tory of Wisconsin, providing for a sale of canal lands at a reduced price: which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands. By Mr. Sawtelle: A petition of Luke Hilton, of Canada line, in the State of Maine, praying indemnity for injuries sustained while in the employ of the government of the United States in locating the monuments on the boundary line between the United States and Canada: which was referred to the Committee of Claims. By Mr. Hoge: A petition of citizens of the State of Illinois, praying that the post route from Chicago to Roscoe may be continued on to Galena, via Rock grove, Oneco, Winslow, &c.: which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. By Mr. Isaac E. Holmes: A petition of John Strohecker and others, praying for indemnity for losses sustained by the forcible seizure of the schooner Enterprise by the authorities of the island of Bermuda, in 1835: which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. White: A petition of Hartwell Carver, praying for a charter to construct a railroad from lake Superior, or Michigan, to the Pacific ocean. By Mr. Morgan L. Martin: A petition of citizens of Sheboygan, in the Territory of Wisconsin, praying an appropriation for opening a road from Sheboygan to the Fox river, via Taychudah and Fond du Lac. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. By Mr. Hunter: The report of Captain Mordecai to the Secretary of War, asking for the improvement of Four-and-a-half street, from Pennsylvania avenue to the Washington arsenal: which was referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. By Mr. White: A petition of Wynant W. Vandenburgh, praying for the payment of an account against the United States for services performed. By Mr. Simpson: The petition of Albert A. Muller, heir of the late Albert A. Muller, deceased, praying for commutation pay for services rendered by his father in the war of the Revolution. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. By Mr. Wick: A joint resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, for an appropriation for the further prosecution and completion of the harbor at Michigan city, in said State; Also, a joint resolution of the same, for the improvement of the western rivers. Ordered, That said resolutions be referred to the Committee on Com merce. By Mr. Roberts: A petition of Mary Nations, of Noxubee county, in the State of Mississippi, praying for the confirmation of a title to certain lands: which was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. By Mr. Abbott: A memorial of citizens of Bradford, in the State of Massachusetts, praying that a congress of nations may be instituted for the settlement of national disputes. By Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll: A petition of citizens of the State of New Jersey, praying the recognition of the Commonwealth of Liberia, by this republic, as a free and independent State. By Mr. Kennedy: A memorial of citizens of the State of Indiana, remonstrating against the admission of Texas into the Union as a slave State. Ordered, That said memorials and petition be laid on the table. Mr. William W. Campbell offered the following resolution; which was read, as follows: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to inform this House what amount of money is now in the treasury of the United States; where the same is deposited, specifying the respective amounts in each depository; and also what security, if any, the government has, for the safe-keeping of the public moneys, specifying the nature and amount of such security given by each depository; and giving also his opinion as to the sufficiency of such security. When, on motion of Mr. Brinkerhoff, the House, at twenty minutes past 3 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock meridian. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1846. Mr. Pollock, from the Committee of Claims, made an adverse report upon the petition of Patrick Smith: which was laid upon the table. On motion of Mr. Bedinger, Ordered, That the Committee on Military Affairs be discharged from the consideration of the petition of Clement Sewall, and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Isaac E. Holmes, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill (No. 90) to regulate the promotions and appointments of officers in the . revenue service: which bill was read a first and second time, and comImitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Henley, from the Committee on Patents, to which was referred the bill from the Senate (No. 33) entitled "An act for the relief of James Bogardus," reported the same without amendment. Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time to-day. The said bill was accordingly read the third time, and passed. Mr. Dromgoole asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill (No. 91) amendatory of the act entitled "An act to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia," approved July 5, 1832: which bill was read a first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. On motion of Mr. Dromgoole, Ordered, That the report upon the same subject, made at the first session of the last Congress, (No. 475 of that session,) be reprinted. Mr. Cocke presented a letter from the Adjutant General, in relation to the case of James Bumbough: which was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. On motion of Mr. Cocke, Ordered, That the petition and papers in the case of James Bumbough be recommitted to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Burt, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill (No. 92) making appropriations for certain defensive works in the United States: which bill was read a first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. William W. Campbell, and pending when the House adjourned; which was read, and laid upon the table one day, under the rule. Mr. McDowell moved the following resolution; which was read, considered, and agreed to: Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to obtain, through the agency of the Secretary of the Treasury, or otherwise, statements from the several collectors of the customs in the United States, of the steam and other vessels enrolled and registered in the respective districts, whether employed in the fisheries or on the lakes, coastwise, or foreign navigation, which may be of the burden of two hundred tons and upwards; giving, in such statement, the age and present condition of each vessel; her burden; her general construction both for strength and sailing; the trade she is employed in; whether in port, or the usual time of her return to port; the estimated value of such vessel; the name of her owner or owners, and commanders, and the number of her crew. That the said committee be further instructed to inquire into the expediency, practicability, and best mode of rendering available to the government, in the event of any exigency or necessity, the use of all such vessels as may be suitable to its purposes, and the employment of the same; of their existing officers and crews, either upon the principle of a maritime militia for the United States, or otherwise providing for the purchase of such of said vessels as they may at any time desire to take into their service, or for suitable compensation to the owners during the period of such service, and for granting such commissions to their commanders and other officers, and such pay to them and their crews, as would be suitable and proper, having regard to the size of such vessels, according to the rules and practice now in force in the navy. That the said committee be further instructed, upon receiving such statements or reports, and classifying the different vessels according to their size and qualities, whether for defence on the lakes or the coast, or for service in fleets, or singly on the ocean, to inquire into the most effective description of armament for such vessels, and whether such as may be deemed most suitable and proper be now on hand and in a state of readiness for such purpose, and report to this House at as early a day as practicable the result of such inquiry. A motion was made by Mr. Hamlin, that the rules be suspended; and that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Pending the question on which motion, Mr. Hudson asked and obtained the unanimous consent of the House to make a personal explanation relative to a publication contained in the "Union" newspaper of the 8th instant, under the signature of "John P. Heiss," one of the firm of Ritchie & Heiss, Printers of this House, relative to certain remarks made by Mr. Hudson, in the House, on the 7th instant. Mr. Hudson having concluded his explanation, Mr. Garrett Davis moved the following resolution: Whereas John P. Heiss, a person in the employment of this House, having, in a newspaper, charged Charles Hudson, a member of this House, with falsehood in debate: Resolved, therefore, That the said John P. Heiss be dismissed from the employment of the House as one of its printers. Mr. Reuben Chapman objected to the reception of the resolution as not in order pending the motion of Mr. Hamlin to suspend the rules. The Speaker stated that the resolution was only in order as a question of privilege; and that it was for the House, and not the Speaker, to decide whether the resolution did or did not involve the privileges of a member of this House. On motion of Mr. Reuben Chapman, the question was put to the House, Does the resolution, moved by Mr. Garrett Davis, involve a question of privilege? And decided in the affirmative, Yeas, 116 57 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are→ Mr. Amos Abbott John Quincy Adams Stephen Adams Lemuel H. Arnold E. Carrington Cabell Alfred Dockery Joseph E. Edsall John H. Ewing Edwin H. Ewing Solomon Foot Mr. Henry D. Foster Thomas Butler King Those who voted in the negative are- Mr. Alexander Ramsey David A. Stark weather Bannon G. Thibodeaux Joseph Vance Robert C. Winthrop Mr. Edmund W. Hubard So the said resolution was received, and entertained by the House as a question of privilege. And, after debate, A motion was made by Mr. Bayly, that the said resolution be laid upon the table. And the question being put, It was decided in the affirmative, SYeas, Nays, 101 85 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are- Mr. John Quincy Adams Stephen Adams Joseph H. Anderson Richard Brodhead Francis A. Cunningham George Fries Mr. William S. Garvin John W. Lawrence Mr. Augustus L. Perrill Frederick P. Stanton Hezekiah Williams David Wilmot William W. Woodworth William L. Yancey Mr. Edwin H. Ewing Meredith P. Gentry |