Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-08-05

taments OF mail service and pay within said year which
was laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
NATIONAL ARMoRIEs.
Mr.. DICKINSON asked consent to offer the following
resolution:
csolps That the Secretary Of War be and hereby
aueed to communicate information he have in rela
visited the Springfield armory under the of Sd March
1862 for the Office Of Superintendent Of either of the national
armores, any recommendation by either of said commits
oners for the appointment Of other to that oce
also in relation to application by in behalf Of Of
the witnesses from Harpers Ferry Springfield who testified
before the select committee of the House to whom was
ferred the question Of the expedency of employing military
officers to the supervision of civil works for any Office in either
of said armores Recommendation of either of said
ton any application by either members Of said select
committee in their own behalf in behalf Of other per-
son PERSONS for appointment to connected with
the prosecution Of Of the various public works which
the subject of inquiry by such committee.
Messrs. VANSANT and CHURCHWELL objected.
Mr.. FAULKNER. I hope the objection will be with
drawn Let us have all the facts in justice to the par
ties implicated.
Objection was withdrawn, and the resolution was
adopted.
TELEGRAPH TO THE PACIFIC. &
On motion Of Mr.. FARLEY, by consent, Senate bill
authorizing the construction of subterranean line of
telegraph from the Mississippi Missouri rivers to the
Pacific taken from the Speakers table, read
twice, and referred to the Committee Territories
Mr.. WHEELER asked consent to present the memorial
of merchants Of the city Of New York trading with San
Juan, asking remuneration for property recently destroy
ed at that place by the United States Cyane
Objection was made.
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC BILL.
Mr.. HOUSTON, from the Committee Of Ways and
Means reported back the amendments Of the Senate
the civil and diplomatic BILL with the Recommendation
concur in Others and in with amendments
ana ay were referred to the Committee of the Whole
the state OF the Union
Mr.. H. then moved that the House 60 into committee
fnr he pnrn aOfc maid
MIR. DISNEY hoped the gentleman from Alabama would
withdraw his notion that the House might have OPP
Portuny to take up the amendments Of the Senate to
the homestead BILL
fCries of "No," "no."l
Mr.. DAWSON also expressed the hope that the gentle
man from Alabama would withdraw his notion that he
might have opportunity Of asking the House to take
up the homestead bill, as amended by the Senate. He
was anxious to have that bill further amended
fully to secure the rights of actual settlers and to
it to final action before the House.
MIR. HOUSTON declined to withdraw his motion; when
the question was taken, and it was agreed to.
The House accordingly went into Committee of the
Whole the state Of the Union Mr Orr of South Ca
rona In the proceeded to consider the amend
number to the bill making appropriations for the civil
and diplomatic expenses Of Government for the year
ending the Both Of June, 1866.
The Recommendation Of the Committee Of Ways and
Means in regard to each amendment to nom
concur therein almost invariably acquesced in with
but little debate.
When the following amendment was read, Mr.. HOUS-
TON stated that the Committee of Ways and Means
commended o non-concurrence therein
For the erection Of public buildings in the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska to be expended under the direction Of
the thereof respectively thousand dol
lars Tor each OF said and much of the act for
the organization Of said Territories located the seat Of
Of Kansas Fort Leavenworth is hereby
pealed."
. Mr.. PHELPS urged the necessity Of the adoption Of
the amendment and trusted the House would not follow
the recommendation Of the Committee of Ways and
Means
Mr.. HAVEN hoped the amendment would be rejected,
in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee
OF Ways and Means Itproposed he said to open door
in the Nebraska act which others might wish to enter
He referred to the haste with which that was
forced through the House, and inquired if gentlemen
were sick of that act already? As the amendment
posed to repeal much Of the Nebraska act as located
the seat of government of that Territory Fort Leayen
worth he desired to know would not be in order to
move to repeal much Of it declared the Missouri
compromise imperative and void? If such a motion
would be in order and if gentlemen the other side Of
the House desired to repeal much of the
was obnoxious to them he thought it would be well for
those who opposed to it to follow the example thus
set them He hoped the committee would vote down the
amendment.
Mr.. VALLEY moved to amend that part of the amend
ment Of the Senate in relation to the seat Of
of Kansas to make it read, "and much of said
act as abrgates the 9Th section of the act providing
the admission Of Missouri into the Union be and the same
is hereby repealed"
VI tennessee, raised the question oruer
that the amendment was not germane to the bill.
The CHAIRMAN so decided
Mr.. GlDDINGS then moved SO to amend the latter
portion Of the amendment make it read and the
act Tor the organization Of said Territories is hereby
repealed"
Mr.: Wright, OF Pennsylvania, raised the question
that the amendment was not in order.
The CHAIRMAN was Of the opinion that the amend
ment was in order. IA
Mr.. STANTON, of Kentucky, appealed from the deci-
sion of the Chair the ground that should the amend
men of the gentleman from Ohio be agreed to- it would
nullify the whole section.
And the question being taken, Shall the decision of
the Chair stand the Judgment Of the Committee 1t
was decided in the affirmative: Ayes 81, noes so.
Mr. GIDDINGS said that in his opinion the Nebraska
act should be repealed and he believed that nearly every
member of the House concurred with him in this opinion
He believed that there but few members Of the
House who did not from the Utmost of their
hearts, desire the repeal Of this 1t had had its
full effect 1t had obterated all party lines it had left
the President in meagre minority in this hail. and il
had created excitement throughout the country
quaed by any other act Of Congress- They had the
effects Of the law throughout the whole land North and
South; they had its effects in this hail. in the Sem
ate chamber and in the Cabinets and had they not seen