The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-24
Congressional,

The following Congressional news we find in last
evenings edition of the Picayune, taken from the
Baltimore Sun:
TUESDAY, Jan. l6-In the Senate, Mr.. Douglass
presented substitute, which he intended to offer
for his California bill, and which he desired should
be printed for the use of the Senate. The printing
ordered.
The substitute proposes to strike out all after the
enacting clause in the original bill, and insert, sub.
stantlally. that after the 4h of July next, all the
territory of California west of the Sierra Nevada,
or California Mountains, shall, with the consent OF
the people thereof, constitute State on the same
footing with the original States but with the con-
stitutonal reservation the United States of all
rights of property in the public domains, &c.
And, further, that the Acting Governor of Cali
fornia, so soon as he shall be presented with copy
of this act shall proceed to lay off convenient dis
tricts for the election of delegates to convention
to frame constitution-the number of delegates to
be limited to fifty-every free white male citizen of
the age of twenty-one, whether Mexican or Ameri-
can to be allowed to vote-and the new State,
until the next census to be entitled to one member
of Congress.
Mr. Foote also has bill prepared, which he in
tends to offer, similar in its features to the substi
tute of Mr. Douglass, the only essential difference
between the two being, that Mr.. Foote'S provides
for the establishment, in the first instance, of ter
ritorial government, while Mr.. Douglasss recog
nZes the existence now of such territorial govern
ment.
The consideration of the bill to extend to assgnees
the privileges granted to soldiers in the location of
military land warrants, was then resumed, and a
debate again ensued, in which Messrs. Breese, IN
derwood, Westcott Badger Borland, Benton and
others participated. The bill was finally recon-
mitted to the committee by which it was reported
The bill for ascertaining claims and titles to
lands in California and New Mexico, grant domino
ton rights and provide for the survey of the lands
therein, then taken up, and Mr.. Breese replied
at length to the speech of Mr.. Benton made yester-
day on the same subject.
When Mr.. Breese had concluded, the bill was in
formally passed over; and, after the consideration
and passage of the bill for the relief of Cadwalla
der Wallace, the Senate went into Executive Ses-
sion, and soon after adjourned. .r
In the House, several unimportant reports were
made from committees.
Mr.. Boyd, from the Military Committee, reported
back, with an amendment, the bill TO extend to
commissioned officers, below the grade of Brigadier
General, who served in the war with Mexico, the
act approved February II, 1916, to raise for lin
tied time additional military force, and for other
purposes.
Mr.. Thos. B. King, from the Naval Committee,
reported bill to make compensation for the trans
portation of troops and supplies, for limited time,
over the lsthmus of Panama, and to promote the
interests of American commerce, accompanied by
a report, in writing, which read the second
time. Committed to the Committee of the Whole
the state of the Union, and ordered TO be printed
On motion, the House went into Committee of
the Whole, and resumed the consideration of the
Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation bill.
The question of mileage again debated, and
Mr.. Murphy, of New York, charged his colleague,
Mr.. Greeley, with actually receiving more mileage
than he (Mr. NJ had received
Mr.. Greeley replied, insisting that he had received
his mileage by the nearest travelled route.
Mr.. Richardson, of the Mileage Committee, in
quired OF Mr.. Greeley whether he had not himself
computed his own mileage, and received his pay
upon that computation-and Mr.. Greeley admitted
that he had.
The committee proceeded to vote on the amend
ments, but, without final action, rose, and the
House adjourned.