New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-20
rn,r,y-F.nh consre..-seeona session.

II WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Senate.-A multiplicity q
memorials, resolutions in regard to mail routes, an
other routine business transpired.
MI. Seward introduced bill amending the exist
ing acts in the slave trade. Referred to the Judiciary
The principal provisions Of the bill are to hire tel
steamers to be manned, armed and equipped, and Il
cruise in any part Of the United States Cuba Africa
or elsewhere, where the President may judge an at
tempt il making to carry on the slave trade. ANY
State may pass laws prohibiting foreign or African
slave trade within it's limits. No ship shall sail fol
the African coast without clearance from the Dis.
trict Attorney and the Secretary of the Treasury
shall designate the ports Of Africa where the Amer
can Consul shall reside and where only commerce
acts and appropriates 81 000, 600 for the expense
Mr.. Kennedy introduced bill to establish line of
steamers between American and British ports; re.
| ferred.
Mr. Simmons introduced resolution and asked its
immed ate consideration That the Secretary Of the
Treasury be directed to prepare plan for revenue
adequate to meet the ordinary expenses of the Gov
eminent by the imposition OF specific instead of I'D
raiore duties; also to supply schedule containing
all needful information on the subject of specific
| duties
Mr.. Houston made feeling reply to Mr.. VERSIONS
remarks of yesterday. He defended the consistency
OF antecedents and said if devotion to the Union had
caused his political immoaton, be gloried in it
the proudest record Of his life. The Offices he had
held sufced for his ambition, some of them attained
through scenes Of anguish and peril. He would re-
lieve Mr.. VERSIONS mind Of any aspirations he might
be supposed to have for Office, by saying that he
would not accept the nomination if offered by all the
political parties He had higher, nobler, tenderer
duties His life had been extended to sixty-6ve
years. forty-fve of which had been devoted to his
country's service which entities him to honorable
discharge. Having performed all his duties with
fidelity, he wishes to retire to his humble home,
where the absence of the uxuries of wealth best suit
his rugged nature. He concluded with some severe
but good natured remarks which elected applause in
the galleries. which the President promptly stopped
Mr.. Iverson said a few words in generous apology
for the remarks made by him yesterday.
A discursve debate ensued on the Pacific railroad
bill, the pending question being Mr. Biglers amend
ment to locate the eastern terminus between the 37h
and 43d parallels.
Mr.. Collamer spoke in opposition to the Southern
route.
Messrs. Broderick and Clark supported the central
and Mr. Douglas, as on yesterday, was against exeu
ding any section of the country by limiting the par
Without taking vote, the Senate adjourned after
House.-The controversy relative to the reference
Of the Naval Appropriation bill was ended BY send
ing to the Committee Of the Whole on the state Of
the Union.
Mr.. Underwood asked leave to introduce bill for
the construction of railroad from the Gulf Of Mexico
to the Pacific ocean.
Mr.. Stephens objected, insisting on the regular Or
der of business; his design being by this means to
have an opportunity to report the Oregon bill.
Mr.. COmins, from the Committee on Commerce, |
reported bill to repeal the law Of 1856, which a
thorzes the Secretary Of the Treasury to change the
names Of vessels in certain cases. 1t was he said,
supposed that the Secretary of the Treasury would
adopt stringent rules, and act with extreme caution
but this does not seem to have been the case.
The bill was passed-yeas IS, nays 43.
Mr.. Landy, from the Committee on Commerce, re- |
ported bill authorizing the procuring Of two ocean
cutters-one to be stationed at PHILADELPHIA
and the other at New Orleans.
The House then went into Committee of the Whole |
on the state of the Union, and resumed the consider
alton Of the special order being the bill to codify the
revenue laws of the United States
Without taking action upon the bill the House ad-
ourned.