New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-19
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| sEsArr--several petitions were presented
resolution submitted by Mr.. Sumner directing an
inquiry into the expedency of repeating the law exactDg
twenty cents from the monthly wages of American
man constituting the fund known hospital money
taken up and adopted
The bill granting land to Illinois and Indiana, to aid in
construction of railroad from Louisville to ST. Louis
was taken up and ordered to be engrossed.
The bill granting land to Florida aid in the construc-
ton OF railroad from Pensacola Bay to Montgomery,
Alabama and for branch roads to Mobile via Georgia
| also ordered to be engrossed
The bills granting lanu Florida railroads
therein and to Alabama for like purposes which, FRI
| the third time and passed
The Deficiency bill was then resumed
Mr. Wade addressed the Senate in opposition to the
| amendment giving aid to the Collins line
MI Bayard replied, supporting this amendment, he
speaking till near o'clock,
House RErREsENrATIvEs-Mr Cullom asked, but did
not obtain consent to offer resolution instrucng the
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds inquire
into the expectancy Of purchasing for the public
Mount Vernon the last residence of George Washington
and the resting place of his bones And also what
terms the be purchased for that purpose
to what use II can be appropriated and that they report
The House then went into Committee of the Whole on
the state Of the Union and resumed the consideration Of
the Homestead bill.
Various amendments were offered, discussed and re-
eeed and the first section Of the bill agreed to In
the form i va, Originally namely that every
the United States shall from and after the passage Of
this ae DO entitled to enter free OF cost quarter
quantity equal thereto to be located In body, IN con-
farmity with the legal subdivisions Of the public lands
and after the same shall have been surveyed
The committee got through with the bill, as II was
ported from the Committee on Agriculture with amend
ments but there other propositions pending including
substitutes.
The committee when the House passed the Senate
resolutions for the benefit of the Fayetteville and Central
Plank Road Company.
The House. when this closed were engaged In the
consideration of resolution proposing to adjourn at
future time for three days in order to have
rapgements made in the hall.
WASHINGTON. May II, 1852
skSArE.-Mr Wade presented the memorial of citizens
of Ohio against the passage of the House bill extending
the time for locating the Virginia military bounty land
warrants
Mr.. Cooper presented the memorial of Mr. sartan and
o.ner artists praying that Congress will contract with r
kotherme for the execution of historical painting to be
placed in the rotunda of the Capitol
MI Sumner presented several petitions praying that the
Of the mails Sunday be discontinued
me joint resolution providing for the completion of the
war steamer for barbor defence.
M Stockton addressed the Senate in support Of the
harbor New York and other cities and the necessity Of
providing defences therefor their defence against
steam fleets Of the enemy in case of war
The subject was then postponed
The deficiency bill was again taken up.
Messrs Brooke Geyer and Mallory addressed the Senate
pensation to the Collins line of steamers
Mr. Rusk and Mr. Badgerrepled The subject was post
poned and the Senate to the consideration
executive business, and shortly after adjourned
HoUsE,-The House by vote of yeas S. nays 1O4 re-
fused to lay upon the table the resolutions heretofore
House from the thirteenth the seventeenth instant in
order that the clerk of the House may have the hall re-
fitted and cleansed for summer in the meantime Fl
nally the resolution was adopted-yeas IS. nays 49,
MIR Stanton of Kentucky made an Intellectual attempt
to Introduce report from the Committee Printing
horizng the settlement of the accounts of Mr. Richie
for printing.
The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole
the state of the Union resumed the consideration
Of the Homestead bill.
Various amendments offered debated and all voted
down. and without dsposing of the BILL the committee
rose, and the House adjourned