... ...... VE lowas...... .342 .........357 .......357 .....343 Senecas...... ....358 of, Deficiencies, appropriations for- Continued. Fees-Continued. Indian Affairs, appropriations for, and provisions .341, 342, 343 accounts to be rendered by marshals, clerks of respecting the-Continued. .342 Choctaws ..356 .337 ...356 .342 Creeks.... .356 Delawares.. .342, 356 .352 Eel Rivers, (Miamies) ..357 ..357 ...357 ..357 .342 .356, 357 ..357 Missourias ..357 .342 .358 .342 .347 ..357 for minister to Central America. .347 ...357 .342 .347 .........357 ...342 Otto was............... .341, 343 Pawnees.......... Piankeshaws ..... ........357 ..352 Pottawatomies. ..358 of Huron...... ........358 .351 of Missouri... .351 Quapaws. : Florida .351 ...358 ....343 .351 ...358 .351 Seminoles. ..357 .343 .351 ..351 .358, 359 .358 Six Nations of New York. ..358 Stockbridges.. .358 Texas Indians.. ..358 337, 338 ..359 ..343 ..338 ..358 ..338 ...358 to owners of steamboats to comply with ..338 ....364 approval of boilers by.... ...364 ..342 of the Capitol and Executive Mansion....348 required by steamboat act to be competent to .352 .364 ..336 .342 Interior Department, appropriation for the sup- ..353 port of the.... ......345 Internal Improvements—see Harbors. ...341, 343 Iowa, regulation of terms of District Court in, 338 distribution of arms to ..352 H. Iowa Indians, appropriation for the.. .357 ..337 Harbors and Rivers, appropriation for improve- J. .336 .342 || Jackson, Andrew, appropriation for statue of, 342, Buffalo Creek.... 351 ..332 .342 | Johnson, Levi, payment to...... ..342 Genesee River.. .346 Milwaukie Harbor. .337 .342 in California and Oregon, extra pay to.....337 ....353 ..342 K. ..353 Kanzas Indians, appropriations for the......357 communication between Kansas River and Fort Napoleon... .347 Leaven worth .............352 .347 Kent, Edward, payment to... .347 King, J. B., setilement of accounts of........343 ..347 || King, William R., administration to, of oath of ...341 ..353 L. ..365 La Truite, Martin, payment to ......349 1. Land Districts, establishment of, in California, 360 . . .359 | Independent Treasury, compensation of deposit- Land Offices, provisions respecting when they are .338 ..332 .352 ...347 President may discontinue when sales are less than expenses : .........345 ..331 .359 Lands--see Public Lands. .359 Lane, Thomas W., payment to.............342 ..363 military reservations for Indians, in California, Lee County, (Iowa,) claim of, to be audited and .....346 .359 Letters uncalled' for in California, advertisment ..332 of..... ..354 .344 taking receipts for larger sums than are paid, || Library of Congress, appropriation for. ..344 .344 ..344 .345 appropriations for, in the deficiencies appropri- Life-boats, metallic, a substitute for, may be ac- .345 cepted by inspectors in certain cases.... ....365 .345 appropriations for, and provisions respecting Light-Houses, appropriations for...343, 346, 347 ...341 part of act of 1852, ch. 110, sec. 2, repealed, 343 ...356 general appropriation bill for.. ..354 ..344 ..355 ..355 ..341 of Lake Superior, &c. ..354 and Ottowas &c.. ..355 B ...342 ...347 . .341 ..,...352 ..342 Light-Houses, general appropriation bill for- Navy-Continued. Continued. ..... ... .... Rhode Island..... .355 lines to Havre and Bremen may be discontin- ued.... .. .... ........ .... ..355 .......... .336 in California and Oregon, extra pay of.....337 ..355 .354 .455 .355 .354 .355 ..355 weight.. their size and devices.. private deposits for, forbidden.. regulations concerning ........ Minnesota, appropriation for roads in. the one authorized on... claim of R. B. Forbes and others for a light- .334, 335 ........ .351 .336 accounts of. .346 .... grant of....... ..... Missouri, grant of land to, for a railroad.....333 N. ..357 National Observatory, appropriation for the..353 .352 ..352 ..353 survey of coast of Gulf of Mexico... department of the, appropriations for......345 ......... ...... ....... ......... .... Oath of Office, of William R. King, administra- lines to Havre and Bremen may be discontinued, 355 Officers, act to prevent frauds on treasury by, 337 .359 .361 Omaha Indians, appropriation for the........357 ........ Paper, appropriation for.... for ........ ..348, 349 ..... .353 .353 .353 .353 .353 .353 .353 ....... .... Pensions, Navy, appropriations for..........332 363 envelopes to be defaced when deposited....363 ident with advice of the Senate..........363 ...363 Post Office, deficiency appropriation for. .354 .... ..... ............ opes... compensation of deputy postmasters.......363 .358 to..... right of, extended to the alternate reserved sec- .......331 ..360 ..... ...332 333 price of alternate sections doubled.........333 rights of settlers, their widows, &c., in Ore- sales of, in Oregon, authorized .334 reservations.. .334 compensation of surveyor general in Oregon, 334 ......360 .....360 ...360 .....361 ...358 ...363 of... ...333 as... Public Lands-Continued. Washington Territory-Continued. governor.. .338 .339 .339 ..341 sessions limited... .339 .339 .341 legislative powers.. .339 .339 first session of... ..340 tions for the.. 358 ...339 .349 judiciary..... .339, 340 .347 removal of cases to. .340 .340 ....347 .340 .340 .340 .....365 .340 .340 344 jurisdiction over Columbia River. .340 ...351 Statistics, agricultural, appropriation for collection Water, supply of, to City of Washington....348 ..359 .359 Webster, Daniel, appropriation for expenses of .344 332 | Williams, William, payment to.. .341 of Andrew Jackson, appropriation for, 342, 351 Wind and Current Charts, appropriation for.353 of,.... .357 .337 certain requirements of the act relating to provision respecting persons coming from abroad ......364, 365 ..337 ..361 not to be competent to hold the office of..363 in California, and Oregon, extra pay of....337 Stockbridge Indians, appropriation for the....358 Wreck, appropriation for acknowledging services .341 1.341 .359 ..335 of public printing to superintend the binding of ....344 PRIVATE. of public printing, to receive and keep samples Albatross, The, register to issue to......... .369 ..366 Alcott, Sidney S., allowed to enter land. of armories, inquiry as to appointment of..351 and his duties... to the... .369 for Oregon, duties of. ...366 Armistead, Elizabeth, pension of..... Armstrong, Robert, settlement of accounts of, 372 of lands in California... ...360 Arnow, Joseph, claim of heirs of, to be adjusted, 366 B. ......363 .370 Barnard, ..370 Barnett, Thompson, payment to ...... .373 ..342 Bates, Lewis H., claim of, to be audited and paid, 371 .343 .373 ..371 .347 Bay City, the name of the Forest City changed .369 ..352 | Bedient, William, pension of.. .368 .368 ..350 Belknap, Ann C., pension of .... .367 ..370 U. ..370 Boundary, Brig, register to issue to.... ...372 ...370 ...359 Brazil Packet, The, register to issue to the, under .343 .370 Burlington, lowa, grant of land to.. ..368 .348 | Vice President, salary of, increased... . .350 | Bush, Captain, payment of company of, for ser- ....369 King. .341 C. ...352 .352 be allowed in his accounts........ .368 .367 .350 ceipts for more than they pay...........359 Carr, John, arrears of pension of, to be paid to his .350 ....367 Carrier Pigeon, The, name of the Ontario changed .372 370 ..352 Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, right of way granted to.. .369 ..348 Cobb, Ursula E., pension of.... ..371 .342 Converse, John P., payment to.............373 .338 373 .338 Craig, Elizabeth, pension of.... .338 Creecy, Colonel James R., payment to .368 T. of..... to.. corps of.... ...... ..371 F. 369 .373 .....368 pay of.. Cross, Osborn, settlement of accounts of......366 Leadbetter, D., payment to.. .370 Pilcher, Josiah P., payment to.. .30 Leonie, The, register to issue to the Prentice un- Poindexter, George, claim of, to be audited 2 3. .369 Lomax, Elizabeth V., pension of..366, 369, 370 Prentice, The, name of, changed to Leonie...3 .372 Lynch, John A., payment to widow of......368 Price, Captain, payment of company of, for sery- M. ! .3 Price, William J., land confirmed to..... 3. Public Lands-see Lands. Public Printer, settlement of certain accounts of," Matthews, Charles S., payment to..........367 Queen of Dundee, The, register to issue to, urok May, of Baltimore, register to issue to the Brazil the name of Kate Wheeler.... 367 R. .367 Reily, Barbara, to be paid arrears of pension ng ..367 William Reily...... ...368 McNeil, Mrs. E. A., arrears of pension of Gene- Daniel Renner, to be audited and paid...3 of ... .3.2 .372 Roberts, Benjamin S., payment 10.. 