The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-16

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EihahCSt ICpoEttu pdck the DlllS rum AhO AAouSO
making appropriations for the army and vanal PEN
sions.
Mr.. Shields submitted resolution Of inquiry,
directing the Committee on the Library to ex-
anime medal of Gen. Taylor, made by N, Gevelot,
and If satisfactory, to purchase copies of it for the
public departments. Laid over.
Mr. Pearce's bill for the settlement of the Texas
boundary, was taken up.
Mr.. Underwood addressed the Senate for about
fifteen minutes in opposition to some features of the
bill. Without concluding, he gave way to Mr.. |
Douglas, on whose motion the bill was postponed |
till tomorrow and the California bill was resumed.
Mr.. Yulee resumed his speech upon the amend |
ment submitted by him yesterday in which he pro-
posed to change the existing government in Cali |
fornia into provisional government, in the nature
OF territorial organization.
At three o'clock, being much exhauted he gave
way to motion to postpone the bill till tomorrow.
The Senate refused to postpone the bill-yeas 10,
nays 80.
Mr. Yulee continued his remarks, and at four
O'Clock gave way to
Mr.. Badger, who moved the Senate adjourn.
Lost-yeas 10, nays %.
Mr.. Butler stated that it was the apparent design
to force vote this evening Several Senators de-
sired to be heard. He moved, with a view to give
breathing time to the Senator Of Florida, the bill
be postponed till tomorrow and on that motion
called for the yeas and nays, which were ordered
Mr.. Berrien followed in support of the postpone
ment, and the question being taken, the motion
was rejected--yeas %, nays %.
Mr.. Soule moved adjournment Lost-yeas
81, nays "a
Fosr- a,sd-a-talf oclock.-Mr. Atchison moved
the bill be postponed, and spoke in favor of the
motion.
House. Mr.. Holmes submitted resolution
calling upon the President of the United States to
communicate to the House, if it be not incompati-
BILE with the public interest, the amount OF the
several claims of the United States against Portu-
gal, the nature of those claims the correspondence
upon the subject both at Washington and at Lis
bon between the two Governments, also the amount
and nature Of the claims preferred by Portugal
against the United States, and all the correspon-
dence between the two Governments.
MIR. McClernand said that report had been put
in circulation by etter-wrters, and which had been
endorsed to some extent by the newspapers, that
| this Government had sent fleet up the Tagus, to
enforce at the mouth Of the cannon, the payment Of
| these claims. He had it stated in several Of
the papers thatan American squadron had been sent
to Lisbon for the purpose of enforcing the demand.
| He tMr. McClernand) considered the rumor so
| prepOsterous that he had not deemed it necessary
move in the House any serious inquiry upon the
| subject The power OF making war rested in
Congress alone. The exercise OF it in any degree
| by the Executive branch of the Government would
| be such an assumption of power as to demand the
highest censure of Congress and the country,
Hence he had concluded that there had been no
| such assumption OF power by the Executive, and
/ r
| believed that there was no ground for the rumor
that fleet had been sent to Lisbon to intmidate
threaten the Government of Portugal. Itmight be
that there was one vessel there to bring home our
| Charge, in the contingency of difficulty, OF Pc
remptive refusal on the part OF that Government tc
pay our just claims. He was not authorized tC
| presume that any extreme measures had been au.
thorized by the President of the United States
Alter some further debate, in which Messrs. King,
of N. j., Ashmun, Holmes and Hilliard teok part
the resolution passed
Some considerable debate took place in regard t.
the proprlety OF placing the department entirely
upon its own resources for support; also in regarC
to the reduction OF the letter postage, with the view
OF increasing the revenues of that department Thu
committee rose and the bill was reported to tn,
House.
The amendment of the committee of the whole
allowing fifteen additional clerks was concurred il
yeas SO, nays 70.
The amendment of Mr. Potter, placing the Post
office Department upon the common treasury, wa
concurred in, by yeas 80, nays 10.
The bill was then finally passed under thu
operation Of the previous question, by yeas III
nays Al.
The House then, at halfpast 8 o'clock, adjourned
The FIRST RECOMMENDATION TO CONGRESS:
BY THE President UNDER THE New ADMINS
TRATIoN.-The Message of the President of th
United States will not fail to attract the undivide
attention of all classes Of readers, as being the frs
| act, except the SeleCuOn OF Cablnet Ministers, b.
which the Executive since the accession oil tn
present Administration has distinctly marked on
! its course in regard to any important subject EN-
: braced in the range Of Executive duties.
The question of the territorial claims of the Stat
of Texas beyond her generally acknowledged lin
its has been brought to the notice of the Presder
I in such manner to require the frank and e1
plicit declaration of his opinion of the conflict
those claims with the rights of the United States
and also of the inevitable duty by which he feel
> himself bound to maintain the authority of tn
United States in the territory acquired by conque,
,, and treaty from the Republic of Mexico, by whom
soever assailed The decision of the Executive
such as must have been anticipated by all who hav
ever looked into the matter without prepossession
and the duty devolved upon the President, by tn
Constitution, Laws and Treaties of the Unite
States, in the premises is made so clear by tn
n statement of the Message as to leave no room for
difference OF opinion upon the subject
With the President, however, we do most sill
cerely in the hope that no case can ever OF
cur in which resort to force to maintain the righ
. OF the United States against any part of the popi
a laton of the United States will be necessary an
most heartily do we concur with him. also, in h
recommendation OF prompt adjustment, compei
N station, and settlement, not only of the difficult
l., which has arisen with the State of Texas, but
1 every other question connected with our newly al
f CURED territories-a final settlement by specif
legislation, before the present session of Concre
! closes. This is what the welfare and quiet of tn
is whole Union, too long disturbed by the collision
rival interests and the strife of contentious clique
/, imperiously demands
IS This, too, is what the People of at least twent
nine of the thirty States of this Union most anxou
n ly desire. So much So that could the People
e each State in the Union be poled upon the emit
s. plan recommended in the Message, we are conf
dent in the belief that from every State in Il
a Union except one-and perhaps even from tn
:, onethe response of the People to that plan, to
= carried out by Congress in its most liberal al
1t comprehensive sense, would be an all but unan
nous AY National Inteliigsncer.