The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-29

bat will have found il out ia another k-in lie
correspondence OF Mr Adams, who was minister to ST.
Petersbugh above thirty years ago; and must here say,
once for all that whatever duties may have To perform
in the Senate, want horn books to teach want
the original works themselves. II originated thus: be-
cause Resanof married the daughter Of Chilikof, or
rather, because Chko married his daughter to Resanof
The is this: Chkof at the head of the Russian
the Emperor Paul. 10 1899 He was man full OF good
impulses, though rather wrong headed The Russian
Pany oppressed the Indians When he was informed Of
| to break il up. Chilikof was the head of the com
pany; he had married his daughter to Resanof, the
EmPeror's chamberlain, and got him to Iepresen, TO
than TO destroyit He therefore made this representation
to the Emperor. The Emperor yielded Instead of
breaking nP the company, be gave them charter and
regulated them and that charter precisely according
to the extent OF their possessions at that day The En-
peror gave them charter that extent merely because
was then believed ass no.sI,
81 deg 40 min for which we were going to fight Great
Britain originated-all because ResaDof married the
daughter of Chiikof and without any more regard TO
the rights or claims OF any other nation than to The
rights and claims OF the in the moon
Mr. PHELPS. rise to a question OF order. desire
to inquire Of the chair whether this discussion about the
question before us Sir would not have objected It
the from Missouri had spoken 80 long this
subject that deem it duty which owe to the Senate
aud to the country 10 raise this question OF order
The PRESIDENT The Chair is under the impress.
sion tha1 not in order for the senator from Missouri
to take wide range Of debate and TO discuss treaties
which were signed and disposed Of years ago. mere
question OF printing document Tor the use OF lhe
Senate.
been practised upon the Senate in buying books and
that the country in OF that abuse was led to
the very verge of war, and the Senate fooled. | am
showing the enormous abuse which has been pracsed
upon consequence of this practice OF buying books
for the of the federal Congress This what am
doing sir. have right to illustrate this abuse by
hr,a ~ af fha ho w
history and our experience give me, and which may
bear upon the question under consideration, and show
rhe @pPPRi Ths Senator from Missouri will
have conne himself to the subject matter before the
MI BENTON That shall do sir confne my
sell the abuses which have grown out of this practice,
and of which spoke in the beginning. commenced
TO speak of the general abuse and not OF this particular
measure. interrupt nobody; and the senator from Yer
mont will pardon me for taking notice OF his inter-
The The PRESIDENT The Chair will be under the ne
cessiy OF connng the senator TO the subject named in
Mr. PHELPS. rose to question Of order | felt it
my duty to inerfere and can assure the Senator from
Missouri that hereafter shall deem it my duty TO inter-
ere in all these dscursve discussions Sir, what has
the Emperor Paul TO do with
The PRESIDENT The senator is not in order
'AMsIsIBfEiN M4 BENTON. Who is not in orderl
The PRESIDENT The senator from Vermont was
| not in order in going with his remarks
MIR. BENTON. That is right he is intenuptng me
he is out Of order Our debates here sir have degene
a.sd into eolleqsis,-haye run down 70 diaogues and
terrup gentleman and if any gentleman interrupts
me- be must expect that shall pass his interruption by
unnoticed
The President has pronounced the judgment of the
Chair on the interruption which was given TO me- He
has condemned IT, ! am satisfied, and will go on, and
will read little in proof OF what said. | will read from
the journal OF the Russian circumDavgator Capt Won
krusenierm, who says:
The irregular manner in which this sort Of trade had
been carried the unjust and cruel conduct Of the Rms
sian merchants towards the unhappy inhabitants of the
isles of America, complaints of which had even come TO
that Paul he Fr., resolved to abolish The company
to put an end TO traffic revolving This resolution
erposton of VI. de Reanof, who afterwards sent to
Japan as ambassador. He had married the daughter Of
number Of the bills of the company the value depended
upon the gains losses Of the rade By his knowledge
able the company tha, he rejected all the representa-
tons which addressed to hlm against H. confirmed
formally in l79s and granted to 1t great privileges.
That the way, sir, that this 54 deg 40 min. movemen
came about-when were on the border of war with
Great Britain to which had been led by false anc
fraudulent book which we had purchased for our IN
struction IL was P because Resanoh married The
daughter of ChikoTl But still there was an argument
for the purchase of that book mad Q
question about Oregon, and was argued that this book
was TO llumnae,us, upon the principle perhaps that IN
nation OF blind men he that has one eye king And
then have Just had another book-Browns Debates IN
the California Convention. Still there was an argument
tent of halt dozen volumes, TO be placed IN the library
to which senator's might have recourse, IT would have
been a good argument would have voted Tor The pur
chase OF half dozen copie but two thousand were
resolved upon, and dollars per volume the work
being such would buy in the shops for sixty-we
and half cents fought against 1t, and, as usual u
this congressional book trade, came OF second best
The NUMBER carried but half dollar on the vol
ume was saved to the treasury, and the seller sll 60
what about double price, and we got what was oi nc
10 This has been our experience al the presen
session. and we all felt as If we had been bitten. Still
there argument, or the shadow of an argument
that we were going legsate for California and wanea
information and this book, at the rate OF thirty volumes
to member, might give u. But IN the case before US
book on the East. do not know of any business We
nave to perform here which the sublectmaer oil thai
book enable 10 discharge our duties
know of no argument for il, and will look over the
resolution presented for the purpose OF seeing what u is
and how came before do not see the senator IRON
North Carolina MIR MsSeUsl present. who called ~
this resolution, and must therefore, call the attention
OF the Senate TO il in his absence. This IS
Rssoivtd That Mr. Palmer have leave to withdraw, take
cut copyright for. and print on his own account, the doc
uments entitled "a comprehensive view OF the principal
indie maritime countries OF the East" illustrated
by chart, which accom- panied the report OF the Secretary
oi State the Senate, under date OF The 23d o April last
and referred 10 the Commtee on Foreign Relatonsj and
that Secretary the Senate be- and he s hereby
horzed subscribe for five thousand copies Of the work
together with the chart under the above e for the o
the Senate provided the shall be delivered by Mr
Palmer price not exceeding two dollars per copy o not
less than five hundred octave printed on hne paper
and neatly bound IN muslin.
That the resolution In the first place. il is for Mr.
Palmer" There is Christian name to IT, as II mere
was but one Palmer in the world. But apprehend tha'
10 palm rtutthp hpinU oneQf