Georgetown weekly news., 1855-04-05
Arrival Of the Golden Age.
Gac Weeks Later il SNvs!

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's
steamer Golden Age arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 28th inst, bringing Eastern
papers, up to the fifth of March.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate bill granting one hundred and
sixty acres of land to the widows and Or
phans Of deceased soldiers, and those per-
SONS who have served in the war since l 100,
has passed.
The Pacific Railroad bill was lost in the
House for want Of time. 1t will come up
among the unfinished business at the next
session.
The salaries Of the Supreme Court Judges
has been increased; $500 is to be paid to
the Chief Justice, and $1,000 to each as
Sociate.
A resolution to refer a claim for $4,000
destroyed during the Greytown lombard
ment to the proper department, for exam
ination, was adopted.
The President has vetoed the Collins ap-
preparation bill, which announcement fell
ike thunderbolt on the House. The
House failed to pass the bill by lack of
the two-thirds majority, the vote standing 90
ayes to 70 noes.
Mr. Seward proposed as an amendment
of the naval appropriation bill, the vetoed
steamer bill. leaving out the clause repeal
ing the power to give notice Of the diScOn-
tinuance of the extra allowance to the Col
Inns line, and retain the one compelling the
obstruction of a new vessel. 1t passed unan-
imously.
Clause relating to the Collins steamers
in the appropriation bill, was passed by
vote of rs to %.
In the Senate, the bill providing for the
more efficient discipline OF the navy by the
introduction OF a system of rewards for good
conduct and punishments for offences, was
passed.
The conferencereport of ftheappropriation
bill has been adopted.
Extra compensation to the amount of
$4,000 was voted MessrS. Pendleton and
Schenk, eX-miniSters to Peru and Brazil,
and $4,000 to Mr.. Marsh, formerly minister
to Constantinople.
In the House the naval and fertilization
appropriation bills, and the bill pending for
a Circuit Court in California, were passed
The navy bill gives S344 ,946 to the Brook
lyn Navy Yard.
A registrature Of all letters containing
money or drafts has been provided for.
All letters must be prepaid by stamps
after the lst January, 1856.
All the Senates amendments to the bill
relating to the carrying of emigrant passen-
gers were agreed to, as was also the amend
ment to the post-Office bill authorizing a
monthly mail between San Francisco and
Oregon.
The House having refused to concur in
three of the Senate amendments to the Army
bill, one Of them being an appropriation OF
$4,000 to test the employment Of camelS on
the plains, a committee OF conference was or
dered, after receding from the military acad-
emy amendment.
The motion to recons. der the vote where
by the report of the conference committee
on the bill relative to swamp lands was
adopted, was rejected in Senate, "A to u;
so the locators and purchasers of swamp and
overhowed lands receive the aid sought for
The old soldiers Bounty Land Bill, and
the bill carrying out the Convention Oh
Claims between Great Britain and the
United States, were passed. Also the Dis
trict of Columbia Judiciary bill.
The consideration of the general appro-
priation bill was renewed, and on a motion
to reconsider the vote striking out the tariff
notifications, Mr.. Cooper commenced
speech with the avowed intention OF talking
until the expiration Of the Thirty-third Con
gress. This course, if persisted in, would
nave carried over several important bills tO
the serious embarrassment Of the public
business, and the complete overthrow OF the
schemes Of the lobby. So the friends of free
trade caved in, and the tariff resolutions are
postponed to the next Congress.