The daily union., 1854-02-15

And Be ttfyher Enacted That attorney said board
shall be appointed by the President by and with tue advice
claims, and protect the interests Of the United States
with the fund that may be sPp.opra,ed % cary This aei
anime Witnesses, and TO testimony 70 be taken, and
nave nay, "a, access 70 a ne y n ~ o1ofs 1 he
And be shalt be swon 10 faithful performance OF
pensaton as one Of the commissioners
MIR. HAMLiN. desire 10 say that the bill which
offered the which reported to the Senate.
THIS twelfth section was an amendment which was add
ed in the Senate which escaped my recollection. hope
the question will be taken on that amendment and then,
the time for the special order has arrived, will let the
bill be postponed.
Mr.. CLAYTON | wish only to say have no OBJ
econs 10 the amendment which is proposed to The bill !;
but recollect very we'll that when President Taylor
commended TO Congress the appointment of attorney
just such is proposed by this section, attend board
OF commissioners IN relation 10 claims under the treaty OF
Guadalupe Hdago, attention paid to the provision
and no attorney appointed thought then il would have
been proper that should be appointed think it is
proper il should be done now Therefore, do not OBJ
Iec to The amendment
the amendment If then the bill shall be postponed.
The amendment was agreed 10.
On motion by Mr. HAMLlN, the further consdera.
tlon OF the bill postponed. and made the special
der tor Tomorrow morning, at haifpasl twelve O'clock
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Q, 1854
On motion by Mr.. HAMLIN. the Senate, as in com
mee OF the whole, resumed the consideration of the bill
TO provide for the ascerianment and satisfaction OF
claims OF American citizens for spoliaons committed by
the French prior 10 the slst day Of July, lsOi.
Mr. HAMLIN. on comparing the printed bill, which
was reported from the committee last year, with the en-
CROSSED bill IL passed. find that there are verbal
amendments which propose TO make 10 this bill,
to make precisely like the bill which passed last year
therefore propose 10 amend the first section by insert
ing after the word assignment, in the proviso, The
words "except gifts Donations, and to strike out the
word claimant and insert assignee, that the pro-
viso shall read
Provided, atso Tha, in all of transfer assign
ment, except gifts donations. assignment shalt be en-
titled to receive amount beyon the consideration paid
and interest thereon.
And also in the seventh section to strike out the words
tweny trom and insert at the end OF the section
"upon twelve months notice." that the clause will
read ,.
And such certificates of shall be redeemabe at the
pleasure OF the United States time after the date Of
notice.
The amendments were agreed to; the bill
ported TO the Senate amended, the amendments were
coucurred in, and the bill ordered to be engrossed
for third reading.
Mr.. DODGE, OF Iowa That is the bill providing for
the payment OF French spoations committed prior 10
1901 and, in the language that the senator from Geor
ga Mr. DAWSON employs when he speaks OF land bills
desire to call the attention OF the country the people OF
the old well as the States, 10 the fact that the
Senate OF the United States are now about pass bill
which believe would not have been read but Tor the
amendment which offered, | think the senator from
Maine proposed TO pass il through without reading In
forming the Senale that was the bill which had passed
Mr. WELLER Appropriating only So 100000
Mr., DODGE, of Iowa Only S5,ooo,eoo, my friend
from California says, to be appropriated, without
the bill being read know how vain any opposition is
which | may attempt TO make 10 bill such as this,
which has gtown with s age. and strengthened by every
possible appliance Suffice it. theH, 10 say, that a bill
which could not get committee OF men who lived al
the day and generation when The obligations were incur
red 10 report il TO the Sehae OF The United States which
could get corporas guard support in the earlier
OF which the claims grew were living, and upon whom
the obligation rested TO repay that country which acted so
noble part with in revolution and towards which
shall cherish the most kindly sympathes--now,
since the stock jobbers, The who crowd and hl
the ases here around Congress hare become interested
in ths matter, the bill can pass pass without struggle
and without opposition; and yet let the homestead bill
let bill which is for men, for muscle, sinew, and bone
upon the frontier come up, or bill which IS 10 aid
Slate, and take dollar from the treasury of the
United States. and you will how II will be fought 10
desperation by every sort OF appliance that The rules will
all the that lived 10 the days when the obligation
was ncurred-is powerful that il is TO pass and
will pass um phany, unless should meet with pres.
ldental veto or defeat IN The other branch oi Con-
Mr. HANLIN desire only to correct one mistake
which the senator from Iowa has made He says that
when these claims had their origin in the history of the
country there found none 10 give them favorable
report ..
Mr. DODGE, Of Iowa. A bill, ! said.
Mr. HAMLIN. Why, the senator is wholly and to-
OF these claims, when government appropriated them
10 pay their debts report the bill made
Congress- and every Congress from that day 10 this be-
lieve has followed II up.
MIR. PRATT There is one other observation which
may be made in reply 10 what has fallen from my friend
from Iowa. He says that the OF the claims EN-
braced in this bill STOCKHOLDERS who crowd The
lobbes OF your Senate chamber and that therefore the
bill will PASS without any opposition but when the
homestead bill - brought up II will be fought and op.
posed on every side OF this chamber Now, the dstinc.
ton between these two bills, IN my apprehension, is
ths that the bill before is pay your citi
debt which is honestly due from your government
to them; while the bill 10 which the senator refers is
only premium offered TO the immigration OF foreigners
this country. That s the distinction which see be-
tween the two bills think the bill before us which is
for the payment your citizens OF honest deb,
which has been delayed for years and years. ought TO
pass The senator says has been read. II has
been read il has been read in this chamber year after
year. and has been passed whenever brought vote
here under every state Of political parties in the Senate
has always passed the Senate; and whenever vote
has been given in The other branch OF Congress- il has
always passed there.
Mr. President, thought the ausion 10 the homestead
bill in this connexion the part OF my friend from Iowa
unkind towards those citizens at any ratel speak
OF those from my own State, which represent here
They not importnning the Senate any one here IN
reference their claims but they honest citizens OF
Maryland, who of the vessels, and the debt
is honestly due from this government because has
ceved from the French government a gnd pc quo.
Therefore, do think that ny friend from Iowa s un.
kind, so far as know these ciamsnls IN cbaracerzing
them as be has done.
Mr DODGE, of Iowa II the least OF my design to
be unkind to anybody and certainly not TO The senators
from Maine and MARY land but declare before God and
man that with all my reading the subect-and ad
nit that il il not very great deal, although have read