2 lowas.. ..343 Florida ... Senecas ...... Weas. ... 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. Choctaws .356 .342, 343 .356 ..342 .356 Delawares. .342, 356 .352 Eel Rivers, (Miamies). .357 ..342 Florida Indians .357 .357 .357 .342 .356, 357 .355 Miamies ..357 Missourias ..357 .358 .342 .347 .357 .347 .357 ..342 .347 .357 .342 Ottowas. .357 . .341, 343 Pawnees... .358 357 .352 Pottawatomies. .358 of Huron.... .358 ..343 .357 Delaware. .351 .358 .358 .351 .358 .351 .357 .358 .351 .358, 359 .351 .358 Six Nations of New York. ..358 ...........343 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 no person interested in any patent for articles ..342 of the Capitol and Executive Mansion....348 required by steamboat act to be competent to .335, 337 hold the office of ... .364 ..336 .342 Interior Department, appropriation for the sup- ...336 ..345 Globe, Congressional, and Appendix, appropria- | Internal Improvements—see Harbors. .....341, 343 | lowa, regulation of terms of District Court in, 338 distribution of arms to .... .352 H. Iowa Indians, appropriation for the.. ..357 .337 J. .338 ment of- ..336 .342 | Jackson, Andrew, appropriation for statue of, 342, .342 351 ..332 .342 Genesee River.... .346 Milwaukie Harbor.. .342 .337 Red River Raft..... .342 in California and Oregon, extra pay to.....337 ....353 .342 K. 1.353 Kanzas Indians, appropriations for the......357 communication between Kansas River and Fort .342 ..347 .352 Evansville.. .347 .347 || King, J. B., settlement of accounts of.. ..343 ..347 King, William R., administration to, of oath of office as Vice President... ..341 .353 L. .365 La Truite, Martin, payment to .....349 I. Land Districts, establishment of, in California, 360 ..359 Independent Treasury, compensation of deposit- Land Offices, provisions respecting when they are .338 abolished.. ..332 ..352 ..347 President may discontinue when sales are less ..341 ....345 ...348, 360 ..331 .359 Lands—see Public Lands. ..359 Lane, Thomas W., payment to.............342 ..363 military reservations for Indians, in California, Lee County, (lowa,) claim of, to be audited and ...363 ....346 ..352 ..359 Letters uncalled for in California, advertisment ...332 ....354 taking receipts for larger sums than are paid, || Library of Congress, appropriation for......344 .359 preparation of catalogue of.... .......344 .345 appropriations for, in the deficiencies appropri- Life-boats, metallic, a substitute for, may be ac- .342 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 Chippewas .. ...355 .356 California .341 .347 ..354 and Ottowas &c. ..... .357 ..355 of..... ...344 ........355 B .....355 1 ited..., ...360 Light-Houses, general appropriation bill for- Navy-Continued. Pensions, Navy, appropriations for..........332 Continued. .352 pay of purser in California ...332 half pay to widows and orphans.. Louisiana .... his clerk.... .352 | Perjury, false swearing under fee bill made...337 Maine.... .354 pay of commandant's clerks at, and clerks of the Piankeshaw Indians, appropriation for the ...358 Massachusetts. .354, 355 yard, the navy-yards at Boston, New York, | Postage stamps, penalties for offenses concerning, Michigan. ...354 Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola....352 363 New Jersey.. .354, 355 nautical almanac.. .353 envelopes to be defaced when deposited....363 New York.. ...354 wind and current charts.. .353 Postmaster-General, salary increased... ..350 Ohio. .455 observatory. : .353 assistants to be hereafter appointed by the PresOregon... .355 naval hospitals.. .353 ident with advice of the Senate..........363 Rhode Island..... .354 navy-yards. .353 Postmaster at Cleveland and Richmond, compenSouth Carolina. .355 ..363 .354 Post Office, deficiency appropriation for......342 Virginia.. ...355 general appropriation bill for... ..354 Littell, J. S., payment to. .341 pay of the medical officers who served in Mex restoration of proceeds of property stolen from ....354 agents, repealed.... ....354 investigation, and report to be made concerning. .355 Navy, Secretary of the, compensation of, in advertisement, of letters uncalled for in