Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1859-01-12
CONGRESSIONAL.

wssniNerOS. Jan. TO.
HouA .-psrksdsle Of Mo offered Tie fol.
lowing preamble aud resolution witch we're
adopted
wHlssAs. II has been announced in foreign
journals that the courts Of Trance aud Eng
lard have gives notice TO our Government.
that the ccssion u Cubs 70 the Z. 5. will not
be tolerated even with tie eousru. q Spain.
i Therefore
Resolved. Thai rAe fresIctn. te fetuestea.
/ Il not Incompatible with the public interests
10 communicate TO this House the correspond.
erce between the courts OF Fraace and Eng.
land And our Government ia reiatica 10 the
eession Of casa to the L. s
Mr.. Harris asked. but failed 10 ot<sin leave
to offer j"itt resolution requesting the Pres
ident To interfere in the Mortara esse.
The House then went into Committee ~ the
/ Whole on the state Of the Union. aud resumed
the consideration Of the Indian Appropriation
DSH.
Blair, Of No, fired an amendment. re ui-
ring mat no part Of the appropriation Tor III.
removing q he Indians or Washington and
Oregon to their reserves. aud for their tempo.
rary maintenance shall be used Tot the pur.
chase Of arms aud ammunition for those adj.
ans.
PheEos. q No. explained that The Indian
Bureau did not give guns to hostile Indians
lie suggested a prosiso. that nsthing IN his
bill shall interfere With The treaty stipulation
which We are bound /, obey.
NJ. Dlair's amendment. a. thus mod fed
was adopted The bill was then laid asite to
be reported to House.
i The committee then proceeded to the consid-
Grafton Of the Presidents Annual Message.
Nichols, 81 Ohia. wished to place on re.
I cord his protect :ainst the passage II the
bill pensioning the soldiers Of the war Of lSl2
Should it become a law !, would entail a
curse OF the country. The Revolutionary
pension system furnished no precedent for
thai now proposed. 4 provision already eI-
+. 1T, fos the public service. The idea of pen
SIGNING men Tor ! atrioiism. was not in Ac-
ccrdance with our institutions.
In reply TO the argumsnt. that such pens;ons
vii. stimulate the patriotism, and provide
against the contingency u large standing
army SIR. Nichols SAID. hat the ycnng mcr
who rushed to our standard IL the Mexican
war. had no stimulus ef that Kind to pairio.-
i'm. 1t does not need sach culture, it over.
flows every American heart.
WASHINGTON. Jan Il.
SrSsrE-The Senate wGs called 10 order {,
the usual hour, vLeD, after prayer the journal
was read
Housr -Afer the usual preliminary bu-i
ness. Mr.. Hill. OF Ca. askcJ bat failed 70 ob
tain lrave To offer je.ht resolution, declaring
that no new State ought to be admitted into
the Union antil il is asc,sisIned by census.
there is sufficient popula.ic~ 10 member OF
the House according TO the Federal ratio.
The House .ook up tie resolution. which
was reported al the last session from the com.
Mite on foreign Affairs, denounciog the act Of
Com. Paulding IN the seizure of Gen. wa.krr
aud his followers. but recommending that no
action be taken.
Several amendments ltei~to were pending
viz: One. presenting the thanks Of Congress
10 Com. Padding and his officers. A second
that Com Paulding's act being without the au.
lhority of law, meets with the condemnation
Of The House. and the lhird. asserting IN,
right Of citizens TO cxpalriate themselves. (
help their heigbbors although then struggling
! for freedom. right Of which thy cannot b,
eonsliiu'ionally deprived.
Mr.. Smith. of Va moved to lay the resolr
ton on the table, which Vas neratived By
ayes e3i nays los.
sKsArs.-The Pacific Rail Road Bill vas
taken up. Mr.. Gwin II PRESSED the hope that
the hna vote on the I'LL would be taken on
Thursday next.
: Mr. Wilson said that years before the &C
QUESTION Of California. before it, plaeers OF
gold had turned our count1men to the shores
oftl.e Pacific the idea canvassei 81 = rail
way transit across the Continent which would
make our country the great highway between
Europe and Asa. Since the treaty Of Guada.
loupe Hidalgo gave our Republic title deed Of
the empire the construction Of a railway 20
the Pacific had engaged the profound a.ten
ton IF lie nation. The opinion Of the people
had been pronounced in favor of the speedy
completion Of that great national work which
would carry into the heart Of The country the
light Of Christian civilizations develope the
) health and power Of the nation and bind 10.
getber the dwellers on the Atlautlc add Pa
slopes Of the Rocky Mountains.
Wilson continued al great length.