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committee have leave to report thereon By
bill o. otherwise.
On motion of Mr Rhea the resolution
wasordered to lie GA the table till Tues.
day next;
MIR Dams from the committee sp2oin-
'edto preseat TO the Presid .nt OF tbs u
States the resolution calling for infor.
nation. on the subject Embellishments OF
IN lula, reported that the ON nittee had
performed the service assigned them, and
tina; the President was pleased TO assure
the Committee that attention woaid be paid
to the subject.
AMERICAN NAvIG ALTON ACT.
The House resumed the consideration
OF the bill concerning com numerical inter.
course with q. Britain and France, and
tor o.her purposes.
Mf kaea's motion to strike out the Ii.
miting clause yet under consideration.
A debate took place ia which M-ssrs
Livermore, Sturges, Root, Potter and
sawyer opposed the principle of the bill.
ani Messrs. Cuts and Maco suppo ted
III.
Mr Key was proceeding to debate the
P''uStplS TIC Oil, WnSn
Mr. Shelley af err protesting against the
practice prevailing in the House of deba-
ting the principle of bin on mo, ioa
to amend, and expressing his regce, a,
being impsllsd by his ddty to atemps TO
put sop 10 it,required the decision of
tae Speaker on the Question whether, Oh
moiRtS amend particular section, il
Was Ia, ddsr to deba,e the gene al provi !.
| sions on bill. Mr S reduced his par.
ticular objection to Nj Ksy's Argument to
writing as f,llows:
hat he thought the gentleman from
Maryland out of order, because he SAYS
his object is to shsw that there are fea.
tares In the bill which ought no, to be 9.
dopIed, aud consequently that the bill
ought not TO be unlimited and therefore
the amendment ought MT to prevail"
The Speaker decided thas M. Key was
not in order.
Mr. Key appealed from this decision,
which was conf med by The House, with
GU! debate Yeas and Nays 6s 10 As.
Mr Piiki0 spoke againit the motion.
HE qIcsiioa on MIR Rhea's motion 10
strikt out the clause of limitation was de.
cided by Yeas AID Nays as follow:
YEhS.--Messrs. L. ] Aston, w. All.
ston, Bard, Calhoua, Clay, COBB. Craw.
lord, Dawson, Dcsna, Eppes, GARDENER.
Garland, Cray Howard, Lyon, M'Ki.n,
!. Moore, N-isoa, Rhea, (rea.) SHAW.
nnenSy' on.iie, S'uthard, Taylori Weak.
NAYS.--Messrs. Anderson, Bscon,
pa sc Bibb, BiaisdeH, Boyd, Brecksa
'onh provo, X Brown, Barweil.
bA.ier, CAinPbsli, ]. G.. CHAMBERLAIN, w.
Chamhe'ln Champion, Chisteadsn, Cloo
toa, COX, Crist, Cuts, Dana, Dayenport,
Eiy' Efno.s. Emily, Fisk, Gannett, Gard
ner, Inol,oi, Goidsborough, Gold, Hale,
taven Heis.sr, Helmes, Holland, Hab.
oafd, dry, r. Jackson, Jenkins, Jon IS
: ns% Kennedy. Key, Lewis, L,vermore,
lhvias'toa. Lyle, MAcon. MAcen, MAJ
thew M'brid.. M'Kse, Miles, MIlnor
Montgomery, N. K, Mo ,re, Morrow
MoseeS. Mumiofd, Newbold Newton
Picsmaa, p, kin, j. POKER, p. b. Porter
p'uer. Quincy Res. cpen.) Richards,
N'aEe, Koo, Ross, Sage. Summons, Saw.
yer. Seayers Seybsrt. Snelt, c. Smith,
}. Smith 5. Smith, Stanford, S,aadlsy,
Sted'nan. Stephenson, S.urges, Swoope.
naggat, Tallmadge. TIL ,mp,on. Tracy.
iurhef. Opham. Van-Oyke. Wan Horn,
Van Rensselaer, Wheaton, Whitman,
Wilson. Winn and Wither, po1n-lo2.
Mr. Macon me,ion to limit the bill to
the end of the present session, by striking
out The word mex and inserting pre-.
SEM, now. recurred.
Mr. Fisk and Mr. Souihard opposed and
MIR Macon and Mr. Lvermore supported
the noIion; which was decided by Yeas
and Nays a. follow:
YEAS. z=Messrs. Anderson, Bacon, Baird,
Blaisdeii, Byeskenridge, Campb.,l, j. c.
ChamberIairit Ch IN berlin, Champion,
Chitteuden, Wepton, Dani, Davenport,
Ely, Emo't, 2fnd, Goldsboroigh, G old +,
Gray. Hale, Haven, Holland, r. Jackson,
Ke nedy, Keys Lewis, Liyermore, Living.
ston, Macon, Mathews, NIB yde, Minor,
Moseley, Pickmsn, Pilkin, ]. Porter. Pot.
ter Quincy, Root, Ross, S.y6ert, Stand
ley Stedman, Stephenson, S.urges, Syoope,
Taggsrt. Tallmadse, Upham, Van Dyke,
Van Horn, Van Rensselaer,, Wheaton and
Whitmanzz54.
NAYS.--Messrs. l., J. Aston, w Al
ston, BAsset, Bibo, Boyd, Brown, Bur-
well, Butler. Calhoun. Clay. Cobb Cox
Crawford, CrIst, Cutts, Dawson, Desha,
Eppes, Findley, Fisk, Gaunett. GArde
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