Friday, March 30.
Batture at New Orleans.
The House resumed the consideration of the bill providing the means to ascertain the title to the batture near New Orleans.
Mr. Bibb's motion yet under consideration, and a division of the question being called for,
The question on striking out the sections of the present bill (providing for a judicial decision) was taken, and carried—yeas 95, nays 22.
The question now recurred on Mr. Bibb's amendment, to insert, in lieu of those stricken out, several new sections.
[Mr. Bibb's amendment proposes that the right of the United States shall be vested in the Corporation of New Orleans, so as to enable them to defend any suit which may be instituted for the recovery of the batture, and that the batture shall be used and enjoyed as a public highway and landing place, &c.; as well by citizens of the United States as by the inhabitants of New Orleans.]
This motion was decided by yeas and nays and lost—yeas 36, nays 84.