Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1803-12-24
CongrcG e5 tie U,ated. SlaIes.
HOUSE CT REPRESENTATIVES,, Dc. a,


AsiA waS reported for reducing the
r'ari1c corps Of the United States,. ard
made the order of the day for sonday
by his bill, The Maine 0fscers are 10
he reduced 70 one Captain, aad twelve
l.ieuten,an.s. with provition that the
Preldens, il location ihould require, may
incseaie,he lieutenants to nineteen. The
siariae eltabliAlment, at prelent, conflts
orone Eieutenant-C olonch Cornmandant
threc Captains, and nineteen Lieutenants.
The noncommiliioned officers, muGc,
and privafes, amount to,43S.
MondsY, Dec. 5.--Mr. G:iiwold, (of
Connecticut propofed, 10 Congrefs, a
reioiulion, directing the Poft- Matter Gen
eral to prepare and report, fafement of
the grofs fums received in each fate for
pofage, iince 1900, respectively !; together
with the fums which have been paid IN
each year and in each Gate, for conditions
10 Roltmafers, for carrying the mail, &c.
Nh. Grifwold tated that his rea(on for
Offering the refolution was, that as it was
contemplated to expend the furplus Of the
Poltofiice revenue on poit-roadS near the
capital, il was defirable toknow, and that
tne people alto fhould know, whence this
income proceeded. B.ides he eitecmed it
deiirableatall times, toknow what revenue
was collected Immediately fromthe people.
The houfe, he added, ought not to hide
from itlelf faa which the PofMalter
General could furniih without any difficult
ty. Mr.. Randolph. after premiting, that
he fhould vote for the reiolution, obfery-
cd that he could not conlider potage as a
fax bur as eompeglmim for feryiees rem
dered- Mr.. Varnuin thought the meat
TIRE calculated to create uneaflnels and dit.
flculty between the Gates. he conceived it
TO be wholly unimportans whence our
revenue came, ash refped to this fubjea
We were one contolidated gose!nment.---
He conGdered all the itateS as one Repub-
lie, and the monies ought to be applied
were they would produce the gFeateff
benefit. In reply to Mr.. Gregg who had
moved, that the words Sc in each Rats' :
fhould be fruck out, and to Mr.. Varnum,
Mr.. Grilwold faid, he could not conceive
why any gentleman faould be unwilling,
that the People ihould know what each fate
contributed towards any efablilhment.-
He never expected to have heard fuch a
fentiment on the floor of that Houfe, as
that The knoz0leage ftbe TRUTH Go2ld be
acitbbeld Gr0m THE people, isf that kno7cledgs
l5ould make item uneajy. He hoped the
trutb would always be satisfactory to
them. If, added Mr.. Grifwold, the pof
age is conGdered.as compensation for fer
vices, let the overplas paid in each fate
be refunded, or expended on public roads
sabere it is collected and'not transferred
to thoie parts of our country, where this
iource, the gentleman fpeaks OF, is not
PAID for by them; but is dead lois to
the government. Mr.. Grifwold then
moved for the Yeas and Nays; and his
relolution WAS carried. Yeas Io8, Nays o.
Dee. 8.--Mre Randolph reported re-
folution that is inexpedient to difcontin-
the office of commissioners Of Loans in the
ieveral States (which, was referred for
Monday next.
A bill was received from the fenate to
divide the Indiana Territory INFO two.
goyernlnants.-R Referred.
Observation-Disclosures:
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