Weekly national intelligencer., 1852-05-29

Prordd That shall be in the power Of Congress- any
after the 3ls day Of December 1854 70 terminate the
for additional allowance herein provided
upon giving six months notice.
And TO insert in lieu thereof the following
Proridea That after the soth Of June, 1854 the rate Of
compensation shall exceed unless Congress in the
mean time shall otherwise provide
| Mr.. BELL advocated his amendment
Mr. hUSk spoke against the amendment as unwise and
| impolitic.
enable him. if adopted for the amendment Of the
| committee.
After an unsuccessful motion to adjourn the debate
continued until late hour when the Senate adjourned
without taking any question
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The House resumed the consideration Of the bill Of
the Senate to grant the right of way to the State Of
Missouri and portion of the public lands to aid In the
construction Of certain railroads in said State reported
yesterday from the Committee Public Lands with
amendment.
/ Mr.. BOCOCK moved to lay the bill and amend
ment on the table; and this motion demanded the
yeas and nays which ordered, and being taken
| suited: Yeas IA, nays "a.
The question then required the amendment repert
ed by the Committee Public Lands viz strike out the
fifth section Of the Senate BILL which provides that the
lands granted by the bill shall be disposed of only the
work shall progress, and that the work shall not be
pleted within ten years. then the sales of the land shall
cease and the money obtained hererom shall revert to
/
| thereof the following:
"Tha the lands hereby granted said State shall be dis
posed Of by said State only in following that is
to say that quantity Of land exceeding one hundred
and twenty sections each road, and including within
continuous length of twenty miles of said road may be sold
and when the Governor Of said State shall certify the Sec
retary of the Interior that said twenty miles Of said road is
completed then another like quantity hereby granted may
sold and so from time to time until said road completed
and said road be not completed within years. further
sales shall be made and the lands unsod shall the
United States"
Mr. BOCOCK demanded the yeas and nays on the adop-
ton Of the amendment which were ordered and taken
with the following result: Yeas 102, nays TO-
The bill was then ordered to be read third time by
vote Of 93 to rs nays and it accordingly read
the third time.
The question being on the passage of the bill, the
morning hour having expired)-
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL-SLAVERY
On motion of Mr. GROW, the House went into Com
mttee of the Whole the state of the Unon r SEY-
MouR, of Connecticut in the chair and resumed the
sideration of the bill making appropriations for the
rent and contingent expenses Of the Indian Department
and for fulfilling treaty spulaons with various Indian
tribes for the year ending June 80, 1853
MIR. GROW addressedthe Committee stating that the
marks he desired to submit he would much have pre-
ferred to make some time SINCE upon the introduction of
the resolutions declaring the compromise nality He
voted against the introduction Of those resolutions and
against them their final passage for the stated
in the resolutions themselves that any further agitation
OF these questions at this time useless and
cessary and being of those who believed that dis
cussion side of the question agitation,
while discussion the other side was he could see no
benefit likely to the country from their passage
The only result Of it. to his mind the opening again
Of this whole agitation, and making it element in the
next Presidential election. 1t but reviving and
tanning into fame ceals which, if left alone would have
soon gathered cnders enough themselves The
North had been to and they believed be true that
the people Of the South opposed to any and all ag
tation the subject of slavery The North had been led
to believe that this was sincere and from hearts
anxious to all sections worshipping in harmony the
altar Of common country. But strange it might
seem and to illustrate the strange inconsistency of
had Congress convened than they found them
selves upon the of another sectional controversy
Who the incendary who that raised his hand fire
the temple of liberty?
At the opening of Congress- before the organization of
the House. this subject introduced the Democra
tic caucus by the gentleman from Tennessee, MR. POLK
and on the rst day Of the session. in the other end of the
Capitol, by Senator from Mississippi (Mr. FooTE y
and afterwards it introduced into the House by two
gentlemen from Georgia, (Messrs JACKSON and HMLyER.
Thus the agitation came from the South.
Here and there in the North there might be found an
individual aithless to the Constitution but the great
true to all its guarantees and principles and
they would transmit them unimpaired to successive
generations.
Mr.. G. then spoke against endorsing the nality of the
compromise He said that by this gentlemen
undertook to place certain acts Of Congress above the
Constitution itself The Democracy Of the country was
asked to strike from its bannera banner which had
been borne in triumph for than half century, an
emblem of progress and great American deasthe prin
cipe that the legislation Of the country at all times
and under all circumstances subject to the control Of the
majority of the American people, and to nscribe in its
place and strange device, the fnality Of law
passed by Congress He would endorse doctrine Of
fnaty in American legislation for it not in accord
ance with the genius and spirit Of institutions
with true ideas Of American progress.
Mr.. GOODRICH repeled the charge that the people Of
the North dsloya because they would not endorse
the compromise in the of Southern gen.
emen who construed them to that slavery is not
hereafter to be prohibited in the Territories and that the
fugitive slave law is never TO be repealed modified
The people the North devoted to the true pnc
Piles Of the Union, and nowhere did this devotion burn
purer or brighter than in the State he had the honor in
part to represent although he had heard people Of that
State declare that the fugitive slave law might be mod
fed And it treason to suggest that that law might
be improved? Were the freest people the globe
and was this the model Republic of the world and yet
had we law for the return Of fugitive slaves which was
permanent and which was TO override the Constitution
and stand unalterable forever?
Mr. G. then proceeded to prove that the power of Con-
gress to prohibit slavery in the Territories full and
ample by the arguments Of of the ablest Southern
statesmen in the present Congress, Judge BERRIES
and also to prove that the declarations and opinions Of
another no less distinguished Southern statesman Mr
CALHoUS the anti-savery sentiment in the North was
not only Just as sentiment feeling, but principle.
The Committee then and reported progress.
COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS.
Mr. McMULLEN asked the unanimous consent Of the
House Introduce in pursuance Of previous notice,
bill to fix the compensation Of members Of Congress
Objections we're made
And the House adjourned