Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-02-04
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and Of the number of persons employed
in the war department.
Mr., Stockton introduced bill to au-
thorize the Postmaster General to con-
tract for carrying the United States Mail
in steamers between Jersey city and Gal
way, Ireland.
Mr., Clark introduced joint resolutions
declaring the policy of the United States
with foreign nations. The resolutions are
long; they contain numerous extracts
from the farewell address of Washington,
against any interference or connection
with foreign nations, -their wars or quar-
rels--and declare a strict adherence to
the policy recommended therein. Read,
laid on the table and ordered to be prin-
ted.
HOUSE, OF REPREsENTATIvEs.--Leave
was asked by Mr., Glingman to introduce
the following: =,
Whereas, some NShe States of this I'm
ion have. in their CfAstitutions. provided
for the absolute exclusion of free negroes
from their territory. while others have
sought to obtain the same by legislation,
and whereas complaints have at times
DSeH maui ny OtHSI 0taIeS anu halOhS >
therefore
Resolved, that, in the opinion of the
House of Representatives it is the un-
questionable right of each one of the
States to exclude either wholly or partial
ly from her territories, negroes, either
free or slaves, and that the exercise of
this right affords no just ground of COM
plaint to other nations or States.
The House refused to suspend the
rules-yeas SO, nays II.
SENATE, Jan. 2o.-Nothing Of moment
occurred in the Senate.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,
House went into committee on the bill to
appropriate So, 1870, 600 for the Mexican
instalment.
Mr.. McMullen called attention to the
fact that in the payment Of the last Mexi-
can indemnity, there was loss to this
Government of 100000 to $4,000 OH
account of the manner in which the pay
ment was made through Messrs. Corco-
ran and Riggs, and British Bankers.
Mr.. Houston did not question the pow
err of Congress to instruct the mode and
manner Of making the payment, but the
pOSlllOH WHICH, IG HCISIOIOIC LUX was
that, unless some gentlemen should say
that the executive officers have acted i'm
properly or fraudulently, the House ought
to do its duty and pass the bill, placing
the responsibility Of the payment where it
properly belongs.
The matter was further debated, and
the House adjourned.
Mr.. Seward submitted an amendment
to the joint resolution introduced yester-
day by Mr.. Clark, on the subject of in
tcrvention. Itcloses thus:
And the United States further declare
that they will not hereafter be Indifferent
to similar acts of national injustice, OPP
preston and usurpation whenever or
wherever they may occur"
Mr.. Cass laid the following on the ia
BILE.
Rcsolred by the Senate and House of
Representatives in Congress assembled,
that while the people of the United States
sympathizc with all nations who are stri-
wing to establish free Government, yet
they recognize the great principle of the
law of nations which assures to each OF
them the right to manage its own eternal
affairs in its own way, and to establish,
alter or abolish its government at plea
sure, without the interference of any 9th
err power. And they have not seen, nor
could they again see, without deep con-
Germ, the violation of this principle of ma
tional independence.
The Senate then took up the joint reso-
luton making land warrants assignable,
and Mr., Walkers amendment, giving 100
acres to every settler without charge, was
rejected--yeos 8, nays 35. After further
debate, the first resolution was ordered to
be engrossed-yeas So, nays 3.
SENATE, Jan. 21.-The chair laid be-
fore the Senate message from the Pres
idcnt of the United States, enclosing CO.
pies of the correspondence between the
American Minister in Paris and the State
Department, relating to the recent chan.
ges in the French government.
The chair also laid before the Senate a
report from the Secretary of War, COM
municating the proceedings of the Court
Martial which tried General Talcott. AL
so, the report of the Bureau of Topo-
graphical Engineers, relating to over
flows of the lower Mississippi.
The chair laid before the Senate re-
port from the Treasury Department, set
ting forth the amount of steam tonnage
in the United States.
The act making land warrants assigna'
bic was passed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, re-
port of the select committee submitting a
bill regulating the assignment of county
land warrants, was debated by Messrs,
Fitch of Indiana, and Clark of Iowa.
The House Committee of the whole,
took up the bill appropriating the Mexi-
can indemnity.
Mr., Bayly addressed the committee in
favor of the passage of the bill, during
which he went into review of the cir
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