The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-24
PROCEEDINGS on THE THIRlY.SIXTH CONGRESS
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, April 23.-The eVICE-PRESIDENT
laid before the Senate a message from the Presi-
dent OF the United States in answer to n resolu-
tiOn of the Senate, of the 18th inst. requesting
copy of the instructions from the Department of
State to Mr.. McLane, when appointed Minister to
China, and transmitting report from the Secreta-
ry of State with the instructions called for.--On
motion by Mr.. FITCH, a resolution was adopted
requesting the Secretary of War to return to the
Senate the reports of Majors MOrdeca and Della
field on the Crimean war.--0n motion by Mr.
1ULEE, a resolution adopted calling on the
Postmaser-General for copies of the contracts ex-
ecuted with Daniel H. johnson and Cornelius Van
derbit respectively, for temporary mail service be-
tween New ork and San Francisco and New Orleans
and San Francisco, by way of the Sthmus routes of
Panama and Nicaragua, together with the cores
pOndence relating thereto'-Mr. SEBASTIAN,
from the Committee on Indian Affairs to whom
was referred the House bill to provide payment for
depredations committed by the whites upon the
Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory, reported it
back with amendments.-Mr. FITZPATRICK
presented the memorial of the Legislature of Ala
bama, with resolution in favor Of the enactment
of law allowing interest on the amount of the two
and three per cent. fund which accrued between
the years 1920 and 1881, and was improperly with.
held from the State; which was reported to the
Committee on Public Lands.--Without doing any
other business of public interest the Senate ad-
iourned until Thursday next.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr. PHELPS said he was satisfied that there
was not working quorum present, and he moved
that when the House adjourn it be to Thursday
next.--Mr. SHERMAN said he believed that
there quorum in this city, and suggested
that the House 20 into Committee of the Whole in
order to give gentlemen an opportunity of dis
cussng the tariff and other questions. BY this
means business could be advanced as if there was
full House.-Mr. HUGHES hoped that the regu-
lar order would be pursued by calling the States
for resolutions, etc.-Mr. FLORENCE said that
there other why this should
not be done. If such resolutions were forced
on their passage, there could not be that fair
consideration they ought to have.-The
question was then taken MIR. PHELPS
motion to adjourn to Thursday next, and it
was egatived--yeas, "a; nays, III
Mr. WINSL0W called attention to the fact that
certain letters (the Van d yke correspondence) had
been published in the New York Herald, as evil
dence before the Covode Committee 1t due
tn that such evidence had not been before the
Committee HOUSTON wished to know
how this was. BY hat rule or practice do mem
bers of the Committee permit the publication of
evidence, or what purpOrts to be evidence, before
it is completed. And he made some further re-
marks, which were not distinctly heard, owing to
the frequent calls to order from the Republican
side.-Mr. FLORENCE desired to know how the
evidence gets out.-Mr. WINSLOW did not
know, unless there some black cats about.
Laughter. He had been early taught to have no
controversy with preachers, because they have the
pulpits nor with editors, for they have the press
nor with women, for they will have the last word.
Laughter l---hF CONoDE Salu LnaJ some evil
dence had been published in the New York Herald
even before the Committee received it. The cor
respondent, having been summoned. said the wit
ness had called on him three or four times and
having been furnished with the evidence, he pub
lished it. As to Mr.. Van Dyke, the latter said
he had and would furnish the correspondence in
question-Mr. LEAkE raised the point, which
was declared to be well TAKEN that Mr.. CovOde
could not expose the proceedings of the Committee
Mr. HUGHES offered resolution, which was
agreed to, instructing the Committee Military
Affairs to inquire into the expediency of providing
for the punishment of offences in an enemy s
country, for which provision is made
in the rules and articles of war;
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union, when Mr.. AVERY,
of Tennessee, made a speech against Republican
party aggressions on the South.-Mr. MORRILL,,
of Vermont, addressed the Committee in favor of
the Loan and Tariff bill, which proposes to fund
the outstanding Treasury notes, and to afford pro-
lection to American manufacturers. Mr.. JONES.
of Georgia, with view of fixing the responsibility
where it belongs, argued that the North three
years after the adoption of the Constitution, COM
menced the agitation Of the slavery question by the
presentation of petitions, following it up to the
present time, for the purpose of establishing great
sectional party to put slavery under the ban.--The
Committee rose and the House adjourned.