The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-01-05


Sturses, Faggart, Tallmadge, Wheaton.
White, Wilson.-S7.
So the bill was ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the report of the committee OF
the whole OH the . other bill reported
by the committee, entitled " bill IN addi-
ticu to the act to raise an addional militia
ny force and for other purposes first
section of (which is as follows:
Be il enacted sc. That in addition to
the present military establishment of the
United States, there be raised twenty regi-
ments Of infantry, to be enlisted Tor the
term, OF one year, unless sooner discharged.
The remainder of the bill is mere detail
the bounty on enlistment Is dollars.
a motion was made by Mr.. Gold. that
the further consideration of the bill be : ost-
poned to Monday next.
On this motion a short interesting debate
arose, a sketch of which shalt o given in
our next.
The motion was negativcd by Yeas and
Nays, II to a..
MELANCHOLY INTERRUPTION.
So soon as this decision was declared.
MIR Fmdiey rose. 1t is M melancholy
duty, said he. 20 annoance ~ this House
that my venerable colleague aud old friend
and associate JOHN SMILE, is 10
more. He departed this life at o'clock
Ills dikSlnOOu.
A committee was then appointed TO SUI
perintend the funeralFof the deceased, con-
sisting of Messrs. Findley, Lyle, Brown, Ro-
bertS, Davis, LaCock and Hyneman.
A resolution was unanimously adopted.
requesting each member OF the House, i'll
testimony of their respect to the memory of
John Smile, to wear Grape Oh the left arm
tsr one month
And on motion of Mr.. Fitch, the House
adjourned.
Debate on the &C, 900 BIZ.
Wednesday, Dec. SO.
The House proceeded to consider the bill
to raise an additional military force of 90 900
men for one year.
Mr.. GOLD said this was bill involving
questions Of great Importance, as well in
principle as in its details There was one
featute especially of the bill which reCuir-
ed mature consideration--ac alluded to the
limited period of service OF the proposed
additional force. There was no pressing e.
mergency to hurry the bill and he there
fore moved to postpone the further consde-
ration of it to Monday.
Mr.. QUINCY enforced the propriety of
postponement. In relation TO the bill Just
ordered to a third reading, though he did
not approve of many of it's principles, he
had not objected to it, not being disposed to
be unnecessarily Captious. But the bill now
under consideration was OF a very different
character from that 1t proposed to aug
ment our military force by the addition of
10000 men. 1t would not be pretended, he
said, that the postponement of this bill for
a week would materially affect the opera
lions of the government. 1t could not be
pretended that the bill was not connected
with the great relations of the country. On
the contrary, Mr.. Q. said. it opened the
whole scope of the argument on the great
questions growing out of the present war
th x,,t,. -, =
was proposed to be conducted. He said,
that to prove it he need only refer to the
observations made by the gentleman from
South Carolina, who stated what proportion
OF force was destined by the government a
gainst one or another quarter, against Ha-
lifax and against the Fioridas. Mr.. Will
lians explained, that he had spoken not of
tie F!oridas, but the Florida Frontier Be
that as it might, Mr.. Quincy said, it was
evident that This bill and the questions re
sulting from it, were necessarily the great
questions oil the session that these questi-
ons touched the whole Course of the admins
tration; that they had relation to the pre-
sent character and future prospects of the
country. The bill had been brought on the
tapis but last Monday. and. not having had
an opportunity to examine it, he was for one
unprcpared to act on the subject But il
was not from personal considerations, that
he asked for time, but from the general
o.uty which he owed to his constituents.
which impelled him to require further time
10 examine the whole bearing of the ques-
ton.
Mr.. FISK said that he was among the mum
Der of those who ardently hoped the motion
would not prevail. If this bill all the
relations of this country were to be brought
INTO discussion, the stronger was the reason
for Immediately entering upon it for, cal
Culating en- past experience, the discussion
would transcend reasonable limits, and pro-
crastiaate unnecessarily the passage of the
bill. The House could not have forgotten
that it had been intimated from the other
side of the House at the last session, that the
majority were not serious in their declared
intention to go TO war, because the force
they proposed to raise was not adequate to
the object. The Proposition now before
the House was intended to procure an i'm
mediate addition to our military force. If
the recent scenes OH the frontier of New
York had not bccn sufficient to prompt gen
tlemen TO lend their did to retrieve the cha
I;,cter Of the nation, no argument from this
sItlv IIvt,sy Lvuiu CApeUteu 10 nave
influence. II this bill evca were to pass
without undergoing the wide discussion the
gentleman from Massachusetts ANTICIPATED.
the gentleman need nos he at loss 10 find
an opportunity TO discuss the subject ON "a
nothef occasion.
Mir. GOD said he was surprised the gen