Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-03-30

detective. 1t hau been his intention 10
| have this day submitted his views Of tie
| bill, and to have moved amendments to IT
| accordingly but the state Of his health
| would not permit hum at this time to per-
! form that duty He should there fore leave
| the bill to be disposed of by the Senate in
| such way as the Senate might think pro-
| per, reserving to himself the right at some
future moment, to give his views Of the
bill, &c.
Mr.. Mason of n. II. then moved to "a
mend the bill so as to make the proportion
| OF the first specie payment on each share
ten dollars instead Of five, as it now stands.
This motion gave rise to a wide debate !;
in which il was supported by the mover &
by Mr.. King and Mr.. Sanford, and oppo-
sed by MIR. BIB, Mr.. Barbour, Mr.. Fay
lor and MIR. Dana.
The two first of these g,ntlemen, tho
they also opposed the amendment in prin-
Ciple, took the broad ground that it would
be unadvisabie to amend the detail of the
bill lin unessential particulars, unless it
might appear to the Senate eXceptionabie
in principle, which it did not TO them.
they beng strongly in favor Of ii. The de-
bate, therefore, covered the whole ground
OF the motives and the details of the bill
The debate continued till 4 o'clock.
No decision took place OH the molten of
MIR. Mason before adjournment.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Saturday, March IS.
After the reception and reference of
sundry petitions,
MIR. Forney from the committee ap-
pointed on that subject, reported a bill to
increase the compensation of the clerk of
the House of Representatives Ito 5000
dollars) which was twice read and COM
mittcd.
DARTMOOR PENSIONERS.
On motion of MIR. peasants.
The House went into committee of the
whole, Mr.. Jackson in the chair, on the bill
to place the surviving sufferers at Dart
moor prison on the Navy pension list
which was reported to the House with an
mence on the 9th of April, 1915, the day
on which the Dartmoor massacre took
place. and the bill as am ended, was order
ed to be engroSsed for third ne diog.
STAFF OF THE ARMY.
The engressed bill to organize 4 gene
raj Staff for the army, was read the third
time.
An enquiry made by MIR. Hardin into
the necessity of one of the officers named
in the bill (the Commissary General of
Purchases the nature of his duties, G'c.
produced short discussion on that point.
Mr.. Grosvenor and Mr.. Pickering argu-
ed that the dut es of the Commissary Gen
eral and those ofthe Superintendent Gene
raj of Purchases. were in fact the same
that one fthe Offices was useless & ought
to be abolished, sc.
Mr.. Johnson, of Kentucky, explained the
-, So
the d.ssimilar character of their duties,
their separate responsibilities, and the
necessity Of both to form a complete staff,
&c.
The yeas and nays being demanded by
Mr.. Davenport, the question on the pas
sage of the bill was so decided, as follows
For the bill 96
Against it %
The bill from the Senate to authorize a
subscription to a second edition of the pub
lie documents, and the bill concerning set
tiers on the public lands, were severaily
read the third time and passed.
THE TARIFF.
The House then again resolved itselfin in
to a committee of the whole, MIR. Breck-
eRridge in the chair, on the bill to regu-
late The tariff Of duties.
Mr.. Belts IN de motion to strike out
the words al Uaiorem, in the clause fxng
the duty on woolens and cottons which
was negatived, ayes 40, noes 65.
MIR. Webster submitted a motion to al
ter the tariff proposed on cottons, by lay
ing maximum duty Of 30 per cent. for two
years, and then gradually reducing it TO
- per cent. Mr.. w. offered several argu-
meuts in support of his motion, but At the
suggestion of Mr. Lowndes, he withdrew
it, for the present, to wait some informant
on which would enable the House to act
more understandiegly on the subject.
Mr.. Ward OF Mass. moved an amend
ment, the object OF which, substantially,
was to defer the operation of the duties ON
Iudia Cottons, proposed by the bill to Jan.
next He offered this motion to protect the
merchants engaged in the India trade from
the ruin which would inevitably be imfiict-
ed on them by the duties proposed, if laid
suddenly, af.er merchants had goods on
| their way home or ordered. and without
| sufficient notice to enable them TO frame
their measures accordingly.
Mr.. Lowndes opposed the motion. If
the duty was necessary at all to secure our
manufacturers, 1t was necessary TO COM
mence its operation without delay and nc
] thought the gentleman would find that
more mischief would cnsue To the manu-
featuring interest from the delay he propo-
sed than would be prevented TO the mer-
camille class from lis adoption.
MIR. Hubert was also hostile to the mo-
ton. 1t was said that the bin would ruin
the India merchants he wished the mer-