Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-24

of Tennessee in the chair and resumed the consider
ton the bill to provide for carrying into execution
in further part the 18th article of the treaty with Mexico
| concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo.
After time spent in the discussion of this subject
| the committee rose, reported progress, and
The House adjourned.
FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1852.
Mr.. SMART suggested that, by unanimous consent the
Executive communications the Speakers table be laid
before the House and appropriately referred
There being no objection
The SPEAKER laid before the House sundry Executive
communications, as follows:
A communication from the President of the United
States transmitting report from the Department of State
containing copies of the correspondence which has taken
place between that Department and the Minister of the
United States in Paris respecting the political occurrences
which have recently taken place in France Referred to
the Committee Foreign Affairs.
communication from the acting Secretary of the Trea-
sry recommending that the appropriation for six addi
tiona cutters be increased from seventyfye
thousand dollars to ninety thousand dollars in
quence of the loss of the Lawrence Referred
the Committee Of Ways and Means and ordered to be
printed
A communication from the same Transmitting for the
consideration Of the Committee of Ways and Means a
letter from the Secretary of the Territory of Minnesota
suggesting the necessity of further appropriations TO meet
the expenditures of that Territory for the fiscal year end
the 30h June last and another letter from the
officer containing detailed estimate Of the necessary
preparations for that Territory for the fiscal year ending
30th june 1853 together with the report Of the First
presses his entire with the views expressed
by the Comptroller in his report and requests that the
necessary appropriations be made accordingly Referred
TO the Committee Of Ways and Means and ordered to be
printed
A communication from the War Department, trans
hitting lists Of clerks and other persons employed in that
Department other than officers Of the army during the
year 1851 Laid the table and ordered be printed
communication from the same, submitting state
ment Of the expenditures at the national armories and
the number of and appendages made at EACH during
the fiscal year ending June 30 1851 Laid the table
and ordered to be printed
A communication from the Navy Department trans
hitting detailed statement of the expenditure of the
contingent fund of that Department for the fiscal year
ending June 3d. 1851. Referred to the Committee Of
Ways and Means and ordered TO be printed.
communication frcm the Post Office Department
transmitting lists of clerks and other persons employed
that Department during the year ending December 81
IS5lstatng that all the clerks have been usefully
poyed and deemed essential to the dispatch of bu
siness. Laid the table and ordered be printed
communication from the same, submitting estimates
OF the amount required for the service of that Department
for the year ending the st of July 1852 Referred
the Committee Of Ways and Means and ordered to be
printed.
All the Executive documents on the Speakers table
having been laid before the House
Mr.. HOUSTON moved that the House resolve itself into
Committee of the Whole the of the Union for the
purpose of considering the Mexican indemnity bill
Mr.. DANIEL wished to inquire if motion had been
made to reconsider the resolution terminating the debate
upon the bill referred to by the gentleman from Alabama
The SPEAKER replied in the negative.
Mr.. DANIEL said that he would now submit that mo-
ton, and the why he did so that coll had
been made upon the State Department for certain nfor
nation in relation TO this subject and some gentlemen
might desire to have the of that Department before
voting the BILL For the purpose of accomplishing this
object, and believing that delay of day two would
make difference, he would to reconsider the
solution for the purpose of going into Committee of the
Whole on the private Calendar
Mr. MEADE said that this resolution adopted yes
terday his instance and under the impression that
terminated the debate Saturday at three o'clock
seemed to him that this was the term Of the resolution
but he supposed he mistaken,
The SPEAKER stated that the resolution applied to
the present day.
Mr.. MEADE said that this being the case, he would
vote for the motion to reconsider.
Mr.. BROOKS simply to say that every days delay
by Congress in this matter at great cost to the Gov
eminent. If this appropriation had been made year
ago. the Government could have obtained three and hall
per cent premium the amount Of this insalment but
if they should delay 1t for sixty ninety days
would probably have to give a premium. Those who
choose to delay might take the responsibility.
Mr.. DANIEL said that if he thought delay of two
days would be material he would make the motion
but he could conceive that such would be the
Mr. HOUSTON suggested that the call upon the Secre-
tary of State referred entirely matters that had pass
ed and he did consider that any information he might
give in response the call would be material in directing
them to proper conclusion or determination in regard
to the bill now pending in committee If the matter
sought the Secretary of State of character TO
determine the minds Of members the proprety of
the they to give either for against this
sure it mig be that this reconsideration should take
place but he understood ii differently.
Mr. DANIELS did not know that he concurred with
the gentleman who had just taken his seattle did not
know whether this information material, whether
it would influence his this subject; but some
members might be DESTROYS examine this report before
they should be called upon TO vote As the rules how
ever set aside this day and for the considera
ton of private business he disposed pursue this
course.
The question then taken the motion to reconsi-
der the vote by which adopted the resolution term
mating debate this subject at O'Clock to-day, and il
was agreed to Ayes 90, noes CT.
The question recurring the adoption of the resolu-
ton
Mr. DANIEL moved to amend it as to terminate the
debate at o'clock Tuesday next which amendment
rejected Yeas 81, nays 96.
Mr. MEADE moved to lay the resolution on the table
which motion was negatived; Yeas 70, nays 104.
Mr. ROBBINS moved to amend the resolution to
close the debate tomorrow, at o'clock which was
agreed under the operation Of the previous question
The resolution rs amended was then adopted.
PUBLIC PRINTER.
Mr.. STANTON, Of Kentucky, rose to make personal
explanation. He remarked that few days ago, when
the resolution to print hundred thousand copies Of
the abstract Of the under consideration he
took occasion to make statement in reference TO the
in which the public printer executing his
contract In that statement he informed the House that