The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-30

then rent out three escors and all three cscors cost
Svooo andnc sloo 600 stated by the Senator; the
o'her seV Vo werr applied by the Quartermasters De-
'nnt TO other services e admitted that thesc ad
vanceF by Collector King were Illegal and had becn
anned by the administration but the large advance he
thouGni might h excused by the Senator the
GROUND OF impcros necessity that hc recommended Col
iso'or King TO advance tho 5000. which much
Illegal a. If it had been million The Commis-
sioners ncef atcd trcae and in them have stipulated
what h had no right to- to supply the Indians immedi-
e! Win beef cattle &c. and have proceeded to execute
'ho.e teaes and have drawn for the amount of those
conuacts Noonc could pretend that such powers
yestsd in commissioners They however pleaded the
cey ana urgency Of the state OF aairsthe large body
OF indians their warikc character, &C. The Senator
complained that these treaties had not been sent
TO inc senate They were not rcceivedby the President
u ABOUT e 1T OF February and the President has most
properly delayed acting them till some further and
more reliable information can be had upon the subject
This necessary for the Senate for the
PRESIDENT, and until obtained neither act under
sandngy. Iio knew California was opposed to the
eauss ana That she demands the removal of the In.
dians beyond her territory lie showed the cruelty and
injustice Of this conduct The President condemn
thcse contracts for beef &c. to supply the Indians and
the senator askod-why then were not the commissioners
dismissed! There three commissioners and one
snbagent One commissioner declares ne opposed all
had been dismissed The other commissioner whom every
one admitted was the best one of the number has been
applied to for information to enable the departments to
act understahdingy Were he dismissed now, It Is not
probable he would trouble himself by answering amy
questions He then replied to Mr. Hunter lie denied
the Justice of that senator's remarks that tho present
Secretary of War was induced to make reforms by the
action OF the Inst Congress The present peace establish
ment is far greater than it in As. The ride rcgi-
mens then unknown to service and being mounted,
were far more expensive Many Of the infantry
mounted The artillery Dragons and Infantry had all
OF the army unknown in 1915. These were in
quenco of the annexation and the ccsson by Mexico.
The territory had been doubled Most Of it was in
mote regions. without population or products and in
tested by awoss bands OF ferocous Indians who lived by
rapine and warfare The frontier settlements and towns
in these settlements are much entitled protection
W q
them thousands of miles from navigation In 1S45 there
was only post which ninety miles from steamboat
navigation No comparison Of estimates for the present
yearwh those Of 1916 could bou proper The present
Secretary Of War into Office in August 1850. Con-
grees and the country then intensely agitaeo and
solely occupied with object 1t adjourned the first
OF October, and met agan in December. Iie has had
only two months to become acquainted with his Office and
to extend operations. In this time he did this and
expected to ferret out abuses which had escaped the eyes
Of his predecessors In his first report he designated
many abuses and the proper for their remedy
lie read extracts from that report and from orders issued
at the time, directing tho employment Of soldiers at
the posts in the cultivation Of grain, forage, &c.
MIR. HUNTER, (dem of Va, said that that was merely
revival of the order Of AIr. Calhoun in 1924
Mr.. PEArcE said he knew that, but inquired who had
permitted that order to become obsolete In Calhouns
time the military posts all in fertile regions Now,
for the most part they in barren ones lie also read
rapidly as possible Of all ci, cpioys in the Quarter
masters department by which thousand per-
sons had been discharged lie read other orders showing
that nearly every Of tho reforms suggested by Mr.
Hunter had been already commenced by the Secretary Of
War and were nov in operation. On the subject Of arge
expenditures for forage he reminded the honorable Soma
tor that there 10 animals in the service Of
the Quartemasters department Only half forage for
these were csmuted-the ether half being supplied by
grazing Full estimates for these animals would amount
to over 81 0OOO00 Tho department estimated il at
million and Congress gave half Of one million, hence the
deficiency.
Mir PrARcE here yielded the floor without concluding
and the Senate adjourned.
House Of Representatives.
wAsuscros, April %. 1852
GEN. RMEy's ACCOUNTS.
Mr. GoaMAs, (dem) of Ia, asked the consent Of the
House report bill to settle the account of Gen Riley
who had been detained here for some months for ha
purpose.
Mr. FIcKIry, (dcm.) Of H., objected
COMMITTEE ENROLLED BILLS.
onmotion of MIR. DA,Ly, (dem.) of Va, the Speaker
authorized to appoint additional member to the
Committee on Enrolled Bills.
The House then resumed the consideration Of
THE HOMESTEAD
Mr. WALSH, (whig) of Md, said that 1t was his priv-
ege. very humble member of the whig party to at
tend the first whg and there he took occasion
express his views the politics of the day, and stated
what would be his ultimate if the Wing National
Convention shall not adopt certain platform IL was
prevented by sickness from attending the last caucus
but he was here to-day in the exercise Of the privi
loge which belongs to him. to endorse to the fullest
tent what the signcrs of the recent manifesto to the
wings Of the United States have said with regard to
their action on that occasion. This was personally
important to him but Of consequence to the nation
because when nythng great glorious is to be done
md the nation saved and the constitution vndicatcd,
Kentucky seems 70 have patent right to perform that
duty He did norntend to infringe upon that right.
II VIC look at the history of our country. and its
glowing pages in the Ian nguagc Of the poet
lie marched down tie cypress swamp.
rers sss stood S.s on SnF a and in n4as martial pomp
- . But here was old Kentucky.
South have endured from the time the ordinance of 1887
was passed to the present time They have been con
tuition until there is nothing left. He spoke of the
views Of General Coss the subject of slavery and
derstood the last Interpretation Of the Nicholson let
ter to be this:That the local legislature Of an organized
territorial government has the right either to establish
Mr. FnEr,As ldem } Of Miss. interrupted the gente-
by saying that he understood General Cass to take
the ground that the legislature Of territory has the
and cannot abolish slavery without tho consent of the
owners.
Mr. WALSH said that he understood this precisely and
that the prominent gentleman who holds this principle is
likely to be elected President unless the wings oanze
more cecualy and bring their fractions to unite tho
great platform of the constitution Ilc viewed terri
tory as COMMON ground for all the people Of the United
States who had right to 60 there with their slaves
they would with their horses lie noticed with severity,
the remarks heretofore made by Acssrs Rantoul and
Townshend and said the latter had appended to his
printed speech copy of the Virginia resolutions of 9s
to sanction the idea that be protected in the
States but the very instant they got the borders,
the right exists to steal them. This good old demo-
cratic doctrine of '9S il perverted to help the
Of fclops and thieves-o rob the South. and murder
citizens who go in pursuit Of their property.
lie nded this to the consideration Of the Bt-
more Democratic Convention. He corrected point Of
history as to tho number Of perons present at the first
whig quarter OF hour before il met he and
his colleague Slr Evans) counted forty five members
lie knew number came in afterwards and, to the best
Of his belief there sixty members prescnta
numerous body that which recently fixed the tim
and place for the assembling of the Whig National Con
Stevens
vaDia and Mr. Fowler of Massachusetts, gcntlcmanlet
this caucus when MIR Marshal of Kentucky declared tha
the question aging upon the table TO be regarded
as a test on the compromise.
Mr. EvANs (whig) Of Md, being appealed to, said tina