The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1850-06-08
THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.

| FIRST SESSION.
| THURSDAY, May g.
cine Senate proceedings Of to day were given
| in the last edition)
In the House, the bill from the Senate to in
| crease the rank and file of the army, was under
debate. Severa. amendments were offered but
no question was taken
FRIDAY. May 81.
! (Ihe proceedings of the Senate of to- day, were
gwen IN the last edition)
In the House the bill to increase the rank and
file of the army, and to encourage enlist1nents,
was again brought up, and discussed. An
amendment offered by the committee on military
affairs was agreed to. The bill then passed
by 1o7 ayes to SO noes.
The House then adiourned
MONDAY, May q.
In the Senate. the bin to establish branch
mint at New York, was taken up. Mr. Davis,
OF MISSISSIPPI moved to amend the bill by add
ing sections providing for two assay Offices in
California, which W ould be instead the mint San
Francisco The assay offices would not coin,
but cast the gold into bars. After some little
discussion, without taking vote upon any pro-
position, the subject was postponed till tomor-
row, and the great questionable admission of
CalIfernIa-was taken up. Mr. Mason OF Vir-
ginia, spoke an hour or two, stating his objec-
tons to the bill, and arguing them to con-
clusion.,
In the House, Mr. Brown offered resolution
to dismiss the door Keeper, (Mr Horner) on
count of his conduct in keeping his brother on
! the payroll ofthe House, when he was also hold
ing another office under government, which facts
had been proven by the committee of investiga-
ton. (Mr HorEer is a whig. How distressing
that whig should be guilty of such conduct y
After some discussion, in which Mr. Chandler of
Philadel phia, made out Mr. Horner as pure as
lamb! the whole subject was laid the table
The slavery question then taken up, and
Mr. Bennett advocated the admission of Califor-
| MIA. When he concluded the House adjourned
TUESDAY, May %.
In the Senate, M Hunter reported from the
| committee public. buildings, the opinion of
that committee thatthe capital ought to be en-
larged and recommended that that committee
in the House. take the matter into cons iderat on
The bill to increase the rank and file of the
army. which had passed the Senate, and been
| amended and passed by the House, brought
back to the Senate, and referred to the COM
mittec Military affairs.
, Mr. Bradburys resolution calling upon the
President to give reasons for the removals of
officers, then taken up, and Mr. Turney, of
Tenn, made short speech that must have made
wings sit uneasy their seats. We will give a
short extract to show the reckessness-nean-
| ness-unaccountable revengefulness which must
have animated the President and his cabinet, OF
| the appointing and removing power:
Well, Mr. President, there are one or
two other officers to whom will allude.
l shall not attempt to travel over the whole
ground OF removals In my State, for |
believe that there are no officers, except
a few very unimpOrtant ones, who have
not been subjected to the process Of being
reformed out. l will allude to man by
the name of Nc Nelly, who was postmas-
| ter at --, who was removed. | have
before me a remonstrance, signed by every
| legal voter in the town and its vicinity,
including wings and democrats. My
letters inform me that it was gotten up
by wings and sent here by them. Mr. Nc
Nelly, the party to whom the remonstrance
relates, was an old man, was in the bat
tie of New Orleans, was wounded, aud is
now unable to labor and support his fami
| ly. Everybody bears testimony to the
fact that lie made an excellent postmas-
ter. and never nterfered in politics All
these facts are set forth in this petition.
| signed by every voter in the vicinage of
the post Office. He was removed. as l
believe. by some misunderstanding of the
Post Office Department l think the Post
Office Department was Imposed upon.
! 1hev could not have Intended the reno
val of such man. if they had right un
derstandlng of the subject. After h:s re-
moval, the ladies got up petltotI-a thing
never known probably in that region of
| country before-the ladies Of Tennessee,
some ninety-six in number, got up re-
monstrance against his removal, and asking
his reinstatement in Office. setting forth
the same facts stated in the petition Of the
voting population. l took these papers my
sylf to the Post Office Department, and
presented them to the Postmaster General,
asking him to restore the old man to his
office. l asked him whether there could
be any use in my filing the papers? l
was Informed that no action would be
taken upon the case. Whether the Post
master General had beeu imposed upon
originally or not, he had then the facts be-
fore him, through the medium of both
wings and democrats, as we'll as ladies !;
and assert. sir, that it must be an extra
ordinary circumstance which calls out the
ladies Of that part in political measure
of any sort. They take no purt whatever
in the general politics Of the country at
all ; but when case of extreme wrong
aud hardship occurred in their own village,