S. 320. A bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Uriah Jones;

S. 336. A bill for the relief of Thoms J. Page;

S. R. 25. Joint resolution for the relief of John A. Bryan;

S. 325. A bill for the relief of Samuel W. Chilson;

S. 340. A bill for the relief of John McAvoy;

S. 341. A bill for the relief of Nathan Weston, late additional paymaster in the United States army;

S. 342. A bill for the relief of Richard M. Bouton, George Wright, and the widow of Marvin W. Fisher;

S. 345. A bill for the relief of Gideon Hotchkiss;

S. 376. A bill for the relief of W. R. Nevins;

and no amendment being made, they were severally reported to the Senate. Ordered, That they be engrossed, and read a third time.

The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill (S. 48) for the relief of John Devlin; and no amendment being made it was reported to the Senate.

Ordered, That it be engrossed, and read a third time.

The following engrossed bills and joint resolution were severally read a third time:

S. 200. A bill for the relief of Thomas Pember;

S. 240. A bill for the relief of John Jackson, Joseph Pineau, and Louis S. Smith;

S. 254. A bill for the relief of Lieutenant W. D. Porter;

S. 270. A bill for the relief of Ann Robinson;

S. 275. A bill for the relief of Sylvester Churchill;

S. 277. A bill for the relief of William K. Jennings and Aphia Jennings: S. 280. A bill to reimburse to Elisha B. Moody the moneys paid by him as owner of the British barque Sarah, in the rescue of the passengers and crew of the American ship Caleb Grimshaw;

S. 287. A bill for the relief of James Higginbotham;

S. 288. A bill for the relief of Thomas Marston Taylor;

S. 289. A bill for the relief of John J. Sykes;

S. 290. Bill for the relief of Wade Allen;

S. 291. Bill for the relief of William P. Sanger;

S. 293. Bill for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Captain William G. Williams;

S. 295. Bill for the relief of Francis B. Stockton;

S. 296. Bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Walter Colton : S. 302. Bill granting a pension to Mrs. Ann C. Belknap;

S. 128. Bill to enable Jacob Banta to locate two Revolutionary bounty land certificates;

S. 320. Bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Uriah Jones: S. 336. Bill for the relief of Thomas J. Page;

S. R. 25. Joint resolution for the relief of John A. Bryan.

Resolved, That the said bills and joint resolution pass, and that the titles thereof be as aforesaid.

Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives therein.

On motion,

The Senate adjourned.

MONDAY, JULY 19, 1852.

Mr. Hamlin presented a petition of citizens of Portland, Maine, praying that the homestead bill may become a law; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Hamlin presented a memorial of Israel Rogers, representing that he has been defrauded of the bounty land to which he was entitled for services in the late war with Mexico, and praying other land; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Brodhead presented the memorial of William F. Small, tendering to the United States the services of a regiment of volunteers for the defence of the eastern frontier of California, upon certain conditions; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Dawson presented the memorial of James L. Collins, praying indemnity for property lost and compensation for services as confidential agent in the Mexican war; which was referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Dawson presented the memorial of Harriet O. Read, Executrix of the late Lieutenant Colonel A. C. W. Fanning, of the United States army, praying compensation for certain services rendered by Colonel Fanning; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Cass presented a memorial of citizens of Philadelphia, praying the construction of a ship canal around the falls of the river St. Mary. Ordered, That it lie on the table.

Mr. Bright presented a resolution of the legislature of Indiana in favor of granting bounty land and extra pay to certain acting surgeons and assistant surgeons in the late war with Mexico; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Brodhead presented a petition of George C. Read and others, citizens of the United States, praying that among the paintings selected for the Capitol, may be some illustrative of the naval victories of the United States, and recommending W. A. K. Martin, of Philadelphia, as competent to design and execute the same; which was referred to the Committee on the Library.

Mr. Gwin presented the petition of J. W. Osborne, praying to be released from the payment of duty bonds on goods destroyed by fire while in the government warehouse at San Francisco, California; which was referred to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. Sumner presented two petitions of Washington Irving and J. Fennimore Cooper and others, authors, publishers, booksellers, printers, editors and paper-dealers, citizens of the United States, praying the enactment of an international copyright law; which were referred to the Committee on the Library.

Mr. Hamlin submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to prepare and communicate to the Senate, at the next session of Congress, abstracts or selections of such portions of the diplomatic and consular correspondence in the department, within the last four years, as respect new commercial regulations adopted in the several nations with which we have intercourse, and

such other information as may, in his opinion, promote the commercial interests of the United States.

Mr. Mason submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, if not in his opinion incompatible with the public interest, the correspondence between the government of the United States and Mexico, in regard to a right of way across the isthmus of Tehuantepec, granted by Mexico to a Mexican citizen, and which grant, by subsequent assignments, was transferred to a citizen or citizens of the United States, embracing all information in the possession of the executive concerning the alleged abrogation of such grant by Mexico, the discontinuance of the work, and expulsion of those engaged in it, together with all documents connected therewith; and that, under like limitation, he be requested to communicate to the Senate the correspondence between the two governments, with the accompanying documents, in relation to any proposed conventions between them regarding such grant of the right of way.

Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Gardiére, reported a bill (S. 485) authoriz ing the purchase of certain land belonging to Francis Gardiére; which was read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and considered as in Committee of the Whole, and no amendment being made, it was reported to the Senate.

