The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-17

they be received under the rule enforced this morn
The PRESIDENT The Chair has observed for q
number OF years that resolutions coming from STATE
have been received without express direction that they
should be laid before Congress. The distinction seems
have been made in consequence OF their coming iron
the legislatures OF States because, when they were
adopted and their representatives, they were sup
posed to be intended Tor their general more man LOT he
particular information, and therefore they dd not come
undef the regulations OF other resolutions coming foH
private meetings Of citizens
Mr. HUNTER | rise, sir 10 question OF ordsM
understand the practice OF the Senate to have been diner
ent remember that resolutions were passed by
my own State, and because there was no request con
tanned in them present them, they not presented
was assured that there was no instance IN which reso'
utions had been presented unless there request
the part OF the legislature to do unless they were IN
the shape Of instructions This reception would then
reverse the whole practice OF the Senate; and, il 1t be
right receive these resolutions we have been in error
in not presenting them before think the presiding
officer will remember that he was one OF those whom
consulted the subject and that he considered that
they could not be presented according 70 he rules ana
| The PRESIDENT | have no recollection OF having
been consulted the occasion referred to; if was,
gave the opinion that strictly, according TO the rule, no
paper could be laid before the body where there was not
request that it should be done. But the practice OF the
Senate has not been precisely the senator from Virginia
supposes for know that, various occasions, resolu
tons adopted by State Legislatures containing no such
request have been by the courtesy OF the Senate re-
ceived nasmuch they came from legislative body
Strictly speaking however if the rule is strictly enforced
they cGn!d aI%rn not hs received m hs ch,, 70
that resolutions have been received where they neither
contained the part OF the Legislature to present
them, instructions TO senator's?
The PRESIDENT These resolutions from the State
of Vermont do contain Instructions.
Mr.. HUNTER. beg pardon. | supposed they did
/ Mr. DICKINSON remarked that, in the case OF New
York year ago. when resolutions presented,
they urged their reception because they contained IN.
ck tk,a NasuV Vnrk
consider, and not addressed 10 the Senate, HE
recoleced that the late laInened senator from South
Carolina was Of the opinion that being resolutions from
remember where mere abstract resolutions were
received by the Senate .
/ Mr. UPHAM moved that the resolutions be received.
laid the table, and printed for the OF the Senate
! which motions agreed to.
! Mr.. STURGEON presented memorial OF citizens
and physicians of Pttsburg, Pennsy syvana, asking the
enactment OF law regulating and defining the rank OF
the medical officers OF the navy which was referred to
the Committee on Naval Affairs:
similar TO some he had already presented which were
referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs Il asked
the surgeons of the navy be placed on the same foot
ing with those OF the regular army de felt deep In
in the subject, and desired that should have an
immediate consideration. The interest which he felt in
this partly from his connexion with the pro-
fesson, and partly from his acquaintance with, and
friendship towards many OF those men who served in the
navy The chairman OF the committee being absent be
would call the attention Of the other members OF the
Committee Naval Affairs to IT. to have il acted on at an
early day
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. DICKINSON. from the Committee OF Finance, to
whom referred the memorial Of J 5. FOLEY Il Co,
and Lewis Renney Co., asking the return OF certain
duties asked 10 be discharged from the further consider
alton of the same and that the memorial be laid the
MT BALDWIN, from ,he Committee OF Claims, to
whom was referred the bill from the House OF Repre-.
senta,ives, entitled "An act for the relief OF Gideon
Walker" submitted report, which was ordered to be
| nrintpd adverse to The OF the bill.
Mr. SHIELDS, from the Committee on Public Lands.
to whom referred the bill to authorize the State OF
Illinois select the balance OF the lands to which she is
entitled under the OF I'd March. 1897 granting land To
aid that State in opening canal 10 connect the waters OF
Illinois river and those OF Lake Michigan reported back
the same without amendment.
Mr.. FELCH, from the Committee on Public Lands to
whom referred the bill to cede the public lands OF
the United States the States respectively in which they
are situated, on condition that the said States shall
seveay grant and convey the said lands to actual occu-
pants, only in limited quantities. for cost OF survey.
transfer and title munments ony the bill 10 reduce and
graduate the price of the public ands and for other pur
poses the bill granting 100 of the public lands to
the actual settlers who shall reside thereon, and shall cu
vaie portion thereof for period OF four years together
with numerous resolutions OF State legislatures, memo
rails, and petitions all relating to the subject !;
submitted adverse report which was ordered to be
Mr HAMLIN. from the Committee on Printing, to
whom referred the motion TO prin, the memorial OF
Gordon l.. Mott, asking amendment oil the patent
laws reported against printing the same which was con-
Cured In
BILLS INTRODUCED ON LEAVE
Mr. UNDERWOOD, in pursuance Of notice, asked and
obtained leave TO introduce bill for the relief OF the
president directors and company OF the Orange and Alex
andria railroad, which read first and second
time by tle and referred to the Committee OF Claims
Mr. DAVIS, of Massachusetts,, in pursuance OF no.
ce ask and obtained leave to Introduce bill to amend
an act entitled "An provide for the better security
of the lives of passengers board of vessels propelled
and second time by its te aud referred TO the Commit
tee on Commerce.
The following bills which ordered to be engross
ed yesterday, were severay read third time, and
passed
The bill to amend an act entitled Gan for the bet
Ter regulation of the district court Of the United States
within the State OF Louisiana approved Sd March,
ist9;
The bill providing for additional term oil the United
States circuit and district courts Chicago in the State
of Illinois
cALlroasIA--TERRIToRAL aovERsMEsrs--ADJUsrMElT ElT
| The Senate, as in committee of the whole, resumed
the consideration OF the bill for the admission of Cafor
MIA as a State into the Union, establish territorial gov
ernmeDts for Utah and New Mexico, and making pro-
posas Texas for the settlement OF her western and
northern boundares-tbe question pending being upon
The following amendment, submitted yesterday by Mr.,
BENTON
Strike Of proposition rs of section 49, after th e
word beginning" these words "at the point the Rio
del Noe, commonly called Ell Paso, and running that
river twenty miles, measured by straight line thereon,
thence caswardy point where the 10D degree OF
longitude Red rivcr, being the southwest
ANGLE in the line designated between the United States and
Mexico and the angle in the line OF the territory set
for the Indians by the United Sates and insert after
tha