31 ..372 Roger Williams, The, name of, changed to El Para- 370 Moss, Matthew, adjustment of account of...373 S. N. Sackett's Harbor and Ellisburg Railroad, right of way granted to.. Norton, Betsey, pension of..... ::.372 Savannah, (Georgia,) site of Oglethorpe Bartako 0. granted to... Shade, Jacob, Jr., pension of.... .3.1 .370 Simons, Maurice K., pension of.. Oglethorpe Barracks, site of, surrendered to Sa- Sisters of the Visitation, &c., incorporated...374 .373 Smith, Gilman, pension of...... .371 Smith, George P., released from a bond.. 369 361 363 ..372 Smith, J. L., payment to.. ...367 Smith, Philo, payment to. .368 P. | Southern Michigan Railroad, payment to. 373 ....371 ...371 Pearson, Mary, pension of....... .30 Spaulding, Harlow, payment to... .371 Armistead, Elizabeth... .366 .370 Siafford, Abigail, payment to... .36 .317 St. Louis, &c., Railroad, right of way granted .368 to. Storer, Jacob J., payment to.... ..367 .361 .370 Benneti, B. B. Suarez, Captain, payment to company of, for ser- .370 .30 Capers, Jim... .367 Sullivan, John T., payment to... .36€ .367 Swayze, C. L., location of Choctaw scrip by, ap- .371 proved. ... .366 Craig, Elizabeth. .372 T. .369 .372 Taylor, Maria, title of, confirmed ...........372 .366 Thompson, Mary W., pension of... ....369 Elliott, Asenath M. .368 Todd, Bernard, payment to representatives of, 360 .367 V. Gibson, Robert.... .371 .366 .371 .370 .369 .371 Visitation, Sisters of the, incorporated.......370 .368 .367 .368 W. .370 .370 .367 Waln, S. Morris, duties to be refunded to....371 Kerbaugh, John. .368 Washington, The, relief of widows and children of ..360 .367 ..369 ..368 Wells, Edmund, land warrant to issue to.....371 McNeil, Elizabeth. .366 Wells, Sally, land warrant to issue to........37? ..371 .372 Wells, William H., land warrant to issue to..372 Monroe, Elizabeth. ..367 ...367 .372 Wigg, William Hazzard, settlement of claims .372 ......372 .367 .337 Wilcoxon, Joseph M., land entries of, confirm. Shade, Jacob, Jr. .370 ...36 ..3 ...369 ..368 .372 Wingate, Jeremiah, land title of, confirmed...368 Sowards, Rosanna. ....367 ...372 .....372 ..372 .369 Worth, Margaret L., pension of.. ......366 ...372 ..372 Y. ..366 ..368 .....367 ...368 ...367 of..... .372 ...368 APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. 320 CONG.....20 Sess. Message of the President. NEW SERIES.......No. 1. OF THE This is the first number of the Appendix to the Con- within nine or ten years have been excluded from presumptive ground for such prohibition, has been gressionul Globe for the second session of the Thirty Second Congress. It will contain all the Messages of the President water to which they had free access for twenty- made the subject of a serious remonstrance at Maof tlie United States, the Reports of the Executive Depart five years after the negotiation of the treaty. În drid; and I have no reason to doubt that due respect ments, and all the peeches of Members of Congress with- 1845 this exclusion was relaxed so far as concerns will be paid by the Government of her Catholic held by them for revision. All the Laws that may be the Bay of Fundy, but the just and liberal inten- | Majesty to the representations which our Minister passed during the session will be published in the same form, so that they may be bound up with the Congressional Globe tion of the Home Government, in compliance with has been instructed to make on the subject. and Appendix. what we think the true construction of the conven- It is but justice to the Captain General to add, Subscription price of the Congressional Globe and Ap- | lion, to open all the other outer bays to our fish- that his conduct toward the steamers employed pendix and the Laws for Wis session, (payable in advance,), 43 00. ermen, was abandoned, in consequence of the op- to carry the mails of the United States to Havana A sufficient number of copies will be printed to supply position of the colonies. Notwithstanding this, has, with the exceptions above alluded to, been all who may subscribe before the 15th of January. the United States have, since the Bay of Fundy | marked with kindness and liberality, and indicates was reopened to our fishermen, in 1845, pursued no general purpose of interfering with the comMESSAGE the most liberal