Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-24

Senate, Friday MdreL "a, 1854.


Senate, Friday, Mdrck "a, 1854.
Mr.. Weller moved that theyote of yesterday,
by which the resolution authorizing the Com
mittee on Agriculture to employ clerk was
adopted, DO reconsidered.
After some debate, the motion to reconsider
was rejected-yoas Is, nays 10.
Mr.. Mason asked unanimous consent to sub
init motion that the Senate proceed to the
consideration Of Executive business. He said he
knew that by the rules Friday was set apart
for the consideration Of private bills but he
felt it to DO his duty to make the motion.
Mr.. Hunter said the Deficiency bill was
ready for consideration. He had no desire to
interfere with the private calendar; but if the
Senate would meet tomorrow, that bill could
be considered without any interference with
the consideration Of private bills, or OF the
treaty.
Objection was made to Mr. Mason's motion.
The Senate resumed the consideration Of
the bill to compensate Hodges & Lansdale, Of
Maryland, for tobacco carried of by the Brit
ish during the last war. This il the same bill
which was opposed BY Mr.. Bayard on last
Friday
Mr.. Pratt replied, and supported the bill.
House Of Representatives, MareA "a, 1854.
Mr.. Lilly, by general consent presented the
joint resolutions Of the Legislature of New
Jersey in relation to public lands. Referred
to the Committee on Public Lands and ordered
to be printed.
MIR. Ingersoll asked leave to present the
resolutions adopted at . public meeting in
New Haven, on the Nebraska bill.
Mr.. Hamilton. call for the regular order
Of business.
MIR. SHELTON. | ask the unanimous consent
to present the joint resolutions Of New Jersey
in favor Of cheap postage.
Mr.. Hamilton. The regular order.
Mr.. Fuller. Mr.. Speaker, is not the bill
establishing bonded warehouses the regular
orderl
The Speaker. The consideration Of private
bills is the regular order but Is displaced by a
pending motion to reconsider.
Mr.. Jones, Of Tennessee This is objection
day; but as the debate on the Indian appro-
priation bill was to close ut 2 o'clock to-day
The Speaker. The subject before the House
is the motion to reconsider the vote committing
to the Committee Of the Whole the bill for the
establishment Of bonded warehouses
The question was submitted, and the motion
was rcconsidered and the bill was read a third
time and passed.
Private bills upon the calendar were then
taken mp.
The bill, No. 15l, for the relief Of George
Bishop and the legal representatives of John
Arnold, deceased, tho object Of which is to ex-
tend q patent for making cloth Of wool without
spinning or weaving, for fourteen years which
patent has already been kept in force for
twenty-one years, came up for consideration
It was zealously defended by Messrs. Hill and
Goodrich and opposed by Messrs Jones' Of
Tennessee, and Clingman.
The bill was finally read third time and
passod-yeas LOT, nays 50.
On motion Of Mr.. Orr, the House resolved
itself into Committee Of the Whole on the In
dian appropriation bill, Mr. Phelps in the
chair, and Mr.. Grow proceeded to address the
Committee in explanation of the reasons which
led the Committee on Indian Affairs to rec
ommend the allowance Of $92,625.19, with
! interest from December, 1852, to the present
session.