WASHINGTON, March 4. – SENATE. – A memorial was presented by
citizens of Boston asking Congress to drop the negro question and attend to the
business of the country.
Mr. DIXON offered a joint resolution that the vacancy in the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute caused by the death of Prof. [Felton]
be filled by Henry Brainard of Conn.
The bill introduced by Mr. HARRIS for the safe keeping and
maintaining of U. S. prisoners was taken up and passed.
On motion of Mr. COLLAMER the bill authorizing the
commission for the preservation of Fisheries was taken up. The bill authorizes the President to appoint a
Commissioner to meet the British and French Commissioners to take measures for
the preservation of the fisheries. The
bill was passed.
The Confiscation bill was taken up.
Mr. McDOUGAL of California resumed his speech. He quoted from Marshal, Story and other
writers as showing that there should be no confiscation of any private
property. The clause in the bill
referring to the freeing of slaves was unconstitutional. He then quoted from the declaration of the
President and Secretary of State to show that an entirely different policy had
been declared by the Government. – The colonization scheme was old and
impracticable. He contended that imagination
was the greatest view of the victorious, and that we should go forward with our
common constitution in one hand and peace in the other.
Mr. COWAN said that he agreed with the Senator for
California.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3
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