The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-27
EVENING SESSION.

LfLNlN" oLoPioN.
There being quorum present, at six O'Clock,
(after the recess,) the House was called, and one
hundred and ten members answered to their
names. This number was soon increased.
The rules were suspended, and, on motion Of
Mr.. BOYD, the five minutes rule, which allows
debate on amendments. was suspended on the bill
to provide for carrying into execution in further
part the twelfth article of the treaty with Mexico
concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo, apPropriatng
900 for this purpose.
The House then went into committee on the BILL
The amendments pending were rejected; and when
the committee rose the bin, as originally reported
was passed.
The House then went into a Committee of the
Whole on the state Of the Union, and proceeded to
the consideration of the bill making appropriations
for the support Of the army for the year ending
the thirtieth Of June, 1882
The bill read, when
Mr. BAYLY said that he had no speech TO make.
MIR. GIDDINGS moved to strike out the item Of
$56,6l6 for expenses of recruiting. He was OPP
posed to any further increase of the army; it was
as large as is needed,
Mr.. JOHN A. KING was opposed to the amend
ment. Men are enlisted for five years, md every
year one fifth of them retire. If recruiting be
suspended, the strength of the army must be ne
cessarily diminished.
Mr.. GIDDINGS wished to know for what pur-
pose men are to be enlisted What is intended
Mr.. JOHN A. KING answered the gentleman,
showing that the personnel of the army is twelve
thousand six hundred, and these troops ncces-
sary for the protection of New Mexico, California
Utah, Oregone and the border limits of the United
States, against hostile Indians. We are bound not
only to have an army to protect our own people,
but (by the Mexican treaty. the Mexican frontiers.
from the incursons Of savages within our terrific
ries. Beside, troops are employed to carry the
mails on the extreme frontiers. and hence the in
creased expenditures of the Quartcrmaster's De-
partment.
Mr.. LEVIN said that, il there period
in the history of the country when the army should
not be diminished, that period exists He spoke
not of danger to be apprchended from foreign foe.
but for one, he should resist any dimnution of the
army because Of enemies within; and when this
question should come to vote, he desired to
side American lovers of liberty and order, and
disunionsts on the other. Let meet the brute
an increase OF the army to preserve the laws Of the
land. He wondered not that those who willing
TO dcfame the memory Of George Washington, and
defame the American Constitution, and destroy
this Union, willing to become the dcfamers and
destroyers of its noblest champion and boldcst ad
vocate. If others had not fit to alludc to the
distinguished individual who occupies the office OF
Secretary Of State, he should not have said
word; for take what form and shape it may, il fur
nished its own antidotc, like the empty sounds
among the hills rcverbcratc answers from dying
echoes.
He then defended Mr. Webster in an earnest
manner from the attacks which had been made on
that gentleman, pronouDcng the accusation Of Mr..
ALLEN this morning false one. Posterity will re-
member Mr.. Webster, and erect to him monu-
ment, not like that Bunker Hill, which he has
rendered immortal by his eloquence. That will
moulder and decay. Times finger will wear away
the surface and base, and it will fall and not
fragment remain to mark the spot where II stood;