Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-12-30
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


On notion the Senate adjourned to Friday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
On motion of Mr. LATHAM, Senate bill to continue in
force for limited period the net to ascertain and settle
private land claims in the State Of California taken
from the Speakers table, read twice. and referred to the
Committee on Public Lands.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following bills introduced in pursuance of
notice, read twice, and appropriately referred:
By Mr.. SEYMOUR: bill making appropriations for
the Improvement Of the harbors of Bridgeport Norwak
and Stamford in the State of Connecticut.
By Mr.. READY: A bill granting pension to Dolly
Empson.
BY Mr.. WHITFIELD: A bill to provide for the cree
ton of public buildings in the Territory of Kansas
Aso bill to provide for the construction of roads and
bridges and for the improvement of rivers in the Terri
tory Of Kansas and to provide for the geological survey
Of said Territory.
Also bill to exempt certain town sites in Kansas Ter
ritory from sale and presumption.
Also, bill to establish certain post roads in Kansas
Territory
On motion by Mr.. MAY,
Reso,ed That the President of the United States he
quesed to communicate to this House any information pos
sessed by him regarding suit instituted in the Territory Of
Minnesota by in the Of the United States against the
Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company.
Mr.. HARLAN, of Indiana, made personal explana-
ton in regard amendment submitted by him to the
Indian appropriation bill, to which Mr. ORR briefly
Piled
REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES
Mr.. FARLEY, from the Committee Territories, re-
ported back, with sundry amendments, Senate bill au-
thorzng the construction of subterranean line OF tee-
graph from the Mississippi Missouri rivers to the Pa
cfc ocean, which referred to the Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. BRIDGES, from the Committee on Patents, re-
ported back with the recommendation that they do not
pass Senate bills entitled An for the relief Of W..
r. Nevns and An act for the relief Of the heirs of the
late Uri Emmons;" and they were laid on the table.
Mr.. WENTWORTH, Of Massachusetts,, from the Com
ittee on Commerce. made adverse report the pc
tition Of John Steward Co., asking for the canceng
Of certain transportation bonds.
ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL.
On motion of Mr.. HOUSTON, the House went into
Committee of the Whole the state of the Union, MR.
DAVIS of Indiana in the char) and proceeded to
slider the bill making appropriations for the support Of
the army for the year ending the 30th of june, 1856
Without amendment it laid aside to be reported to
the House.
Mr.. HOUSTON then moved that the committee proceed
to consider the Post Office appropriation bill.
Mr.. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, insisted that the bill
first in orderor the relief Of purchasers and ocators
Of swamp and oyerfowed lands-be taken up and con-
sidered.
The question was taken on the motion of Mr.. HoUs-
TON, when no quorum voted Ayes II, noes H.
The roll was accordingly called and the names Of the
absentees reported to the House.
One hundred and twenty members having respond
ed to their Names the committee resumed it's session
Mr. JONES' of Tennessee, hoped the gentleman from
Illinois would not insist upon his motion. He was salts
fed that if the gentleman would allow the post Office APP
bill to be considered there would be OBJ
lection to the course he desired to pursue.
Mr. WASHBURNE expressed himself perfectly willing
to acquiesce in the suggestion Of the gentleman from
Tennessee.
SWAMP LANDS
The committee then proceeded to consider the bill for
the relief Of purchasers and ocaors of swamp and over
flowed lands.
The bill having been read without action thereon the
committee rose.
The army and post Office appropriation bills were then
taken up, read the third time, and passed
On motion Of Mr.. McDOUGALL, the House ordered to
be printed the etter of c. Fremont to the Editors of
the National Inteigencer, communicating some general
results of recent winter expedition the Rocky
Mountains for the survey Of route for railroad to the
Pacific
The SPEAKER laid before the House communication
from the Post Office Department in answer to the resolu
ton of the 18th instant nqurng to the establishment
Of mail the Mississippi river under the act Of Au
gust 1864 which laid the table and ordered to
be printed.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr. NOBLE in pursuance Of notice, introduced bill
making appropriations to continue the public works and
extend the piers in the harbor at Monroe Michigan
which read twice.
Mr. HAVEN said that individual bills Of this kind seem
ed coming in from all quarters and ne suggested whether
it would not be well TO instruct the Committee on Com
merce report in separate bills the hundred and
forty items Of appropriation which contained in the
river and harbor bill vetoed by the President BY this
the views Of the Executive this subject could be
fully ascertaned and the House would be enabled to act
ntellgenty. He would not have proposed this method
at all it that he desired to obyate any difficulty
which might prevent the President from giving 10 the
House full exposition of his views the internal i'm
question The Executive had promised that
he would send in another message on this subject What
views he entertained ought to have been given in his
(which he informed the House he was pre-
vented from doing for want Of time He Mr.. Ii. lde
sired the country to understand that the veto message
in Friday, and that before received the
House had resolved that it would adjourn until the
succeeding Monday for the very purpose of giving the
President opportunity Of considering the bills before
him.
Mr. ORR to correct the gentleman. The adjourn
ment deferred to enable the Engrossing Com
mtee to report the House bills which had been acted
upon and to enable the President TO consider those
bills.
Mr.. HAVEN understood the fact to be this IL was
agreed to extend the time of adjournment from Friday
until Monday and that certain motions should not be in
order Ono of the objects of this extension Of the time OF
adjournment enable the engrosng clerks TO trans
their portion of the business but could this operate
as restriction upon the President? There much
time allowed the President there the engrossing
clerks any member Of the House
He was anxious to see the message which the Pres-
dent had promised the House, and hoped that gentlemen
would soon be possessed Of which had been
long in CESSATION and hard Of delivery He wished
the country whether the business Of legislation
to be confined to officers of the Government and to them
alone.
MIR. CAMPBELL said that the Constitution required
the President to return bin from which he withheld his
signature with his therefor When, short time