The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-05-10
CONGRESSIONAL.
By Telegraph for the Daily Laneaafer 0azei


| n, - N'''''' aHph WIN great neglect ana M
efficiency in not having carried out liberal neas
ures To search for Sir John Franklin. II auy.
Thing was TO be done in this matter lie wished
the Government to undertake il independent OF
any third party. lie did not charge Mr. Grin.
nel with any sinister motives. but he thought il
better FOR the Administrations 10 act than Con.
gress.
| After some debate, ia the course of which
| Mr. Pearce defended the Administration from
Mr. Kings attacks. the resolution passed-Yeas
49, Nays Is.
The Senate went into Executive session and
subsequently adjourned.
HotsE.-Mr McLane moved to take up and
pass the Senate bill In relation TO tue coinage Of
bullion at the mint He said there was great en-
barrassment and difficulty aud the object Of the
bill wns to prevent bullion for coinage going to
England. which ought to come to the United
States
Objection was made.
! Mr.. Preston King moved that the House 90 in-
to Committee of tue Whole upon the Census bill
Mr. Cobb OF Alabama with a paper. rose 10 u
question. leaving for the House 10 determine
whether il vas Que Of privilege or not.
Mr., Inge called for the reading Of the paper. -
Cries of read ,..
The Clerk took DIP the New York Herald of
yesterday aid began 10 read an extract from the
Honorable Daniel Webster's speech ia Boston on
Monday.
| Mr.. ClingHap objected to the reading.
| Mr.. Cobb said il is seldom we have such eo.
quent language.
Cries Of read read and great laughter.
! The Speaker raped loudly to restore order
aud was in The act Of putting the question whelh
er the paper should be read, when Mr. CObb
withdrew it.
II
The House then went into Committee of the
! Whole on The Census bill. ,.
| Mr. Stephens of Georgia again addressed the
committee.
| debate of rather a personal character en-
sued between Messrs. Fitch and Thompson Of
Pennsylvania. when the committee arose aud
| the Hou adjourned.
WAsH1>GToS, May ..
SEvATE-Mr. T Smith and J. II. Clark reap.
peared in their seats.
Butler of South Carolina. reported bill AUTHOR
izing the election of Judge in case of tile dsabili
ty Of the District Judge. II was passed
Mr. Dawson offered resolution That the Secre-
tary of the lnteriorbe instructed TO inform the
Senate of the progress expense and practcabii'y
of the Mexican boundary commission. which
| was adopted.
1t was agreed that when the Sennte adjourned,
The Vice President said that he should be
absent for sometime after Monday next. Several
private aud local bills were taken up and passed.
The bill reported by Mr. Douglass making a
grant of land to ths Illinois Central RGilrnad,
was taken up and discussed at length; 1t was
amended so as to make similar grants of laud to
Mississippi aud Aabamn for lines extending from
Chickafo 10 Mobile aud passed Ayes 26. Nays IA.
The Senate then went into Executive session
and soon after adjourned. q. .... ..,...,
| HOUSE Mr. Stnnton OF Tenn. from tie Com
mittee on Naval Aifairs. reported a Joint resn!u
ton that hereafter the Meridean at the Observa-
tory at Washington shall be adapted for astronO.
mica and geographical purposes, and tlmt part OF
the computation of the Nautical Almanoe, ex-
clusively for the use Of navigation Shall be a.
dapted To the merideun Of Greenwich. He said
| that many memorials had been sent To Congress
against the change Of the Meridian and for the
resolution which he bad reported.
Mr. McLane asked whether it would alter A.
rherican Charts.
Mr. Sunton said not in the least They are u
onpted to the meridean Of England
Mr. McLaue said there was no duubt the Ob
iections had been mAe by those engaged in the
shipping interests. He thought that ample time
should be given for examination. ..-
Mr.. Chandler said desirable change should be
made, but not such was frs; proposed
Mr.. Thompson Of Miss. remarked that a
change of meridean should not he IN ide now
1t would be for all time aud we should not 4
hastily. .........
The resolution was referred To tue COMMITTEE
Of the Whole.
Mr. Stanton also reported bill authorizing the
President to incorporate tue officers OF the latt
Texas Navy into the United States Navy
Mr. White from the snlnR committee rannrtpI
Joint resolution Tor the relief of Mariners de
tiained in foreign stations after their enlistment
had expired Both resolutions were referred 10
the Committee of the Whole ....-
The Committee reported joint resolution rel.
alive to the free navigation OF the river st. Law
renee The resolution was laid over, Mr.. Lane
stating that tue correspondence with the British
Minister on reciprocity, was before the Commit
lee on Commerce, who would soon report bill
accordingly.
The House then went into Committee upon
the Census BILL ... l,r-
Several amendments were taken up and dis
cussed. wher without any material progress
On motun the House adjourned.
WASHINGTON, May 8,
From some cause unknown to MS. we did not
receive the first portion OF our Congressional
despatch. There was evidently some excite.
ment growing out of the Slavery question. We
give what came IL hand 1t wnuld appear that
the author of the Whmot Proviso was determin.
ell to maintain his position.-ED.l
BY Unanimous Censu:
bill was laid on the table. The members drew
around the gentl man and the confusion whicl
prevailed subsidized into respectful attention.
Mr. Wilmot said the debate on the subject o.
California andquestions concerned in it, Ind IN his
Judgment produced wonderful results The set
tied and fixed purpose of southern men had beer
disclosed as to the termination OF the couHct Il
was to extend Slavery over the territories There
wus no room to doubt longer. Theie was
qucslion iraught with greater Consequences thar
the ultimate decision OF that now on hand. ant
which is TO determine the character and positiul
of the Southern portion Of thh country; and i
will settle another question, namely, whether the
Government is to be administered III the spin
which gave il birth or whether an aristocracN
based on slave property and slave representation
shall continue. tue aspect it has been viewed in by
the south in the past and by southern men. Bnrd
lering almost on madness they are bound by n,
sacred ties oil Union, but are banded together a
one man far the accomplishment of their objec
and that is the perpetpity of slavery. There is NJ
Ldisguse. The existence OF the UnlOu aud the sta
biliy of the Government are threnened 10y thi
South in his Judgment This spirit Of threatenin!
and de6nnce must he resisted or the North are
the greatest of slaves. He asked, shall the ine o
our duty be prescribed under the pressure o
treasonable threatsl Shall we be told that We
shall not do it in dclence ofthe existence OF on
Government itself II we submit TO this ap1
longer our freed m here end the Fundamental
principles of the constitution are undermined.
The slavery Question.
WAsHlNoroS, May |.
The Committee Of thirteen has asreed upon