The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-07-06
CONGRESS-.
TH1RTY-THIRD coNGREss-FIRsr SESSION

| Mr.. Hamln reported bill making Fronte-
ras in Texas, port of delivery; and the same
was considered and passed.
A bill creating an additional collection dis
trict in California was considered and passed.
On motion by MIR. Pearce, the Senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the bill direct.
ing a determination and adjustment Of the &C
counts between the State of Maryland and the
| United States, respecting interest on advances
made by the said State.
After some explanation, the bill was pass
| ed-yeas Sc, nays 7.
On motion by Mr.. Adams, the Senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the bill chang
ing the day for the annual meeting of Con-
gress, from the first day of December to the
first day of November.
Mr.. Walker moved to amend the bill by
striking out November, and inserting October.
The bill was opposed by Messrs. Fitzpatrick,
Benjamin, Stuart and Pratt, and supported
by Messrs. Badger and Douglas
No question was taken when this report
closed
House of Representatives. June p, 1854.
The Speaker laid before the Houss COM
munication from the Treasury Department
giving estimates of certain extra appropriations
required for lighthouses in process Of erection
$50 434; which was referred to the Committee
on Commerce, and ordered to be printed.
Mr.. Harris, of Mississippi, proposed regolu-
ton, asking the President Of the United States,
if not incompatible with the public interest, for
any information in his possession on the date OF
his proclamation, May 81, 1854, respecting the
designs CT persons in this country to invade
Cuba.
MIR. Clingman objected.
Mr.. Houston moved p resolution, closing de-
bate on the Treaty Appropriation bill at noon
TO- morrow He wished to get through with the
business, and would on Monday next move to
close the session on the 31st of July
| Mr. Haven said, that if gentlemen were not
willing to call for the Executives instructions
and diplomatic correspondence, (which had
been printed for the use Of the Senate,) he saw
20 necessity for continuing the debate mo-
acnt. No one doubted the power of the House
10 vote the appropriation asked; and no one
in the House had any adequate data upon
which to discuss the question of expediency.
Mr.. Houston demanded the previous ques-
ton.
Mr.. Campbell demanded the yeas and nays;
which were ordered, and resulted, "a to So.
Mr.. Jones, of Pennsylvania, supported the
bill in an elaborate argument, chiefly in re-
Spouse to the argument Of Mr.. Benton yester-
day
MIR. Haven said Mr.. Jones had fully assumed
the constitutional power Of the House to give
OF to withhold the appropriation, and based
the question of expediency chiefly upon our
getting rid of the 18th article of the treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo. He affirmed that we were
under no obligation to indemnify Mexico for
anything done by the Indians to the people of
Mexico.
EaDklopoan bod ,-osSod fba vrosonk Troat,
because Cf our assumed responsibility for in
demnity but he disputed its fairness.
Mr.. Haven contended that the correspond
ence in the case ought to be before the House.
Mr.. Houston said, that if Mr. Haven or 9TH
ers had desired the correspondence, they could
have got il.
Mr. Haven was glad to know that MIR.
Houston was disposed to put himself right on
this subject but no such opportunity had
been afforded He admonished gentlemen that
it would be we'll for them to hush up mischiey-
GUS rumors, by making full exhibit of the
case as it really was. Indemnities for Sloo
and Garay were rumored to have been bar
gained for in the negotiation.
| MIR. Bocock asked how the documents in the
case could reveal informal instructions given!
Mr. Haven said the rumors were to the ef-
feet that the ostensible negotiation on our side
ord.
Mr.. Bayly, of Virginia, frequently interrupt
cd MIR. Haven, and an interesting collcquy
passed between them.
Mr.. Haven concluded by making powerful
appeal to the friends Of the Administration to
make public all the documents in the case, be-
fore extOrting vote from the House.
MIR. Phillips followed, and spoke at length
in support Of the bill and its immediate pas-
sage.
Senate; Wednesday, June %, 1854.
A few petitions were presented
Mr. Petit spoke for over half an hour, in
personal explanation. He said that on Monday
he had made some remarks on the extraordi.
nary avowal made by the Senator from Massa-
ehusetts, that he recognised no obligation to
obey the Constitution which he had sworn to
| support. In the report of those remarks, as
published in the Globe of Tuesday morning,
there appeared il his remarks statement
that MIR. Sumner had said:
u said, recognise no obligation in the Con-
stitution to bind me to help to reduce man to
slavery
These remarks which the report as publish
ed in the Globe attributed to Mr.. Sumner, he
MIR. P. declared were never made in the SEN
ate, and, if they had been made were false,
and would have been so branded at the time
Mr.. Sumner. call the Senator to order.
The remarks in the report, attributed to me,
were uttered by me, as reported.
Mr.. Petit. | Will prove, in the very teeth of
his statement, that it is false.
Cries Of Order. ofder"l
Mr.. Petit then proceeded to show that the
remarks could not have been made, because
Mr.. Sumner had not the floor to make them !;
that ii uttered in his scat, they ought not to
nave been reported, for he had not heard
them, and could not have replied to them. He
commended that MIR. S, after the adjournment
OF the Senate, visited the reporter for the Globe
and lnterpOlated these remarks, which he had
never uttered. He had seen the remarks in
the. proof sheets of his own speech. and had
stricken them ous because they appeared there
in falsifcation of the record. Yet the publish
er Of the Globe had insisted upon putting them
IN. He read q letter from Mr. Sutton, of the
Globe to TIE effecs that the remarks complain
cd of were not originally reported as publish
cd ; but Mr.. Sumner had revised them, and put
them in their present shape. He further con-
sidered the remarks of Mr. Sumner, and con-
demned them in strong and denunciatory lam
guage.
Mr.. Sumner said that he would repeat, that
the remarks as published were uttered substan-
tally as reported. He had made the remarks
in his seat and did not expect it would have
reached the reporters ear. Upon revising his
own remarks, he was informed that there were
some sentences of his which appeared in the
report of the speech of the Senator from Indi-
ana. They were shown to him. He told the
reporter that they had not been heard exactly
as they were spoken; he repeated them to the
reporter as he had actually uttered them, and
the reporter wrote them down. He knew
nothing further Of the matter Az To ALI else