Memorials and petitions from the corporate authorities, the trustees of the public aid for the public schools in said city-S. bill 191... Reports from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. Petition of Bancroft Woodcock John A. and Hiram A. Pitts....... Memorial of Randall Pegg-S. bill 274...... Jeremiah Pendergast-S. bill 275................ Petition of M. C. Gritzner-S. bill 308. Edson Fessenden, of Hartford, Connecticut, conservator of the per- Supplemental report upon the memorial and bill for the relief of Randall Pegg- Reports from the Committee on Territories. Message of the President, communicating a copy of the constitution of Minne- sota-S. bill 86....... communicating a constitution for Kansas as a State, Memorial of Giles S. Isham Report from the Committee on the Library. Joint resolution to grant to the Judges and Solicitor of the Court of Claims the Reports from the Select Committees. Resolution of the Senate of the 17th of December, 1857, in relation to the condi Senate bill 45, to provide for the settlement of claims of American citizens for Reports from the Committee to Audit and Control the Contin- Resolution of the Senate directing the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Cornelius IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. APRIL 7, 1858.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. THOMSON, of New Jersey, submitted the following REPORT. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the memorial of Alexander B. Hagner and Daniel R. Hagner, guardians of the infant children of the late Major J. R. Hagner, of the United States army, praying for a pension, beg leave to report : That Major Hagner, a paymaster in the army of the United States, had, from the time of his entering the service of his country up to the year 1855, been free from disease, possessing a vigorous constitution which had been preserved by a strictly temperate life. In 1853 he was ordered to Texas, and served afterwards at Corpus Christi, whence he was ordered to Fort Brown, on the Rio Grande, and charged with the payment of the troops at the different posts for two hundred and fifty miles up and down the river. The severity of this labor, added to the insalubrity of the climate, seriously injured his health, and in the spring of 1856 he suffered severely from the intermittent fever of the country, accompanied by dysentery, and was advised by his physicians of the danger of his remaining longer in that climate. He then applied to the department to be relieved, and orders were issued to that effect; but the officer appointed to take his place was detained some time, and Major Hagner continued to perform the duties of his post, though suffering from sickness and great debility consequent thereupon. At length he became so worn down from disease, as induced the commanding officer of the department to grant him a sick leave, upon the certificate of Surgeon Head, of the army; but before he could avail himself of this leave, he received an order to attend a general court-martial, at Ringgold barracks, which convened in October, 1856. He attended the court, but became so much enfeebled that, when released from his attendance there, he was utterly unable to undertake a journey to New York, and, after suffering from bilious dysentery, died at Fort Brown, Texas, on the 6th of December, 1856. Notwithstanding the committee believe that the late Major Hagner died from disease contracted in the line of his duty, they are not willing to establish the precedent granting pensions to the children of deceased officers, where there is no widow; and therefore recommend that the prayer of the petitioners be denied 1st Session. No. 162. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. APRIL 7, 1858.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. THOMSON, of New Jersey, submitted the following REPORT. The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Charles West, report: That the petitioner was a soldier during the war of 1812, having enlisted (for five years) on the 20th of May, 1812, and was discharged the 19th of May, 1817, as appears from a letter of the Assistant Adjutant General to the petitioner, dated the 20th February, 1851. He claims a pension in consideration of disabilities received while in the service. There is no evidence before the committee, nor can any be obtained from the bureaus where the rolls, &c., of the army are kept, to show that the petitioner received any wound or other disability during the time for which he was enlisted; and they ask to be discharged from the further consideration of said petition. |