Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-01-06
!. ,,,,n.e ssvias agreed to consider the

100 II opinion with The .oonaisllftee ane
fus'ss ;n,ended TO make r,ouon e
'as'ss ~. The report witss special instructions
0 ,ar. BIZ! for elassiag AMI armlne
~ r.jI,ia. II the report were TO o.
=. ~.rd 10. it worit! foresluss any PROPOSE
~ 81 he subject during the session. lbs
w. ~ which he would propose Tor classnG
,;;I;;.;a would not go 10 destroy the pre-
w ,,,,~ar;;zstion Of gle militia hat merely
= .s. diem according 70 age, 50 that young
..,n sss,,.lsl Fvst be called into. service. 4
~ ~. rsrs taisg that cid zen and yoanG
We accorded well together. Cd men
49, 70. bar fatigs,e as well as Young men
-, ~ s,;sbad not 10 see fathers and their sons
:; r, ,I,s ranks tascs.lsr. lie heiieved that
,ssrs such 4 plan 10 be ataoGssd, ffom thirty
J, f,,,v taousaad nea would annually Dc
aadsd . the lists the ar'niag OF whom
.~o,,d cost from fopr to FIVE Hundred thou
,.,d dollars annually. II tho. course OF tonF
~ FIVE yeass al she men n the first class
s.o,,,d Be af s,st for dufg, and Be competent
- re,,.l an ene.l,Y. Il was the oasy mole
MIN upisesi great usiiitv With great t'cono-
O. b. Z
80 =. h2d a,efore him statement made
- il. ]ast wear ~ a gendenen from Virgil
MA Cdr. Clay. The observations o. that
4 a.rs,o,nas. he said, were we!,remembered
e. re house, anI he could aid nothing
- tsgm. They proved that q urge corps
,vo,,e ,lgays b4 reaciy for service, s-lf that
~. pu,,5..r would daily increase. Eay'ng
nreniss,l tllus much he offered the following
resolut;aa:
Peseiecd T,.at tie report, &c. be recon-
uittcd 10 the select ommittee aa<l that they
be instructed 10 report a bill 70 class the M
litia according TO asSsr, and to provide Tor
arna;ag such as may hereafter be placed on
the militia list at the public expence..
Mr.. d. z. TFEihscas hoped 20 objection
would Be made to this resolution Tor It's
adoption would commit nc 3c:aslenlan on the
principle involved III it.
4 Mr.. DssIa wished division Of the reso-
luton, as he WAS crPoscd to the first and III
favor Of the second eiaqse.
A motion was made to refer the report TO
j committee Of thewhoie and Carried.--
Some debate took place On tais motion, in
which Mcssrs. Lyon, fsaeon, Nelson and
4 CLAY, anpearecl % be in favor Of the ptinci-
u pie, aud NIessrs. Sturges, Darrell and TalI-
madee against it. Itwas made the order of
the day for TO- morrow.
81 ENFORCING THE EMBARGO.
u On motion of Mir. 5ackson, the house re-
solved into committee Of the whole: 50 to
80, on the Eli from the senate for enforcing
1 and making more c6ectual the several en-
barge laws, with the amendments reported
4 by a select committee OF this house, Mr..
Basset in the chair.
The amendments reported by the Sc
/ lect commirtee were sevcraily agreed to.
Mr.. Pan Cortland, after few pretarato-
ry observations, expressive of an opinion
that the embargo should be repealed 50 soon
as could be consistently with the passingo-
ther acts, and giving equal notice to all our
merchants, offered the following, as a new
section to the bill:
And be 1t further enacted that the said
act entitled 6 an act having an embargo on
all ships and vessels within the ports and
harbors of the u. S5ates, and the several
Gets supplementary thereto, be repealed
from and after tbs 18th day Of March next" "
lie Chairman observed, that although he
Individually believed this motion to be IN
order, the house had twice successfully dc
eided similar proposition to be out Of or
der the other day, because the subject was
already before a specia! committee Of the
whole and he felt himself bound to abide
by their decision.
Ar. Garaeairr appealed from the decision
of the chair.
The committee confirmed the decision Of
y A