Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-04-29
CONGRESS.
HOUSE Of REPRESENTATIVES,
THURSDAY, April Is.

made a report that it IS expedleHt TO re-
amca the weight or fneness OF these
jcoins. ,,;t,se
made favorable report on the, petltioh9
of sundry inhabitants OF Missouri ~: sss-
| ;tory. PRAYING an act Of incorporation e,
carry on trade with the Indians; wi1ich
lrepnrt was ordered to lie on the table.
SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The enrressed bill providing for the
~ ora eefsctual collection of the public re
Iva, ,uv,. in the lawful money of the coun
W. was read the third time, and the
|o e5s stated, {" Shall the bill passs''
Mr.. Wright rose and spoke more thar
H., hopr in opposition TO the bill. :, ;.
Mr., Root followed on the same side' IN
sneech Of about half an hour.
M. Telfair made a few remarks ID
reply to Mr. Root. -. ,on
MIR Grosvenor answered the cppon-
iants Of the bill, and spoke some time Il
MIR. Randolph replied to MIR. Grosvs-
Inor, and opposed the passage o. '''
lbill. .,aol
Mr.. Grosvenor rejoined, and aide
Isome further arguments in favor OF '!le
Mr., Calhoun also replied to Mr.. Ran
idolph, and offered some considerations !"
flavor OF the bill.
MIR. Robertson explained the reasons
lwhy he should vote for the bill, y made
Esome remarks in reply to other seA'is
linen. :. -.
Mr.. Webster also submitted his rea-
lsons for wishing the bill to pass.
Mr.. Randolph again spoke ABOUT al
Incur in opposition to the bill ana III re
tply TO its advocates. =,
Mr.. Wright also opposed the bill in q
.second speech. :.
Mr.. CASTOR Submitted his reasons i'll
deposition to the bill-after which
The question: on its passage was de-
cided in the negative as follows:
! YEAS-Messrs. Alexander, Anterior.
)! Bassett. Raitman, Bradbury, Brown, Ca
idy. Calhoun, Champion, CiIley, Condict,
ICoDner, Creighton, Cuthbert. Desaa,
Edwards. Griffin, Grosvenor, Hale, HUI
|ger, Hunserford, Johnson, Ky: King,
lI,oye. Lowndes, Lumpkin. Marsh, May
rant. M'Coy. M'Lean, KY. Middleton,
Nelson, Ms. Noyes. Ormsby Paris, Pic
Ikeriug, p,tkip, Peasants, Reed, Robert
|son. Ruggies, schenck, Sharpe, shelte.,
iStearns, Sturges, Taggart, Taylor, > T.
lTeIfair. Tucker. Vose, Ward, n. I.
webster, Wilcox, Woodward-59.
NAYS-Messrs. Adgate, Archer,
Baer, Bennett, Belts, Birdssail, Bryan,
Breckenridge, Brooks, Caldwell, Clay
lton, Clopton, Cooper, Crawford, Gull
| neper, Crocheron, Darlington, Daven-
hort, Forney, Castor, Glasgow, hardin
,Hester, Henderson, Herbert, insham'
johnson, Va: King, N. c. Langdon, Law,
IT,ewis. Lovett, Lyle, Lyon, Muriee,
Newton. Pickens, Powell, Randolph,
IR ane, Roet, Savage, Smith, Md. South
lard, Stuart, Tate, Throop, Wallace,
Wizard Ms. Whiteside, Niikln, VIII
!loughbv, rhos. Wilson, Wm. Wilson,
Wright. Yates--6o.
So the bill was rejected.
The House went into committee OF
1.-The whole on the amendments OF the Sc
mate to the bill to r. gulate the duties Oh
linpost. and tonnage. The amendments
were successiysly agreed t. by the COM
mittee and reported to the house.
| Mir Randolph made an Intellectual so:
! tioa to postpone the decision on the re-
port until tomorrow, believing the a
lmendments too important to be acted on
sithout more mature consideration.
! Mfr. Randolph opposed subsequently,
at some length, the senate's proposition
to increase the duty on imported sugar
ION 2! to cents per ID, which be deem
ed not only oppressive on the people, but
Highly improper as coming from the Sc
mate, whose right he disputed, according
to the spirit of the constitution, thus in
effect to assess tax on the people-and
demanded the yeas and nays on the qaes
ton OF Concurrence.
Mr.. Roberts made few remarks in
reply, and in favor of the amendment.
After some further conversation be-
tween Messrs. Randolph and Robert
json,
The amendment was coucurred in by|
the following vote:
Fer the amendment 81
Against it 90
The residue of the amendments werel
then concurred in and
The House adjourned.