Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-10
THiRTY.THRD coNeRrss-Fns se..iss.
wAsnisoros, April 7, 1854.


wA'nisoros, April 2, 1854.
SENATE.
Mr. Mason sad Il was desirable that the Senate should
proceed to Executive business.
Mr.. Stewart hoped the private calendar would DO con-
dered This objection day, and bill could no, pass
TO which there single objection. Il was but just
that such bills should be passed At once. -
Mr.. Mason said he would defer any motion till one
o'clock n Il would DO agreed to then.
Mr.. Sidell said no would consent to no such agree
mcnt.
Mr. Mason said that Ia consideration of tho impor.ne.
OF the public interests involved In pending AN
cu,ve session. he moved that tho Senate to o.e
cutive business hr. Pearce said he did not believe tho
public interests would DO advanced by considering
tive business to-day. He thought would DO better to
postpone that matter at least until Tomorrow He thar
fore objected to the motion.
Tho private calendar was taken up.
Tue Senate passed thirty.six Senate bills and twelve
House bills aud postponed forty.
Mr.. Chase introduced bill granting land to tho Tin,
cinna;i aud Maeknaw railroad company. Referred
Mr. Dodge reported bill establishing an addition al land
district in Minnesota. Taken up and passed.
Mr. Badger said no would be absent from the Senate for
few weeks and therefore would ask the Senatc on Mon.
day to take up tho bill allowing credit for duties on rail.
road iron.
Mr. G~in said that Monday he would ask to be- heard
on the Pacific railroad bill.
Mr. Badger said the Senate had performed a glorious
days work, aud therefore he moved IL adjourn Sdionr
| ned till Monday
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MI Orr, from the committee Indian affairs reported
Dill defining the terms which treaties rball
iuuian uioe5. referred to the committee
o.; the whole
The House took up the bill empowering the Postmaster
enea 10 contract for carrying tho mails between Now
Orleans and San Francisco, according TO time
MI Phelps moved TO lay IL on the table. Nceatiyed-
yeas 60, nays IS.
q Mr.. Latham said the average timo now occupied In
transporting the mails between New Orleans and San
Francisco by the Panama route is about 80 DAYS AL
though the trip has been made In IS DAYS There are
large express companies which carry letters from y
cents to one dollar aud half each by the Nicaragua rou
In twenty-five or three days and the result commercial
men select this TO purposes la view of the
expeditions delivery OF their letters The monthly mail
matter OF those expresses to that of The
United States aud the department thus sustans propor
Tomato loss.
The bill proposes when the mail can be carried by
any other route In more expeditions than now
present contract shall and be given to tboss
who can carry the mail in quicker time lie thought the
mails viii eectuay DO carried between the points in
hiteen days by the Vera Cruz and Acapulco route He
approved Of the principle of the BILL but desired il to be
amended AT present he received his letters by privne
I'VE or six days in advance Of the United States
mall and so did merchants If tho principle Of tho bill Ia
carried OUT the of the office Department
will be largely augmented.
Mr. McAuen spoke in favor Of sending the bill to the
committee o the whole, expressing his belief that il would
not answer the purpose designed quoting letter of
the Postmaster general against the expedency of the
ing hour expired. N'A
Mr. Parker, from the committee on the judiciary re
ported OIL relating to the felonious burning of the
steamboat Martha Washington, and asked that II be put
Mr. Jones' ofTennessee objected saying as Il contain
ell an appropriation it 60 to the committee of the
whole. VI wv
Ar Parker said the committee ha this morning receive
cd message from the Department of sufficient mnor
lance to call attention to the this time IL would
De ecoeced that the steamboat was burnt on tho
MISSISSIPPI, under circumstances satisfy the public
mnd that there vas not only connected with il the
supendons frauds but this the high crime of
and murder No less than l6 persons lost their lives
The country for two years past has been irving To bT
tue offender to Justces-nine accused persons arc nov
| Incarccrated In Arkansas.
Mr. Jones Of Tennessee, could not see that the
| boat - 1900 i
Mr. Parker replied that or five persons sunnosed IN
DC implicated were arrested under the laws of the limited
States and were tried in the Federal Court of Ohio hut
Tor want OF testimony, which has recently come TO pb
rested under requisition OF the Governor of
lhey are unquestionably guilty. They are in al In Ar
KANSAS and the preliminary investigation will
on the nth inst IL is deemed to leave the case
oe prosecuted by Phillips county without additional
pecunary aid The bill proposes to grant pecuuary asss
tance and TO compensate those who made the arrest
Mr. Stanton, OF Tennessee, would say to his
Jones that the hill simply provides that no part of this
money shall be expended towards the prosecution unless
the Secretary Of the Treasury satisfied thar the
also Involves violation vi the laws OF the United States
band OF oniederaes extends from the Eastern t tho
Western States far New Orleans therefore il was me-
cessary TO send TO all the States take these
and procure evidence OF their guilt The bill was refer
| red TO the committee Of the whole.
The President sent in a message announcing that bs
had signed the bill authorship the construction of sig
steamers. ~
The House then went into committee on the general
/ appropriation bill.
Mr. Carutbers, Of Missouri spoke in favor of tho Ns
oraska bl and was followed by Mr. Washbrrne In onno
son ilter which the committee rose and the Uo,sa "a
journed till Monday,