Show DOINGS BOINGS IN C CONGRESS washington april in the house mr air curtis asked leave to offer a resolution directing in the secretary of war to communicate to ehg the e military committee a full plan and schedule of floating battery now in course of construction ia in the vicinity of new york harbor the amount of money expended thereon and the estimated cost of completing the same and that the military committee report such chanles chanres changes a as may be consistent with the public interests mr air curtis curtla said etwas it wab was time that the country knew something about the battery the peculiar pecullar construe construction tion of which had been kept a I 1 perfect secret I 1 i mr houston said etwas it was unusual to direct 1 an air executive ec 1 ti 1 1 v e officer to report to a committee ar mr c certia 1 1 tib tub explained that the reason for this was that the committee may anar reason examine lof lot an and d deter determine niffie the propriety and construction 0 stevens Steve sieve ris jis battery if proper the work will go on Ifan Jf anything i was necessary to be kept lif secret this could ba done mr aft houston thought it were better for him to object tom tor the resolution this morning the house went into a committee of the whole on the state of the union mr buffing ton in the chaurand cha irand resumed the con consideration of the bill 11 R noa No 3 38 to provide for the payment of or outstanding outstanding treasury notes to authorize a loan to regulate regulate and fix the duties on imports and for other purposes on which the gentleman from ohio mr carey careyl had the floor mr carey said there is one subject which we have been so much accustomed to hear discussed cus led upon this floor that I 1 do not know but I 1 may be considered out of order it if I 1 do not talk upon this negro question mr hatton you are certainly out of order if you attempt in thib thid committee to dis cuss anything except the negro question here nothing is recognized as of sufficient i importance to entitle it to consideration unless it involves a disquisition on slavery laughter rin mr carey carcy I 1 am going goin to make a few remarks upon a matter w wh li ch h I 1 conceive to be of great importance to the agricultural interests of ot thia country I 1 have no doubt that sonie bonie some bome gentlemen may consider that out ifor of oi or orr orp r der but I 1 will venture to proceed even if it is out of order and in order to lay a foundation for my remarks I 1 will offer a resolution to be read as a part of my roy argument for I 1 know it would not be in order to offer oner it now for adoption resolved that the committee on agriculture be and they are hereby instructed to report to this house a bill for the promotion of the interest of agriculture for the organization of the agricultural division of the department of the interior now in a defective condition and demanding an immediate remedy in the course of his remarks mr carey said we hear threats of a dissolution of the union because of this slavery agitation the idea is extraordinary and unnatural it is impossible im isible that this people can be divided and atis this union dis ruptured I 1 after a lengthy discussion the committee rose and the chairman reported that the committee of the whole on the state of the union had had under consideration the union generally and particularly house bill no to provide for the payment of 0 ou standing treasury notes to authorize a loan I 1 to reu reg regulate and fix duties on imports and for olter olger other purposes and bad come to no conclusion thereon the house adjourned till monday I 1 april 30 in the senate sundry memorials and petitions were presented I 1 on motion of mr latham the report of the judiciary committee on the petition of george georee L I 1 barnard y in regard to the estate of david C broderick frederick was re committed I 1 mr johnson ark moved that when the senate adjourn it will be till wednesday next carried I 1 on motion of mr green the senate adjourned till wednesday may 2 the house went into committee of the whole on the state of the union 1 mr moore ala opposed the tariff bill the republicans seized on the payment of the public debt which was comparatively small as a pretext to increase the duties V wherever free trade has been tried the result has proven I 1 I 1 the ithe wisdom of that policy we should not i abandon the advantage Z gained in that direction I 1 several members made speeches on the slavery I 1 question and the commit commiL committee tee then rose I 1 and reported and the house adjourned may in the house the consideration of territorial business was postponed till monday da and tuesday ne next nest d 1 I the re resolutions reported from the committee ton ion on judiciary on the presidents protest were postponed till thursday next at 10 i mr air maynard introduced a bill granting pensions to officers and arid soldiers of the war of or 1812 and those engaged in indian wars prior to that period referred to the committee on military military affairs I 1 the house ouse ousa then went into committee of the whole mr wilson was willing to abide by all the constitution declares on the subject of slavery ile he would never interfere M where here it legitimately exists amr I 1 mr hickman said that sectionalism has been nursed and animated until it has become the fruitful and commanding parent of all our afflictions it ia la not the sectionalism of the i north but of the south not springing from tho the few who un understand ier der stand the constitution in all its bearings but from the many who feeling their weakness have united for strength a sectionalism not created in the atmosphere which cools bools the laborers brow but in the fetid atmosphere of rice swamps and cotton fields a sectionalism now mild and persuasive then fierce and arid persistent it is the emblem on the shield of sa pa a child harmless but we give gire it the thunderbolt and make it arce bierce fierce ard destructive the committee rose and reported and abe house adjourned may ad mr seward presented the petition oi and arguments of 0 C S drew adjutant U S army relative e to the oregon 0 war debt referred mr pearce fron fram the library committee reported a joint resolution for fon laipply supplying 1119 lilg the choctaw cherokee and chickasaw nation with public documents the house bill for the relief odthe of the shawnee indians was taken up and passed mr davis moved that his resolutions be made the special order for monday nex next agreed to mr lane gave notice that lie he should call up to morrow the oregon war debt bill adjourned till friday the house libuse met at neon only one hundred and twenty three members present mr Sherm sherman nn of ohio gave wave gave notice that h would tomorrow to morrow move that trtat the tarie tariff bill shall be made the special order of the da day y that the debate shall be confined to the subject and that the vote shall be taken at an early day the ile housewert house went into comm committee it tee of the whole on the state of the union mr english tho thol condemning the action of the extremists in both sections of the democratic party yet had bad an abiding faith in the principles of democracy and would woold rather see a bad man elected presidency it i he was a democrat than a good man if lie he was a republican mr hutchins hutching contended that the irrepressible conflict doctrine of mr al seward was waa the true doctrine ile he argued that the early fathers sought to restrict slavery where it wab was practicable ti mr smith of N C urged conciliation andt andi compromise the committee rose and the house |