Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-04-03


continent of Europe: and
Mr.. Hopkinson stated a fact also in |
which the duties accruing in G.. Britain on |
certain paintings intended FOR the Pennsyl- |
vania hospital were reunited, on the ground !
that they were for the general encourage |
menr of the arts, and tor public institute |
on. &c.
The amendment was agreed to in COM
mittee, and concurred i'll unanimously by
the house.
NEW STATES.
The house tn n resolved itself into
committee of the whole, Mr.. n eison of
Va. III the chair, on the bill to enable
the people of lndiana territory to form
constitution and state government and be
admitted into the union on the footing of
the original states.
:, The bill received variety of amend
mcnts in its details. and having been
gone through,
The committee proceeded to take up
the bill to enable the people of the Mis-
sissippi territory to form constitution
and state government, and be admitted
into the union on AN equal footing with the
original states.
After adopting various amendments and
rejecting others. the discussion of which
consumed considerable time, the bill was
got luVcGSn.
The comm ittee rose and reported the
two bills with their amendments to the
! House.
The amendments reported to the first
| were successfully agreed to, and the bill
| as amended, was ordered to be engrossed
| for n third reading.
The Amendments reported to the Mis-
| sissippi bill, were also agreed to with
| the exception Of one adopted by the
committee on the motion Of Mr.. Johnson,
reserving to the Congress the power of
hereafter altering the boundary of the new
state. This amendment was widely dis
cussed and finally disagreed to; after
which,
| The bill was ordered to be engrossed as
amended, for third reading and the
| House adjourned.
PAY OF CONGRESS.
Some hints have been thrown out in the
public prints or the subject of the late
change in the mode and amount of COM
pensation to the Members of Congress,
which appear to be founded on erroneous
calculations. One of our friends, whose
| leisure has enabled him to make more mi
mute cal ulations than has been in our pow
er, has favored us with the following state
ment, the accuracy of which will not, be-
Cause it cannot, lie questioned. Thus then
| stands the account
| Average annual amount of
allowance for travelling
expenses of each mem
Der OF Congress (under
the present Census) for
eight years, VIZ. 10th,
18th, 18th, & 18th con-
gress, has been S3I8 Is
| During those eight years
Congress was in session
1922 days ;--averaging
number of days per year
I65 Ia at Sc e91 so
Average annual amount Of
pay to the members of
the 10th, 18th, 18th, and
18th congresses, inclu-
ding term of 8 years, 1909 65
Pay es ablished Ivy the law
of March 30, 1916,
which commenced with
the 18th congress,
| Annu Il Salary, $500
Annual travelling as
above, 519 IS
| ----1818 Is
Which is an increase of the whole paw
of all the members of Congress of SO per
centum upon the pay as established in
1889.
Ii is therefore demonstrated, with a.
rithmetical accuracy, that the act recent
ly passed, has increased the compensation
at no higher rate than SO per cent. on the
rate established near thirty years ago.
Who will say that this increase keeps e.
quail pace with the appreciation, since that
day, of the cost of labor and of all the ne
cessaries of life ?
|
The frigate JAVA, commanded by the
gallant Commodore Perry, arrived at
Gibraltar, imSeUenteen days from New.
port, and then proceeded to join Com.
Shaw's squadron i'll the Mediterranean
We are induced to- mention this circum-
stance, as a paper somewhere to the east
ward cf Baltimore, not long ago. in pref
ty broad terms, limited that the Java was
a Clumsy ill built vessel.
Baltimore american.
PHILADELPHIA, March %.
Rehorted Destruction Of Sierra Leone.
Captain Young, of the ship Charlotte,
VINO arr we'd here on Sunday last, in A
days from Isle de Los, informs, that while
getting under way at Isle de Los, he was
no rded by n boat from the Bulam shore
Opposite Sierre Lcone) and was formed
that two days previous, large party of
Blacks from the country had attacked 81
ezra Leone, and having been joined by the
Black troops stationed there, had succeed
ell in destroying the place, and had nur-
dered nearly al the white inhabitants. to-