The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-18
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY f.NyTH CONGRESS-
SEN ATE


| United States at the several navy yards and sta
| tons, Naval Asylum, Naval Academy, Observatory
ana rendezvous, together with those employ ed by
| or connected with naval vessels and officers, naval
! stores, ships and receiving ships and the salary
! pay and emoument of each; and that he also com
| muncate to the Senate his opinion of the total
! compensation which each should receive, according
! to his labor and espOnsibilitv.-On motion by
! Mr.. CLARK, resolution adopted directing
the Secretary of the Interior to include in the est
mates to be sent to Congress at the next session. an
! estimate for completing the north front of the
Patent-otce building, with portco, according to
| the plan OF the architect.-Mr. HEMPHILI in
troduced bill to authorize the establishment of an
additional judicial district in the State of Texas;
which was read twice and referred.-Mr. HALE
introduced bill in relation to the duties of post
masters, and a bill to punish and prevent the un
lawful detention of mail matter; which were
| severally read twice and relerred.-Mr. WILSON
| presented a Joint resolution of the Legis-
/ lature of Massachusetts, concerning the disease
called pte"ro pneumonid asking their Senators and
Representatives to use their influence to procure
the passage OF such quarantine laws as shall pre-
| vent the importation into the country of animals
afflicted with any contagious infectious kind of
disease. On motion by Mr.. FITCH, the Senate
proceeded to the consideration of the House joint
resolution in re lation to the public printing The
DliI as 1t came from the House provides for the es
taolshment OF a government printing office; and
MT. Davis had reported substitute on behalf of
the minority OF the Committee on Printing, to
nave all the public printing divided into ten class
es, and executed by contract-Mr DAVIS mada
some remarks In advocacy of bis amendment and
the subject was debated at some length by Messrs
Fitch, TOombs, Cameron, Puph, Bayard Green
and others'-Mr. PUGH thought a povernmeni |
printing office would be sink of corruption.
He did not see why the printing could not be left
under the ordinary law of Congress, rs every other
kind of work is.-Mr. FITCH replied to the Oh |
Jections that had been made against the House BILL
saying that there was more for dishonesty
under the contract system than with government
prlhtlEg-ollce. We have striking illustration
of the working o. the contract system in the print
ing o. the Post olce blanks which is this moment
proving failure. The Posmasters at St. Louis
and other places refuse to take them as they are
executed so badly, and there so many mistakes
In them, and are procuring them reprinted on their
own responsibility. Rather than adopt the amend
ment he preferred to adhere to the existing system
--1he question being taken. the amendment was
not agreed to-yeas IS, nays 80 THE Joint reso-
| luton was read third time and passed.yeas 81,
nays IA Mr. HUNTER, from the Committee on
Finance, to whom referred the bill from the
House of Representatives making appropriations
for the naval service for the year ending the 3Oth
OF June, 1861, reported it without amendment; and
1t was taken up for consideration.-Mr.M MALL0-
| R1 submitted several amendments which were
| agreed to. He also submitted an amendment ad-
ding ten surgeons and ten assistant surgeons to the
| navy; which was not agreed tO.-Mr. WILSON
moved to amend the bill by authorizing the build
ing OF three steamers to act for the suppression of
| the save-trade on the coast of Africa-Mr
| HAMMOND said he would go as far as anybody
to suppress the slave-trade, but since the Senate
Colonization Society 500 apiece to take care
| of returned Africans for a year, he should be
careful how he voted for anything connected with
that subject 1t was fact, that by the laws OF
Liberia all such Africans apprenticed for seven
| years, and the Society would simply pocket the
money, while the negroes would be let out to the
government. o. if the Society should take care of
the negroes, he had experience enough to know that
ten dollars year would be amply sufficient to sup
| port a negro. He thought this would actually
tend to increase the save-trade by making it prof
liable for vessels to be captured in this way-Mr
| GWlN moved to amend the amendment bv author
ising the President to ask the British government
to enter into convention, to make provisions for
the return of each captured African as long as the
eighth article of the AshburtOn treaty continues in
force, and on the refusal of the British government
to enter into such convention, then to signify the
wish OF this government to have that treaty abro-
| gated.-Ths was rejected-yeas 49, nays &c.
