The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-09-20

he bad amended the bill to meet the views OF the
honorable senator from Kentucky, lMr; CLAY
Mr. PRATT. II the senator from Georgia MIR bER-
RIEsl will permit me, think can explain i satistae-
Nj BERRIEN Certainly. sir.
Me PRATT. The bill which has been brought before
the Senate is composed OF the amendments adopted BY
The Senate in committee. alter having been fully discussed
and after the matter was well understood II is uer6dtim
"a The Senate adopted these amendments the other day
MI BERRIEN, (resuming). What desire is, 10
bring 10 the attention OF the Senate this fact that upon
he provisions OF this bill the sense OF the Senate has been
distinctly sna os Of a the
bill was the improperly Of connecting them WIN that
BILL which was accompanied with declaration Of Iead
ness to pass them as p as 70 be re-
sisted, and If not permitted to AFFORD pro,ecuon
TO this species OF property when proposition Is brought
forward in the precise form IN when was 70
know it,
Mr.. BADGER Mr. President, desire merely to
make this remark, that the gentlemen who are SO ex-
ceedingy anxious get with the important business
before The Senate and who object to consuming time In
discussion upon the BILL might Just as well be consuming
time in the discussion OF the bill as upon the question OF
Mr.. CHASE. Mr. President. / wish to stand right
upon this matter. When The District slave. oiii was
under discussion the senator from Maryland INF.
as amendments to that bill they were adopted in
mittee, but rejected in the Senate The action OF me
Senate Them against the bill is upon the records i Is
now presented to the Senate by single member Inc
senator from Kentucky [Mr. CLAYl yesterday made OBJ
lection to the third section Of the bull ,
The PRESIDENT. II is not in order to discuss the
bill
Mr.. CHASE | do not mean to do So The senator
from Maryland, [Mr. PRATT in answer TO the senator
from kentucky, Mr. CLAYl stated that the section was
altered so as TO give il prospective character What
that alteration was do not know; but take this state
ment, together with the other facts, as proof, as have
said already, that this bill is the work Of single mem
Der. 0
The question being then taken upon the motion to
proceed 10 the consideration OF the bill mentioned by
Mr.. PRATT, it was decided in the negative-yeas 20,
nays 2s--as follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, BaInwel Bell, Der.
ren Butler Cay Davis OF Mississippi, Dawson, Dodge Of
Iowa. Foote, Hunter King, Mason, Moron Pearce Pratt,
Soue. Tufney, and Yalee-2O,
NAYS-Messrs Baldwin, Benton, Bright, Cass Chase,
Clarke Cooper Davis Of Dayton, Dickinson.
Dodge Wisconsin, Downs, Ewing, Fech Greene, Hale,
Hanlin, Houston, Norris Rusk, Seward, Shields, smith,
Spruance, Sturgeon, Wales, Walker, and Wnthrop-2S
RECONSIDERATION
Mr.. ATCHISON, at the request of the senator from
Virginia, MIR. MASON, moved reconsideration OF the
vote by which the Senate concued in the amendment
made by the House OF Representatives to the Senate bill
10 renew the charter OF the Potomac Insurance Company
OF Georgetown.
Mr. A. said ii not bis intention to press the motion
now but to let ii lie over for future consideration.