The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1814-03-09

tering fellow citizens. Will you, said he.
permit some OF your bravest men, you-
gallant tars, to remain in captivity, when j.
may be In your power thus to obtain ,be;r
reliet! IL 1t be the fault Of the govern
ment that they are in captivity, beg een-
tiemen not to visit the sins of the govern.
ment on your suffering seamen.
The question on the passage of the b;B
was decided in the affirmative by the fol-
lowing vote:
For the bill 81
| Against it se
The bill from the Senate to authorize the,
president 10 cause to be built, eouipped
and employed, one or more floating bare.
RES, Tor the defence of the ports and bar-
bors OF the U. States, was read third ,;n,.
and passed. '-'''o
Inc engrossed bill, making appropria-
TONS for the support of the navy of the,
Chied states, was read third time and
passed without debate, by the following
vote: "'G
YEAS-Messrs Alexander. Archer. A.
very Bard, Barnett, Bayly of Va Beall.
bigeiow, Bradley, Brown, Burwell, Caper.
ton' Caldwell, Calhoun. Chappell, Clark,
Comstock, Conard, Cooper, Cox, Craw.
iord' Creighton, Crouch, Culpepper, Cuth-
bert Davis OF Pa. Denoyelles, Desha. On
vail, Earle, Eppes, Farrow. FindIey, Fisk
OF Vt:rkisk of N. Y. Forncy, Forsytbe,
Franklin Geddes, Goldsborougb, Good.
wyn, Gourdin, Griffin, Grundy, Hail, Har.
r1s' Hasbrouck, Halves, Hopkins of N. Y.
Huhgeriord, lngersoll, Ingham, Irwin. Ir-
Ving' Jackson of va Johnson of Va. Ken
ncuy, Aent OF Md. Kerr, Kershaw, King
Oh MASS. King OF N. c Leffcrts, Lewis,
,.ovets' Lowndes, Lyle, Macon, M'Coy,
Nee A'hlm, MLean, Miller, Motif,
Montgomcry' Moore, Mosely, Murgree.
Markell, Nelson, Newton, Parker. Pear.
son, Pickens, Piper, Peasants: Post. John
Need, VIM. Reed, Rea of Pa. Rbea of
Ten. Rich, Ridgely, Ringgoh, Roam, Ro-
bcrtson, Rugges, Sage, Sewer. Scvbcr,.
Skinner, Smith of Va. Stanford, Smart.
Sturges, ~rannehill, Taylor, TeIsair, Troun.
Vose, Ward of Mass Ward Of NJ
White, Whitehill, Wilcox, Williams. VIII
s'n OF Pa. Winter, Wood, Wright, Yam
cey-l2l.
NAYS-Hessrs. Boyd, Brigham, Cham
pion, Ely, Hufty, Kent of ". Y. Potter.
Thompson, Wheaton--9.
The engrossed bill making appronria.
lions tor the support Of the Military Es-
'aoiishment tor the year 1914, was read a
bird time.
Mr. ward OF Mass. opposed the bill In
aspeech OF great length on general topics
,nd
Mr.. Macon Of N. G. made speech. al
30 Of great length, replying to gentlemen
N opposition, particularly two of his COL
leagues, on topics introduced into the re-
ent debate.
at late hour the bill was passed by the
following vote
For the bill 20
Against it "a
And the house adjourned.
MONDAY, March :.
W.T.. lngersoll of Pa. from the committee
on inc judiciary, reported bill prescrib-
ing the mode OF commencing, PROSECUTING
ana deciding controversies between two or
more states, which was twice read and
committed.
Inc annual appropriation bill for the
support OF government, passed through
committee Of the whole, Mr.. Stanford at
~. L. IN the chair, and the blanks having
oeeh Hiied with the various appropriations
fcf The civil list, &c. was REPORTED to the
mouse The question on one of the items
OK appropriations was, on motion of Mr..
Blgeiow, taken by Yeas and Nays, viz. on
the appropriation OF $4,000 dollars for the
contingent expenses of foreign Intercourse.
On concurrence with the committee of the
whole on this article oil the bill, the votes
stood,
For concurrence 60
Against it 20
The other appropriations were permitted
to pass without opposition and the bill
was ordered to be engroosed for third
reading.