Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-03-08


WAYS add Means, to whom was referred
the bill from the Senate torepeal On certsin
events) the discriminating duties now i'm
posed on foreign tonnage, and on goods.
wares aud merchandise imported into tn
United States reported the same wi.hou,
amendment, and moved that it pass to a
third reading.
Mr. Seybert said this was subject of
great Importance, in which his constituents,
as much as anv people of the United States.
at too late period of the session to he fully
discussed and maturely considered that,
when h retnfore the subject had been bro't
before the Congress. it had been opposed
by petitions from various quarters, which
would not nov appear, because no such
measure was expected to have been agi
tated at this session. He therefore moved
thai the bill be postponed indefinitely
Mr.. Eppes hopei this motion would not
prevail II was true, on FORMER occasions
wbenth subject had been before the Iouse.
it had excited some sensibli,y among the
merchants ; but this was very different
prorosition frnm any which had before been
asitated The bin proposed to take OFF
these counterva'ing duties when other ma
t'ons shall adopt corresponding regulation,
For his part Mr.. e said, he believed we
were capable Of building vessels as cheap
ly, perhaps more chcaply than any coun..
try IN earth and such regulation as was
proposed, if reciprocal. wonld prove highly
advantageous to our navig ton, &c
Mr. 5. interrupted Mr.. f. by withdraw
al OF his motion TO postpone the bill, and il
was, on motion of Mr.. Eppes committed to
a committee of the whole.
IN, &c nj
ut Foreign Relations were di~ch rged from
the consideration of sundry ,apers which
had been referred to them during the pre
sent session, which. in consequence of peace.
thew had Thought it unnecessary to ac, on.
On motion OF Mr.. Lefferts, an order pas
sed to meet at 10 o'clock for the remainder
OF the session.
The bill from the Senate making aspro
prtations for completing the Pubic Build.
lnss for the Military Academy at West
Point, was twice read and Committed. 81.
The bill from the Senate to continue in
force TOR limited time the bill to establish
Trading Houses with the Indian tribes
was twice read and ordered to a third read.
ing.
MILITARY PEACE ESTABLISH.
MENT.
The house resumed the consideration of
the report of the committee of the Whole nm
the bill fixing the Military Peace Establish
ment of the Estates.
On the question to concur in reducing .he
force to be retained from ten 10 sir thou
sand men, there arose an animated and
deeply interesting debate, which Continued
to a late hour
The sseakersto-day who favored the re.
ducton to six thousand, were Messrs Sher.
icy. Goldsborougb, Pickering, Desha, S ock-
ton, Macon. tarrow, Potter. King. Sharp.
Jackson OF Va. and Eppes those WHO ep-
posed il were Messrs Hopkins of KY. For
sy.h. Fisk of VT Calhoun. Gholson Rhea
M kim, Right. Cuthbert, Stuart and Han
son.
The debate was not limited to the subiec,
but extended over the whole field of onr
foreign relations, and embraced a discussi-
on OF the terms ofthe tire atty.
he question on the reduction was az
length decided as follows:
9EaS-Msssrs. Als'en, Avery. Baylies
or Mas Bigelow, Bowen, Beyd, Brs dburv
brigham, Brown, Burwell, Caperton, Can.
nan, Champion, Ci'ley, Clopton, C,xe.
Crouch, u'peper, D venpart, Davis of Pa.
~ sha, Ely, Eppes, FArrow, Findley, Frank.
lin. CASTOR, Geddes. Goldsboroueh Hale
iarris' Henderson, Hungerford. Hubert,
Jack OF of K. ]. Jack, on of Va Johnson of
~ Kennedy, Kent of N Y. Kent of Ma,
Nlpg OF Mas. Law, LIE Wis, Lovett, LYLE.
NJ aeon. Montgomery, MoseIey, Ormesbv'
Pearson Pickering. Piper, Pitkin, Pc ter
J REED. Roane, Ruggles, Schureman, Sharp.
oneitey, Sherwood, Siaymaker, Stanford,
stockton, Strong, Siurges, Taggart,
l. thompson, Vose, Ward of Mas Wheaton,
rs '-A''
NAYS.--Messrs Alexander. Anderson.
Barbour Bard, Barrett, Bines, Butter, Cal.
noun. Comstock, Condit, era wford, Creigh-
,op, Gu hbert, Duval, Fisk of VI Fisk of
n. forsythe, Gholson, G rodwyn, Gour.
lin' GriiiIn, Grosvenor, Hall. Hansdn, Has
D. onck' Hawes. Hawkins, Hopkins of XIV.
shaw. LeHerts, Lowndes, M'Coy, M'Kin
Moore. Nelson, Newton, Oakley. parker
Pickens, Peasants w. Reed, Rea Of pen
Rhea of Ten. Rich, Ringgold. Il bettsoa
oare, Sewer, ybert. Smith of n. Y Smith
% va. Stuart, Tannehill, Taylor, TeIfair.
irrup' OdTee, Wilson of Pa. Winter
Wright, Yancey- IS.
DO the force TO be retained was reduced
from ten 70 sic thousand.
MT. Cannon renewed the motion, which
ne mac uSspccessfuliy made In corR mittee Of |
the who'e, to strike out 50 much Gf the bill |
as allows a land bounty On addition TO The
advance of pay to such officers and soldiers !
as shall be discharged. The motion was
decided as follows:
EAS IN sssrs Aston, Bayiies Of Mas /
bigelow, Boyd. Bradbury, Brigham. Gamer
ton' Cannon. Champion, Cilley. Coxe
CS,fAwicrd, CUloeper, Ely, Farfow, Ga4ton
Sseoees, Goids5orough, Hale, Hau, Hen.
aerson, Hulber, Jackson oil II. I. Kennedv
Nent Of Y. X. King Of Mas. Law, LeS{s
LoVeti, Macon Moseiey, Oakley, Poker
1ng' Piper, Piikin, John Reed, WIN. Reed. |
sN,uggies, SchuremaD. Shelley, Sherwood |