New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-04

Matt Peel, Burns dinner at the National lectures al
quarreling and making up IN the House, Ullman With
Carl FeEmes and Laborde coming next Tuesday, and
soon after French bal masque, and finally Geo
Ganden and the New York Softs at the White
Il Ihirty.ff Congress- Second Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ~, ls5s-ssnate. Hunter
asked me unanimous consent Of the Senate to take
up the joint resolution from the House Of Repre-.
4 sentatives providing for the payment Of the ex.
penses of investigating committees Of the House Of
Representatives There were many witnesses DESTROYS
returning TO their homes that could not go until
this resolution was passed. sssss
q The resolution having been taken up, Mr.. Hunter
submitted an amendment which would check any
abuse 10 the system. The amendment was to the ei-
feet that hereafter allowance the officer or other
person executing precepts or summons for either
House Of Congress shall exceed ten cents per mile
having been agreed to, the bill . amended was
q passed.
Nj. Stuart, from the Committee on Public Lands,
to which was referred House bill to fix aud regn.
late the compensation Of receivers and registers Of
the Land Offices under the provisions of the act ap
proved 10th Of April, 1885, reported it back without
amendment. asked its immediate consideration, and
the object OF the bill having been explained by Mr.
4 s., i was finally passed.
Mr.. Pearce, from the Committee on the Library, to
which Was referred the joint resolution for supplying
! the Choctaw nation with such copies Of The laws
journals and public printed documents as are fur.
nished TO the States and Territories reported it with
az amendment which was agreed to, and the reso
luton was passed. 45
| Mr.. Shields, from the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims to which were referred the papers, reported
bill for the relief Of Frederick Vincent administra-
| Mallet
Mr.. Fitch made numerous reports from the Com
mittee on Printing. That relating to printing 1000
extra copies OF the majority and minority reports of
COMMITTEES on Foreign Relations in relation to the
Il nSr.n1S uo~Ef - Ia
| report in favor Of printing was agreed to.
On motion by Mr.. Hale,
Resoiued, That the PostmatserG General be directed
to communicate to the Senate the amount Of postage
received IN each State and Territory of the United
States for each year, from 1910 to the present time
and also the amount paid in each year for tansporta
ton in each Of said States and Territories including
the rates of postage in each year. and the number Of
letters transmitted by mail in each year. if practical
bic. A
On motion by Mr.. Hale,
Resoived, That the Committee on the Post Office
and Post Roads be instructed to INQUIRE into the ex
pediency of authorizing the Postmaster-Genera to
contract for the establishment of new post.route
BY railroad conveyance between the cities of Wash.
ington and New York or In some other mode of pro-
ceedng for such conveyance of the mails as the pub
lie necessity requires.
On motion BY Mr.. Rice,
Resotued That the Secretary Of War be requested |
to furnish the Senate with copy of the Topographic
cal memoir and map of Colonel Wright's late cam
paign against the Indians in Oregon and Washing
ton Territories.
The hour Of O'Clock having arrived, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration Of the Pacific Rail.
road bill.
Nj. Doolittle moved to amend the bill by adding |
section that nothing in this act contained shall with
hold the lands set apart and appropriated thereby
for railroad purposes from settlement and pre- emp
ton at the price Of two dollars and fifty cents per
acre, under the provisions Of the act Of September
1871, aud the acts amendatory thereof until said
lands are sold and conveyed under the provisions of
this act.
Mr.. D. stated that the object of this amendment
was to prevent the lands from being held and monop-
olzed by the Railroad Company for considerable
period, and then sold at very high prices as they
have been on the Illinois Central Railroad and other
roads.
The question being taken, the amendment was
Mr.. b. then submitted another amendment making
it the duty of the Secretary Of the Interior to adyer
tise for proposals on the Northern and Southern
routes and not upon the Central inasmach as the
and almost certain that the route fixed by it would
be somewhat central
The amendment was agreed TO-
Mr.. Douglas moved to amend the bill by an addi-
tional section that all the lands situated within forty
miles Of the middle division CT the road on either
side thereof and not herein set apart and appropri
ated for the Of said road shall be open TO settle
ment and presumption at the rate Of ten cents per
acre. under the provisions of the act Of September
1S4l, and the acts amendatory thereof.
This amendment was agreed to without division.
Mr. Simmons thought the bill in its present form
was mere programme, and was not filed up for
practical use and he moved to amend it by striking
ont all after the enacting clause and inserting the
substitute offered several days since by Mr. Bell call
ing for proposals for building railroad on three
routes. The amendment was adopted. sg
After some debate, in which Messrs. Douglas and
Gwin declared that the bill was killed and that to
pass in its present shape would be farce the ques
ton was taken and the BILL as amended, passed by
vote Of 81 to 20. s{s#
The title was amended SO as to read "a bill to au-
thoze and invite separate proposals for the construc
tion Of railroad from the valley Of the Mississippi
to the Pacific upon three separate routes " and
then the Senate adjourned.
House-The Speaker stated the business first in |
order to be the consideration OF the bill making ap
preparations for the consular and diplomatic expenses
Of the Government for the year ending June &c. 1860
reported yesterday from the Committee OF the Whole
on the state of the Union with snndry amendments
The first amendment was stated to be the recon.
mendation Of the committee that the entire section
making appropriations for the salaries of the ENJOYS
extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of the
United States atforegn countries be stricken out and
the following inserted:
!" For salaries Of ENJOYS extraordinary, ministers,
and commissioners Of the United States at Great
Britain, France, Russia, SPAIN Brazil, Mexico, China,
Peru and Nicaragua, $105, 000.''
jected.
The second amendment, appropriatng 1886 for
the salary of the minister resident at Japan, from
the 18th January, 1859, to the 30th June next and
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Japan, was agreed TO-
The third amendment, reducing the appropriation
for defrayng the expenses Of the commission to run
and mark the boundary line between the United
States and the British possessions, bounding Wash
ington Territory, from 100000 to 81 600, was
agreed to.
The fourth amendment, reducing the appropriation
70 enable the President to carry into effect the law of
1919 for the suppression of the slave trade from $751;
goo to 500 was rejected-yea As, nays las.
=. Inc question then required upon the molten that
the following section be stricken out:
10 enable the President Of the United States to
carry into effect the act of Congress Of Sd March,
Iel9, and any subsequent acts now in force for the
suppression OF the slave trade, $4,000: Provided,
mat 50 much OF sad appropriation may be required
70 pay expenses already incurred may be used from
and after the passage Of this act"
Inc question being taken, it was decided in the
negatve--yeas2s, nays l63.
yeas IS, nays 90. "
Mr, branch Of North Carolina, moved that the vote
ny which the bill was rejected be reconsidered with
me view of securing some arrangement by which the
bill might be saved. ,-'N