The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-09

ter. of New York; Wallace, qoouth Carolina;
Freddy, Of Pennsylvania; Gei1an, Of Indiana
Evans, Of Ohio; Tuck, of New Hampshire; Sack
EFT, of New York.
Cbmmittee on lnvaEd Pensions. Messrs. Lefier, OF
Iowa; /; Olds, of Ohio; Mes, of Pennsylvania; Ave-
ret, Of Virginia Walden Of New York; Johnson,
of Kentucky; Matteson, Of New York; Hamilton,
OF Maryland; Hay, of New Jersey.
Committee on Roads and Canals. Messrs. Robin
son, Of Indiana Mann, of Pennsy kania; King. o!
New Jersey Mason, of Kentucky; Putnam. of
New York Parker, of Virginia Wood, of Ohio;
Gould, of New York; Howe, of Pennsylvania.
s C1nsmitiee Rules. Messrs. Kaufman. OF Texas
Jones, of Tennessee; Vinton, of Ohio; Strong, OF
Pennsylvania; Stephens, of Georgia; Phelps, OF
Missouri; Ashhun, of Massachusetts; Littleheid,
of Maine; McGaughey, of Indiana.
Comm;ttee on Patents. Messrs. Walden, OF New
York; Otis, Of Maine; Hamilton Of Maryland wat
kins, of Tennessee; Harlan, of Indiana.
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
Messrs Bowdon, of Alabnma Edmundson, Of Vir-
ginia; Houston, of Delaware /; Young, OF Illinois
Reynolds, of New York.
Messrs. Cobb, of Alabama; Ogle, Of Pennsylvania
Averett, of Virginia Julien, OF Indiana JACKSON
OF New York.
Committee o.. Aceounn Messrs. King, Of Massa-
chusetts; Mason, Of Kentucky; Mcdonald OF In
! diana; Clark, of New York Bay of Missouri.
Committee on Mileage. Messrs. Fitch. of Indiana;
Duncan Of Massachusetts,; Howard ,ot Texas hay
mond, of Virginia; Sweetser, of Ohio.
Committee on Engraving. Messrs. Hammond, OF
Maryland Dimmick. Of Pennsylvania; Fowler OF
Massachusetts,.
Joint Committee oa tie Library Of Congress. Messrs.
Holmes of South Carolina; Mann, Of Massachu-
| setts Gilmore, of Pennsylvania.
Committee ON Expenditures in the STATE Department.
Messrs. Bingham, Of Michigan; Reed, OF fennsyi-
vania Orr, of South Carolina Alexander, of New
| York German of Indiana.
Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Depart
ment Messrs. Caldwell, of Kentucky; Schermer-
horn, of New York; Ashe, of North Carolina
Dixon, of Rhode Island; Durham, of Indiana.
Messrs. Dimmick, of Pennsylvania; Schoolcraft, OF
New York Harris, Of Illinois; McMullen, of Viz
ginia; Hunter, of Ohio.
Committee on Expenditures in the Nary Department.
Messrs. Holiday, of Virginia Thurman, OF New
York Carter, Of Ohio; Pitman, Of Pennsylvania;
Harris, of Tennessee.
| Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office De-
partmeni. Messrs. Thompson, of Iowa Melville,
of Mississippi; Holloway, of New York; Robbins,
of Pennsy lvania; Corwin, Of Ohio.
Committee on Expenditures an the Public Buildings.
Messrs. Beale, of Virginia Cole, of Wisconsin;
Ross, of Pennsylvania Burrows, of New York
Hoagland, of Ohio.
| Committee on Enrolled Bills. 'Messrs. Wildrick,
Of New Jersey; Dickey. of Pennsylvania.
! The House agreed to go into the election of the
remaining officers Clerk, Doorkeeper, &c. on Thurs
day next.
A Resolution was passed allowing each member
newspapers during the session to the amount of thir
ty dollars.
Mr.. Job Mann introduced Resolution abolishing
dogging in the Navy; which, under the rules, was
laid over
The question being on agreeing to the Resolution
offered some days since, by Mr. Venable, calling on
the President for certain information in relation to
California, Mr.. A. H. Stephens suggested the pro-
priety of its modification, to include call for
similar information concerning the of the last
administration with reference to California; which
suggestion having been accepted by the mover, the
previous question called upon agreeing thereto,
and the call was not seconded by the House.
After some conversation upon the resolution be-
tween Messrs. Stanly, Hillard, Venable, and R. M.
McLane,
Mr.. Hilliard moved to amend the resolution by
adding, 'if not incompatible with the public inter-
est'' after the word House, - in the second line
not agreed to.
The Speaker then put the question upon agreeing
to the resolution, as modified by the mover. on the
suggestion of the gentleman from Georgia, Mr.. A.
! H. Stephens, which was agreed to.
Various Resolutions were offered and laid over,
and among them one by Mr.. Savage, as follows:
Resolced, That the President of the United States
be respectfully requested to communicate to this
House provided the publication thereof be not pre-
as may be within the knowledge Of the executive de-
partment relative to the alleged extraordinary pro-
ceedings of the English government in the forcible
seizure and occupation of the island of gre, in the
State of Nicaragua, Central America; also all facts,
circumstances, communications within the knowl-
edge the Executive relative to any seizure,
patton, or attempted SEIZURE or occupation by the
English government Of any port, river. town, terrific
ry island belonging to, claimed by, any of the
States of Central America also that he be requested
to communicate to this House (if not incompatible
with the public interesD all treaties not heretofore
published which may have been negotiated with any
Of the States Of Central America, by any person act
ing by authority of the late administration, under
the auspices of the present Executive.
Mr.: Root offered the following Resolution, and
called the previous question upon it:
Resolued, That the Committee on Territories be in
structed report the House, with as little delay
as practicable. bill bills providing territorial
government governments for all that part of the
territory ceded to the United States by Mexico, by
the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidago, lying eastward Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains, and prohibiting slave
~ therein.
Mr.. Stephens moved that it be laid upon the table,
which was not agreed to, as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Alston, Anderson, Ashe, Averett,
Bay, Bayly, Beale, Bssell, Bocock, Bowden, Bow
lin. Boyd. Breck, Brooks, Burt, G. A. Caldwell, J.
P. Caldwell, Clark, Cngman, w. r. w. Cobb,
Colcock, Conrad, Deberry, Duer, Edmundson, Ew.
Hall, Hamilton. Hammond, HARRISON, Harmanson,
l. G. Harris, s. w. Harris, Raymond, Hilliard,
Holmes. Houston, Hubbard, Inge, Andrew Johnson,
J. L. Johnson, r. w. johnson, Jones, Kaufman,
La Sere, Job Mann, Marshall, Mason, McClernand,
Mcdowell, McLane, Mclean, McMullen, Mcqueen,
Phelps, Richardson, Savage, Stanly, Frederick p.
Stanton, Richard H. Stanton Stephens, Thomas. Ja-
cob Thompson, John B. Thompson, Toombs, Vena-
ble, Wallace, Watkins, Welborn, Williams, Wood
ward, and Young-s3.
NAYs-Messrs. Albertson, Alexander, Allen, Ash
nun, Baker, Bennett, Bingham, Booth, Briggs,
Bael, Burrows, Cable, Calvin, Campbell, Carter,
Cleveland, Cole, Conger, Corwin, Crowell, Dim