New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-14
xxxIId CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION


Tie Senate commenced at half-past
twelve o'clock.
Petitions were presenter III ld'oi VI tuc
par sage of the Homestead bill.
MIR. CLARK introduced q Joint resolution
directing survey Of the hsrbor OF Providence,
Rhede Island.
The bill for the better security of the
lives Of passengers on vessels propelled IN whole
or in part by steam, was passed.
All the bills, yesterday, ordered to be
engrossed, were taken up and passed.
A Joint resolution authorizing the Sec
Rotary OF War, to loan suitable arms 90 a vOlun-
teer company Of this city, composed of pages to
the two Houses Of Congress, was introduced by
Mr.. CLEMENS, taken up, and ordered to third
reading.
On motion of Mr.. MASON the joint reso-
luton for the relief Of the Spanish Consul and
other subjects Of the Queen of Spain, residing at
New Orleans and at Key West, for injuries re-
ceiyed by them at the hands of mobs upon the
receipt of the news of the execution Of the per-
sons captured m Cuba, was taken up and ordered
to be engrossed.
Mr.. NoRRIs gave notice of Joint reso-
luton to amend the joint rules Of the two Houses,
so as to require that all the appropriation bills
shall be sent to tie Senate at least ten days be-
fore the tire fixed for adjournment.
On motion of Mr.. DOUGLAS, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the bill author
iZIng the President to raise, arm and equip three
regiments OF volunteers to serve for three years,
in guarding and protecting the emgrant route and
telegraph lines, and conveying the mails between
Missouri River and the settlements IN California
ard Oregon. There ale to be ten posts Oil the
route, TO be garrisoned by ore hundred men eech,
with intervening stations twenty miles apart, gar
risoned by 20 men each, the station houses to be
erected by the volunteers, and from materials OBJ
tanned in the country along the route. These
volunteers are to keep the roads in order with
bridges and ferries, and to protect the telegraph
lines, and all persons employed in establishing and
working the same. They are to raise gather and
preserve all Necessary provisions and supplies,
without cost to the Government. They are to be
paid the same as other troops, and at the end of
three years to be entitled to $40 acres of lend
each. The telegraph lines thus constructed may
use these military posts and stations free OF
charge. The bill also appropriates - dollars to
carry into effect the provisions OF the bill.
Dir. DOUGLASS moved to fill the blank
With one hundred thousand dollars.
Mr.. HALE said the Senate might as well
gil the blank with the real cost at once from 1910
to 1874. The cost Of the army in the Atlantic
States in time of peace and before the acquisition
OF Texas and the new territories the rate of
one thousand dollars year for each man. That
regiments would amount TO three thousand men,
@kich, at one thousand each, would amount to
TIN ee millions of dollars y ear for their support
1t was Just as well to put that sum in at once as
to leave it for future bills.
Mr.. DOUGLAS replied that the great cost
of the army was for transportation, which ex-
pense would not occur in the present proposed
force.
Mr.. MASON thought that this, bill which
proposed an increase of the military force Of the
United States, ought to undergo the revision of
the Military Committee. At present he could
not vote for it. 1t proposed to establish mill
tlry force costing annually at least three millions
for the pose of protecting a telegraph line
which was not in existence, and would not be,
perhaps for century to come, and to protect a
mail which is not carried by that route, and
which, if carried, would greatly increase the ex-
pehse of its transportation. If the object be to
protect the country and pursue the Indians, the
tmee thousand men would have as much as they
could attend to, without having to cultivate and
gather crops. He moved that the bill be referred
to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr.. DOUGLAS said, the object of the bill
was to protect the great emgrant route. There
were now in the plains, twenty thousand men,
women and children, wholly unprotected from the
Indians by any military force. They ought to be
protected either by keeping aportion Of the army
there or by this system of military colonization.
The latter he thought was the better and cheaper.
Mr.. BoRLAND followed in favor of the
biz and against the commitment.
Messrs. DAWSON and BUTLER opposed
the BILL and after continuing the debate till three
o'clock, the bill was postponed till next Tuesday,
and the Senate adjourned.