The Washington union., 1858-03-13
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
First Session.
ssEiDAY, MARCH IL, 1858.
ATE.
MEMORIALS, Pkril1oNs, ETC.


of California setting forth that tho people of the
southern portion of that State deeply interested in
preserving peaceful relations with the and
like tribes oil Indians III their neighborhood and request
their representatives in Congress to obtain such egs
aton may prevent the removal of their reservation
from Its present location and to their influence with
the executive department to induce continuation Oh 'he
present reservation which referred to the Commit
toe ON Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed
Mr. KENNEDY presented the memorial OF A. D. DaVs
and other highly respectable citizens OF montgomery
county Maryland setting forth that they are engaged Ia
agriculture and the transportation OF their products to
the city of Washington and feel deeply the disadvantages
under which they labor in not being on an equality with
farmers and traders residing elsewhere IN the vicinity OF
plank road may made free which referred to the
Committee on the District of Columbia.
Mr. TRUMBULL presented the petition of Webster B.
Steele soldier OF the of 1872 praying to be allowed
pension which referred to the Committee on Pen
sions N.
Mr. HAMIIN presented joint resolutions Of the legis
Iature Of Maine relative to bountics cod sheres set
ting forth that their past history abundanty that
the cod fisheries furnish the cheapest best and most e
Gent schools for manning navy in time of war; and
that the repeal of the law granting bountes to vessels
employed in that business would be unjust and oppres
sivc to those induced by the law to embark large
amount of capital in it, and at the time would be
impolitic and unwise in national point OF view, as
depving the country in of war of one of the most
reliable sources for supply OF American seamen ;
which laid the table and ordered to be printed
Mr.. CAMERON presented the petition of operatives
and citizens of Blair county, Pennsylvania praying that
sufficient protection may be extended to American labor
engaged in the manufacture of iron which referred
to the Committee on Finance
Mr. JONES presented the petition of the register and
receiver Of the land Office at Mineral Point praying
increase OF the compensation of registers and receivers of
land offices generally which referred to the Com
mittcc on Public Lands.
RKPoRrs COMMITTEES
Mr.. BENJAMIN, from the Committee on Private
Land Claims to whom referred the bill for the relief
of Manuel Leisa Joachim Lesa and others, and TO pro-
vide for the location of certain private land Claims
ported 1t back with amendment
Mr.. WILSON from the Committee on Military Affairs,
to whom referred the bill from the House Of Repre-
sentatves for the relief of John Hamilton, reported it
back without amendment, and asked Its immediate
sideration and objection being made, it read
third time and passed, .t fE
Mr.. STUART, from the Committee ON Public Lands
TO whom referred the memorial of Ashton s. II.
White, praying compensation for signing land patents,
reported bill for his relief which read and passed
to a second reading.
Mr.. s., from the committee, reported bill for
the relief of James Rawdon and bill authorizing the
issuing of certain bounty land warrants to the legal rep
resentatves of deceased entitled thereto which
were sevcrally read and passed to second reading
Mr. DURKEE, from the Committee on Private Land
Claims, to whom refeued the memorial of the Do
mestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. praying the confirmation OF their title
to certain lands reported bill to authorize said assoca
ton to enter certain tracts OF and IN the State of Wiscon
sin which was read and poised to second reading.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr. BENJAMIN asked and obtained leave TO intro
duce bill to provide for the general introduction of an
International code of marine signals which was read
tWlcS and referred to the Committee Commerce
Mr.. CLARK asked and obtained leave to introduce a
bill providing for the arrest and return of ugtves from
Justice in the District OK Columbia which was read twice
and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary The
bill provides that where persons charged with crime shall
Hee on escape from the District Of Columbia the Judge of
she criminal court may appoint an agent agents to de-
mand OF the executive authority of any State Territory
such might've, who shall be delivered up in the
presented by the laws of the United States for the dcv
cry OF lgitySs from Justice, to be removed to the Dis
trict OF o.ulnba
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
On motion by Mr.. JOHNSON, of Arkansas, resolu-
tion adopted requesting the Secretary the Inte
ror to furnish for the information of the Senate state
ments of the progress of the report of Major W. H. En-
ofy ON the United States and Mexican boundary survey
together with the cost of engraving the maps views
sections Nc, pertaining to this report specifying the
several classes of maps and illustrations and the number
in each class, and where those maps and illustrations are
being executed and by what authority and who arc
engaged the preparation of materials for the cont
uaton OF this report how many volumes it will require
to complete the work. at what time the compilation will
be complete and prepared for delivery to the public print
er and an estimate of the approximate cost of publish
ing the entire work. if it be within his power as ordered
by the Senate and House of Representatives.
KANSAS
for the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union
Mr.. CHANDLER said that he should oppose the bill
Tor the four following ls because the whole
matter conceived and executed in fraud I'd, be-
cause it does not emGnate from the people of that Terri
tory express their will 3d. because it is of II
series of asressions upon the part of the slave power
which, if permitted to be Consummated must end in u
dissolution of this Union and 4th because it strikes
death blow ut State sovereignty and popular rights He
proceeded to elaborate these points in succession
tending that slave property could be protected in the
Territories of the United States by virtue of the constitu
tion explained in the Drcd Scott decision slave property
could also be protected in every State of the Union thus
rendering Michigan much slave State South Caro-
lima But he believed it to be the purpose of the South
to reopen the slave trade and to extend slavery through
out the Union only that purpose, from motives of
pediency, not openly avowed Mr. c. also de |
claed that there three in the United States
whom Mr. Buchanan indebted for his election. Had
it not been for the efforts of Judge Douglas Gov Walker
and John w Forney, the President would now have |
been Tsticating Mt Wheatand instead of occupying the
White House and yet the administration pursuing
all these with relentless fury because they have
moral courage to be true to their convictions of right
and Justice.
Mr. G. spoke at considerable length in the course of |
his remarks declaring that the whole power Of the gov
ernnent could not enforce this constitution the people
of Kansas against their will and, If blood should fow
(which may God in His mercy avert } the responsibility
must rest entirely upon those who enact this law.
Mr.. HUNTER alluded to the difficulties which have
surrounded the Kansas question for long, and ex-
pressed the opinion that every fair and impartial mind
must to the conclusion that the President had sug
gcstcd the best remedy for these difficulties and had hit
upon the true solution of the problem. The Nebraska
IN Hoc1ur Tho