Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-08

resolution to establish post approved lZh
July, 1852.
After brief Executive session the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The SPEAKER laid before the House communication
from the President of the United States transmitting
report Of the Secretary of State with accompanying do
cuments in further compliance with the resolution of the
10th Of March, calling for information in regard to the
Black Warrior affair. So
The President transmits large Of documents,
covering correspondence from 1885 to the present tme
with reference all matters yet settled between the
United States and Spain.
The papers have relation to the following named
Crescent City steamer Ohio and schooner Manchester
John s. Thrasher steamer Falcon; schooner Lamarne;
Rey nlias Garcia Pedro Rocices Charles Peter: B. V.
Esnard; John Salyero Capt Larrahee the annuing Of
the Cuban decree Michael D. Haran seamen belonging
to the brig Jasper Black Warrior; opening Of the mails
of the United States by the authorities of Cuba and the
Contoy prisoners.
The message and accompanying documents refer
red to the Committee Foreign Affairs and ordered to
be printed.
The SPEAKER also laid before the House communi-
cation from the Secretary Of the Treasury transmitting
in compliance with resolution of the House Of the 4h
instant information relative to the expodency Of
preparation for the prosecution of persons charged with
the burning of the steamboat Martha Washington"
Referred to the Committee the Judiciary and ordered
to be printed.
The House resumed the consideration Of the bill to en-
power the Postmaster General to contract for the trans
portaon of the United States mail from New Orleans to
San Francisco according to tme yesterday reported from
the Committee the Post Office and Post Roads with
amendment in the nature of substitute.
Mr. CHURCHWELL resumed his remarks in support of
the bill He said that the bill proposed anomaly 1t
merely proposed place this branch of the Government
upon equality with individual enterprise in the way
of express lines II this should be donc there would be
talk of deficiencies in the Of the Post
Office Department The consequence would be ample
revenue and if the adoption OF this system should here
after the receipts of the service to exceed its
hn I.t LaL Loro
in the House. propose to reduce the rates of postage
half the amount they now The bill merely pro-
posed to test the principle it contained the expense Of
whoever might undertake to execute the contract, and
would establish monopoly for whoever would contract
to carry the mail in the shortest time would obtain the
contract for its transportation.
Mr.. McMULLEN contended that the bill should be re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole the of the
Union, that its provisions might be examined into and
declared the belief that its effect would be to increase
ther than diminish the expenses of the Post Office De-
partment. He moved that the bill be committed.
Mr.. GREENWOOD, by consent, introduced bill to
able the States of Missouri Arkansas, and Mississippi to
apply portion OF the swamp lands granted to each re-
spectvey to aid in the construction of the ST. Louis He
lena and New Orleans railroad; which read twice
and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION ELL.
The House then went into Committee of the Whole on
the state of tho Union (r ORR, Of South Carolina, in
the chair and resumed the consideration Of the bill max
ing appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses
of the Government for the year ending June 80 1866
Mr.. PRESTON submitted his views the Nebraska
Kansas bills He said that the bill of the House and that
of the Senate essentially differed in two respectsone
known the Badger amendment, the second the Clay
amendment. The third and greatest point Of differ
between gentlemen representing the country in this
body whether or not it was expedient to pass
proviso contained in both bills which declared that
the Missouri compromise rendered imperative by the
principles Of the legislation of 1850.
This bill proposed to organize Territory two and
half times large France, and there question
in this day generation of Importance Full Of
meaning for the future it formed Of those great
which had occurred since lS4S and which made, in his
opinion, the present Of the around usthe most
remarkable since that which marked by the birth of
country nation and the establishment of in
dependence.
1t natural organised as they were that differences
Of opinion should exist to the proprety of forever in
terdcting slavery in this great errtory it natural
that the South when they looked this great field should
desire not to be excluded from it, with their peculiar pro-
perry and from enjoying equal rights within its limits
Having expressed his dissent the theory Of squatSr
sovereignty to the extent to which believe it to ex
s! he said that the bill gave equal rights the people
Of the saveholdng and to those of the slavehodng
States to settle in these Territories and organize their
own Government in their way. He was in favor Of
this principle, and believed to be their duty to give
this right to the people lie advered to the Badger pro-
vso and said that it neither helped hurt the matter
impaired the existing condition Of things. As o
Southern man he asked no re-essabshment, by impca
ton of slavery in Nebraska and Kansas but simply
60 there and enjoy equal rights with hsNorthern brethren
He opposed the Clayton amendment and said that he
trusted that the bill not yet dead He believed that
it could yet be carried and that he could state to the
country, in his place here, that the bill had majority
in the House. II, however, it should not be passed,
they could adjourn the tribunal Of the people, and there
do battle IL they should be vanauishcd they would
the proud satisfaction Of being defeated in for
principles embalmed in the constitution Of the country
Mr.. SMITH, of New York, after a few preliminary re-
marks against slavery proceeded to oppose the Nebraska
and Kansas bill. lie was opposed TO the BILL he said,
because il nsuted the coored man, and the Maker Of all
men, in limiting suffrage the white man, and because it
restricted suffrage citizens Of the United States be
holding that the who came among from foreign
land aud declared his intention to become citizen Of
United States and to make his home among us,
phatcay American and richly entitled TO vote with
He also opposed to the bill because it conveyed
the deceptive idea non-interventon deceptive idea
because bill in point Of fact did not recognise the doc
trnc Of nonntervention. But if it really what it
pretended to be he should still be opposed to it, holding
that The doctrine Of Congressional non-interventon was
utterly absurd He also against this measure be-
it looked the existence of slavery in these Terri
tories while they were such, and actually provided
safeguards in advance Of slavery there and because 81
lowed that slavery might exist in the States to be formed
| out OF these Territories.
| The committee rese and the House adjourned
! FRrDAy April, 4 1854.