Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-04-10

,eferred, recommended the disagreement of this
amendment This Recommendation to disagree
was the question FIRST considered
The Sena.et amendment was strcnuously adj
vocated by Messrs johnson Of Kentucky, Desha.
Mclean Of KY. Hardin, Jackson, Mckee. and
Sharp, who supported the Justice Of allowing the
40 cents per ia, FIRST stipulated, together with
the vaiue of the horses lost. The adverse side
was taken by Messrs, Yancey, Culpeper and
Stearns, who denied the justice of the remunera-
ZION to the extent contended for. The debate
on this question occupied much time, taking the
course through which it extended when the sub.
sect was originally brought before the house.
The Question was finally decided against the
Recommendation of the committee of Claims and
F, in favor Of the Senate's fundamentally to so.
Mr.. Roane proposed to add the following
clause to the cases in the bill in which payment
rs to be made by the government "when any
produce or merchandise with which am, Wagon
cart, boat or sleigh, impressed into the service
ofthe United States was laden, shall have been
lost or consumed in consequence of such impress
ment"
After some objections to the amendment by
Mr. Yancey and reply by MIR. Roane the motion
was negatived.
Various other unsuccessful amendments were
offered to the amendments of the Senate; after
which the latter were concurred in BY the house
The following bills from the Senate, to wit a
bill to authorize the State of Ohio to sell Ger.
tain part of tract of land reserved for the use
OF the United States the bill for the establish
ment of port of entry at the town of BAYOU 81.
John, in Louisiana the bill to authorize the
President of the United States to alter the road
from the Rapids of the Miami of the Lake to
the western line of the Connecticut reserve ;were
senerally twice read and committed
The following engrossed bills were severally
read the third time, passed, and sent to the Sc
nate, to wit:
bill supplementary to the act laying d.
rect tax.
Abill authorising the President of the United
States to lease the Saline near the Wabash for the
term of l6 years;
bill for the relief of certain purchasers of
public land in the Mississippi territory;
bill in addition to the act defining the du.
ties OF the Judges of the Illinois territory &C.
bill to amend the act for the relief of Ed
ward Hsllowell
bill for the relief oe Henry Malcolm:
n Dill TO discharge Ebenezer Keller and John
Francis from their imprisonment
bill for the discharge of Moses Lewis from
imprisonment
bill for the remission of duties on certain
DOCKS imported for Harvard College, and on the
carriage and personal baggage of Governor Gore.
of Upper Canada
A bill for the relief of Robert Kidd;
Dill to enable the people of Indiana territory
20 form constitution and State government, and
De admitted into the Union on the footing of the
original States.
The last named bill was passed by yeas and
nays as follows
For the passage 1os
Against it
These who voted in the negative were Messrs
Goldsborough, Lewis and Randolph.
The bill to enable the people of Mississippi
erritory to form Constitution & State govern.
nent and be admitted into the union, was read n
third time.
A short debate took place, arising from some
objections made to the bill by Mr. Stanford who
was opposed to it because it contained no pro.
vision for the future division of the territory
which he thought entirely too large, considered
IN relation to the other States, and in time would
be too powerful if it continued an undivided
state-and he wished the bill might be recon-
mltted for amendment in that particular
MIR. Stanford was replied to by Messrs Latti-
more and Hardin; who argLed that the territory
~ was believed, had a sufficient population to en-
title 1T to state constitution at any rate il
would, at the next session have enough "a de.
mand admission into the union, and that it was
as well to grant that now with rood grace
Which in short time Congress would be una
BILE to refuse that if the territory be now diyid
co, ~ would be twenty years before the half of
1t would be able to ask state government that
from the immense quantities of burrows unfit for
cultivation, and the great quantity of Indian
lands IT contained, it would be very long time
before its population would, if ever exceed that
OF any other state (; that it was good policy to
encourage by every means the population of that
section OF the country, to be able promptly to re-
pei an enemy where attacks would very proba
bly, be made; that it was an older territory than
Indiana IN whose favor bill had just passed with
scarcely dissenting voice, &c.
MIR. Johnson of Ky. also opposed the recon-
mitment and advocated the passage of the bill
though lie was decidedly of opinion that Con.
gress ought to retain the power of altering the
boundary OF the new state hereafter if they should
deem the alteration necessary but the House
having yesterday decided against such reserva
ton, he thought it wrong to impede the passage
ofthe bill. Mr.. Johnson supported his opinions
ny variety of arguments after which
The bill passed by yeas and nays, as follows ::
tor the passage 80
Againt it So
The amendment adopted on Thursday on mo.
ton OF Mr. Ingham, respecting the duty on un
manufactured wool, was to lay duty of z ] per
cent advalorem not 4 cents per III &c erased