Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-04
THE TY-FOURTH CONGRESS s.
FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY, August 2, 1856.

Alter our report closed
The House went into committee on the fortif-
cation appropriation BILL
After the bill had been amended
On motion of Mr. STANTON, it was reported to
the House with recommendation to strike out
the enactng clause, with view to its defeat. This
was agreed to--yeas 60, nays 8.
The point was raised that the first business now
was to vote the amendments, but the Speaker
decided that as the only thing reported to the
House was the recommendation to strike out the
enactng clause, the amendments were thus cut
off; and the vote must be on the passage of the
original bill.
Mr.. MATTESON moved that the bill be laid on
the table but the motion did not prevail-yeas
&C, nays 90.
:. The bill was then passed. 1t appropriates 81
5S8,S00, including $l50,00O for Fort Carroll,
Maryland.
The House then went into committee on the bin
making appropriations for the legislative, judicial
executive, and judicial expenses of the government
for the year ending June 80, 1867.
Mr.. HERBERT, of California, asked consent to
introduce resolution, which he asked to have
read.
The Clerk commenced to read it, as follows:
Whereas we have seen with profound regret
the awless proceedings of the Vigilance Commit
tee Of San Francisco California 49,
Here loud cries of "Oheot, object, interrupted
the reading of the resolution, and it was therefore
not received.
1.-THE following is the joint resolution in full:
Whereas we have seen with profound regret the
lawless proceedings of the Vigilance Committee of
San Francisco, California; and in order to give
that protection to the laws of said State under the
Constitution of the United States, which we deem
it our duty to do: therefore,
Be IL reSol0ed, de-, That the commander of the
Pacific division Of the United States army is hereby
authorized and directed to issue, upon the requsi
ton of the Executive of the State of California.
such arms ordnance and ammunition therefor as
the Executive of said State may deem necessary in
preserving subordinaton to the laws of said State.
And be IL further resoiued, That in case 1t
should be deemed necessary in the opinion of said
Executive OF California to call to his assistance
in preserving subordination to the laws of said
State, the naval forces belonging to the United
States, then the commander or commanders of said
forces be and they are hereby required and direct
ed to obey promptly the order of said Executive
of California.
Mr.. ZOLLlCOFFER, of Tennessee, asked con.
sent to introduce resolution nstructing the Com
mittee on Military Affairs TO inquire into the ex-
pediency of accepting the tender, by the State of
Tennessee, of five hundred acres of the late resi-
dence of Andrew jackson, deceased, including
the mansion, tomb, and other improvements, known
as the Hermitage upon condition that it be used
as a site for branch of the Military Academy of
the United States. Objection was made.
Mr.. HERBERT, of California, proposed to con-
sumo the FIVE minutes to which general debate had
been limited, remarking that his object in rising
was to reply to charges that had been made against
him traduciDg his character as an honorable man.
These charges had become common in almost every
section of the country, on the Pacific as well as the
Atlantic. So far as he was Individually concerned,
he felt perfect indifference for the allegations to
which he referred, but he deemed it duty that
he owed the House to make an explanation with
regard to them. What were these chargesY Every
one of them bore upon its face falsehood, and not
one of them could be substantiated he cared not
whence il came. He claimed that he had char
acter for which he was under obligations to no man
living-one that he had made for himself, and
which he believed would compare &vorably with
the purest in the land. But whence came these
charges? They emanated from political enemies
men who had ever been arrayed in hostility against
him.
He regretted these allegations because many of
them came from his own State; but from quar-
ter which made him feel that they were compli-
ment to him rather than a disgrace. When he
came back to the fountain head, the origin OF the
charges that had been made against him IN his own
State, he found that they had emanated from ono
of the public prints of the city OF washington: lie
would not so far forget himself he would not abuse
the dignity Of the House by giving uetah OF the
him. but he would say this--that there was not |
one Of them whose character would compare with |
his own in point of purity, honor, and integrity.
II was such men the publisher of the Star
who had placed before the country an ca pdyte
of an unfortunate affair In which he (Mr
IT. became involved in this city, and suffered Il 10
90 before the world, and, after he had been hon
orably acquitted by ajury Of bis oountrymsn, had
not the manlness nor the magnanimity to come
out and say that he was in error--it was such men
as these who had set up this hue and cry against
him.