Califorlines to Havre and Bremen may be discontin: Navy-yards, appropriation for, at creased, .354 ued..... appropriation for Ocean steamers.. .355 .....355 Marine Corps, appropriation for.. Boston.. .353 .354 Cleveland, &c., Railroad, made a post road, 361 Memphis... Marshals, fees of, as prescribed in general fee bill .353 .363 all railroads made post roads... of 1853..... New York.. .353 ....335, 336, 337 compensation of postmasters at Cleveland and limit of compensation of.. Norfolk... ......363 Pensacola .. .353 .166, 336 compensation of deputy postmasters.......363 in California and Oregon, extra pay of.....337 Philadelphia. .353 penalty for offenses concerning stamped envel Portsmouth. of Washington Territory, pay of.....339, 340 .353 ....363 opes... of South Carolina, pay of... San Francisco.. .353 .336 stamped envelopes to be defaced when deposWashington. .353 .363 .343 .352 carriage of, on railroad from the Mississippi to .333 the Texan boundry. Messengers, Electoral, appropriation for payment New Castle, Delaware, arsenal site of, to be recon Post Roads, all railroads made, or which shall be of... .352 ..363 made, declared to be..... Meteorological observations, appropriation for,353 New Mexico, military reservations in, for Indian Cleveland, &c., Railroad, and its continuation, purposes ....353 .....361 appropriation for survey of....... .349 pay of commissioners to draft a code of laws Pattawotomie Indians, appropriation for the..358 extension of time of appointments of officers of for.... .363 of Huron, appropriation for the....... .358 the.. .349 ...363 Preëmption lands in California, how far subject Miami Indians, appropriations for the.......357 New York Indians, appropriation for the ....357 to..... Military Academy, appropriations forthe, 338, 341 Norris, E. S., payment to ... . .342 act of 1846 respecting, suspended preëmption Military Bounty Land Warrants—see Bounty, 0. .364 Military Asylum, appropriation for a western, 352 Oath of Olice, of William R. King, administra right of, extended to the alternate reserved sec .360 Military Contributions, act concerning, extend tions on the lines of railroad..... tion of ......341 ed.. ...352 Observatory--see National Observatory. in reservations, on account of French or Span ..360 Military Reservations in California, for Indian ish claims... Ocean Steamers, appropriation bill for.......355 Printers, fees of. ...337 purposes..... .359 investigation and report to be made concerning: | Prisoners, how committed, brought into court, settlements near, forbidden. ..360 355 in Oregon ... ..334 lines to Havre and Bremen may be discontinued, &c...... ..337 Military Storekeepers in Oregon, California, and Prize cases, costs in, how paid... 355 New Mexico, pay of..... ..351 Officers, act to prevent frauds on treasury by, 337 Proctor, Amos, explanation of act of 1844, ch. .351 Mills, Clark, to be employed to make an eques penalty, for offenses of, as to records. 168, concerning. ..338 ...335 trian statue of George Washington......332 Proctors, fees of.... penalty for taking a receipt by, for more than to be compensated for his statue of Andrew is paid .359 Public Buildings, appropriations for, 341,348, 349 Jackson... .351 land, how long to hold their offices... .361 Public Documents, binding of, execution of..344 Minnesota, appropriation for roads in.. ..331 Ohio, surrender of part of Cumberland Road to, Public Grounds, appropriation for......348, 349 appropriation for public buildings in. ...360 332 purchase of alanthus trees forbidden.......348 appropriation for school lands in....... .364 Omaha Indians, appropriation for the........357 attached to the Capitol and Executive Mansion general appropriation for... ..346 Oregon, school lands in....... to be under the management of the public gar...331 dener..... .348 Minot's Ledge, site for a light-house in place of appropriations for military roads in. .331 ..331 the one authorized on.. Public Lands, school lands in Oregon. .355 provisions for settlers in. .334 claim of R. B. Forbes and others for a light school lands in California.... surveyor general of, an act concerning. .334 ..340 