Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-13

eaf ho ,hsv are deprived enabled them to add to
their stock of salt beef and pork few vegetables ana
fruits which, though among the common c1m0ts me
ped his grog and abolished foggng which had been SUD-
mtted to with oerabe grace since which we had taken
from him this little privilege OF commatauon 2, rauon
He moved its reference to the Committee on Naval Affairs
and expressed the hope that the wishes OF the seamen
might be complied with $50,
Mr. BRODHEAD presented memorial OF soldiers IN
the war of 1872 asking further grant OF land to the OH
GERS and soldiers of that as to put them on
inc with those who served in the with Mexico Re-
ferred to the Committee on Public Lands.
Also one of like import from citizens OF Eason Penn
sylvania; which had like reference
Mr. UNDERWOOD presented the petition Of citizens
Of the State of Missouri numerousy signed and one from
the State of Virginia, protesting against the employment
of chapains by authority of law He believed that pc
ons of this class referred ut the last session to
Tho on nc .-iary and he would move that
these take the same and that those
terday the subject and laid on the table De re-
ferred to the committee; which was agreed 70.
Mr. CHASE presented the memorial OF James - Moore,
Josiah Lawrence and Henry H. Goodman, of Ohio, and
Jno H. Deh of Pennsylvania and their associates pro-
posing with the aid of Government TO establish regular
line Of mail steamers from California and Oregon to
China Mr. c. took occasion to observe that these were
gentlemen of undoubted MEANS and their names
guaranty for the true OF any contracts that
they might enter into Referred to the Committee on
Naval Affairs.
Mr. FELCH, in pursuance of notice. obtained leave to
bring in the following bills which twice read BY their
titles and referred to the Committee the Public Lands
Granting to the State Of Michigan the right Of way and
donation public lands for the construction Of ship
canal around the Falls of Mary's, in said Stste
Granting the State of Michigan the right OF and
donation public lands for the purpose Of construct
ing road from Saginaw Montreal river, with branch
from the Grand river, into the same.
/ Mr. GWIN in pursuance Of notice, obtained leave to
introduce bill amend the act entitled An act to pro-
vide for extending the laws and judicial system of the
United States to the State OF California which was twice
read and referred to the Committee the Judiciary
4 Mr. in mn of
introduce joint resolution requesting the President of
the United States to nterpose the friendly offices OF this
Government with the President ofhe Republic OF France
in behalf of the liberation of AkdeKadir which vas
read and passed to second reading
Mr.. RHETT in pursuance of notice, obtained eavt to
bring in bill to indemnify the State OF South Carolina
for money expended for the United States in the wr in
Florida with the Seminole Indians which was twice read
and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs
Mr.. DOWNS, in pursuance of notice, obtained Rave
to bring in bill to aid the state of Louisiana IN redeem
ing the overlooked lands which was twice read and refer
red to the Committee on Public lands.
KOSSUTH.
Mr. FO0TE called for the consideration of the special
ORDER being the resolution relating to the compromise
measures, the hour for proceeding to which having
arrived
Mr. SHIELDS hoped that the resolution relating tothe
reception of Kossuth might first be disposed OF, and
moved to postpone the special order until O'Clock.
The question postpoEement was decided in the af-
frmatiye Yeas 90 nays 13.
The joint resolution Submitted by Mr.. SEWARD was
then read.
Mr. s. addressed the Senate some length in avorof
his proposition but professed his readiness to have voted
for any other submitted but thought his most simple
and less liable to encounter scruples than any other
Mr.. SHIELDS moved to amend it by substituting the
following being brief and best suited to the occasion
Resoed That committee of three be appointed by the
Chair wait upon Louis Kossuh Governor of Hungary and
introduce him to the Senate.
! He sustained his amendment in short address, and
read from the journal the action of the two Houses In re-
ation to the reception of Gen. Lafayette as precedent
in point
The CHAIR ruled that the amendment net in order
nasmuch the resolution of the Senator from Now
York NIr SEwARD) joint resolution, and that of
the Senator from Illinois r SHIELDs simple resou-
| ton of the Senate.
SHIELDS any precedent besides being clearly out of
order addressed the Senate at length against
either proposition but admitting his great respect for the
Hungarian and the in which he had been engaged
and the sympathy he felt for his fallen fortunes AMI those
of his country; concluding by offering the following
amendment to in ut the close OF Mr. SEwARos re-
solution:
Aud be It further resoJced That welcome thus offered
Louis Kossu be extended to his associate Hungarian
lies who have landed shores; but while weeoming
these Hungarian patriots asylum in country and
the protection which laws will afford to them it due to
candor to declare that it not the Of Congress de-
part from the settled policy Of this Government which forbds
all interference with the domestic of other naion
The debate further continued by Messrs. MI LER,
HALE, and others, without coming to any definite esnt
when the Senate adjourned
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1851.
Mr. UNDERWOOD presented the memorial of William
L. Meredith, who represents himself as the sen and
perhaps the only heir of Col VIM. Meredith by courtesy
and Major by actual rank Mr. q. said the memorialst
avaled himself Of the precedent established by Congress-
in the case of Miss Charlotte Lynch While he would not
detail the sucrings Of the Colonel in the trials srug
giles of the revolution he would content himself bystatng
that he was soldier from its commencement to its close
that he forced to consent to law to which he
party from the necessity imposed him by tn, losses
and privations which the had entailed. H. lived
until the year 1885, period which would have made his
half pay quarupe the amount received by comm,ation
The nemoriast his satisfaction that Congress
have at length in the case Of Miss Lynch recognised the
great rule Of justice applicable to revolutionary cheers
and that they not to be OF the pents to
which they entitled by contract to which they were
not parties and expresses the hope THAI congress VIII
mete out to him the same justice melted to Miss Lylch
Mr.. U. hoped that Congress would the propry OF
doing justice alike to all citizens and that the Committee
on Revolutionary Claims, to which it will be referred
will take it into their special consideration
RECEPTION OF KossUTH.
The resolution submitted by Mr. SEWARD in relation to
the welcome be given to Kossuth came up as the un
finished business, when
| Mr.. SUMNER rose and addressed the Senate at some
length in support of the resolution and followed by
Mr. STOCKTON on the same side, and the debate was
further continued by Messrs CLEMENS, SHIELDS, and
FOOTE, the latter gentleman giving way at late hour,
without concluding, for motion to adjourn
THURSDAY, DECEMBER II, 1851
Mr.. BRADBURY, of Mane attended in his seat to-day
Mr. FISH presented the memorial of Geo. Tacott, late
colonel of ordnance and brgadier general by brevet
complaining of injustice done him by the of the
court martial by which he dismissed the service and