Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-11
CONGR ESS.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1851.
IN SENATE.

IN SENATE.
The PRESIDENT Of the Senate laid before the body
communication from the Secretary of War; made in comp
ance with the of August 26, ls42 transmitting
Of the expenditures during the year ending June 30th $780,
from the appropriations for contingent expenses Of the War
Department aud its several bureaus which read and
ordered TO be printed.
MEMORIALS, &c.
Mr. YUlEE presented memorial from the present and
late registers and receivers Of the land office Newnansv
asking to be allowed additional compensation for locating mill
ay bounty land warrants which ordered TO lie the
table. ...r ~.
Aso from the late registers aad receivers of the land Office
at Tallahassee the State of Florida asking be allowed
increase of compensation for locating military bounty land
warrants which was ordered to lie on the table.
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES.
Mr. HAMLlN, from the Commise on Printing, to which
referred the memorial Of citizens Of the United States
tered in manufactures and the progress Of useful Inventions
asking that the bill before the Senate to amend the patent
laws may postponed until the session of Congress,
reported against printing the same.
The report of the committee was concurred in.
Mr.. HAMLIN, from the COMMITTEES on Printing to which
referred the resolution OF the Senate Of January 1851
in relation printing copies Of the appendix the
port the Regents Of the Smithsonian Institution reported
the following resolution and recommended its adoption:
Resolved That 5000 additional copies Of the appendix to
the report of the Regents Of the Smithsonian Institution be
prnted 5000 copies tor the OF the Senate and 900
copies for the use Of the smithsonion Institution
The resolution agreed to. #--
to which referred the memosl Of the Legislature of Ore
eon asking the exngushment of the Indian titles and
moval of Indians from that Territory the payment Of the
expenses of the Cayuse war, &c, reported "a bill to
pay the expenses Of Cayuse in the Territory of Ore
gon the years ls47 and 4s; which read and passed
a second reading. s.'". ..'.
Mr. DOUGLAS, from the committee, reported bill
to ascertain the provisions of the office Of
surveyor general the public lands in Oregon and pro-
vide for the survey and make donations settlers Of said
public lands, approved September 81 1885, and to make the
same applicable the Territory Of Utah which read and
ardered . second reading.
BILLS PASSED.
The following engeosed bills read third time and
passed:
The bill changing the place Of holding the circuit and dis
ct of the United States for the district OF Vermont
On motion the title Of the above bill amended SO as TO
read bill changing the places and fixing the times Tor
holding the circuit and district courts IN the district OF Ve
mont"
The engrossed resolution reinqushirg to the State of
Maryland of the captured by The brigade under
the command of Brig Gen. Bennett Riley the battle Of
Contreras in Mexico, read a third time and passed
WIDOWS PENSION.
The engrossed bill for the relief Sarah D. Mackay
read third time and the question recurred its passage
After debate by Messrs PEARCE, YULEE, and HALE, |
the bill passed by the following vote LIS.
YEAS-Messrs. Badger, Baldwin, Bell Cass, Chase, Da-
Wis., Massachusetts, Davis, of Mississippi, Dayton, Dodge
yone. Mansum Mason Miller pease Phelps Rhes
Rusk, Sebastian, Shields, Smith, Soule Spruance Upham,
Wales, Walker, and WinthrOp-32.
NAYS-Messrs. Atchison, Berrien, Clemens, Dawson,
Dickinson Dodge ofIowa, Hunter King, Underwood, Whit
comb, and Yuee-ll.
.~... NoTARIEs PUBLIC.
The Senate bill entitled &c An amend au-
tboze notaes public take and certify oaths and ana-
ons and acknowledgements in certain cases. up its
Mr. CHASE. With the appreciation of the Senator from
Georgia. (Mr BERRIEN who reported this bill, desire to
move reconsideration Of the by which the bill
a q
Mr.. BERRIEN. Mr. President, designed to submit that
motion the Senate, the statement OF the Senator from
Ohio that had desire amendment to the ori
einal bill trust, therefore, the motion will prevail.
The motion agreed to- .' -.'
Mr. CHASE. | propose to amend the bill BY adding to
the end Of it the following words . 49,. ..
Sand potaries pubic, duly appointed any State Ter
ritorv or in the District of Columbia shall have the
mower and authority taking depostons and davts to be
read depending in court OF the United States
are conferred by the heh section of the establish the
dcia courts OF the Uuited States approved septomber
ss the magistrates and officers therein
named or by the act taking of sa-
Wits and bail in civil depending the of the
United States approved February 60 1872 upon the COM
missioners therein named"
Mr. BERRIEN. The effect Of that amendment will be to
give the power notae public conferred by the
act of 1889 upon judges magistrates and commissioners in
taking dispositions. These notsries generally intelligent
men, and as competent generally, think, those before
whom the dispositions are usually taken.
The amendment was agreed 10.
Tee bill then ordered be engrossed for third reading
PUBLIC LANDS IN WISCONSIN. ..H
MI. SHIELDS, from the Committee on Public Lands to
which was referred the bill authorize the State Of Wcon
n to seec, the residue of the lands which that State
entitled under of the eighth August 1885, to aid
the Improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers reported
hack the same without amendment.
Mr. SHIELDS. | ask the unanimous consent Of the
Senate to consider that bill at this time. 1t is bill in which
the Senators from Wisconsin take deep interest," and hope
il will be put on its passage will state In few words the
nature Of the bill.
grant was made to the State Of Wisconsin, as find by
the report of the commissioners public lands Of
Il has been ascertaned that of that quantity
acres were sold previous the time when the grant took effect
and the State therefore entitled So 600 make
uo for the deficiency The report Of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office shows the truth of this statement
The motion to take up the bill agreed 10, and it was
considered as in Committee of the Whole.
Mr. DAWSON. do not expect TO prevent the passage
of that bill bu, wish to call the attention of the Senate to
principle which involved in it which will cover multitude
of cases which are now the progress Of legislation in the
two Houses Of Congress As understand it in where
alternate sections land have been appropriated to works OF
internal improvement, and prior 10 the passage OF any bill
which makes hese appropriations portion such alternate
shall been sold disposed of any by the
Government the thus sold shall be asceained and
then the company State in favor of which these appropr
atoms made shall be entitled the quantity OF lands
any other part Of the State if be found that the lands
not all sod 1t results then in this will be found that
many of the public lands which granted the last
sion for the purpose Of constructing four hundred miles OF rail-
road have been disposed We establishing principle
that will require to make up deficiency Of number
of OF land in Illinois and other States opposed
to having Congress establish any principle they choose upon
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