Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-28
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5EsArE.-An act WAS passed, providing Tor
th payment OF the expenses incurred by the
Investigating committee of the House OF Repre-
entatiyes.
L On motion of Mr.. Green, of No., the Secre-
larry of the Navy was directed to furnish all The
information supplied by Lieut. Craven, OF his
survey for the Atarato ship canal.
Various matters pertaining to the Post otfice
were reported and among the rest resolution,
offered by Hale, requiring an aecelefaticn oil the
msils between New York and Washington.
Mr. Fitch. from the Com. on Printing, report
ed in favor of printing five thousand extra copies
oftthe majority and minority reports, respecting
Itie acquisition ofeCuba.
Mr. Hale opposed It as useless expenditure,
but the printing of the extra copies was ordered
Mr.. King introduced resolution respecting
the tariff, which was laid over till to morrow.
Mr.. Rice introduced resolution directing the
Sec'y of War to lay before the Senate the re-
port of Col. Wrights campaign against the In
dams of Oregon. Agreed to.
The Pacific r. r. Bill was then taken up, and
various verbal amendments were made prepara-
tory to the direct vote on the bill.
Mr. Doolittle added an additional section in
tended to prevent spectators from keeping
back the land from settlement, as they did with
those granted to the Illinois Central Railroad
Adopted.
Mr. Doolittle then. moved that the Sec'y or
the Interior, on the passage of this act, be
authorized to take proposals for the Northern
and Southern route, leaving the Central route as
now, and report to Congress at the commence
ment of the next Session; the advertisement to
be published for eight months in two papers OF
the District of Columbia. .5LC
Mr. Doolittle's amendment prevailed. ~
Mr.. Douglas, of Ill, offered an amendment,
providing that the SO called Deseret lands with
in 40 miles of the middle section of the Road,
be open to presumption rights at the rate of lOc
per acre-adopted.
HousE-The House proceeded to the conside-
ration of the Consular and Diplomatic appropri-
alton bill and refused TO concur in the amend
ment of the Com. of the Whole, which proposed
to curtail the number of the foreign ministers
and send them only to Great Britain, France,
Russia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, China, Peru,
Turkey and Nicaragua 49,
Mr.. Crawford's amendment proposing to re-
duce the sum to enable the President TO carry
into effect the act OF March, 1919, for the sup
preston Of the slnve trade, and other subse-
quent acts, from 49, 900 to $45, oo0 the object
being to withhold the amount necessary to COM
| pIv with the contract with the Colonization
Society for the education and support of the
Africans recaptured on board the steamer Echo,
was rejected; the vote standing yeas 4s, nays
l45. ~ p t3 ~ r.
The question was then taken on the motion
to strike out this entire clause, and resulted in
the negative; yeas %, nays 63.
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correspondent Of the North american says the
only possible hope for modification of the tar-
iff at this session, is through a conference COM
mittee in its closing hours. That last chance IS
ldesperute; and depends entirely upon the re-
fusal of the House to grant loan, except on
this express condition even, There is too much
reason to fear that the Senate will not yield its
repugnance to the change, SO obstinate is the
purpose Of the Democratic majority to refuse
concession. On this subject they are NOSE in
clincd to hazard an extra session than to con-
quer their prejudices. The House is likely to
stand firm, and to insist upon provision being
made to ,extinguish any debt that may be Gre
ated. The Republicans have held q caucus, and
unanimously agreed to vote for a modification
of the tariff Their stand is clear, positive and
unqualified, as viii be seen whenever the test
shall be made. In the House, on the other
hand, the Democrats in that body will hardly
muster twenty votes, including the Pennsylya.
MIA delegation. This significant fact tells the
whole story, especially when connected with
| the position. of the Democratic majority in the
Senate, There is no difficulty in knowing what
political interest in Congress- are for and against
the policy Of reasonable protection.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-From information re-
ccived by the War Department, it is estimated
that about one-fourth of the recent ten million
loan has been already paid in. The only certih
Gates of stock Us yet issued, are to the Bank OF
the Metropolis, of this city, amounting to $780,
| 600.
The correspondent of Forney's Philadelphia
Press, says it is stated here, that Judge Irwin,
the U. S. Judge for the Western District OF
Pennsylvania, now in course of investigation,
will resign his place aud that Attorney General
Black will also resign his place in the present
cabinet and take that vacated by Judge Irwin.
The Mobile papers state that the ship South
Carolina, of Bath, Me-, before reported ashore
on Mobile Point, has broken up. Two of the
crew arc reported lost The cargo was small
and valued at $4,000. ss
| New YoRK, Jan. GA fire occurred on
Staten Island last night, which led to suppo-
sition that the quarantine building had been
again fred, II however, proved to have been n
barn belonging to Commodore Vanderbilt, and
was two miles distant from the quarantine.
wuAT is a .'pomes" That clever hobdome.
dial, Harper's Weekly, published recently piece
of verse, not without merit, entitled Isl would
that she were dead" which has some of the
worst rhymes that we have seen for manga day.
"Tone and gone are bad enough, but who
ever before made SO execrable a rhyme as
'home and poem ?" Does the writer take
"poemr to be a inonosyllable, and, accordingly,
does he call himselfa porEl
r ~ sa-Phabusi What name "a
To hu the speaking trump of future flannel"
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