Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-01
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The SPEAKER laid before the House communication
from the President Of the United States, transmitting
report from the Secretary of the INTERIOR containing SO
much of the information called for by the resolution of
the 18th instant it practicable compatible with the
public to furnish at the present time respecting
the proceedings and negotiations entered into for the
tinguishmen of Indian titles to lands west of the States
Of Missouri and Iowa. Laid on the table and ordered
to be printed .t.".
Mr. STANTON, of Kentucky, by consent, introduceda
bill to authorize the recovery of the assets of bankrupt
which have been concealed not specified in the sche
due surrendered by him; which read twice and re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Mr. HOUSTON from the Committee OF Ways and
Means which referred the joint resolution Of the
Senate authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
the expenses of codfyng and revising the laws,
reported the back with amendment in the nature
Of q substitute.
The amendment agreed to- and the resolution was
read the third time and passed. .' ....
CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL.
On motion of Mr.. CHANDLER the House went into
Committee of the Whole the state Of the Union, Mr.
HAMILTON of Maryland in the char,) and resumed the
consideration of the bill making appropriations for the
civil and diplomatic expenses OF the Government for the
year ending June 80, 1866. ..... ....'s
Mr. YATES said that yet no voice had been heard
the State of Illinois against the Nebraska Kansas bill
State had been leading the cohort friendly to the
measure its distinguished champion in the Senate
being the gentleman from Illinois, DR. DoudLAs, wilhelm
the House his colleague, the able chairman of the Com
mttee on Territories, Afr RIcHAHDsoN led the column
man from some other State should have claimed the pa
teruity of this measure The State of Illinois, of the
glorious States of the Northwest enjoying the almost
unapprccable blessing of the restriction secured to them
which it was now proposed to supersede by this BILL
namely the ordinance Of 19 should be the last to at
tempt to deprive sister commonwealth hereafter to
come into the Union of that freedom which propelled
her onward in the to gory so that whatever should
be the glory or nfamy Of this in that glory or
nfamy the State which he had the nonor IN part to re-
present must largely participate;
He then alluded to the quetude which the country
ioyed prior the assembling of the present Congress-
and said that it was reserved for Northern man. and
that man from the State Of Illinois, to thrust the rebrand
of dcord into peaceful councis to again revive the
Of sectional strife SO dangerous to the peace OF our
Union and no could tell how and where it would
terminate The warm and bosom friends of the Senator
from Illinois were loss to know the motives which in
Huenced him in extending this boon to the South The
South did not ask it not single petition memorial,
or the voice of any body of men, demanded the
repeal of the Missouri compromise. To the chagrn and
discontinue of the North, they met with tie argu
by the South that they did not propose to move in
this matter but that they could not refuse this generous
offer from the North Although the North replied that
no man had any right to make such proposition, yet
the South considered it otherwise and the whole North
be made responsible for this Surrender OF rights
which were so dear to them. This argument had been
fearuy welded in securing to the support Of this bill
every Southern man, with very few exceptions |
We live in age of progress but it vas not TO be |
spposed that as our country advanced in all the elements
of progress as science and and education moved for
ward in their riumphal car and the light OF christianity
shed its full radiance upon the world it not to be
supposed that the cause of human freedom would
grade. lie washed his hands of this measure.
Mr. T. then proceeded to show that Mr. Clay was
friendly to the Missouri compromise and believed that if
he could appear here now in all the moesc proportions
Of his manly form and clothed in the panopy OF his in
mortal eoquence he would rebuke III wthsrinS terms
this attempt to repeal the act Of 1920. .=n,.
He then contended that the Missouri compromise was
compact and invoked gentlemen Of the South, by all
he obligations Of plighed aith not to WreSt from them
his free territory simply because, by their rnanmity
by the aid Of Northern Gefecton they might be able
o do so. ... -.
lie further argued to prove that this compromise Of
$40 was not repealed by any subsequent legislation, and
hat the Senate bill did not allow the engrants to these
proposed territories squatter sovereignty 1t dsfran
hised them it prevented them from depoSting their
n the ballot box .'" I
STEAM FRIGATE BILL ...'
The hour of one having arrived, the committee pro-
eeded to consider the special order beng the bill Of the
iouse to authorize the construction OF six steam gates
md for other purposes. ...,... s. s II
Mr. BOCOCK addressed the committee in favor Of the
ill, which he said left the question to whether these
esses and their machinery should be built by
in the Government navy yards TO the discretion OF the
Secretary of the Navy This ne commended was he part
Il wisdom as the Secretary Of the Navy would enjoy for
he investigation of this subject, many advantages which
he House could not possess.
II was agreed that should have a navy, and there
never was time when we had too much of navy. In
,udinr all kinds we had now seveniy-two vessels
n the navy Thrtyfvs years was as long as ship of
war could be supposed to last. IL the navy to be
wholly replaced every thirty years, it would require
TWO vessels to built annually for the purpose of sup
,lynu the vacancies created by those which became
cryceabe by reason Of decay. No vessels had been
icred built by Congress since lS4 seven years ago