The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-24

Also, bill to increase the efficiency of the artil.
lery of the United States IL authorizes the Presi
dent to select from the present officers of the artil
lery brigadier genera who shall be chief OF the
corps II also provides that promotions TO the rank
of colonel shall cease In this arm Of the military
force until the number Of colonies is reduced to
two, which shall thereafter be the number OF colo
nels in the artillery.
SALARIES OF TERRITORIAL orFIogRs.
On motion Of Mr.. CLEMENS, the Senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the bill relating to
the salaries of officers If the Territories of the Uni
ted States, and to repeal proviso OF an act therein
named.
The following is the bill:
Be IL enacted. sc, That if any officer of any
Territory Of the United States shall hereafter alb.
sent himself from such Territory and his Official
duties for period exceeding sixty days, IN any
one year, without leave OF the Precedent OF the Uni
ted States, he shall net be paid any salary for the
period of such absence, unless good cause for such
absence shall be shown to the satisfaction OF the
President.
SEC 3 And be IL further enacted, That the pro-
viso contained in an act entitled "An act making
appropriations for te payment OF the civil and
diplomatic expenses Of the Government for the
year ending the thrteth day of June, eighteen
hundred and fifty .wo," approved March third,
eighteen hundred and fifty one, relating to the
of the salaries of the officers Of the Terri
tories OF the United States, be and the same Is
| hereby repealed
The proyiso repealed prevented any Of said Off.
cers from drawing any salary for any period OF
absence from the Territories exceeding sixty days
Mr.. GEYER submitted an amendment TO the
bill declaring that said officers shall be allowed
their salary accrued during their absence, any
thing in any existing law to the contrary notwith
standing; which was agreed to.
| Mr.. CHASE proposed to amend the bill by strlk.
ing out Of the first section the words unless good
for such absence shall be shown to the salts
faction of the President to require that the
absence should be with the leave of the President
previously obtained which was rejected. The bill
lxyas hpn nr6P he
| reading.
INTERVENTION.
On motion by MIR. BELL, the joint resolutions
upon non intervention were postponed to the first
Monday in April.
DRY DOCK NAVY CALIFORNIA.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
Of the bill to establish dry dock and navy yard
in the bay OF San Francisco, California.
MIR. GWIE addressed the Senate in support of
the BILL and in reply to some remarks made by
Mr. BRopHEAp on former occasion in opposition
to the construction OF the dry dock and basin and
railway.
Mr.. BRODHEAD commenced reply, but. af
ter proceeding some time, yielded the floor to MIR.
BORLAND, on whose motion
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Messrs. FAULKNER of Virginia, GROW of
DIE of Delaware, severally presented joint reso-
lutions from the Legislatures Of their respective
States.
The SPEAKER by general consent, laid before
the House various Executive communications;
among them one from the Treasury Department,
enclosing the lighthouse system report; another
from the Navy Department, in answer to a resolu-
ton calling for information relative to the foreign
mail service; and third from the Department of
the Interior, enclosing report from the Commits.
sioner Of Patents, being the first part of the Patent
Office report for 1851, which relates to arts and
manufactures. 1t was ordered to be printed, and
referred to the Committee on Printing, with in
strucons to inquire into the propriety OF printing
an extra number. The Commissioner Of Patents
says that the agricultural portion of the report will
shortly be submitted.
DEFICIENCY BILL.
The House went into a Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union, and resumed the con-
sideration of the bill to supply deficiencies in the
appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1852.
The following clause under consideration,
viz:
"For constructing, repairing, and enlarging
barracks, quarters, hospitals, storehouses, stables,
wharves, &c at the several posts and army
depots for temporary cantonmens, and the au-
thorized furniture for barrack- room of non com.
missUned officers and soldiers, gun houses for the
protection Of cannon including the necessary tools
and materials for the objects enumerated and
barracks and hospitals for troops where there are
no public buildings for their accommodation !; for
storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores
and OF grounds for summer cantonments and en-.
campments-two hundred and nineteen thousan nd
dollars"
Various amendments were scvcraly offered, and
discussed IN five minute speeches. On one side
attacks were made on the alleged extravagant ex-
penditures while on the other the Administration
vac defended.
Without disposing of the clause unde consde-
ration, the committee rose
And the House adjourned.