boat at, to be investigated and paid......335 school lands in Washington...... .361 1.332 Mint, issue of new silver coins from, and their land reservations in... .234 .....331 weight.... .334, 335 provision for sale of lands in. relocation of bounty land warrants. ..234 their size and devices. .343 fees of jurors, witnesses, marshals, &c., in, 337 disposition of papers, &c., where land offices purchase of bullinn for.. .336 act erecting northern part of, into the Territory are abolished.... private deposits for, forbidden. of Washington...... ...338 333 regulations concerning 335 government jurisdiction of, with Washington ...333 act when to take effect.. .335, 343 Territory over Columbia River .. price of alternate sections doubled... .340 new gold piece of three dollars to be issued..335 Osage Indians, appropriation for the ...... .357 grant to towns of Belleview, Burlington, and .333 charge for casting... .335, 343 Ottoe Indians, appropriation for the........ Dubuque..... .357 persons to make devices for new coins.....343 Ottowa Indians, appropriation for the. ..231 rights of settlers, their widow's, &c., in Oregeneral appropriation for. .346 and Chippewas, appropriation for the... .357 gon... .334 accounts of... sales of, in Oregon, authorized. .339, 346 P. transfer to, from assay office..... ..350 officers to be appointed. .334 Pacific, survey of route for a railroad to the ..352 provisions respecting assay office of, at New ..334 reservations .. ..350, 351 from the Mississippi River to the, appropriation compensation of surveyor general in Oregon, 334 in California, extension of time for bids for, 343 for.... ...333 military reservations in California, Ulah, or refining by private establishments.........350 Paper, appropriation for.... ..349 New Mexico, for Indian purposes......359 Missionary Stations in Washington Territory: Paupers in the District of Columbia, appropriation Patent Office, appropriation for.....341, 342, 345 right of preëmption in the alternate reserved grant of........ sections in lines of railroad....... for ....348, 349 Missouri, grant of land to, for a railroad.....333 on lines in California.... ...360 Missouri Indians, appropriations for the.....357 Pawnee Indians, appropriation for the.......358 in reservation, on account of French or SpanMudd, J. T., payment to.... Penalties for extortion-see Extortion. ....349 ish claims... for offenses respecting stamped envelopes—see President authorized to change location of land N. Envelopes. offices... National Observatory, appropriation for the..353 for taking a receipt for more money than is or to abolish them in certain cases......... ..345 salary of assistant astronomer at..........352 paid .....359 in California, survey of, authorized and regulaNautical Almanac, appropriation for the.....353 in the act to prevent frauds on the treasury..337 ted.. Naval Academy, appropriation for the.... .353 ) Pensions, Invalid, of widows of revolutionary sol officers to be appointed.. ..360 Navy, general appropriation bill for the......352 diers...... .332 grant of school lands. ..360 salary of assistant astronomer............ .352 appropriations for...... .332 location of school lands.. .350 ..335, 337 ...360 ..332 .335 ..334 York... .....360 ...360 .348, 360 ..360 ..........339 wreck ., .... taxes...... .......361 ... of . as..... ...338 ...364 Public Lands-Continued. Washington Territory-Continued. governor............ ...338 officers concurred with, term of office......361 appropriation for acknowledging the services secretary. bonds of.. ..361 of foreigners in cases of rescue from ship legislative assembly.. ......................339 grant to California for a university and for pub ....341 .339 lic buildings..... .....361 || Shipwreck, reward to foreigners in cases of rescue qualifications of voters............... .339 surveyor-general of Oregon to have a seal..361 from... .341 .339 his attested copies to be evidence..........361 Sioux Indians, of Mississippi, appropriation for ..............339 his salary... the ..... ..340 correction of erroneous locations and entries, 363 Six Nations, Indians of New York, appropria