Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-02

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Mr.. Gregg faid he hoped the motion OF
reference 10 committee of the whole would
not prevail, but that theie memorials, like
all others of iimilar nature, would De re-
ferred to the committee of claims. He
would beg leave to read to the house one
of the rules by which the duty OF the com
mit,ee of claims was deGgnated. The
rule was in thefe words:
ct fhall be the duty of the lad CON-
mittee Of claims to take into confederation
all fuch petitions and matters or things
touching claims and demands on the Unit
ed Ssares, as ihall be prefented, or fhall or
may come in quefion and be referred to
hem by the hoofe."
Now, !aid he, can any peTfon. after
hearing the memorials and the rule jult
read, undertake 10 fay, that they are nor
completely within the province OF that
committee. Are they not claim Are
they not menand for money Met al.
fdredly they are. He confdered the de-
mand Of their islaries the primary object
OF the memorialifts, and not An incidental
circumstance, as had been fated. 1t the
falaries had been paid mott probably we
fhould have heard nothing OF the memo
rial.
The quefion was then taken On Mr.
Randolph'a motion TO refer the memorial
TO committee of the whole Houie, and
carried, ayes S..
The Speaker inquired for what day II
lhould be made the order.
Mr.. Randolph fad to aa,.
MIR. GTifvold, to-moryozO.
The queaica was taken on Mr.. Grit
YIELDS motion, and LOFT, ayes 50, noes
81.
Mr.. Huger moved that i Gould be tie
order for Monday. Ii malt be evident,
he faid, that the members had not yet tal
ticiently attensed 10 the fubjstt TO be pre-
pared tor deciaon. 1t was very dit
ferent queR:on from that decided the laf
ieiIion, II certainly required ione little
rime TO enable gentlemen TO revolye It IN
their minds. il was not uiual TO force de-
ciiions IN that way. # It was The obJet'
Of gentlemen merely to vote il OCT, ma
jolty malt do as they pleaie bur If they
were dilpofed TO pay it ordinary Eeipetf,
hey certainly could not urge 70 PTecipi-
Sate dlicuiiion.
Mr.. Randolph aked if it in order,
after the quel}ion had been taken, TO name
another day. He laid, he would not have
urged an immediate confederation of the
memorial, bat for the conviction that the
fubjea, in all its bearings, had undergone
the .ma'arett inveaigation, not only OF
every member on thar floor, but Of every
thinking man int the u. States.
The Speaker decided that the moving
another day was not in order.
The qneiion on going into committee
OF The whole this day, was then carried
without a diyifion.
Whereupon, Mr.. Randolph moved that
the houfe ihould go into committee imme-
dlately,
The Speaker faid the un60ihed buGnels
Of yelferday would be the hrit acted upon
unlefs poaponed.
Mr.. Randolph moved the poApone-
ment of the un6nilhed bufnels till to-
morrow.
Carried. Ayes So.
The houfe then reiolved itlcIf into
committee Of the whole on the memorial.
Mr.. Dawfon in the chair.
The memorial of William Tilghman
was read, which was accompanied by ten
other Osr5atjm memorials, hgned by Oil
yer Wolcott, Jeremiah Smith, Richard
Baact, Philip B. Key, George K. Taylor,
Charles Magill, Samuel Hitchcock, Ben
jamin Bourne, Egbert Benton and William
Grifiths.
MIR. Grifwold faid, he did not think it