Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-02-20
ER5DAr, Fe5ruary 70.


land Mississippi company, praying that he
may be admitted to hearing at the bar of
this house in behalf of the said company to
state their rights and explain their claims
which are now pending before congress be
granted and that the house vii! proceed to
hear said aget accordingly at this bar, on Mon
day the 22d Feb. inst.
Mr. Bacon said this was not a case which
required any abstruse reasoning or deep re-
search for facts He had taken this resolu-8
ton from precedent which he found record
ed of a similar Indulgence granted to the S.
Carolina company VINO were heard at the bar
of the house in support of their. claim, by
Mr.. Moultrie, their agent, In nearly SINH,
lar case.
Mr.. 7roAf hoped the resolution would not
be adopted The precedent adduced was not
in point: that was in the case OF an appilca-
ZION to be heard on the subject OF the old Viz
gislia and South Carolina claims. 1t will be
recoliected by the house, said Mr.. I. that the
case adduced In precedent was anoda dormant
Claim, which had slept long, and the principles
OF which we're almost forgotten by members
OF the house, and when application was ma atle
for hearing the, determined to hear all that
could be SAID that they might act understand
ingly on the sub;ec They did hears were
satisfied from that time to this the house
has had no further trouble with It. Ihe
claims of these persons, however, have been
tanned over from session to session, canvassed
over and over again ; ana the house are as
well convcrsant with the merits of the claim
as with It's advocates do not know whc-
ther it is customary to admit within It's bar the
advocates of Claims, For my part | Go not
know If such persons were admitted within
the bar that would keep my seat and listen
Il is Impossible that the house could bes
lost to a sense OF It's own dignity asto enter
into controversy on its own floor with spe-.
cnlators or their agents. In discussion OF
this subject among ourselves, our utmost
4 coolaess and care viii be required to keep us
In temper with each other; and the admission
oe a stranger witt:a this bar for the purpose
of irritating and perhaps insulting us, s lbee
gentlemen to reeollect that the theme Is ex-
tre,nely delicate, will not encrease the cam-
ness which ought to be observed. What IS the
object Of the present motion IS It proposed,
by admitting practising attorney OH this iioor
10 eniighten us Oh a subject OF which we are
profoundly ignorant No: with the principle
of this claim we are all acquainted. Its oo-
iecuis to give some strength to a claim which
has not the smallest foundation in justice, and
they know it. They have no more claim on
the United States than on you or me. Why
then do they call upon us Because the Y.
States has an overflowing treasury. If had
it they would make the same claim upon me
They are the cor.aerants which perch upon
aSt limo rt2S
Won have gold and silver and manifest dispo-
sition to give, they will stuck to you. tho,t
for my part that one discussion would have
sufiiced Tor them; on the presentation OF the
orisiasl memorial you listened to It and sab
mitted it to committee of the whole house.
/ was anxious that all discussion ON THE sub
ject should have been waved it might have
been and | had hoped il would. myself
would have submitted my individual feelings
to the harmony of the nation and am sorry
that am now compelled to speak.
MIR Lyon made some remarks TO sheW
that the precedent adauced was in point
The object of the claim In precedent and OF
the present claim was to obtain share OF the
land appropriated for extinguishing claims on
she u States for lands. Why then refuse
that prayer at this time which they had grant
ed on a former occasion
Mr,.Brb6 remarked that there had been in
the year a gsneral invitation to All claimants
for lands, and to these amongst others, to at
tend and support their claim. At that time
the claimants refused TO attend. If the claim
ants then had not beer heard it was their own
fault.
Mr.. Lone hoped the resolution would not
be adopted, He had voted for the reference
of the original memorial, as coming from
respectable State but the claim was perfect
ly understood by the house without the de-
Tonstration of an agent.
Mr. Marion ouofad Messages from record