laws to embrace but one object, and that exgrant for schools in Minnesota............363 tions for the..... .358 pressed in the title..... ....339 act concerning suspended entries... ....363 || Smallwood, James B., payment to......... .349 judiciary... ..339, 340 reserved cedar lands in Alabama to be sold, 363 || Smith, Buckingham, payment to. .347 .340 Public Ministers, salary of those resident at sun Smithsonian Institute, appointment of regents appointment of officers. .340 dry places.... ...347 ..364 ..340 Public Moneys, compensation of the depositaries | South Carolina, salary of marshal of.. ....336 delegate from.... .340 of.. ...338 || Spanish Consul and Subjects, indemnification certain officers to retain office.. .340 Public Printer, settlement of the certain accounts of... ..365 officers to give bonds.. .340 of the. .364 State Department, appropriations for support of, school lands in... .340 Pursers in California, pay of. 1.352 344 jurisdiction over Columbia River. .340 clerk of...... .352 Assistant Secretary of State to be appointed, 355 appropriation for.. .351 Statistics, agricultural, appropriation for collection Q. Water, supply of, to City of Washington....348 ..349 Weas, appropriation for the... .359 Quapaw Indians, appropriation for the......358 Indian, appropriations for..... .359 Webster, Daniel, appropriation for expenses of Statue of George Washington, appropriation for, obsequies of... .344 R. 332 | Williams, William, payment to.... .341 Railroads, all now made or hereafter to be made, of Andrew Jackson, appropriation for, 342, 351 Wind and Current Charts, appropriation for.353 constituted post roads.... ...363 | Statutes at Large, appropriation for the purchase | Winnebago Indians, appropriation for...357, 359 grant to Arkansas and Missouri in aid of one of,....... ..349 and other tribes. .357 from the Mississippi to the Texan bound- || Steamboat Inspectors, authorized to dispense with Witnesses, fees of. ..337 ary. ....333 certain requirements of the act relating to provision respecting persons coming from abroad survey of a route for, to the Pacific. ....352 steamboats. ..364, 365 .337 Receivers, land, appointment of... ..334, 360 persons interested in patents for things required, respecting officers of government. .337 tenure of office of.. ..361 not to be competent to hold the office of..363 in California, and Oregon, extra pay of....337 surplus fees of, for bounty land warrants, to be Stockbridge Indians, appropriation for the....358 | Wreck, appropriation for acknowledging services paid to the treasurer..... .348 | Stocks, (Public,) purchase of, authorized.....350 of foreigners in rescue from..... ..341 Records, Public, penalty for offenses concern Stuntz, George R., payment to... ...324 | Wright, Hendrick B., payment to... ..341 ing... Superintendent of the coast survey, pay of...349 | Wyandots appropriation for the. ..359 of court, how made up. ..335 of public printing to superintend the binding of Red River Raft, amendment of appropriation for public documents..... ..344 PRIVATE. removal of... of public printing, to receive and keep samples Albatross, The, register to issue to... ....364 ..369 Regents, in Smithsonian Institution, appointment of paper for maps, &c.... of..... of armories, inquiry as to appointment of..351 | Alcott, Sidney S., allowed to enter land..... ..366 Registers, land, appointment of.... .334, 360 Surveyor-General for California, appointment of, Allegheny Valley Railroad, right of way granted tenure of office of. and his duties..... to the... .369 for Oregon, duties of.......... surplus fees of, for bounty land warrants to be Armistead, Elizabeth, pension of..... .334 ...366 paid into Treasury.... .348 || Surveys, of the coast-see Coast Surveys. Armstropg, Robert, settlement of accounts of, 372 of vessels wrecked, and purchased by Ameri of lands in California. .360 Arnow, Joseph, claim of heirs of, to be adjusted, cans and repaired.... .331 of railroad route to the Pacific... 