The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-16

pensye system, and that shall be compelled 10 return
Mr. HUNTER am not prepared 10 answer the gem
tleman's question II will be more appropriate 10 make
the inquiry when the lighthouse bill comes up. do
former in point OF expense / imagine II will be a com
pca,ed inqury-one which will take the department
some time 10 answer.
The amendment was agreed 10.
| Mr.. HUNTER have one more amendment from the
Committee Finance-to insert at the end OF the first
| section the following:
For the reapproprlaon Of 1854 40, being portion Of
custom house al Easpo, Maine and carried 10 the sur.
plus fund on the 3oth OF June, 1856"
| That according TO estimate.
The amendment agreed 10.
Mr.. DAWSON. | wish to PROFOUND question to the
chairman of the Committee on Finance. | discover in
line eleven OF the first section appropriation for outfit
of charge d'aflares TO Austria IA 500 understand
that outfit to be intended for the charge 10 be sent TO Swe
den. There was an appropriation for such purpose
which was omitted in the enrolment at the last session
ask whether any appropriation has been made TO supply
MI HUNTER The word +" Denmark" has been sub
sttuted tor Austria at the request OF The Secretary oil
Stale
| Mr.. SHIELDS. offer the following amendment:
"That hereafter the salary the Of the sword al
the Military Academy West Point shall be at the Of
Bl 200 per annum."
| will state as reason for offering this amendment,
that in making provision for the West Point Military
Academy this omitted consequently there a
deficiency. AT the time the bill was up we had not sui
| other items were provided for this was omitted.
| The PRESIDENT. Will the senator state where he
wishes the amendment to come in
Mr. GWlN. hope, while the senator is finding place
where TO insert his amendment he will withdraw 1t, and
give me an opportunity TO offer one
Mr. SHIELDS will withdraw it for the present IN
| i'll can find the proper place TO insert it.
CALIFORNIA CIVIL FUND.
! Mr. GWlN. Mr.. President, now move to amend the
bill by adding at the end OF it the following section
"SEc. lind bet f,uthr enacted, That Of moneys col
ected ia the ports now embraced wiha the limits o. Ca
lorna as duties upon foreign imports te sum Of $500
be paid the State of California, Of any money the
treasury not Otherwise appropriated, 10 apply TO The
OF the State government prior 10 the admission OF
| California into the Union as a State"
! Mr. President, will state that this is section OF
another bill which has passed the Senate twice passed
two years ago, and gain last year 1t is section that
was left out of the bill for the relief OF Gen Riley
which authorized the settlement of his accounts though
contended that should pc inserted passed the Sen
ate without opposition on former OCCASION and at the
suggestion of the senator from Texas Mr. RUsIl at the
time Gen. Rleys bill before the Senate, withdrew
great deal OF my opposition to that bill in hopes TO offer
this amendment this bill hope, therefore, that there
| will be objection TO it.
/ Mr. HUNTER For one, Mr.. President, am not will
ling to support this amendment agreed TO this provs,
ion in the bill which formerly passed the House, but
agreed 10 it, DIS then stated, as compromise Now, if
the amendment stated upon lis face that it lieu
all demands in regard to the cyl fund might vote
| the subject As IT now stands it provides that thus
900 shall be paid out of the civil fund.- and still
leaves that demand open II they choose to make here
after
Mr. GWlN. will state to the Senate that think
the senator from Virginia has Inexperienced this
ton II does make that statement, nor did the SEN
ator from Maryland, Mr. PEARCE,] when he drew il
up, intend TO have that meaning; he intended il
outfit TO the State TO be paid OF the moneys collected
there, for the civil fund, under the act OF the "a OF
March, ls49.
In regard what stated by the from Vir-
GINA, Mr. HUNTER hope the Senate will not put in
any such proviso regard 10 this amendment The Sen
/ "A as mes an aiou fpr iba
civil fund.- and there is nothing that creates
CRY feeling among the people OF California than the pur
pose manifested of Withholding this fund. The judg-
ment will be increased al all by adding this provso
And will here say TO the Senate that to refuse hi,
$500, 900 is placing us in condition TO abandon and vo-
late the pghed faith OF the State. There is provision
in the law OF the State OF California, by which the
whole of the proceeds Of this civil fund, whatever they
may be- are TO be set apart TO the payment OF the State
debt, and here bonds TO creditors for that
purpose. hope, therefore, inasmuch as the Senate
have twice passed this amendments IN these very words
that they will not alter it now.
/ Mr.. BRODHEAD. I think this would be very
proper time 10 come TO understanding in regard 10
this civil fund OF California. II recollect argh that
fund amounted IN all 10 ten, twelve, thirteen hundred
thousand dollars. Now, II would be proper TO ascer-
tain at this time how much Of this fund in the hands
OF Gen Riley will be paid out under the bill which we
passed for his relief In that bill he directed 10 have
credit for certain which he paid OF that fund
TO defray the expenses OF carrying on thegovernmen in
California. How much, therefore. OF this fund will be
left in the treasury after the accounts OF GeR Riley have
neen settled lnat ~ tbe nfst inquiry winch make
Then how much will il be proper for us to pay out oil
that civil fund to California When this subject was
up before the Senate at the last session, concurred in
the opinion, which seemed 10 be general in this body
that would give all this civil fund kind OF outht
and by way of compromise. | admit that my friend from
California Mr. Gwsl did not agree 10 il, but contend.
ed that the whole OF il due 10 California and should
be paid. Now, have doubt that either the chairman
oil the Committee on Finance, mr.. HUNTER,l or the
senator from California, state about how much oil
this civil fund viii be left after Gen. Reys accounts are
settled.
Mr. GWIN. The bill that passed few days ago pro-
vidcs for the payment OF the expenses OF the de eio gov
eminent, the expenses OF holding the convention, and
also OF the overland emigration. These three items OF
senator from Maryland, mir PEARcE,l when we acted
California is probably eight nine hundred thou
posed when that bill passed the Senate that one-haf OF
10 which The treasury OF California asserted her right
The Senate has acted literally in passing this prov
upon two different occasions have already stated thai
this civil fund is pledged for the payment OF State
debt, which contracted for carrying on govern
ment and If it is the understanding that we to give
up all claim 10 that civil fund.- then required e
withdraw all the securities have pledged to oul
creditors for taking bonds Now, that bill
acted upon here instructions have been sent TO my col
league and myself, which will read TO the Senate
Resoiped or the Senate and Assp,bly, That deepl,
that Congress has long delayed In refunding
the State OF California moneys collected in her ports anc
from the honest industry Of her citizens, previous her ad
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