Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-01

sion from few minutes after one to ha!f past Iourf NJ
when the question taken and the petition referred 70
the Committee ON the Judiciary without count.
And the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
| The SPEAKER laid before the House communication
from the War Department. transmitting, In compliance
with resolution of the Goth instant copy Of Fnlers
survey Of the Ohio river and in the vicinity Of Mari
etta and other information in regard thereo which was
! laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
/ Mr.. SHELTON by consent, introduced bill for the
better preservation Of life and property from shpwreck
on the coast of the United States; which read twice
and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
| MAILS TO THE PACIFIC
The House then resumed the consideration of the bill
to provide weekly mail service between the Atlantic
States and San Francsco the question being on the mo-
ton of Mr. CoBB reconsider the vote by which it was
ordered to be engrossed for third reading.
The bill authorizes and directs the Postmaster General
to contract with the lowest and best bidder after the
usual advertisement for the transportation OF the mails
from New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, and from
New Orleans San Francisco ALSO from San Francisco
to New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and to New
Orleans by the expeditions practicable routes the
service to be performed semmontbly and at such times
under the direction Of the Postmaster General in con-
nexon with other mail service, will secure, near as
practicable, weekly mail each way between the points
Designated the entire cost Of such service not to exceed
/ two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum.
Mr. COBB stated that his object in submitting the mo-
ton reconsider to enable the House to amend the
BILL if they found it necessary in such manner as would
make 1t acceptable to all.
/ After debate, in which Messrs McAiULLEN, HAVEN,
McDOUGALL, CHAMBERLAIN, and MACE participa-
ted, the motion to reconsider was agreed to- Ayes lO
noes "A.
/ Mr. McDUUGALL then moved to amend the bill
to make it the duty of the Postmaster General to de-
terne any contract to be made Tor this service ana
not as to existing contracts.
4 The amendment agreed to: Yeas 100, nays so.
The question then being ordering the bill to be en-
crossed for third reading
Mr. BRIDGES moved that the bill be laid on the table;
which motion prevailed Yeas a. nays 10.
Mr.. McDoUGALL moved to reconsider the vote by
] which the bill was laid on the table
\ Mr. LETCER moved to lay the motion to reconsider
on the table.
Mr. NlcD0UGALL moved that the House 60 into Com
mtee of the Whole the state of the Union; which
The motion to reconsider was then laid on the table
/ Ayes 70, noes 49,
Mr. PHELPS moved that the House 60 into Committee
| of the Whole on the state of the Union
Mr.. PECKHAM hoped the motion would not prevail, but
that the business the Speakers table would be taken
up that the resolution fixing day for the Adjournment
Of the session might be considered
The motion of Mr.. PHELPS was agreed to: Ayes 81,
noes not counted
THE MEXICAN TREATY.
And thereupon the House went into Committee of the
Whole on the of the Union Mr. DISNEY of Ohio,
in the chair and resumed the consideration Of the bill
enable the President Of the United States to fulfil the
third article of the treaty between the United States
and the Mexican Republic Of the thrtieh December,
thousand eight hundred and fifty three, amended by
the Senate Of the United States, the question being
the motion Of Mr. JONES' Of Tennessee to strike out the
enacting clause
/ Mr. JONES withdrew his notion debate having now
been closed by order Of the House.
! Mr. HOUSTON availing himself of the privilege ac-
corded the member reporting the measure under conside-
ration proceeded close the debate this subject
lie caused TO be read, embodyng his views on the
rights and duties Of the House respecting appropriations
for carrying treaties into effect the resolutions adopted
by the House Of Representatives in 1885, when President
Washington declined accedng to the call of the House
for the correspondence in relation to the Jay treaty He
agreed with these resolutions that it was the consu
tonal right and duty Of the House to deliberate on the
expedency Of appropriation to carry treaty into eff
feet aud to act thereon in their judgment might be
most conducive to the public good
He contended that it was fair deduction from the
By gentlemen that they did desire the
correspondence the subject Of this treaty. and decar
ed that he would not have objected to the resolution of
MIR PECKuAM had it been offered at the proper time he
replied the argument of Mr. BENTON and denied that
the duty of the Executive to consult the House be-
fore making treaty requiring an appropriation ana pro-
ceeded show that such had been the prace under
the Government. .
| Mr.. BENTON, moving pro foraa amendment, SAID
that the honorable gentleman had censurei two or three
members from New York for not having applied in time
for the papers relating to TIE treaty. for not haVng APP
piled when the message in for not having applied
to the Committee Of Ways and Means He would leave
it the gentleman from Alabama though ne was unW
ling to repeat what passed between members in their
seats whether at the moment the message was brought
in and referred he did not go to the gentleman and ask
for the papers and when he said that had come he
did not insist that the committee should call for them
i Mr. HOUSTON replied that tho gentleman and HIM
self had held three Conversations about these
papcr but he did remember that what the gentle
man from Missouri had just said had passed between
them.
Mr. BENTON said that his recollection was different,
and he thought that he did insist that it the duty Of
the committee bring the papers before the House
Mr. SEWARD here raised the question that the gen.
eman was in order, he combining himself
to his amendment
Considerable discussion ensued when it. was decided
that Mr. BENTON was liz order.
Mr.. BENTON then withdrew his amendment, and sub
mted another:
Proridsd, That part of the herein appropriated
shall be from the Treasury until the President shall
FIRST have uncaed to the House all the correspondence,
Instructions &c connected with the negotiation of the treaty
He remarked that he would repeat what he had said
The moment the message asking this appropriation and