Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-01-10

81 11I' L0l0i1 iht.Sie tio'ion WHICH sl,.
oeded this motion, viz. to discbaras" WI
! committee of the whole from the a. E. la
| consideration OF it, and to refer # - ue'
committee of the whole to whom was r.s ne
red the bill on the subject of non-;n, n''
course.
After debate Of near three hours i.
motion was gatived-Yeas 2s-Navs S u,
The debate was desultory in the extrrn w.
including questions of order, &c. and ~
decision Of the question appeared to nvolr.
no principle. Messrs. Gardner, Dana Chi.
tenden, Quincy, Upham, Lyon, Sloan an an
Masters appeared to be in favor of the adoa
ton of Mr. Chittenden's resolution: s11
Messrs. J. G. Jackson, D. r. William
Bacon, G. W. Campbell, Smile, Alev,n
der, Story, BIB, Holland and Eppes opDo,,
ed to it.
The house then resolved itself into
committee Of the whole on motion of NJ,
Van Cortlandt-Y Yeas 62--Navs 49--N,
Bassct in the chair, on the resolution #
Mr.. Chittendcn, in the following words.
" Resolyed, That the act passed at ii.
last session of congress, entitled An ar
laying an embargo on all ships and v.s,l
in the ports and harbors Of the q. State,
and the several acts supplementary and adj
ditional thereto" ought 10 be llnmedately
repealed.
1N-. I'm Cart'andt moved to strike on
the word {" Immediately" and insert from
and after the 4,h day Of March next
Mr.. Lpbes called for division of II,
question, SO as to take it first on strik;p,
out the word Immediately" And he
question having been SO taken, was neeatir.
ed-Ayes IS.
The motion to insert of course fell with
the motion to strike out.
And the question on the resolution hay.
ing been stated (about 4 o'cIock)
Mr.. Liuermore said he was agreeaby dis.
appointed in seeing this subject taken Up
and was not therefore as ready to meet it as
he could be. He then commenced an az
gument on the const;tutionality of the en-
barge. The origin of the federal compsu
was chiefly the want of some general power
to regulate commerce. There had however
he commended been no delegation, by the con.
stitullon Of apower to lay an embargo, con-
sequentiy the exercise Of it was an assump
ton OF power no; warranted by the consdtr
ton. The convention he said could hay:
had no idea that that they were raisiDga
power TO destroy the very object for The
preservation os which they were ASSOCIATED
After FIR. Lvcrmore had been speakir /
about ten minutes
Mr.. Ghe!dson asked if the gentIema
would rot prefer being heard tomorrow
Ny. Liuerm0re answered that he should
A motion was made that the conmitte.
rise and report progress which, however,
was soon changed to 4 motion to report
the tacs that there was not a quorum Pre-
sert.
The motion for rising was supported b.
Messrs. Cook, Dana, Quincy, Elliott and
Lyon, on the ground that time was not al T
lowed for discussion; that it was late 10 the
day, and no gentleman conId be heard 70 I
advantage at this hour. I-was opposedh
Messrs. Macon, Blackledge, Aston AND /
D. r. Williams, for the reason that as ta.f
bad consented TO go into committee on tn
subject, they wished AZ Immediate deciSo7
that the subject had already been amPl +
discussed, and a protracton OF dsb'F
now would but keep the people III sd'