The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-05-07

| Much as he condemned Greeley for his principles
| and his paper-while he had no sympathy for the
man or his sentiments-he could not believe him "a
be villain enough TO take, by any means, this re-
port and publish il with introduction without the
| knowledge Of the Commissioner OF Patents. He
could not believe but what this was known TO the
Commissioner and that this whole affair done
for the purpose of making the work popular. This
| part number has those moral marks upon il
| which should prevent the Senate from printing any
thing further from its author until committee had
| examined il, and vouched for its accuracy. This
part one of the report should have been
printed; it should be burned by the common hang
man II contains, besides Greeley introduction an
article written and published long since by the
Commissioner himself, and now republished at the
| Government expense, for the purpose of building
1 up the Commissioners fame under the auspices OF
| Greeley Co.
| The committee were not prepared, as he under
stood, to say what was the character of this agr-
cultural part Of the report, that they know any
more about il than the Senate does. He I'M
willing TO vote TO print the document, after the
perience Of part one, until the character of it
vouched for by the committee. II was said TO
tain agricultural statistics, and letters the sub
ject of agriculture; he was unwilling to print even
these, il the only reliance upon their correctness
| was the Judgment of the Commissioner He looked
upon the Commissioner of Patents as one of the
most visionary men in the country. He would
read few extracts from his work Mr.. +. then
read extract from part one Of the report, and
said:l In this passage the Commissioner OF Patents
lays down the principle that il was blessing that
Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden Of
Eden, and that it would have been curse to have
| let them stay there. Laughter He thought the
| Scriptures contained different doctrine.
The Commissioner then gets poetcal, and gives
Us something Byronic. Extract read.l Here he
says that every genera had its paradise, and from
| which it was expelled; that some demon, known
only to the Commissioner, got in among the vari-
| Gus genera and corrupted them all, and in conse
quence they were expelled.
With this and similar stuff is Part ]. Of the Com
1 has, 10
| York, and has been looked over by Greeley, and
| recommended by him to the public. He supposed
| Part ii. was in the same strain
| He would pause, then, before he voted to print
Part H. till he knew more about it. Indeed, he
thought it advisable to print more Patent Office
reports till there was some sound, practical man at
| the head OF the Office
Mr.. Rusk said that Part Ii. was confined to the
agricultural information, and had been prepared
| and submitted in the same way as heretofore under
| former Commissioners. He hoped it would be
printed
| Mr.. FoOTE said that it was disgrace to the
| Government to have printed part number one, and
| he asked whether the committee were prepared to
| vouch for part number two? No, they were not,
and he asked why should it be printed until its
character can be ascertained? The Commissioner
| was said TO have been mechanic. Part one treats
of mechanical arts; and it to be supposed that
| the Commissioner would have given an able report
ON that subject with which he was supposed TO be
familiar, if upon any. But that had been decided
| about agriculture than of the mechanic arts
MIR. RUSK said that the same clerk in
the Patent Office who had charge of the agricultu
raj report under the former Commissioner, and he
had prepared every thing in the same way as here
tofore.
MIR. FOOTE said that he understood the friends
Of the report to say that this agricultural work
should be published because it was not the work of
| the Commissioner, but of the clerk. If the Com
| missioner had abandoned his own proper duty, and
| left this work to be done by clerk without super
intending it himself, then he has not discharged
his duty. II the clerk did the duty Of the Commits
sioner, then the latter unfit for his Office, and
should be expelled. IL he did his duty and wrote
this report, and it was any thing of similar char
acter to part one, then il was unworthy of being
printed, and II printed, would reflect disgrace on
the country. He was unwilling TO vote for printing
| any document tainted with the Socialism of Horace
| Greeley. This whole business of Socialism, Adolf
tonism, Greeleyism, and such lkethngs created in
his bosom at all times horror, and he had deter
mined to touch not nor handle the unclean thing
Any thing coming from Horace Greeley, or bearing
| his approval, sent a thrill to his heart.
Mr.. MASON opposed the printing, denying that
there was any constitutional power in the Govern
ment to authorize the Patent Office to collect or
| gather agricultural statistics.
| Mr.. TURNEY said that the agricultural report
OF the present Commissioners, as well as those made
| by the former commissioners, had all been pre-
pared under one Of the clerks Of the Office. And
If the Senator from Mississippi thought that suf
fcient cause for removing the commissioner from
for the removal Of Mr.. Burke. But the Senator
himself had voted for printing part number one.
lie (Mr. To had opposed it; bot he stood almost
alone If the Senator had then opposed the print
| ing, he might have been successful.
Mr. FO0TE. j was not present.
| Mr.. TURNEY. The Senator was present at the
| time.
| Mr. FooTE said that he did not complain of the
| Commissioner for employing a clerk upon the
port. All he had said was, that, IL the report
the work Of the Commissioner, and was not vouched
for by some else, he would not vote to print it,
II the friends OF the report said 1t was the work OF
| the clerk then the Commissioner had not done his
| duty. But there doubt but ii was the Com
missioner's own work. II the Senators had seen
the Commissioner the day this report was brought
here, they could not doubt il. The Commissioner
to the Capitol, messenger bearing the report
and he standing by IL at every step, and guarding
IL like a sentinel until it, was delivered into the
hands Of the Secretary Of the Senate. This anx-
iety and care showed that he considered il as the
4 production Of his own tOils, or he would never
have guarded il all the way from the Patent Office
to the Senate. lift the work OF the clerk, he
would have remained at the Office, and let the re-
port take care Of itself
After few remarks from Mcssrs. BORLAND
and DAWSON, the question taken the
amendment ofMr. DAVIS, and II was rejected, az
| follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Atchison, Benton, Bright, But.
Ter, Clemens, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, FL.
more, Foote, Hunter, King, Mason, whitcomb,
and Yulee-l4
NAYs-Me-sr.. Badger, Baldwin, Berrien, Bor-
land, Bradbury, Cass, Chase, Clarke, Clay, Cooper
Corwin, Dickinson, Dodge Of Iowa, Dodge Of Wis.
consin, Douglas, Downs, Felch, Greene, Hale,
Houston, Jones, Mangum, Miller, Morton, Norris,
Pcarce, Phelps, Pratt, Rusk, Seward, Smith, Soule
Spruance, Sturgeon, Turney, and Walkers
| Mr.. YULEE submitted the following resolutions
| which lie over one day:
RssoiUsd, That the President Of the United States
be requested 10 furnish TO the Senate copies Of all
correspondence between any Of the Executive de-
partments and Gen. Persfer y. Smith and Brig.
Gen. Is. Riley, either Of them, which has not
been heretofore communicated 10 the Senate
Rssoiued, further That the President be requested
10 furnish W the Senate all information existing in
any Of the Executive departments respecting the
transactions Of the convention in California by
which the project Of State government was pre-.
pared, and particularly copy Of the journal o.
said convention, and Of such Of the ordinances
adopted by IT as may in any way have been com.
muncated 70 any Of the said departments
Resolved, further, That the President of the United
States be requested 10 inform the Senate II the sur
render Of Gen. Riley 10 the jurisdiction and civil
authority OF the government, made by the afore
said convention, was by order Of the Executive o
the United States, and II not, whether the proca-
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