Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-13
CONGRESS.
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1852,
The Senate did not sit to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
~. !. 1870, i Yesterday hong been read

Tho Jouynal Of Yesterday hong been read
Mr. BEAlE rose g ude by Mr. CAnrDrIr Of Ohio
a,s,Iy The pents.ian from Ohio (Mr. b. said) made
the observation that aone or few Democrats mad refused
to vote appropriation oT me banks ta o. ds
not so vote The gentleman replied that no had the jour
nal before him, and that his recorded for the
that law In examining the Journal he found
that Ills name recorded stated by the gentleman
from Ohio and he would declare that the whole drift
az his feeling his inward sentiments his open decara
tons his repeated conversations this floor were in
hostility that bill He went home and denounced the
bill as part and parcel Of system to vote away TO the
Western States the public lands which belonged to all the
people the Conederacy There either an error IN
the Journal he must have voted under mistake on the
question. .at srt5fi hsl- ~
Mr. JOHNSON Of Tennessee, suggested that the vote
Of the gentleman from Virginia incorrectly recorded
and said that in the vote for establishing the
Of the Interior he recorded In the amrmauve when
at the time the vote taken he was SICK ut home
PRIVATE BILLS PASSED.
The House then proceeded consider the bills reported
ON Friday week from the Committee of the Whole, when
the following were read the third time and passed;
Senate bill for the relief Of Rufus Dwnel
bill to authorize the issuing of register to the brig
America.
A bill for the relief Of VIM. s. Payne.
bill authorize the issuing of register TO the ship
. Kossuth. ~, s ssa aaos4S5
bill for the relief Of Andrew Smith
On motion Of Mr.. HOUSTON, the House went into
Committee Of the Whole on the Of the Union lr.
the consideration of the special ORDER being bill to
courage agriculture commerce. manufactures and all
other branches of industry by granting to every man
who is the head Of family and citizen Of the United
States homestead of hundred and sixty acres of
land out Of the public domain, upon condition Of occu
pancy and cultivation Of the for the period therein
prescribed.
Mr. DAVIS, of Massachusetts, then addressed the COM
mttee an hour in reply to remarks made by Mr. RAN
TouL some time since He referred the remarks of that
gentleman in regard to the position which he Mr d.
held years since the abolition question; and said
that if the gentleman had presented other facts of later
he would have found that change had taken
place in his opinions If the gentleman had gone and
said that afterwards he Mr. d. voted for saveholdng
Presidents and that 1874 hewas delegate to the Con-
yention which nominated slavehoding candidate, and
that he favored that nomination. if he had gone to
that he opposed by the Free-soers in his district
and trials, elected it would have been
sary for him to make any further explanation.
Mr. D. then answered the charge of Mr. RANToUL that
he beled Massachusetts, in charging coalition in that
State He said that he had stated nothing but certain
facts from which he drew certain differences, and the
question whether these facts-which his colleague did
undertake to denywarranted the nferences he had
drawn and if the facts which he stated such that
the mere statement of them libel upon Massachu-
sett it did to him that it for his colleague and
those who acted with him to put their hands upon their
mouths and their mouths in the DUST and apologize for
having any connexon with this act the statement
of which, his colleague had asserted was libel upon
Massachusetts, $500
Mr. D. then reviewed the opinions held by his colleague
at different periods OF his potcal career TO show that
they had not been uniformly the same and cited proofs OF
his connexon with the Freeso party of Massachusetts,
In conclusion he referred to the fugitive slave law and
said that though he believed that in many respects it
quired alteration yet there increasing sentiment
throughout the country that part Of the Constitution
binding another; and as it regarded this ques
ton of DETAIL it not the time for making any
change.
Mr.. FITCH then obtained the floor, but yielded
ton that the committee rse which being agreed to-
The committee rose and reported progress.
And the House adjourned.
In the of the day petitions pre-
scented and referred.