366 .364 B. ...363 .364 | Baden, Frances E., pension of....... ..370 Riley, Brigadier General Bennett, settlement of T. ..370 accounts of... ....333 Barnett, Thompson, payment to .373 to be allowed certain expenses in California, 333 Taliaferro, John, payment to..... .342 | Bates, Lewis H., claim of, to be audited and paid, to be indemnified against certain suits......333 | Territory of Washington, established..... .338 371 Rivers and Harbors, appopriations for.......342 act concerning pay of officers absent from a, Battle, Isaac L., estate of, released from a judgappropriation for Seekonk river, amended..365 repealed..... ....343 .373 Red River Raft, amendment explanatory of act Texas Indians, appropriation for the.. ....359 | Baury, Mary, pension of... .371 appropriating money for removal of raft Tod, David, payment to. .347 || Bay City, the name of the Forest City changed of..... .....364 Topographical Engineers, rule of promotion in ...369 Route Agents, act of 1852, ch. 111, sec. 3, respect .352 | Bedient, William, pension of. .368 ing salary of, repealed.... ..354 || Treasury, Secretary of the, salary of, increas- || Belleview, Iowa, grant of land to. .368 ed.... .....350 | Belknap, Ann C., pension of ...... S. .367 to report annually respecting coast survey..349 | Benneti, B. B., pension of... .370 Sac and Fox Indians, appropriation for the.. 235, U. .370 236 Boundary, Brig, register to issue to..... .372 San Francisco, settlement of accounts of late col- || Utah, military reservation in, for Indian pur- | Box, Edward, pension of... .370 lector at. .343 poses. .359 Brazil Packet, The, register to issue to the, under extension of time for bids for a mint at.... .343 V. .370 basin and railway at... .353 Burlington, Iowa, grant of land to.......... ...368 Seamen, appropriation for. ...... .348 Vice President, salary of, increased..........350 Bush, Captain, payment of company of, for serfees of, when they return to be witnesses...337 administration of oath of office to William R. vices in Florida........ .....369 Seekonk River, amendment of appropriation for, King.... ....341 C. 365 | Virginia, settlement of claim of...... .352 Secretary, of California land claim commission, payment to Captain McRae's company of vol- California, expenses of, paid by General Riley, to ...349 unteers from..... .352 be allowed in his accounts..... .368 of census board, pay of.. ..364 | Vouchers, false, penalty for officers taking re Capers, Jim, pension of.. ..367 of State, pay of, increased. .350 ceipts for more than they pay..... ..359 | Carr, John, arrears of pension of, to be paid to his assistant to, to be appointed. .350 children... ..367 of the Interior, pay of, increased. .........350 Carrier Pigeon, The, name of the Ontario changed of the Navy, pay of, increased.... ...350 Walker, Courtney M., payment to........ ...359 ....372 of the Treasury, pay of, increased.........350 War, Secretary of, salary.of, increased......350 Chelsea, Massachusetts, right of way granted to, of War, pay of, increased... ...350 to report respecting manufacturing arms by 370 Seminole Indians, of Florida, appropriation for contract. ..352 || Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, right of way the .. .357 Washington City, supply of water to........348 granted to..... ....369 Seneca Indians, appropriations for the.......359 Washington, George, appropriation for an eques Click, Henry, increase of pension of... ........371 and Shawanees, appropriation for the......359 trian statue of... .....348 Cobb, Ursula E., pension of.. ....371 of New York, appropriation for the........328 Washington Navy Yard, indemnification for prop- || Colton, Walter, payment to representatives of, 370 Shawnee Indians, appropriation for the......358 erty burnt at... :.342 | Converse, John P., payment to... .............373 and Senecas, appropriations for the........358 Washington Territory, establishment of the..338 | Corderey, David, payment to representatives of, Shipping, registers and enrollment to issue to for boundaries... ..338 373 eign vessels wrecked, and purchased by Amer reservation of power of United States respecting | Covert, Cornelius, payment to...... .371 ican citizens and repaired at a certain cost, 331 Indians.... ..338 Craig, Elizabeth, pension of.. ...371 