Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-01-11
Eiprlftb Gongefs....2d SfMo,..

yoUsE or REPRESENTATIVES,.

A hill tn create the office OF Lieu. enant-
Generals and to provide for an additional
nrmber of General Officers, WAS read once.
Army Bills.
TIL. army Organic alton bill was again To.
ken up.-I, provides for an additional Major
10 the cavalry and livh' Artillery ;--,he boun.
~ ,sI60 acres of land Was struck out The
bounty is IN be 40 dollars
The Military Force Augmentation bill was
also discussed IL proposes 20 augment tho
Standing army o IS, 900 men Il is no,v about
35Oo0S-r gives the President alone the
mower of appointing Majors. Captains, and
inf rior grades. Blank commissions are 10
be issued 10 Colonels, &c to be filled up by
them 70 su-h . shall raise companies The
law authorizing the enlistmen, Of volunteers
is to be repealed. After some unsuccess
ful attempts TO strike out the new principle
of rs,rons age given to the President, and ia.
ken from the Senate, the bills were report
ed 10 the House. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, DEG. 80. 1872
A report from the Mint was csmmunica-
ted and read-and bill in favor OF Royal
Converse reported.
.1rmy Bills.
The army O,ganiz alton bill was sgal' de.
bated 1T provides for the appointment OF
AZ additional Major to the hrs, regiment oil
light dragons, the regt. ofight artillery,
and each reFt. ofinfan,ry "A third Lieut..
and an additional sArgesnt 10 every troop or
company Of The whole army itprovides al
30 (afiey TIE b.anks speye filled ! for boun.
tv of Fo,y dollar. IN money Tsuenty dollars
Of which to be reserved u,'i Tie recruit
A \ nd ali
oflsnl. The bonus to officers tn be tive dol
lar, for each -ccrui, mustered Il also con
tains this psragrsph-" No person under
the age of wen y.one wears, shsll be enlist.
ed by any offic E, or held IN the service II
the u. States. without the consent OF his
p.,en,. Guardian or master. frs, had and OBJ.
t,ined, il any he lave and IT any officer
shall eplis any person contrary to the rue
in rne and meaning Of this act, for every such
e8ence he shall forfeit and pay the amount
ofthe bounty and clothing which the person
no recruited may hsvs received from the
public TO be deducted out ofthe pay aud
molument of such officer"
The clause which allows bounty IN
lands. had been struck out in Comml,,ee
but was restored By large m.Jon'" Us
restoration was sdvoca'ea by Messrs. Gyun.
dy. Talafe,o. Findley. Rhea, Bib6, Tonp. &
Desha, and opposed by Messrs. SIoss s"d
Baker In defence ofihe land bounty IT was
alleged. that it had opersted ss man IN
ducement to mist in some sections OF the
country ;-ths, every practicable fscIi,ty TO
enlistment ought 10 be adopted and INA,
if his sor or bounty WI, of doubtful expe
diency i, had moi beea sufficient, tested to
be sbsndoned. In favor of stIiklng out thu
III A ntt
inducement 10 inlistmens in any degree
com7ared 20 its value and that II would
merely encourage speculatlons m lands.
In the course of The debate, II was inqu'r
ed. Whit number of men had b en- iohsted
into the army and NJ, Williams t ed
tb.. he Canmii,ee had .scertained he
number. and that the pubHca,ion oft would
be prriudlclsl TO The public SCI vice !; bu
that gentlemen might, if they chose, see
the document.
Inreely. Mr. Pearson remarked that he
could see no necessity for sugmen'ing the
number of Ulcers, when it was evident tina,
many of those already in service had no
men 70 commsId
Mr. Eip. moved to strike on, the sections
which provided for the useless sugmenta.
ton of officers which was negatived by
large minority.
The auest,on was then taken shall 'hs
SjH pass TO be ess,ossedfo, a third reading
and W $ decided ~ follsws -
.hes-- Messrs, Aston, Archer, Avery,
Bacon, Bird, Darest,, B4saet. Bibb, Black
ledge, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun,
Carr, Cheyss. Clay, Cochran, clopton,
Crawford, Cuts, Davis, Desh., Dlns'noor,
Earle. Fiudley, Fisk, Fr.nk'in Coldsbo.
rough, Green, Crandy, B Hall. o Hall Har.
Der, HIS ives, Hynman Kent, King, L cock,
Ltd, Lyle, NJ scon, Moore. M Coy, M Kee,
Mitchell, Morrow, New, Newton, Ormsby,
P,ckens, Pleas ants, Pond, Richardson. Rob
er,son, Rhes, Roane, Roberts, Sage, Sam
mons, Sewer, Seyber,, g Smith, Taliaferro.
Tracy, Troup, Turner. Whnehill, Wilisms,
Widgery Winn.-7O.
Noes--Messers. Baker. 3igelow. Bleeker,
a, d, Breckenridge. Brigham. Champion,
Cit enden, Davenport. Ely. Emott, Gold,
Gay, Hutiy, Jackson, Law, Lewis, Max
well. M'Bryde. Mosei,, Newbold. Pearson.
pnkin, Pouer, Quincy r. doi2h. reed.
Ridsely, Rodmsn. sheiiey, sanford, Sur
pes. ragg II, Tallmadge. Wheaton, Wine,
w 'son. --37
So n o,a was ordered 10 be engrossed.
Tie Aadtonai Aymy bin was then read
second un II provides for raIs,og twenty
regiment If infantry, to be inlis, d tor he
term of one ear, unless sooner discharged,
and 10 receive a boun'Y ot sixteen dollars
The following is C p, 4 he act tor the re-
lief Of certain importers of British goods,