The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-06


who refuse to pay over the moneys which may b,
obtained for the Government by any individual
reported bill TO define certain offences and to pro
| vide adequate punishment therefor; which wa,
read and referred to the Committee Of the Whole
He also reported bill to lay tar on alien pas
| sengers coming to the United States, and to pro
| vide for its recovery. Read twice and referred
Mr. Grinnell reported the following bills from
| the Committee on Commerce, which were appro.
! priatey committed, viz: The bill to compensate
4 and reimburse the owners and crew of the whaling
ship for losses and expenses in rescuing the crew
of the ship Columbia and the bill supplementary
to the act for the relief OF sick and disabled
Messrs Evans and Kerr, of Maryland, made sew
eral reports from the Committees to which they
belong, Of no public Importance
Mr.. Schenck reported back from the COMMITTEES
| on Naval Affairs, with recommendation that il do
pass, the bill providing retired list for the navy
and reduction of the number Of officers II was
committed. '''1'
Mr.. Waldo, from the Committee on Revolution.
airy Pensions, reported bill explanatory of the acts
Of 3oth July, 1888, March Sd, 1913, and June 17th
Mr.. W. explained that the act was to restore the
practice of the law of 1885, ltproyides that WIZ
the husband died since the passage of tbes. sc,s
the widow shall be entitled to pension, if she he
| IN other respects entitled to a pension.
The bill was finally passed.
n JOINT resolution was reported from the Com.
mlttee on Revolutionary Pensions, by Mr.. Freedlv.
Of inc act Of ls49, granting pensions to
wiuo"s Oh Ihose officers and soldiers who died in
heMco' The bill relieves the widows from the
necessity OF making proof of the death of their hus
IN actual service, of the disease contracted
inc serWct when the proof is to be found on the
hle Is, OF the department
=, n ne previous question has been moved on the
I'm The questions pending are a motion to refer
'4e bill to the Committee Of the Whole on the
4 of INN md aotin th.fr H. ra,I,
| third time and passed.
Mr. Bayly, Of Virginia, from the Committee OF
Ways and Means, reported bill for the support Of
| the Military Academy at West Point, which was
| read twice and referred. a
On motion Of Mr. Inge, the rules were suspended
and the House resolved tselfinto COMMITTEES of the
Whole, (Mr. Boyd in the chair,) and resumed the
consideration Of the California message and bill
MIR. Averett finished his speech against the ad-
mission of California s..
Mr.. Chandler then obtained the floor, and spoke
an hour on the slavery question. After he con-
cluded the House adjourned.
WASHINGTON March g. 1850
The Senate did not sit to-day, having adjourned
over to Monday.
House.-on motion of Mr.. Williams it was re-
solved that when the House adjourn it be to Mon
day next.
iourn, and on the question being taken it was de-
cided in the negative-yeas 81, nays 109
The Speaker pro tenn, (Mr. Winthrop,) an
nounced the business before the House to be the
bill aPrropratng one hundred thousand dollars for
the relief OF the captors OF the frgate Philadelphia
Mr.. Thomas said that not word of explanation
had been given why the bill should pass. From all
the information he had the money was to be given
as an act OF gratuityan act of gratuity the part
of the House.
Mr.. Stanton, Of Tennessee, did not believe that
those Tor whose relief the bill was reported had a
laua1 lola Ia Il
ate Philadelphia taken by the Tripolitans, in
1904, and moored under their castle, so as to be
under the fire Of great many guns. Decatur con-
celVed the bold idea OF bringing out the Philade-
phia by stratagem however, the commanding Off
Ger ordered the vessel to be burnt 1t was now pro-
posed to give the hundred thousand dollars to the
representatives of these gallant men, to which they
would have been fairly entitled if the vessel had
been brought out 1t is reward for gallantry-a
stimulus to citizens and soldiers to perform sim
liar acts Of daring when occasion may again require
Mr. Green opposed the BILL The vessel was
burned In pursuance Of orders, and the men merely
did their duty. To allow this claim would be to
censure the commander Com. Preble). There
were thousands OF meritorious claims.
Mr. Holmes, from the Committee appointed on
Preston Kings charge Of mutilation OF the journal
Of the House by the Speaker, made report Part
O. It is IN substance as heretofore stated by the
Speaker himself. Mr.. King, they say, did not
write the resolution to end the debate on the Cali
fornia message and BILL but requested the Clerk to
fill up the blank resolution" before the blank
was filled. On motion of Mr.. King, it was laid on
the table Mr.. King understood his motion to refer
to stopping debate on Mr. Doty's bill. The
Speaker understood the motion to refer to the de-
bate on the California message then pending in
Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union
The Committee have no doubt that if the motion
had been reduced to writing before the question
was stated by the Chair, the Speaker would have
decided it out of order the bill had not been re-
terred to the Committee, and the Message, as the
Speaker understood the molten to be- was in order.
The Speaker, on examining the journal next morn
ing, made it conform to previous instructions to
the Clerk, and alteration appears on the face of
the journal This journal, thus corrected, was
read to the House, and, in the opinion of the Com
mttee, there was no muhlation of the journal but
a proper correction, under the authority of the
Speaker, imposed by the rules of the House He
did his duty, and no more. The Committee there
tore, propose resolution that therepor be adopted
by the House, entered the journal, and that the
Committee be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the subject. The report was unani-
mously adopted, and, together with the testimony,
ordered to be printed. The House then adjourned
till Monday.