Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-07
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1852.
In SENATE.

i LIN SENAIE.
| Mr. COOPER presented memorial signed by Benia
min Crawford and others, practical engineers and ma
chnists citizens of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsy
vana asking Congress for further legislation protec
the civil marine against the frequent explosion of
boilers and submitting bill for the consideration Of the
Senate. They say, first that all inspectors of boilers
should be persons who have regularly learned the
of steamengne building and have had experience
of five years regular steamboat engineers setting forth
the reasons in detail and second that masters of steam
boats have peculiar rules of their of judging whether
engineers will suit them some take standard the
amount of money the engineer will take and the less
he will take the better he is qualified provided he has the
title of engineer; while others will employ none that do
not boast they not afraid of steam, known hot
engineers such boast of the pressure of
steam they have been in the habit of carrying, which is
the best recommendation for employment and to such
extent has it been carried that the competent eng-
neers have been driven from the river They forth
the remedy for these evils at large 3d. That boat
should be permitted to employ engineer that has
certificate the date of which in the prescribed limits
should any boat be permitted to leave any port with
out requisite number of engineers attend the duties
OF engineering the boat in proper manner 4th. They
say that the pressure of steam should be limited to all
boats built after the enactment of law, to hundred
pounds the square nch and for all boats built previously
one hundred and thirty pounds to square inch That the
present mode OF working steam often in the highest de-
gree dangerous it being the custom with many engineers
to hold ON to their steam when the boat is about leaving
landing, till they cannot well guess at the amount of
pressure they have the safeyvaye and much less do
and about the boilers ready go off into steam the
ment the water in the boilers becomes agated either by
starting the engine by raising the safeyvalve to blow
Oft steam Referred to the Committee on Commerce.
EXPLOSION OF STEAM BOILERS
Mr.. B0RLAND, from the Committee Printing, re-
ported in favor of printing the treatise of Alfred Guthrie
the subject of steam boilers and of printing $500 ad
donal copies for the of the Senate 500 of which to
be given to Mr.. Guthrie.
On the question: Shall the report be concurred in p
Mr.. HALE rose to express his surprise that when he
asked for the additional printing Of subject in which
nation at large interested the Senator from Missouri
Mr. ATcHIsoN) and the Senator from North Carolina Mr.
MANGUM) from motives of economy, would allow the
printing But here was the of the explosion of
steam boilers, mere expression of private individual
opinion he understood it, without any practical object
and yet there disposition manifested have it
printed.
Mr.. BADGER, lin his seat 1t is useful in the Senate
where we have occasional explosions.
Mr.. HALE. / think there is practical matter quite
enough to be printed without resortng that which
not so.
Mr. B0RLAND insisted that the report of the engineer
was theresult of the labor of lifetime He had
ined the document and could the Senator that
was one of highly important character in which the
whole civil marine of the country was more less nte
rested.
port of the committee and adopted Ayes o.
not counted
THE CENSUS PRINTING.
Mr.. GWIN made a motion to take up the resolution
Census which, after being debated by Messrs GWIN
BADGER, HALE, PEARCE DAVIS, BUTLER, BOR-
LAND, ATCHIS0N, DOWNS and others, was decided in
the negative, as follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Bradbury, Brodhead, Clemens Dodge of
Wisconsin, Dodge Of Iowa, Douglas, Downs, Felch Gwn
Houston, Jones of Iowa, King Mallory, Rusk Sebastian,
and Shsds-16.
NAYSMessrs. Atchison, Badger Borland Butler Clarke
Davis Dawson Fish, Foot Geyer Hale Hamn Hunter James,
Jones Of Tennessee, Mason, Miller Morton Pearce Pratt
Seward Smith Soule, Spruance Sumner Underwood Upham
and Wade-2s.
BILLS PASSED.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration Of the
private calendar, and the following bills severay
considered in Committee Of the Whole ordered be en-
crossed for third reading, and were severally read
third time and passed:
bill TO confirm the claim Of John Erwin to a certain
tract Of land in the Bastrop claim
bill for the relief of Frances Gardner
A bill for the relief of Jane Irwin
bill for the relief Of William A. Richmond
POSTPONED BILLS.
The bill for the relief Of Ira Day, of Vermont,
passed over informally.
The House bill for the relief of David c. Cash and Giles
U. Ellis considered and indefinitely postponed
The following bills severally considered and post
poned to Friday next:
The bill for the relief Of Thomas H. Leggett.
The bill TO extend two patents to Zebuon Parker.
The bill for the relief of John f. Callan administrator
Of Daniel Renner, deceased.
The bill to authorize 7. II. McManus to enter by
presumption certain lands in the Greensbury district
louisiana
The bin for the relief of John W. Simonton was debated
mp TO the hour of adjournment without any question
being taken and the Senate adjourned