In the Senate of the United States ... Mr. Mason made the following report (to accompany bill s. no. 323) : the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the resolution of the Senate, instructing them "to inquire into the propriety and justice of providing by law, pursuant to the recommendation of former Presidents of the United States, and last by President Polk, in his message of the 7th December, 1847, for the payment of the claim there mentioned as arising to certain Spanish subjects, in the case of the schooner 'Amistad'," ...