New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-06

body cares about your recognitions as an indi.
yidual; but as a Senator and o constitutional
representative you stand differently related tc
this body. But enough of this.
Further on in the debate, Mr.. Petit, of In
diaDa. took occasion, in the course Of speech
to say TO Mr.. Sumner 'Sir, in appearing al
that desk, laying your hand upon the Gospel Oh
God, swearing that you would support the Con
stitution, and placing the book to your lips
giving seal and assurance that your heart as
well as your lips acquiesced in what you said
you made no reservation of any clause, any
article. any section, any line, or any word. Nc
mental reservation could be allowed. You
swore that you would support, all and singular
each and every part, from the beginning to the
end, the commencement and the ending, inclu.
siye; and you now, in the face Of your peers
peers, did say, / hate to use the word-are the
first in the Senate of the United States to openly
declare that you would violate the oath you
have taken and the bond of Union your ances-
tors made for you"
The Presiding Officer: The Senator will adj
dress the Chair
Mr.. Petit am certainly not out of order.
And he proceeded Soon he thuspersonally ad
dressed the Senator from Massachusetts: g
ask that Senator--you ybo to-day have stulti-
fed yourself--you who Nave said that the sol
emn oath which you took at that stand, admin
isteredsby the President of this body upon the
Holy Evangelists Of God, kissing the book, Civ
ing seal and sanction TO your asseveration, you
who have said to-day that you would spit upon
that oath, would disregard its obligations
Mr., Petit was called to order.
Mr., DiEon, of Kentucky, next took the floor
and the Senate adjourned.
WAsHrsGrov, June q. 1854
SENATE.-Petitions, reports from committees
md nj hnp iunJIpptn1 buaiD bprtcr at n6
the bill creating collective district in Califor-
MIA was taken up and passed, SO to Z :; and then
the Senate postponed all the prior orders and
took up the House bill to change the annual
meeting of Congress to the first Monday in No
yember.
Mr. Benjamin moved an amendment, the eff.
feet Of which would have been to confne the law
to the second session of each Congress; but that
was voted down.
The question was then up on ordering the bill
to be read third time, and decided in the
negative, Is to SO.
And the Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.--After morning business, the House
took up the subject of the Gadsden treaty
Mr.. Benton rose to the question Of privilege,
and offered the following resolutions:
ReSOiped, That the House will not consider
the question of appropriating $10,000000 to
carry into effect the Mexican treaty of Deem
Der 30, 1853, for the acquisition of foreign ter
ritory, until it shall first have considered whe-
Their there was a breach of the privileges of this
House in negotiating and concluding said treaty
nor until the House shall have obtained full in
formation on the negotiation and conclusion of
said treaty.
Resolsed, That the said treaty, depending
for it's execution on a law of Congress to be
passed on a subject submitted by the Constitu.
ri tn +ba nf - &c
tional right and duty of the House of Represen-
tatives to deliberate on the expediency or
inexpediency of carrying such treaty into effect,
and to determine and act thereon, as, in their
judgment, may be most conductive to the public
good
Mr., Benton said that this is copied from the
resolutions adopted by the House of Represent
atives, in the year 1895, after President Wash
ington had refused to communicate papers to
the House on that subject.
He proceeded to read three other resolutions
to the effect that the admission of new States
into the Union being a question exclusive Y
granted to Congress by the Constitution, any
treaty stipulation for the acquisition of foreign
territory with right to be admitted as State,
without authorization from Congress, is breach
Of the privileges of that body, violation of the
Constitution, and illegal and void; that pur-
chase of foreign territory by the Federal Gov
ernment not having been provided for in the
Constitution, concurrence Of the legislative
and executive departments of the Government
the former by an act Of Congress, the latter by
treaty stipulation is necessary to the con-
summation Of the act, and has been 50 held in
the purchase OF Louisiana, Florida and GalfUr-
MIA and that the House of Representatives has
a right TO the information which would enable
it to judge the merits of the Mexican treaty in
its legislative consideration thereof; and that
the President be respectfully requested to fur
nsh TO the House of Representatives Il COPY of
the instructions under which the same was
negotiated, and of the correspondence 10 which
it gave rise, and of all other papers connected
with the SUBJECTIVE said copies to be COM
municated confdentially, if, in the opinion of
the President, the public good may not admit of
their present publication.
The CHAIR overruled the question of privilege,
and after some other business the GadsdenTreaty
appropriation bill was taken up and debated
until the end of the days session
In the House, June 81, a resolution was
adopted to close the debate on the Mexican
Treaty bill at y O'clock A. NJ The House then
resumed, in Committee of the Whole, the con-
sideration of the bill to appropriate ten mil
lions of dollars to carry into effect the treaty
with Mexico. The discussion was continued by
several members until near 8 o'clock at night,
Wnen Tue Jommlltee rose without ulspoSlng OF
the subject.
WAsHISGToN. June IS 1854.
In the Senate, Mr.. Petit arose to personal
explanation, in which he charges Mr. Sumner,
of Mass, with inter olating sentences in the
debate of Monday, which he Mr.. Pettit) did not
say or utter, He was very severe and personal
on the Senator from Massachusetts,
Mr.. Sumner, in replying, insisted that he did
utter precisely the words attributed to him in
the report, and delivered response to Mr.
Pettt's personalities
The Minnesota Land bill from the House was
taken up and passed.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
Boston memorial for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law.
Mr. Houston gave notice of his design to make
personal explanation on Saturday next
Mr.. Dixon spoke, and denied the right of any
set Of men to read him out of the Wing party.
He said the Wing party stood now in the South
where it always stood, on national ground, but