The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-05
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WASHINGTON, March All the general appro-
priation bills which passed both Houses received
the Presidents signature. The Post-o1ice appro-
priation and the post route bills failed to become
laws. The former appropriates about $4,000.
Whether an extra session will be called in conse-
quence of its loss is matter for Executive consid-
Grafton. So far no reliance is to be placed in the
rumors to that effect.
Amid the confusion in the clerks Offices it cannot
yet be definitely ascertaned whether any private
bills, which passed both Houses, failed to receive the
Presidents approval
The Miscellaneous bill contains section for the
extension OF the treasury note law for two years.
and appropriates S452 900 for the Coast Survey
which was agreed to with singular unanimitv: also
appropriations for lighthouses, survey of public
lands, and for taking the next census etc.
The Ocean Mail Steamer bill was killed but
there is appended to the bill to carry into effect
treaty with the Dacotah and Tonawanda Indians,
and appropriations for complying with the existing
contracts for carrying the mails via Panama and
Tehuantepec to California.
1t would be long story to rece all that was done
in both Houses last night. They were principally
occupied with the appropriation bills. The disa-
greement of the House to the amendment ms de nv
the Senate to the Postage bill, raising the rate of
postage and abolishng the franking privilege, oc-
cupied considerable portion of the time, and final
ly ted, as is shown in the Senate proceedings
in the loss of the bill.
The Miscellaneous Appropriation bill came from
the Senate loaded with amendments, among which
was one to abolish the franking privilege. This,
after many parliamentary touches was voted on
and defeated by small majority. Another amend
ment was authorizing the extension of the
Treasury Note law for two years. which, after con-
siderable opposition, finally agreed to by eleven
majority.
Various reports of Committees of Conference on
dlsaSreeing votes to the several appropriation bills
were concurred in, and occasionally private bill
was passed.
The President was at the Capitol all the morn
ing attending to the business of signing bills etc
HOuSp failed. tO md II ha
tomary message asking whether he had any further
communication to make, and informing him that
Congress was ready to adjourn. The galleries of
both Houses were densey crowded to witness the
closing scenes.
Many members left this afternoon for their
homes.
The President has determined to appoint Robert
McLane, of Maryland. Minister to Mexico
Messrs. Sweeny Rittenhouse, FAINT & Co., of
Washington, to whom were awarded three millions
OF the late Government loan, have negotiated for
the whole amount in New York, through L. b.
Bayne of Baltimore.
Immediately after the adjournment of Congress
to-day, the Senate commenced its extraordinary
Executive session, in accordance with the procla-
nation Of the President The new Senator's whose
credentials had previously been presented were
sworn in.
Mr.. Doottle offered a resolution requesting the
President to open negotiations with the Central
American States with view to the establishment
OF settlements of free persons of color, where they
a
ton was postponed until tomorrow, to which day
the Senate adjourned.
The Post Office Appropriation bill contained an
item of So 900 for the deficiencies of the
year, and which is absolutely required to meet ac-
cumulated obligations. With this the Department
could have got along comfortably till the lst of
July. No means can be available till the lst of
April, when the proceeds of the quarter will be paid
in. After the 3lst of June none of the mourning
revenue can be expended, the present law will
have ceased to operate. The Land and Ocean Ser
vice, and consequently the whole machinery of the
Department, are thus disastrousy affected.
News from Santa Fe
ST. LOUIS, March 3.-The Santa Fc Gazette of the
9th ult. says that the expedition unuer Lieut..
Beale would leave Albuquerque for the West on
the lst of March. The commissioners to run the
boundary between Texas and New Mexico were at
Fort Bliss, and designed to commence operations
on the 18th of February. Col. Bonneville mad de.
tailed one hundred troops to act as their escort.
Death of Rev DR. Carnahan
NEWARK, March 3.-The Rev. DR.. Carnahan for
meriy pastor of the First Presbyteria Church in
Utica, New ork, and subsequently President of
Princeton College, died at the residence of his
sonn- law, William X. Mcdonald, ESQ.,, in this
city, this morning, in the eightyfourth year of his
age.