Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-29
CONGRESS.

TN SENATE.

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sas bonds held by the United States which referred
to the Committee on Finance and ordered to be printed
TThe amount Of the bonds is 1888 600, due interest
making an os S o said Se soDSs the
trust for the Chckasaw Indians, which interest was
paid to LIST July 1912, since which nothing has been
ceved from the stock on account Of either principal or in
to $780, 100 making total Of $146, 100 TO indemnify
the trust fund the Chckasaws Congress have from time
time appropriated the arrearages of the interest the
extent OF $O6,7OO.1
WORKS ON PORTS JEFFERSON AND TAYLOR
The PRESIDENT Of the Senate also laid before the
body report from the Secretary of War; in answer to
resolution of the Senate calling for information the
progress Of the work at Torugas and Key West which
referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
The appropriations for Fort Taylor, at Key West
average about per year. and at that annual
Of appropriation will take between twelve and thirteen
years to make the remaining expenditure Of $S05 000
required to complete the work according estimate For
Fort Jefferson the appropriations have averaged about
$4,000 To complete the fort it will require the annual
rate for upwards Of eighteen years. the estimate calls
for $3.50 &c., The Secretary thinks the best mode would
be to appropriate for each fort at the whole
timated to complete each fort leaving authority with
the resident 70 assign as large portion annually
may DO deemed compatible with advantageous prose-
cution of the work
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS.
The following memorials and petitions were presented
and appropriately referred:
BY Mr. SEWARD: From William ]. Young, of the city
OF NEW 1Ork, that OF the United
States may be amended establish for the United
States and its Territories uniform system Of marriage
directly prohibiting the establishment Of and legazaon
in any FORM of system of bgamy or plurality Of wives
of concubinage within the American Union and the
protection Of the citizen against the powers Of prestcr
oFulence corruption, and Of arbitrary to monopoze
BY Mr. FISH From Dr. IIartwe Carver. asking for
himself and associates charter establish railroad
from some point the Mississippi Missouri river
from Lake Michigan, to the Pacific.
By Mr. MORTON. olut;o oft baJ c;s
iaure of Florida in favor of grants Of land for the
bishment of port of entry at Patka for the appoint
ent OF an agent to examine the archives Of Cuba and
copy al documents relating to the early history of Flo
rda, and in favor of the claim of j. b. Bates and from
the naval storekeeper Pensacola asking be relieved
from his accountability for sundry articles missing from
BY Mr.. SHIELDS: From C. L. Richter, asking to be
paid for his time and services in constructing the furnace
IN which the equestrian statue of Gen. Andrew Jackson
was cast The memoralst states that he called
tobe engaged to model and make mouldngs cast the
statue and that partnership proposed to him by
Mr. Mills that he invented and constructed the furnace
which was used in casting the statue, and had made
noulds OF the body Of General Jackson, while Mr. Mills
was rumored abroad the actual inventor Of the furnace
BY Mr.. MALLORY: From members of the Chamber of
Commerce at Apaachicola asking an appropriation for
the removal of the bar off that harbor
By Mr.. CASS: From the German American Demo-
cratic League of the city Of New York. asking the passage
Of the homestead bill.
Mr.. CASS spoke Of the pleasure lie felt in presenting
this petition in favor Of which met his appro-
baton lie had already given his views in favor Of
bl though he was not pleased with all the details. lie
thought no better disposition could be made Of the public
lands than to grant them to persons who able
purchase, but who would become actual settlers.
Petltlons We're also presented by Messrs. SEBASTIAN
SEWARD, BELL, Bi0DHEAD, TOUCEY, FELCH, and
WALKER, and Seferred to the proper committees.
THE FLORIDA INDIANS.
Mr.. SEBASTIAN from the Committee on Indian Az
fairs TO which referred the message Of the President
communicating the fact that the Seminole Indians had
refused to from Florida submitted report which
was ordered to be printed
This report gives statement Of the facts connected
with this subject from the time of the treaty Of Paynes
landing in 1882 down the present time showing the
in which these Indians have procrasnated
and how the time for their removal in the instance
anticipated their part by the commencement of
hos,ieS, the murder Of the United States agent the
massacre Of the troops under Major Dade and the stimuli
numbering of the inhabitants in isolated positions
and the burning OF their dwellings.
The report goes to state that the assignment OF
land to these Indians by Gen. Worth, il conditioned
that his regiment OF United States troops should be
kept in Florida to Gordon keep the Indians
within their limits, and thus give little security to the
advancing settlements and farmers of the interior So
far from keeping within the limits assigned them, with
ample ranges for cattle, rivers abundanty supplied
with fish, and the hammock prairie barren, and prairie
eemng with game they sought the settlements in 1S49
and commenced the work Of murder and destruction
ofproperty Again troops ordered to Florida,
and again the Indians allowed to remain and now,
although deputaon OF the chiefs at the seat of
Government last September, and entered into written
agreement by which their removal would be immediate
and na they refuse to CO. and insist to the great
derment of the interest Of Florida remain within her
limits.
The committee in thus briefly advertng to condition
Of events they exist in Florida not little
prised at the tary policy of the Government which has
sought TO the Indian under the full force Of
tual obligation, and yet has allowed them all the adyan
tage Of delay and the protracton Of event which the
safety and prosperity Of the State demands
The committee further express its belief that the Unit
efStates bound to complete what in 1885 they so
nsuccessfully began and which for period Of eighteen
years has allowed within the borders Of sovereign State
band Of persons hostile her inhabitants their security
and property.
The committee express doubt to the best mode
pursue to effect the end sought vz the speedy and
unconditional removal of the Indians from the State
Experience has demonstrated that they enjoy immu-
mites the white in their endurance Of fatigue
and that they susceptible Of all the influences which
break down reposc by quick marches and night attacks
their camping grounds That whenever these courses
have been pursued by military force they have been in
vsriably followed by success. tl
The committee also suggest that the troops be accom-
panied By surveyors that each day smarch would thus
place in possession Of the Government knowledge Of its
territory and subject to such laws Of entry exist else
where and that such operations would than ever
convince tho Indians that the Government in earnest
in their removal
That at this late period Of delay and aithessness on
the part Of the Semnoles, the committee would urge
prompt and decisive to be pursued to rid the
country Of struggle too long waged, and to give to
sovereign State that peace and quetude which for so
many years she has sought in vain To attain this object