Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-20

Congress To-day
rs SENATE.-The Chair laid before the Senate a
message from the President, calling the attention
of Congress to the subject Of the next instalment
of the Mexican indemnity.
Mr. SHIELDS presented a memorial OF citizens
of Washington, praying the improvement Of Della
ware avenue 9..e. 3
r Mr. UNDERWOOD. introduced bill granting
land to Illinois and Indiana to aid in the construc
ton of a railroad from the Ohio river, opposite
Louisville, to point in the Mississippi, opposite
st. Louis.
Mr.. SHIELDS introduced bill to amend the
act granting charter to the Washington Gas
Light Company.
Mr.. NORRIS offered a resolution authorizing
the Secretary Of the Senate to audit and settle
the accounts Of Mr.. John c. Rives for the publ
cation Of the Senate debates in the I" Congress
sional Globe" Laid over.
HI The resolution authorizing the Committee on
Indian Affairs to employ clerk was taken up,
and after long debate it was adopted.
Mr. CAss and Mr., SEWARD offered resolutions
on the subject of Intervention, which were laid
over. 8..s,.
. The Senate then took up the joint resolution
making land warrants assignable. @ an
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs.-Th House went
into Committee of the Whole on the state of the
Union, and resumed the consideration of the bill
to provide for carrying into execution in further
part, the twelfth article Of the treaty with Mex
leo, appropriating So, 10000.
Mr.. McMULLEa spoke of what has been said
in the newspapers, charging corruption against
executive officers in relation to the manner of
paying former instalments, by which this govern
meht and Mexico were losers to large amount
The money he contended, ought to have been
paid according to the wishes of Mexico, and not
through foreign bankers. a.i.sa...
A general debate ensued, which was progress
ing at three o'clock. .
"The Reunion of the Democratic Party,
Under this head the {. Union I" congratulates
itself and the country that the resolutions adopt
ed by sundry conventions in the South indicate
that the "Union organization was q ephcmeral,''
and that those who, under the lead of the ''Union
made war upon the Republican party as traitors,
will come back with the 81 Union . and unite with
those whom they then denounced in support of
Now we would remind the Union that such
were the soothing tunes which the Richmond
'Enquirer" sang to the State Rights party in
former times; and that no sooner had the votes
of the State Rights party placed the old dynasty
in power than they made war, open and undis-
guised, upon the men and the principles by whose
aid they had been elected. The Union" wants
to get the public printing, and those who united
with the " Union" in denouncing the State Rights
party as traitors wish to get possession of power
through the Presidential election; they seek now
to conciliate the State Rights party because
neither can otherwise get what they want. The
State Rights party want neither the printing nor
the offices, but they resolved to maintain their
principles; and believing that the "Union'' is now
in q condition to make concessions, we think it
opportune to ask for an explicit answer to the
following questions: If Congress should pass
laws abolishing slavery in this District, or pre-
venting the trade in slaves between the States,
and Southern State should secede or nullify,
win the people of such State, acting under its
authority, be traitors? Have the States no RENE
dy against an unconstitutional act of Congress
but rebeliionP
es F. Governor Lowe.
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