The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-01-27
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.


MONDAY, JANUARY IL.
Several private bills were passed amons
which was one granting pension to Mrs
| Mcneil widow of the late Major Gen. Mcneil
Mr.. Dean. of New York. moved a resolution
| authorizing the erection of a colossal statue tC
Gen Washington, the rules having been sus
pended for that purpose and that it be referred
10 Committee on the state of the Uniou-the
object being to carry into effect an act of I7s3
Mir Orr moved that the rule be suspended
which required that the resolution be referred
~ the Committee of the Whole.
The bill alluded to, requiring that the statue
should he in the Roman costume and be exc
cuted by foreign artist, the resolution was
amended, so that it should be in the Continen-
tai dress, and that the statue be executed by
Clark Mills, who produced the statue of Gen.
Jackson, recently erected.
After a short and unimportant di' cussion,
the resolution was adopted under the operation
OF the previous question.
Mr. Marshall, of California, moved to sus
pend the rules to enable him to introduce a
resolution placing ten millions of dollars at the
disposal of the President; which being objected
to, the yeas and nays were called on motion
To suspend the rules; which was negatived-
yeas % nays ll5.
Mr. Polk, of Tennessee, moved to suspend
the rules to enable him to introduce resolu-
ton granting to Clark Mills s., to re-
munerate him for the equestrian statue of Gen.
eral Jackson, recently erected in Lafayette
square; which was negatiyed
Mr.. Polk then modified the resolution by fill
ing up the blank with $4,000 and the yeas
and nays being taken on the suspension of the
r,,lna tho ,nNfin, racsaf;uaj a
65-there not being two-thirds vote.
On motion Of Mr.. Houston of Alabama. the
small note bill was referred back from the
Committee.
Mr.. Bowie of Maryland, objected to the
procedure, rs he had an amendment to propose.
On motion of MIR Jones. of Tennessee, the
special order, referring back the BILL was post
poned till tomorrow.
After some other business of minor mpor-
lance, the House adjourned at an early hour
TUESDAY, JANUARY 49,
After an Intellectual attempt to secure the
second reading Of u bill to establish branch
mint in New York city, the House proceeded
to the consideration of the Small Note bill for
the District Of Columbia, which, after amend
ments, it passed by vote of 81 to 49,
And it then adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARxu19
The Speaker having reviewed s decision of
yesterday, decided the bill rep6lted from the
Committee of Ways and Means, to establish a
Branch Mint in New York did not 90 to the
Speakers table by the expiration of the morn
ing hour, but that it now came up as uniinish-
ed business, the question being, shall the bill
be rejected
4 II. a.. 81. -
ing to the second reading of the bill yesterday
was be had understood it was the desire OF it
friends to spring it upon the House. and move
the previous question, thus cutting OIL debate
and putting it on its passage.
The morning hour having expired,
The Speaker laid before the House severa
communications, among them one from tn,
President of the United States, transmitting
report from the Secretary of the Interior, from
which it appears that the efforts of that De
partmcut to induce the Indians in Florida t,
emigrate to the country assigned to their tribe
west Of the Mississippi, have been entirely I'm
successful. The only alternative that now re
maine, the President says, il either to compe
them by force to comply with the treaty made
with the tribe in May, 1882, by which the,
agreed to emigrate within three years from tina
date, or to allow the arrangement had will
them IN 1912, by which they were to remain
in the temporary occupation of the portion @
the Peninsula, until the Government SHOULD
see fit TO remove them
The message was referred to the Committe
on Military Affairs.
The Speaker likewise laid before the Hous
, message from the President of the Unite
States communicating dispatches received fror
, Her Most Catholic Majesty, accompanied by
letter OF instructions from the Spanish Govern
ment relative to the Amstad case The Pres
dent says in Mr.. Calderon's communicable
/, reference il had to former letters addressed b
him to the Department of State on the sam
subject, and IN earnest wish il expressed tina
final settlement Of this long-pending clair
be made. The tone of the letter from Manu-,
Bertram dc Lis is somewhat more peremptor
than could be wished, but this circumstanc
will not probably prevent Congress from gi'
. ing the suggestions the attention to which the
may be entitled Referred to the Committc
on Foreign Affairs
, MIR. Stuart moved TO proceed to business o
, the Speakers table. where, among much othe
business, is covered up the French Spoliatio
, bill.
Mr., Jones, of Tennessee, moved tho Hou.
60 into Committee of the Whole on the stat
. of the Union on the Deficiency bill
+ A contest ensucd much time was occupe
in calling the yeas aud nays and the Hou,
adjourned without agreeing to either propos
ton.
. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20.
, Mr.. Tuck, Of New Hampshire, opposed II
+, establishment of II branch mint at New Yor
{ which he considered would cause an unnece
| sary outlay of public money, and particular
as a bullion fund to the amount OF two million
= Of dollars would have to be provided; and WEI
into II statistical view of the subject in suppo
OF his opposition.
4 Mr., Briggs, of New York, said the gentl
man from Now Hampshire would not ha'
= raised that objection, had he made himself u
quainted with the bill which provided that !
creator amount than $3.50 900 should be q
propriated, the city undertaking TO provide &
tho additional cost of ground, buildings, al
machinery.
3 The morning hour having expired
|, Mr. Houston, of Alabama, moved that h
House proceed 10 the bushes ON the Speaker
table and also that it resolve itself into a Con
mittee of the Whole ON the state Of the Unto
| The latter motion being negatiyed the ye
and nays having been called the House to,
up the business on the Speakers table; an
alter II short time, motion was made to No IN
Committee ON tho state of the Union al