| The Senate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
| Mr. SHERMAN reported back the Senate resn-
| luton to adjourn on Monday week. with an amend
ment substituting Wednesday next--Excessve
confusion prevailed.--Mr. FARNSWORTH said
that if the members of the Baltimore Convention
! were to control business here he would move that
doorkeeper let them all iu.--Mr. BARkSDALE
said that these gentlemen were not creating a dis
| tutbance. Members on both sides of the House
were doing it.--The amendment was disagreed
! to. Yeas 80, nays sc. Intellectual efforts were
made to table the subject. The Senate resolution
| was then adopted. Yeas 1913, nays 5S.--Mr
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! signed by Messrs. Covode, Oin and Train, 1t sets
out with speaking of the embarrassments which at
tended their labors and says the President saw lit
| to send In solemn protest in the way of a pro-
| camation to the world that the whole power
| OF the Executive, instead of being exercised
| to forward the investigation into its admin
| istrative affairs, would be exercised to portect
! those who might choose to disObey the sum
mons Of Speaker of the House, or who bavip0
obeyed the summons, might refuse to testify before
the Committee, who quote precedents to show that
they have felt at liberty to investigate the conduct
of the President or any other officer of the Gov
ernment. In regard to the Lecompton Constitu-
tion, they say the country will pause with aston
ishment over the shameless record! They examine
| first, the emphatic and indubiable pledges of the
President well before after his election and the
pledges of all his Cabinet to the doctrine OF leaving
the people of "Kansas perfectly free to admins
ter their institutions in their own way. Second
the deliberate violation of these pledges, and the
attempt to convert Kansas into a slave State bv
means OF forgeries. frauds, and force. Third-The
removal of and attempt to disgrace the sworn
agents OF the Administration, who refused to vio-
late these pledges. Fourth-The open employment
of money in the passage of the LecOmpton- English
bills through Congress. Fifth-The admission of
parties engaged in the work of electiOneering this
scheme, that they received enormous sums for this
| purpose, and the proofs which they ware paid
| by agent of the Administration. Sxth-The
offer to purchase newspaper editors with extrava-
giant sums of money. Seventh-And even the pro-
scrption OF Democrats of high standing who
| would not support the Lecompton and English bills
The witnesses on these points were Governor Walk
| er, Messrs. Wendell Bean, and T. w. W aker and
fortunately for the cause of truth, the evidence of
these witnesses does not the Committee say depend
| upon their admission. 1t is proved by the
books of the Bank of the Metropolis, which contain
the of those who conduct their business there
and by the unconscious contradiction of the wit
nesses. The testimony of Mr.. Forney is not
to be overlooked in this connection While it shows
general willingness on the part of the President
to subsidiZe the public press, it proves also that
| there n determination all W hn
could be bought; and to crush out the honest
men who could not be bribed or seduced
to an afiiliation with the Administration its Le-
compton policy. Mr.. Forney offered the print
ing OF the POst.ofice blanks, with at least $50 0OO
as a condition that he should by editorial, no
larger than mans hand, dsembarrass the Ad-
minstraton in its Kansas policy - The Commit
tee refer to The fact that twenty four members Of
the House were opposed to the Kansas policy. The
Committee refer to the fact that twenty-fOur mem
bers OF the House were opposed to the Kansas policy
This numbe dwndled down to twelve and enough
were found to carry the bill through the House,
The Committee say it had always been supposed
that the war in Utah was gotten up for the pur-
pose of fastening slavery on Kansas, the troops
being directed to operations in Kansas.-The
next point examined, involved the abuses at the
Philadelphia Custom-I House, and other public
offices, in regard to which the Committee say that
improper combinations were made among the Fed
eral officers, with view to control the sentiments
and preferences of the people, in their primary
political movements. Secondly, the improper and
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of persons in the public service in violation of the
: laws and government regulations; and frauds on
the part of officers of the Government to defeat the
statutes of the United States enacted for the
pose of protecting the public treasury from unjust
claims and improvident and unnecessary expendi.
lures. The witnesses are: John H. Bryant, Francis
and Samuel B. Grce, Francis Mccormick, John F.
Schell, Andrew Brumaker George Denney, Pat
rick Laferty, John Dunn and Others The Com
mittee say that Collector Butler is subject to the
highest censure. For want of time, they were un-
able to procure an investigation into the manage
ment of the post-o1ices They examined the sub
ect of the executive binding, saying that Mr.. Pet
tibone wronged in the matter, and that the pa
tronage retained in the hands OF the Presidents
friend and most efficient operator, Mr.. Wendell.
! The Committee say the evidence proves beyond a
doubt that the prices paid for the executive print
ing and binding utterl Y dsproportionate to
the work done. The Committee also allude to
the employment ofmen to carry elections. In
, view of all the facts and circumstances attending
this investigation from its inception to the present
time, they say there seems marked propriety in
, closing this report with quotation from speech
of Mr. Buchanan in condemnation of corruptiOns.
Mr. TRAIN moved that fifty thousand copies
of the report be printed referred to the Printing
Committee. ee.-Mr WINSLOW was privileged to
l make a minority report Monday morning
: not vet having had time to prepare it. as
: the testimony not closed till Thursday -
The House proceeded to the consideration of the
: resolution heretofore reported from the Commit
t tee on Elections-that William c. Anderson is en-
titled to the seat occuped by him as the renre
from the Fourth ~