OF THE

EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

SENATE

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FROM DECEMBER 6, 1858, TO AUGUST 6, 1861, INCLUSIVE.

VOL. XI.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

June 28, 1886.

Resolved, That the entire Executive Journal of the Senate, from the 23d February, 1829, the date to which the said proceedings have already been printed and published by order of the Senate, be printed, to the end of the last session of the Fortieth Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, with a copious and comprehensive index to each volume, and that one hundred copies thereof be printed.

Resolved, That until the further order of the Senate the said print. shall not be made public.

Attest:

ANSON G. McCOOK,

Secretary.

JOURNAL OF THE EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE

OF THE UNITED STATES.

[Second session Thirty-fifth Congress, 1858 and 1859.]

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1858.

The following messages were received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Henry, his secretary:

To the Senate of the United States:

I nominate J. Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria. JAMES BUCHANAN.

WASHINGTON, December 7th, 1858.

To the Senate of the United States :

I nominate John E. Ward, of Georgia, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to China, in place of William B. Reed, resigned.

WASHINGTON, December 7th, 1858.

To the Senate of the United States:

JAMES BUCHANAN.

I nominate William Preston, of Kentucky, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Spain, in place of A. C. Dodge, resigned.

WASHINGTON, December 7th, 1858.

To the Senate of the United States:

JAMES BUCHANAN.

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and China, signed at Tientsin, by the plenipotentiaries of the parties, on the eighteenth day of June last.

WASHINGTON, 7th December, 1858.

To the Senate of the United States:

JAMES BUCHANAN.

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratifica. tion, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Japan, concluded at the city of Yeddo on the 29th of July last.

WASHINGTON, December 7, 1858.

JAMES BUCHANAN.