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2
Month
June
Year
1848
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Public Domain
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May 13thl848. Mr Jefferson Davis presentad a memorial from Messrs, King and Young, if Nnw York, offering their services in raising a regiment of volunteers for YnoHtRB, and askinsi the aid of the Government. lor that purpose. The memorialista stilte tlmt the regimnnt will bo ralmd, nrmnd, and eqiiipped, whether the iiid is or is nat all'oided, is hundrods are novv ready to einbark, and m only wnitingthe 'actioti of Congress on tfafl UiH liefore theni. Mr. Haiinegan luid on th table of the Senate n resolution of inquiry iirto tlie expediency of esfabüshing the consulate of Museat, in tho dominions 'of the Imauni, on tho stuw fnotiug as those at Tangiera, Tripoli, and Tunis, 'm the barbary States. Mr. DouglNM offeretl a resolution whioh was ndopted, instiucting'lhe Military Committee to in■quir iiito tho expedí' ncy ot'ampiidiug the law apiprnved '23 1 'April, 1803, appropriating innually SJOO.OO;) lor arnii is; the whole, militin iif tlio Ü. States nid TerritinieM, so ns to inereaso the saine to nu aiiioiint rqual to file present wants of the country. Mr Dix, from Commlttoe on Conimerce, Iftported n bill to admit Cttttain nrticles, the growth or productütnof Canada, free ofduty, conditionally that itnilxr articles slnll ntso be admitted from this country into Canada fiei' nf dniy. The Post Office Bill with amntidmcnts. as t. yeiterday passed the House, was taken np, anil somo of tho amendments concnrred in nnd others rejected. The Senate then resumed th cnnsideratiori of the bill iiut.horizing tbu temporary military occupntion of Yucatán. Mr. Afiliar addressed tho Sennte in onposition I to the bill. If he could look npon it asa mensure ■ of humanity alone, he should havo no hesitntion in giving it his suppmt. Bul the qneslion had been so nvinaged as to strip it of its humane character, snd to place it npon groDin) of expedtoncy. It is a case in wliich, ut the saine time tlmt charity ;ind neaistance irc solicited liy Oov. Méndez, he off.rs ! ,to pay us tbr it with the soTercignty of his country. Ajïd at the tinni this npplicntion was made, ]r. Münilez was Dot Governnr, and had no authority to maketbfl npplicatiaii tnnder. Mr. M. l'nither contended, thnt il' Onder the armistic wo had a riht to take pnssession, W( had an ef I n.il riglit to drive out atiy Énglish troops whicfa iniht bo found in Bny vnnrter of the terrilory, and that siich couiüe would inovitalily involve us in war with UreatBrttain. Hewnsopposed hy Beizing npon Yucatán, to doing the very tbillg of wliich wo aoruíe Enuland of un intention to do. If it is wrong i in her, it is wrong in us. The aplication of Mr. Monroe's dortrino to this case thev considerod n sross perversión of the principie. Ws propoge to do the very thing which Mr. Monroe said England, Franco. nd other Europenn nations, shoul i not do - to seizs npon a State of this continent. Mr. Monroe intonded tbat the rule ehould not only iipply to European nntions, hut to oursolves. TfEngltind has no rijrht to interfere, npon.what principie have wü tlie riirht ? And yet thp doingthii, it is said, will le carryin; out the principia of Mr. Mo:iroe, that thoio shall be :io intcrference. The eviJrnce nf Com. Perry wm qnoted. to show j thnt dnplicity on the part of Gov. Méndez l'.ad led to the Inistility of the Indiann, nnd even excited tho iüdignation of u portion of the white popularían. If we took possession of Yucntan, tho next niovemnnt, in the p esent stut" of Km-ope. would bo n-iimilar appücation from Cubn. I Ie shnuld not like to seo Great líritain tike po?Fe-sion of f'ulia ; büt ln wnu'd not lo willing, for tlmt rp;iso, that we rhouM take poaaMMon of her trnrselvng. Mr. Clark, wlio offered a resnhition, which was adoptad, Cüllins on the president to inform the Sennte uhcthpr anv order luis been given to all or any of O'ir squadron in the Golf, to proced to Yucatán, for the protection of the white pupnlatioo ; nnd f bo, ti) cornmunicato i copy of such orders, and any othrr corre-i'onde!ice o;i the subject. Tiio Sonate thon ndjourncd. My 15, 1S48. SehatS, - The chief topic of interest was the Yucntan Bill, in opposition to which Mr. Calhoun nddressed the Sonate at length. He scouted the idoa thnt En,'land was dciigning to inferiere with Yucatán ; malntainnd thnt onr interposition was not. i ii Rccordance with Mr. Monroe's declaration ; did not conceive that the pOMMMOn f Yucatán was necussary to procuro profection to oui1 commerce in tho Gulf, and ioaisted t at the miserable fiictiousnoss and want of patriotism of the Yucatan.se diminishfd their claims in our huinnnity. Mr. Ba:by obtained tho floor, and the subject was laid over. House. - The biil to refund mon y far expenses incurred, and subsistente or transpnrtation furnished, for the uso of volunteers, beforo they v re niusfered into the service, was taken out of committeo. put upun its pauage, and carried. May 16, 1843. Sknate, - Mr. Donjtliisi from the coinniittee on Territori, rrported the H mie bill for the adinuiion of Wisconsin. usa State, into the Union, which was rcad nud mido an ord r of the day fur Thurslay. Mr. BijIjv moveil to tako np the rosolntions he hnd preuouslv oifarod, whicli declared that ueither CongrsM, nor Territorial lejjislation, or tho people of sai I Territ.orÍH3, liad the power tu prevent the ndmissi'jn of slavery into said country ; which inotion wm Bgrne.1 to, und t!i rntolotioM wero diacusse I, ly Memn. Bagby, Funto, Budger and Westcott. A inotion to lay the resolution on the tablo wns passod by a voU of yens 26, nays 8. Mav 17, 1848. Mr: Hianegan iinnouncd that nows had b-on roceivod from Yucatán, of u freity bein? entared intn botween the whitos an 1 InJians, and moved a p.)3tpoueineut of the further considoration of the bill. May. 19. 18 48. Mr. Bright of IiH. mofed to lako up the bill for . th admisaiun of VVisconsin as n State into the Federal (Jniiin, which was afreed to. Pha bill was t leu after a brief consideraron, rea1 the s cond and third time and passed. TUe private calender was taken up. Hodges's lavo case came up first. After a.'i aniiuatfd debate, the Committee arose itn I rppotta I the bill to the House without amendmeoti, wlien it was rand a third time and passed. ü i m itiun, the Houso then n Ijourned over tiü to-morrow, Saturday.