emit
lied can act to provide for the transportation OF the Uni
d States and foreign mail, and for other purposes"
AFR Hannegan submitted the following resolution,
which was ordered to be printed
p,sotrei That a select committee be appointed 10 in
ba,h.r il be necessary to adopt any for
gue Construction and preservation of the
ihe memory the dead members OF the Senate and also
nder what monuments nave been SO erect
ed and may hereafter be erected
Mr. Dickinson submitted the following resolution,
which hes over
Rsovsd That Jesse E. Dow be admitted to seat in the
enorers gallery from which he excluded by order
of the Senate the 10th March, 1916.
Mr.. Berrien submitted the following resolution
Rsopsd That the President of the United States be
ouesed furnish the Senate copies OF the letters reports
or 9th n communications which referred to in the
letter of General Zachary Taylor dated at New Orleans
uly 20 S5 and addressed to the ecetary OF War, and
which are referred containing the views OF General
TAYLOR, previously communicated in regard to the line
proper to be occupied tina time by the troops OF the
United States
On motion of Mr. Calhoun, and with the assent OF the
mover the resolution modified by introducing "and
any similar communications from any officers of the army
on the same subject. unless he be of opinion that
muncaton of the same would be pre- judicial to the pub
lie interest
The resolution was then passed over.
Mr. Anterior, on leave introduced bill supplemental
TO an act entitled can for the better organization OF
the Treasury Department and for the collection safe
keeping transfer and disbursement of the public moneys
Mr. Douglas introduced bill granting the State OF
Illinois right of way through the public lands and a
donation of public lands for making railroad con-
Meeting the Upper and Lower Mississippi with the chain
of the northern lakes at Chicago.
The resolution offered by Mr. Mangum yesterday was
taken up, discussed, modified, and agreed to.
Mr.. Foote then concluded his remarks the army
bill.
In the House, after the journal had been read,
Mr. Brolheal rose and announced the death Of his
late colleague, the Hon. John w. Honbeck, who ex-
PRED on the 10th inst at his residence in Allentown
Pennsylvania
After the adoption Of the customary resolutions in
honor of the memory of the deceased, the House ad-
journed.