Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-24
CONGRESS.

TN SENATE.


eSs. TN SENATE
The PRESIDENT OF the Senate laid before the body
communication from the department a. Of VAR made IN
inc for report Of estimate and plan in reference to
the beacon or lighthouse structure for the New South
shoal Of Nantucket which was read and laid on the
T(ol Albert states in his report that Dayis's shoal,
named after the officer who made the discovery lies about
twenty miles from land in the broad and that he
does not know on whose estimate the appropriation of
$4,000 was based under the law of 3D. of March, l849
but being satisfied That it utterly mpracticabe to
erect any useful structure of the kind indicated in the law
at such locality the bureau had limited its inyestga
ons to the preparation Of plan and estimate and that
Major Bache assigned to the duties and the report
submitted is from that officer with and we'll
executed designs of the plan and details and also model
The direction of the law being " for screwle bea-
con- other practical structure it left the engineer free
to exercise his knowledge and ingenuity within the limits
prescribed by the Office, viz beacon or lighthouse
From the estimates submitted according to the plan he
recommends it viii appear that the estimate for the light
house is 1922, 1856; for the beacon, $2S4, 664 And
the report further states that for the operation OF the
first season, there will be required $3.50 and in
the second 1857 $50; and that the report Of Major
Bache exhibits with much force the great necessity that
exists some such structure he recommends and the
bureau is clearly Of opinion that it should be lighthouse
in preference to q beacon NJ
Columbia to which referred the several memorials
relating thereto, reported bill to amend the charter
of the city Of Washington. 'nsl
IThe section provides that every free white male
citizen OF the United States yagrants paupers, feons,
and persons compos ments excepted Of the age of
twenty-one years. who has resided in Washington one
year Immediately preceding the day Of election and shall
be resident of the Ward in which he shall offer VOTE
shall be entitled to vote for Mayor members of the Board
of Aldermen, Register Collector, Surveyor Assessors,
and such other officers may hereafter be made elective
Section 2. If the right of any person to vote be chal
enged the oath Of such person. made before any of
the commissioners of election that he is lawfully entitled
to vote by the provisions of this act shall be sufficient
evidence Of such right and he knowingly testes false
" he shall be adjudged guilty Of wful perjury and pun
ished accordingly
Section provides that the Mayor and City Council be
empowered to declare such municipal officers elective
within the several wards as they shall from time to time
deem advisable.
Section makes any qualified eleotor eligible to the
Office of mayor any other elective Office within the
Mr. BADGER introduced bill to prevent public execu-
ons the District of Columbia and asked the unanimous
consent Of the Senate to have it Immediately considered
LDave being granted the bill considered in Com
mttee Of the Whole ordered to be engossed for third
reading, and was subsequently, read third time and
passed.
THE bill provides that any person now under sentence
of DEATH or hereafter adudged to suffer DEATH within the
District of Columbia shall be executed within the walls of
prison, within the enclosure adjoining and not
else the marshal of his deputies with such OFF,
of the prison. constabes and other peace officers
the marshal may deem necessary and proper attend
That the marshal his deputy shall invite the district
attorney and the counsel Of the prisoner or
physicians and twelve respectable citizens be present
and shall also allow any minister Of the Gospel mot
than three in number and any of his her rela
tives but others in the act not mentioned and per-
whatever under the age of twentyone years shall
allowed to witness any such execution.
FRENCH SPOLIATION BILL PASSED.
The bill to provide for the ascertainmen and satisac
ton of claims Of American citizens for spoatons commit
ted by the French prior the 3lst july 1901 read
third time and the question:, Shall the bill pass ?"
!. Mr.. BRODHEAD demanded the yeas and nays, which
were ordered
Mr.. RUSK gave q for not voting that he had
paired off, with Mr. SoULE.
MIR. JONES' Of Iowa. did the same having agreed to
pair off with Mr.. PRATT.
The question then taken, and decided in the afr
native, follows:
YEAsMessr Badger, Berren, Boand, Bradbury, Clarke
James, Mangum Miller, Pearce, Sebastian Seward Shields
Smith, Spruance, Sumner, Underwood, Upham, Wade-26.
NAYS-Messrs Adams .Atchison, Brodhead, Cas Dodge,
Of Wisconsin, Dodge Of Iowa. Douglas, Fetch, Gwin Hunter
King, Norris Walker-l3.
DEFICIENCY BILL
The deficiency bill was then taken up, when
Mr.. GWIN and addressed the Senate at consider
able length.
Mr.. HUNTER replied, explaining that part Of his re-
marks which had been commented on by Mr.. GwrS.
Mr.. ATCHISON then moved to postpone the further
consideration Of the subject which agreed to.
And on motion of Mr.. ATCHISON, the Senate proceed
ed the consideration of Executive business and after
time spent therein the doors reopened and the
Senate adjourned