course toward the colonial fishing | mercial correspondence and intercourse between interests. By the revenue law of 1846, the duties the Island and this country. on colonial fish entering our ports were very greatly Early in the present year official notes were rePRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. reduced, and by the warehousing act it is allowed ceived from the Ministers of France and England, to be entered in bond without payment of duty. inviting the Government of the United States to In this way colonial fish has acquired the monop- become a party with Great Britain and France to Fellow-Citizens of the Senate oly of the export trade in our market, and is en- a tripartite convention, in virtue of which the and of the House of Representatives: tering to some extent into the home consumption. three Powers should severally and collectively The brief space which has elapsed since the These facts were among those which increased the disclaim, now and for the future, all intention to close of your last session has been marked by no sensibility of our fishing interest, at the movement obtain possession of the Island of Cuba, and extraordinary, political event. The quadrennial in question. should bind themselves to discountenance all atelection of Chief Magistrate has passed off with These circumstances, and the incidents above tempts to that effect on the part of any Power or less than the usual excitement. However indi- | alluded to, have led me to think the moment favor- individual whatever. This invitation has been viduals and parties may have been disappointed able for a reconsideration of the entire subject of respectfully declined, for reasons which it would in the result, it is nevertheless a subject of national the fisheries, on the coasts of the British Provinces, occupy too much space in this communication to congratulation that the choice has been effected by with a view to place them upon a more liberal state in detail, but which led me to think that the the independent suffrages of a free people, undis- footing of reciprocal privilege. A willingness to proposed measure would be of doubtful constituturbed by those influences which in other coun- , meet us in some arrangement of this kind is un- tionality, impolitic, and unavailing. I have, howtries have too often affected the purity of popular | derstood to exist on the part of Great Britain, ever, in common with several of my predecessors, elections. with a desire on her part to include in one compre- directed the Ministers of France and England to Our grateful thanks are due to an All-merciful hensive settlement, as well this subject as the com- be assured that the United States entertain no Providence, not only for staying the pestilence mercial intercourse between the United States and designs against Cuba; but that, on the contrary, which in different forms has desolated some of the British Provinces. I have thought that what- I should regard its incorporation into the Union our cities, but for crowning the labors of the hus- ever arrangements may be made on these two sub- at the present time as fraught with serious peril. bandman with an abundant harvest, and the na- jects, it is expedient that they should be embraced Were this Island comparatively destitute of intion generally with the blessings of peace and in separate conventions. The illness and death habitants, or occupied by a kindred race, I should prosperity. of the late Secretary of State prevented the com- regard it, if voluntarily ceded by Spain, as a most Within a few weeks the public mind has been mencement of the contemplated negotiation. Pains desirable acquisition. But, under existing circum-. deeply affected by the death of Daniel Webster, have been taken to collect the information required stances, I should look upon its incorporation into filling at his decease the office of Secretary of State. for the details of such an arrangement. The sub- our Union as a very hazardous measure. It would His associates in the Executive Government have ject is attended with considerable difficulty. If it I bring into the Confederacy a population of a dirsincerely sympathized with his family and the is found practicable to come to an agreement mu- ferent national stock, speaking a different