pay of seamen sent home as witnesses.....337 missionary stations... ..338 " Creecy, Colonel James R., payment to ......368 ter at. to... corps of.... pay of.... W. to.... R. 12 pay of. Cross, Osborn, settlement of accounts of......366 Leadbetter, D., payment to.... ...370 Pilcher, Josiah P., payment to.. ..370 Leonie, The, register to issue to the Prentice un Poindexter, George, claim of, to be audited and ...372 .369 Lomax, Elizabeth V., pension of..366, 369, 370 Prentice, The, name of, changed to Leonie...366 .372 Lynch, John A., payment to widow of......368 Price, Captain, payment of company of, for servi- ..369 Price, William J., land confirmed to.........372 .367 Queen of Dundee, The, register to issue to, under ..365 .367 ..367 367 ..367 Reily, Barbara, to be paid arrears of pension of ..368 1.368 McNeil, Mrs. E. A., arrears of pension of Gene Daniel Renner, to be audited and paid...367 .333 .372 Roberts, Benjamin S., payment to. ...370 ...372 S. N. Sackett's Harbor and Ellisburg Railroad, right of way granted to..... ...365 ...372 Savannah, (Georgia,) site of Oglethorpe Barracks .373 ...373 Shade, Jacob, Jr., pension of..... ..370 ...371 ..370 Simons, Maurice K., pension of..... ....368 Sisters of the Visitation, &c., incorporated...370 vannah. ...372 .371 Smith, George P., released from a bond.. ...369 ..369 ..369 ..370 ..370 P. ..366 Southern Michigan Railroad, payment to... ..373 ....371 .372 | Sowards, Rosanna, pension of.. Pensions of- Spaulding, Harlow, payment to..... Armistead, Elizabeth..... ..366 Speiden, William, allowance to... ..366 ..367 ..317 St. Louis, &c., Railroad, right of way granted ...368 .369 Storer, Jacob J., ..367 payment to.... .370 Benneti, B. B.. Suarez, Captain, payment to company of, for ser- ..370 ...369 ..367 Sullivan, John T., payment to. ...366 ..367 Swayze, C. L., location of Choctaw scrip by, ap- .368 .366 .365 .372 .371 .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, 368 .367 Gibson, Robert.. .371 .366 .371 Van Brunt, G. J., payment to..... ...370 .369 .371 ...370 368 .367 .368 .370 .370 .367 Waln, S. Morris, duties to be refunded to....371 Kerbaugh, John.. 368 Washington, The, relief of widowe and children of .360 ...367 ..369 .368 Wells, Edmund, land warrant to issue to.....372 .368 .366 Wells, Sally, land warrant to issue to........372 372 Wells, William H., land warrant to issue to..372 1.367 372 Weston, Nathan, Jr., payment to... .367 .367 ..372 Wigg, William Hazzard, settlement of claims .372 .372 .372 .367 ..337 Wilcoxon, Joseph M., land entries of, confirm- Shade, Jacob, Jr.... ..370 ed Simons, Maurice K. .368 ...369 .368 ..372 Wingate, Jeremiah, land title of, confirmed...368 .367 372 .372 .372 ..369 Worth, Margaret L., pension of. .372 Y. Worth, Margaret L. .366 .367 ...362 T. ..368 .366 APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. 320 CONG.....20 Sess. Message of the President. New SERIES.......No. 1. OF THE Tuis 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 the United States, the Reports of the Executive Depart five years after the negotiation of the treaty. In '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 tion, to open all the other outer bays to our fish- || that his conduct toward the steamers employed pendix and the laws for this session, (payable in advance,), ermen, was abandoned, in consequence of the op43 00. 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-mercifull 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 circumdeeply 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 bring into the Confederacy a population of a difsincerely 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 annual message. They remain in an un been so happily compromised. In the course of the last summer considerable easy condition, and a feeling of alarm and irrita The rejection by the Mexican Congress of the 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: 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 he ment 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- i 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 l subject of the convention between the United 1 |