Ordered, That it be engrossed and read a third time.

Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred a memorial of the mayor and common council of the city of Alton, Illinois, reported a bill (S. 486) to constitute Alton, in the State of Illinois, a port of delivery; which was read, and passed to a second reading.

Mr. James, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Abigail Stafford, submitted a report (No. 300,) accompanied by a bill (S. 487) for her relief.

The bill was read, and passed to a second reading.

Ordered, That the report be printed.

Mr. Sebastian, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom were referred the documents relating to the claim of William Senna Factor, submitted a report (No. 301,) accompanied by a bill (S. 488) for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to a second reading.

Ordered, That the report be printed.

Mr. Jones, of Iowa, reported from the committee that they presented to the President of the United States, on the 17th instant, the joint resolution (H. R. 11) for the relief of Elizabeth F. Thurston.

Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Printing, to whom was referred the report of the Second Auditor, communicated the 21st April, reported that the same be not printed; and

The report was concurred in.

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Forney, their Clerk: Mr. President: The House of Representatives have passed a bill from the Senate (S. 241) entitled "An act to authorize the mayor and common council of Chicago, Illinois, to excavate a portion of the public reservation at that place, with a view to the improvement of the navigation of Chicago

river."

They have passed a bill (H. R. 301) entitled "An act for the relief of Philo Smith," in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.

They recede from so much of their amendment to the twelfth amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 207) "to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1852," as is disagreed to by the Senate; recede from their amendment to the fourteenth amendment of the Senate, and from their disagreement to the eighteenth amendment of the Senate to the said bill; concur in the first amendment of the Senate to the amendment of the House to the twentyfifth amendment of the Senate; and disagree to the second amendment of the Senate to the amendment of the House to the twenty-fifth amendment of the Senate to the said bill.

The President of the United States approved and signed, the 12th instant, the following acts:

H. R. 44. An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1853; H. R. 60. An act for the relief of Amos Knapp;

H. R. 270. An act to enable the legislature of the State of Indiana to dispose of the unsold saline lands in said State;

H. R. 239. An act to supply a deficiency to the State of Indiana in a township of land granted to said State, for the use of a State university, by an act of Congress approved 19th of April, 1816;

H. R. 226. An act to amend an act entitled "An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the States of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the Wyandot tribe of Indians, and for other purposes," approved on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three;

H. R. 48. An act in relation to a certain lot of land in the town of Gnadenhutten, in the State of Ohio;

H. R. 102. An act for the relief of Ichabod Weymouth;

H. R. 99. An act for the relief of Francis Tribou;

H. R. 238. An act to release from reservation and restore to the mass of public lands certain lands in the State of Arkansas.

The Senate proceeded to consider their amendment, disagreed to by the House of Representatives, to the amendment of the House of Representatives to the twenty-fifth amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 207) to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1852; and,

On motion by Mr. Hunter,

Resolved, That the Senate insist on their said amendment, disagreed to by the House, and ask a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses.

On motion,

Ordered, That the committee of conference on the part of the Senate be appointed by the President pro tempore; and

Mr. Hunter, Mr. James and Mr. Upham were appointed.

Ordered, That the Secretary notify the House of Representatives accordingly.

The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution submitted by Mr. Bell the 26th April, in relation to a memoir, by Lieutenant Temple, of the landing of the United States troops at Vera Cruz, in 1847; and,

On motion by Mr. Gwin,

Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until to

morrow.

The bill (H. R. 259) to provide for the protection of the Territories of New Mexico and Oregon, and the States of Texas and California, was read a third time as amended.

Resolved, That this bill pass with amendments.

Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives in the amendments.

The bill (H. R. 301) for the relief of Philo Smith was read the first and second times by unanimous consent.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of Claims.

The following engrossed bills were read a third time:

S. 48. Bill for the relief of John Devlin ;

S. 325. Bill for the relief of Samuel W. Chilton;

S. 340. Bill for the relief of John McAvoy;

S. 341. Bill for the relief of Nathan Weston, jr., late additional paymaster in the United States army;

S. 342. Bill for the relief of Richard M. Bouton, George Wright, and the widow of Marvin W. Fisher;

S. 345. Bill for the relief of Gideon Hotchkiss;

S. 376. Bill for the relief of W. R. Nevins.

Resolved, That the said bills pass, and that their respective titles be as aforesaid.

Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives therein.

After the consideration of executive business,

The Senate adjourned.

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1852.

The President pro tempore laid before the Senate a petition of citizens of Green county, Alabama, praying that the bill known as the homestead bill may become a law; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Clarke presented a memorial of underwriters, merchants and others. citizens of Providence, Rhode Island, praying that the salary of the United States district judge for the southern district of Florida may be increased: which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Rusk presented the memorial of Francis Bonynge, praying a appropriation to enable him to introduce and cultivate the tea, indige coffee and other tropical plants and fruits into the United States; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

Mr. Weller presented the petition of Elias Waldon, praying the reimbursement of expenses incurred in relieving destitute emigrants on the route to California; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Fish presented a petition of citizens of Troy, New York, praying that the homestead bill may become a law; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. Fish presented a petition of inhabitants of New York, praying that the public lands may be granted in limited quantities to actual settlers