Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-07

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and WALKER participated and the motion reconsider
was rejected and the resolution read third time and
1 passed.
On motion by Mr.. BRIGHT, the Senate proceeded tc
the consideration OF Executive BUSINESS and after
time spent therein the doors opened and the
| adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The SPEAKER, by unanimous consent, laid before tht
House the following memorial
To the Honorable The Senate and House Of Representatives.
! ofhe Congress Of the United States:
The undersigned, accountants clerks messengers &c. il
the Treasury Department of the Federal Government respect
fully petition your honorable bodies Increase Of
PER their respective salaries enable them
the largely expense of hiring present and aprn
he ts to gears growing out Oft great influx Of California
gold which has increased the pricef every necessary of m
from my hundred per They deem all argumen
in support tie reasonabeness and justice the prayer
your honorable bodies and the precedent Of 1857 when
similar of relief granted under less
urgent than the presently well the practice Of the
Houses of Congress in relation TO their clerks.
And your petitioners win ever pray.
1.-The memorial signed by about hundred and sixty
| tire, clerks Of the treasury Department.
| NJ, GENTRY said that being a housekeeper here his
own experience enabled him that the facts set
forhin the memorial true. and he presumed that
there person in the city OF Washington whckeFt
house who would not bear testimony 10 the run upe
which predcated the prayer of the petovrs fo IN
increase of compensation All the articles ma necssa
res brought in the market had advanced ey peg cent
within the last two years. and p did hef e no"
clerk salary of thousand doltdrs yeaIcou.o iiys.
In his ornon an increa Sc Of twenty pr cent on ther
salaries would certainly be just and rope anu ne SIM
ply mad, these remarks hoping tnat thf a,tenton OF
membere would be directed TO this SUBJECT ana that the
/ chairman Of the Committee Of Ways and Means Alr.
/ HoUsToxA and his colleague, tNlr JqHs,l member
that committee would offer amend nent to the civil
and diplomat bin giving relief tottese msritoreas
4 people c,;..oa -
The msnorial was then referred to tie Committee OF
WAYS andMeans.
i FEES OF LAW OFFICES.
The SHAKER stated that the FIRST business IN order
was the Consideration Of the bill to regulate ices anu
to be ALLOW ed clerks marshals and attorneys u my
cult and rot of the United States ana ior otner
PURPOSES yesterday reported from the Committee on the
! Judiciary With sundry amendments
Mr. 81 DS with tho understanding q the chairman OF
,he a. N stee on the Judiciary, moved postpone the
e oonsideration of this bill until thebilin relation
~ ~ leeing bridges which was the x business IN
4 or5~ snould have been disposed Of
Nossrs CARTIER and FICkLlN o9lecqd.
to SPEAKER stated that objection having been made
no notion TO postpone would be in order ecept to post
pone to a day certain.
- Mr. BOWIE moved postpone the furner consdera-
ton of the subject until Wednesday next
Mr. McLANAHAN hoped the motion wouf not prevail
And the question being aken the motion as disagreed
90. Ayes 49, noes not counted
The reading of the bill occupied the remainder OF the
morning hour
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC APPR0PRIATIsN BILL.
| ON motion of Mr. HOUSTON the House went into
Committee Of the Whole the state Of the Uton Mr..
psrLps of Missouri in the chair and resumed the con-
sderaton of the bin making appropriations forlhe civil
and diplomatic expenses of Government for the rear end
| ing 30th June, 1853, and for other purposes
! Mr. BOWIE moved to insert in the bill the following;
Whereas the Congress Of the United States e 23d Of
December $780, resolved unanimously Tbata maIbe monu
be erected by the United States in the Capitol at the
city Of Washington and that the family Of Gem Washing
son be requested permit his body to be deposited under IL
and that the be designed to commemorate
the great Of his military and political life which re-
solution remains be executed 70 redeem TIE faith th'
United thus pledged, and commemorate the tnesttrc6,
services Industrious rirtues of Washington one hundred
thousand dollars hereby directed TO be paid out OF any
appropriated money in the Treasury to the Washington Ma
tona Monument Society, aid In the erection OF the
monument being built by that society on the pubic
grounds in the city of Washington.
i Mr. HOUSTON raised the question that the amendment
was not in order He had objection to joint resou-
on being introduced for the purpose contemplated by
amendment time should be allowed for examination
/ The CHAIRMAN decided the amendment out OF ORDER
on the ground that by Of the rules no appropaon
could be reported any general appropriation Dill or De
in order rs an amendment thereto for any expenditure
not previously authorized by law BESIDES the ameiu-
ment was not germane the bill before the committee
Mr. BOWIE remarked that the appropriation proposed
merely to carry out provisions q .ne
/ ton Of 1899, and therefore it was IN order.
The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentleman appear iron
/ the decision Of the Chair
4 Mr. BOWIE. do, most respectfully and reluctantly
He repeated that there law of Congress which mad
n obligatory upon the United States to dothe work but
il had never been executed His amendment to exc
| cute that law.
The Question was then taken and the decision Of n
! Chair was sustained Ayes so, noes 49,
! Mr. EVANS moved to amend the bill by inserting h
| following:
tho President the United States Ii hereby authorize
and eouired TO levy the light duties and charges
foreign vessels entering the ports and harbors Of the Unite
states or passing the lighthouses thereof charged
any corporation by the foreign Governments tho citizen
or subjects of which such vessels belong upon vessels
the limited States said money, when collected, to be
ed to the Treasury the amount thereof to be reported
lilly to Congress.
| Mr. JONES, Of Tennessee, submitted whether tn
amendment in orderf
| The CHAIR decided that the amendment was no
/ in order
Mr. EVANS appealed, when the decision Of the Chat
/ was not sustained
i Mr.. EVANS said that this a very important ques
ton The lighthouses Of England were in the hands o
a close corporation known the Trinity Board. Tn
British Government did not appropriate dollar out
its treasury for their support but farmed them out
private individuals who levied duties under the directo
Of the board upon oil coming into their port
where lighthouses existed They had collected from on
ships within the last ten years eleven hundred thouan
dollars for the support Of that system Our Minister, III
Hon Abbott Lawrence bad by the direction Of the Coz