The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-03-29

part OF the amendment which relates TO colonization
objection 10 thai all want is to get the exploration.
The PRESIDENT II there be no objection, it will
Mr. PRATT. Let tus have the question.
Mr.. BAYARD. ! would ask II that comes from any
COMMITTEES
Mr.. PRATT Ii is recommended by the NAVY Depart-
ment
The question was then taken. with the following re-
sult--yeas 81, nays 22
= YEAS, Ness5s Badger, Bell. Blight, Chase. Cake.
Foo Mangum. Miller. Pesrce, PIau, smith, soule spru.
anee, Sgmner, Underwood and Wade--2l
Cass Charlton, Desaussure, Downs, Fitzpatrick, Geyer
Gwn, Hunter, Jones OF Tennessee. Mallory, Mason Nor
s1.as s@ S0'i' r'' Ha'A' Sebastian T0ae'y. and Wei
So the amendment was rejected
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC BILL.
message from the House of Representatives was re-
ceyed by Mr. Hayes, It's chief clerk announcing that it
had agreed and disagreed TO other amendment is
OF the Senate TO the bill making appropriations for the
civil and diplomatic expenses oil government for the
year ending the 30h of june 1854 and that it had agreed
10 other amendments OF the Senate TO the said BILL with
amendments.
On motion by Mr. HUNTER the Senate insisted on its
conference and Mr.. HuNTER, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr.
BELL appointed the managers of The conference
The part OF the Senate.
NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS Bull
The Senate resumed the conside ration of the bill ma.
king appropriations for the naval service for The year end
ing 80 h June, 1854
Mr.. GWlN. an Instructed BY the Committee on FL
nance To offer the following amendment. IL
looked when the bill was reported back 10 the Committee
on Finance
Strike $79 i45' in the clause for the ayment Of
officers. seamen We and insert Sso,l4s, to make the
| appropriation $3.50. ils. and add
Provided That the salary Of the assistant observer or
the National Observatory shall be So 0OO
salary of the pincPai clerk at said Observatory shall be
$i Zoo
This is in accordance with recommendation from the
| department.
| The amendment was agreed TO.
| Mr. GNIN. | have anoLer amendment from the
Committee Naval Affairs. II is to add at the end of
the last amendment, after the word dollars"
The pay Of the purser attached and doing duty
station California shall be 81 900 per annum and
he shall be allowed clerk a compensation not exceed.
ing ~, COO per annun.
When the salary OF the purser on that station was
liked six or seven years ago II was established at SO 900
per annum. The duties OF the officer have increased
since that time, and the expense OF living also The
Secretary of the Navy recommended that the salary
the should be rs 00O and that OF the clerk should
be $4,000 The committee agreed 10 fx the salary of
the purser at 81 oo0 and that OF the clerk at $4,000
This officer will have TO dsburse all the funds at the
| navy-yard there.
| The amendment was agreed to. .
! Mr.. GWlN. | have another amendment
And he proper accounting officers OF the treasury be,
and they are authorized and directed to allow and
prated tho officers, petty officers and Of the
untd States navy 10 me commissioned ohceIs noncom-
missioned officers musicians, and privaies OF the ne
ps aud the officers and o the service,
who served 10 the Pacific and the of Mexi-
co and California during the late war with Mexico. and
since the close OF the TO the 18th OF September
directed be paid officers and soldiers of army
who served in California and that this provision allow
well as that contained In the appropri
alton August 81, 1852, shall extend and
val soTekee who stationed the Pacific
going provision and by Thy navy of 1882
be paid the legal of deceased per-
who would have been entitled 10 receive the II
| living.
That is precisely the recommended in the
naval appropriation bill OF the last session. and which
was stricken under misappre hension The Secre-
tafy recommends in letter, which hope II will
be necessary 10 read.
The amendment was agreed TO.
/ MIR. GWlN have another amendment
| And there shall be allowed to Leutenants VIM Levi.
Hendon and Lardner Gbbon, officers of the United States
navy. who engaged upon exploration Of the ANA
the has been allowed to the supeotend
Of the aaval astronomical expedition Chill, by
making appropriation tor the naval service, approved
ad which period shall be eckoned from the day which
officer left The United States until the final
the exploring party.
/ Mr. UNDERWOOD. That is a practical illustration
OF the doctrine which you have just had with respect To
exploring expeditions What right had you TO send
expedition for the purpose OF exploring the region OF the
Amazon. if you may not on the same principle send
expedition for commercial purposes into Africa Wha,
right have you TO explore the north Pacific, if you may
not explore Africa on the same principle just TO
Mr. GWIN. All have to say is, that ii is recon.
mended by the department
! The amendment agreed to.
! Mr. GWIN. | have another amendment TO add to
the clause for The pay OF supentendents &c. al the sew
eral navy yards and stations, the following:
s'The first aud second clerks tho of the
principal navy yards wits Boston, New York, Wash
inxton Norfolk, and Pensacola, shall receive the pay
lowest classes of clerks In The bureau of
Navy Department receive respectively and each clerk Of
a va said navyy yards shall receive the compen-
here provided or the first clerks the
| m sndsnts."
This is in accordance with the compensation OF clerks
provided for the other day in the civil and diplomatic
appropriation bill. II equazes their salaries.
| The amendment agreed TO.
| Mr.GWIN | have another amendment from the same
committee:
For building propeller fdgate, to be fitted with the
loc engine, r. after examination the Secretary OF the
Navy shall deem expedcnt $500 000 and the said Secre
for constructing the upon such and conditions
may be determined by the department.
That is in accordance with the estimate OF the depart
ment. II is very important
| Mr. UNDERWOOD. Let us see how the ship which
has been built will succeed fret
/ Mr. BRIGHT called for the yeas and nays, and they
were ordered.
/ Mr. BORLAND. desire TO state the reason WHY |
shall in favor OF this proposition | am as little in
for The purpose OF making them any other member OF
the body; but, here proposition avail ourselves
of what seems 10 to have been established as the
greatest discovery OF this II is not only in poin,
OF economy in the construction and prope ling ships
bu, in the still greater advantage of safety think If
there s thing which 1t s incumbent upon this
meni to do it avail itsef OF and give to the country
nav visson, bu, in navigation. do believe tba, this is
al IN do will he of and h.,