- Berryman
- Coolahan
- Cutts Richard C.
- Beal of Kingston
Mr
Berryman, a Clerk in the Treasury Department and son of a man heretofore employed as
a political electioneering grub for Calhoun and Duff
Green—but long since deceased, came this morning with a
proposal to purchase the house next door to Captain Carbery’s— I referred him to
Mr
Frye— Meeting of the Committee of foreign Affairs. Present
Adams, Cushing, Everett, Granger, E. D. White, Caruthers, Shepperd, and A. H H.
Stuart—absent Meriwether. Everett moved that the Chairman be requested
to confer with the Secretary of
State, on the subject of the Resolution of the house
adopted on Tuesday looking to the diminution of the number of the
diplomatic missions abroad— Cushing demanded that Everett’s motion
should be reduced to writing; which was done—and then Cushing moved a
substitute, that the chairman address a communication in writing to the
Secretary of State on the subject after some discussion Cushing’s
substitute was rejected and Everett’s motion adopted— Cushing then
offered a written Resolution that in future the proceedings of the
Committee should be conducted so far as practicable by the rules of the
house— This produced another debate consuming all the remnant of time
till the meeting of the house, Granger voting at last with Cushing, and
all the other members present against his Resolution— When the Committee
adjourned, I asked Cushing what motive he had for this course of
proceeding with me; and found him sore upon trifles lighter than air,
for pretexts but really, because I am chairman of the Committee, and
because I exposed the tampering of the Slave trade majority of the
Committee, with him, which he himself had made known to me. He has got
himself into trouble, and makes desperate plunges to get out of it— In
the house, Pickens wanted some
notice in the journal of yesterday of the manner in which the Committee
of the whole on the state of the Union laid aside the General
Appropriation Bill, and took up the loan Bill; but the Speaker said the journal never took
notice of any thing that took place in Committee of the whole— Gilmer from the retrenchment Committee
reported two Bills, one about the franking privilege, and one to
regulate the mileage of members of Congress. Lowell presented petitions from Maine,
about the colonial trade and the North-eastern boundary. Arnold moved a call for a report on
charges against Officers of the penitentiary. Committee of the whole on
the state of the Union. Briggs in
the chair. Loan Bill— Fillmore
replies to Wise. Tillinghast—Pickens, Reynolds—W. Cost Johnson—Marshall, Saltonstall, Charles Brown, Everett moves an
amendment— Stanly replies to
Brown— There was an Evening party at the Postmaster General Wickliffe’s. Elizabeth and Mrs John
were there—