The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-30
IN CONGRESS- OF THE u. STATES
MoNDAY. JANuARY q. 81.



ExEcUrEyE COMMUNICATION
The PRESIDENT pro tsaa laid before the Senate com
manicatop from the Secretary OF State transmitting Ia
compliance with resolution Of Senate Of the 22d ns
report Of Professor Horsford giving analysis Of
variety o. gaanoi which read and motion by Mr.
BENJAMIN, i was ordered to be laid on the table and
printed.
MEMORIALS PETITIONS ere
Mr. GWIN presented memorials from certain land claim
ants California asking an extension Of time IN which 10
file their claims before The board Of land commissioners
which were referred 70 the Committee Private Land
Claims
Mr. G. also presented the petition Of Roger b. Ironsde
praying compensation for medical attendance the Shas
Ia Indians in California under the authority OF the United
States agent for those Indians which referred the
Committee on Indian Affairs.
Mr. G. also presented the petition Of VIM Leonard pray
ing indemnity for dePresions committed by the Pawnee
Indians on his cattle while ourneyng from the Atlantic
States 70 California which was referred to the Committee
on Indian Affairs.
Mr. BRoDpEAD presented the memorial Of the heirs Of
Richard H. Kern deceased assistant engineer in the tor
biographical bureau, who massacred by the Indians
while attached 20 the surveying expedition under Captain
Gunnison PRAYING be allowed his pay from the time Of
his death until the return OF the expedition and the
penses incurred by him in preparing 10 join the same
which was referred to the Committee Military Affairs
Mr. WELLER and Mr. FESSENDEN presented petitions
for pensions; which were appropriately referred
Mr. WRIGHT presented the memorial OF Charles w
Denison, late United States consul for British Guiana
praying the reimbursement Of expenses incurred by him
in procuring certain information for the Patent Office
der directions from the Department of State; which
referred TO the Committee Patents and the Patent
Office
FOR UNEMPLOYED MECHANICS
Mr. SEWARD II cannot be unknown to the Senate
that the present winter marked by extreme depression of
enterprise in every department OF mechanical and manu-
featuring industry in the country, aud that the result OF
the general depression is peculiar and unooked-or in
activity in the city of New York During two three
weeks which spent there in the OF the holidays
the customary festivities of the city saddened by the
assembages Of the unemployed mechanics aud workngmen
\ in he NV at nil fmp
in contact with persons OF the class collecting relief
which their honest pride forbade them to ask by daylight
/ Two things remarked this occasion by most
candid persons first that there nothing Fictitious in
the Of the distress that had thus fallen
industrious class OF the popuaton and, secondly, that
their conduct not in the main, unworthy OF them
selves American citizens, emergency painful
very respectable committee have waited upon me-
questng me to present to the Senate memorial Of these
impoverished mechanics and workingmen-with which
quest am happy comply will detin the Senate by
detailing minutey the contents OF this petition will
mark only that il is empeaey and becomngy expressed
rcces the distress have described and traces it to
the which, in the Judgment Of the memoraists
adequate such effects and that in regard to the form OF
relief the memoriass have decided ask Congress for
the passage OF homestead BILL with such additional egs
laon will in their Judgment be inexpensive the gov
ernment while it will enable these unemployed workmen
to and enter into the occupation and cultivation
| of homesteads on the public domain,
I The petition was laid on the table.
REPORTS COMMITTEES.
i Mr. MALLORY, from the Committee on Naval Affairs,
stated that it had been prepared in conformity with the
views OF the Secretary of the Navy and had the
of the Committees Naval Affairs of both houses
of Congress- and he gave notice that it matter OF
great Importance he should call for consideration
( an early day.
Mr. Nj, from the committee, reported bill
pensae Lieutenant NJ f. Maury OF the United States navy
for his wind and current charts and sailing directions
which was read and passed to second reading 1t pro-
poses to appropriate provided that Lieutenant Maury
abandons all claim to the copyright
Mr. JONES, OF Iowa, from the Committee Pensions,
fi relIeT rafris and submit
ted an adverse report the petition of Hiram Seat
Mr. j. from the committee asked be discharged
from the further consideration of the petitions of Mrs j.
McClelland, Irene G, Searrtt Mary A. NJ. Jones' and
Frances NJ Webster the ground that these
provided for in general bill which had been reported by
the senator from Alabama, Mr.. CLAY. The motion was
! agreed 10. t
/ Mr. SEWARD, from the Committee on Pensions submit
ted adverse reports the petitions of Mrs Jane A.
/ Browner and of Miles + Wooey.
/ Mr. JONES' of Iowa. from the Committee on Pensions
whom referred the bill from the House Representa-
lives for the relief of Mrs Anne W. Angus widow Of the late
Captain Angus OF the United States navy, reported it
without amendment
Mr. GWIN, from the Committee on Naval Affairs asked
10 be discharged from the further consideration of the
luton IN relation TO the employment of submarine
III the United States navy and also of the memorials
Prot Espy, Henry Rugges, and VIM. H. Kennon agreed
/ Mr. EVANS, from the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims reported back the following House bills without
| amendment
Bill for the relief of the widow and children of Ezra
4
Bill for the relief of the heirs of Lieut. Andrew Finday
Mr. E., from the committee, to whom was referred
the bill from the House of Representatives the relief Of
Nathaniel Reddck administrator of Richard TAYLOR re-
ported that it ought not to pass
TEXAS NAVY.
On motion by Mr. WELLER the bill to provide for the
surviving officers Of the late Texas navy was recommed
to the Committee Naval Affairs
GENERAL ARMSTRONG
Mr.. BENJAMIN moved to reconsider the vote ordering
he of he H.
brig General Armstrong to be engrossed and read third
time; and the motion was entered on the journal
BILLS
Mr. DOUGLAS, from the Committee on Territories re
ported bill TO extend TO the Territories generally the
laws regulating the fees and compensation OF the feera
and suors OF the United States courts ia Oregon which
was read twice by unanimous consent and considered Ia
committee Of the whole.
Mr. d. explained that the Treasury Department having
decided That the udicaee bill OF 1853 ouly extended 10
the States and the Territory of Oregon this bill was intro
duced or the purpose of putting all the Territories on an
equality AS this and the two following days had been
assigned 70 The consideration Of territorial business In the
House OF Representatives he asked that the bill might he
Immediately put on IT'S passage; and objection being
made the bill was read third time and passed
Mr. d. from the committee reported a Joint resol
non ior tbe reef OF the secretary Of the Territory of Min
nesota which was read twice and considered Az In COM
mitee OF the whole II directs the Secretary OF the Treas
ury TO settle the accounts OF the secretary OF the efnv
OF Minnesota by allowing the item Of $3.50 which he had
paid under the direction of the legislature for coIiting
lnde1ing, &c. the laws journals and judicial decis,ona III