language, public generally on this mournful occasion. His tually acceptable to the two parties, conventions and not likely to harmonize with the other memcommanding talents, his great political and pro- may be concluded in the course of the present | bers. It would probably affect, in a prejudicial fessional eminence, his well-tried patriotism, and winter. The control of Congress over all the pro- manner, the industrial interests of the South; and his long and faithful services, in the most import- visions of such an arrangement, affecting the rev- it might revive those conflicts of opinion between ant public trusts, have caused his death to be enue, will of course be reserved. the different sections of the country, which lately lamented throughout the country, and have earned The affairs of Cuba formed a prominent topic in ,'' shook the Union to its center, and which have for him a lasting place in our history. my last They remain in an un- so happily . In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety was caused for a short time by an official tion on the part of the Cuban authorities appears convention which had been concluded between intimation from the Government of Great Britain to exist. This feeling has interfered with the reg: 1 that Republic and the United States, for the prothat orders had been given for the protection of ular commercial intercourse between the United tection of a transit way across the Isthmus of Tethe fisheries upon the coasts of the British Prov- States and the Island, and led to some acts of huantepec, and of the interests of those citizens of inces in North America against the alleged en- which we have a right to complain. But the Cap- the United States who had become proprietors of croachments of the fishing vessels of the United tain General of Cuba is clothed with no power to the rights which Mexico had conferred on one of States and France. The shortness of this notice treat with foreign Governments, nor is he in any her own citizens in regard to that transit, has and the season of the year seemed to make it a degree under the control of the Spanish Minister thrown a serious obstacle in the way of the attainmatter of urgent importance. It was at first ap- at Washington. Any communication which hement of a very desirable national object. I am prehended that an increased naval force had been may hold with an agent of a foreign Power is in- still willing to hope that the differences on the subordered to the fishing grounds to carry into effect formal and matter of courtesy. Anxious to put ject which exist, or may hereafter arise, between the British interpretation of those provisions in the an end to the existing inconveniences, (which the Governments, will be amicably adjusted. This convention of 1818, in reference to the true intent seemed to rest on a misconception,) I directed the subject, however, has already engaged the attenof which the two Governments differ. It was soon newly-appointed Minister to Mexico to visit Ha- tion of the Senate of the United States, and rediscovered that such was not the design of Great vana, on his way to Vera Cruz. He was respect- quires no further comment in this communication. Britain, and satisfactory explanations of the real fully received by the Captain General, who con- The settlement of the question respecting the objects of the measure have been given both here ferred with him freely on the recent occurrences; port of San Juan de Nicaragua, and of the controand in London. but no permanent arrangement was effected. versy between the Republics of Costa Rica and The unadjusted difference, however, between In the mean time, the refusal of the Captain Gen- Nicaragua, in regard to their boundaries, was conthe two Governments as to the interpretation of eral to allow passengers and the mail to be landed sidered indispensable to the commencement of the the first article of the convention of 1818 is still a in certain cases, for a reason which does not fur- ship-canal between the two oceans, which was the matter of importance. American fishing vessels || nish, in the opinion of this Government even a good li subject of the convention between the United 1 enas y condition, and a feeling og alarm and irrita- beathe rejection by the Mexican Congress of the |