Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-01-16
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
S,,fnrdtv. ,Jrnuar, II.

rNiny the Communication ct soldiers bounty |
land
-4NIr. Brooks, from TIE committee on the sub |
ject, made report, accompanied with bill |
TO amend tie act granting bounties on land |
extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers passed |
nj the last session
These b.ls were twice read and referred to |
committee OF the whole
MIR. H,UrmOHd ofN. V offered for considcra-
ton the following resolution:
Hes9'red, That the Secretary of War be
directed To state TO the Honse tie number OF
the officers aud priVotes belonging to the seve-
raj corps oitt,c artillery (ncimding the light
artiIieryl inianiry andriiiemen Row in the SER
vice Of the l.. STATES"
Mr.. " said that from the letter of the Seerc-
tary, laid Yesterday on the table transmitting
an estimate Of the appropriations for the year
1877 it appeared thatappropriatOnS were pro-
posed 10 lie made for 10000 privates, the
whole number of troops authorized by law to
be kept in service; that from some remarks
made ly The honorable Speaker and from the
Chairman of TIE Military Committee, it APP
pearcd to be their opinion that the member o.
troops now in actual service did not much eN-
coed 1090. Itappeared tO'him that, in order
for the House TO act with propriety when Ia
should make appropriations, It was necessary
that they should possess more certain inicrmi-
ton aS TO tie 0cspGl number of troops in The
service of the United States. 1t was with
this view he had proposed the resolution mn
der consideration. Ii the nation were at war.
or if any danger of Il rupture with any foreign
II
communities ton ofthis sort might he impr0-
per. At present happily there could be
no foundation for objections of such ma
turc.
After some conversation on the subject,
the resolution was so modified Ivy the mover,
as to "dircct the Secretary of War, to com
muncate to the House the number of officers
and privatcS composing the whole military cs
adjustment in the service of the L. States,
particularisng tie strength of each corps
and reghnent'-and i'll that form agreed
to.
Mr.. jackson DIVA. after adver;ing to the pro-
ceeding, had at the last session upon a similar
proposition, and the propriety of an appropri-
alton of money for attaining its object, moved
the first Of the following resolutions. lie
further stated. he would also present fer en-
qury other resolution. having similar OBJ
jcct, but depending upon different princi-
pie. The first proposed an appropriation of
land or money, where none was pledged--the
second To make provision for the applica-
ton ola fund already set apart for making
roads itwunld reco;lected, he said, that by
the compact with the new state of Indiana the
faith Of Congress was pledged to expend
certain portion OF the money arising from the
sales of land in that state, for the purpose OF
opening roads leading to ii, Il principle he re-
marked, which was adopted when the
state ofOhio was admitted into the union-and
TO which we owed the benefits, in possession
and IN prospect, of the great national turn
pike leading from Fort Cumberland to Wheel
ing. He wished 10 renew theenquiry into the
claims of another section to portion Of mo-
ney within the control of Congress, and with
that viewhe had purposely limited the opera
ton of his resolution; whilst he admitted the
propriety OF extending the great road he had
alluded to from Wheeling ne believed it vas
lust and proper IL open another, leading
in a more direct line trcm the Metropolis Of
the nation to the newly admitted state The
following are the resolutions moved by Mr..
Jackson
Resoired, That the committee on Roads and
Canals be instructed to enquire into the exle-
dicncy of providing by law for making an ar
tificial road from Washington in pcnnsvIva-
Mia, through CharlestOwn on the Ohio ri
Yer, to the river Sandusky, at or near Fort
Stephenson.
Resolsed That the same committee be fur
Their instructed TO enquire into the expedencv
of appropTatiug that part Of the proceeds
of monies arising from the sale OF land in the.
state of Indiana, which by compact with that
state is set apart for opening roads to making
an artificial road from Winchester in Virginia
TO the Ohio river at or near the mouth OF NJ us
kingum river, and from THENCE by or near CHI
licothe, on the Scioto river, 10 the said state Of
Indiana.
The resolve was agreed to.
MIR. PickeRs submitted for consideration the
following resolution:
EeSoired, That the committee on Roads and
Canals be instructed to inqnire into the expe-
deHcS of providing by aw for the making Of
surveys and levels for several ofthe mos practi-
cable pointsCf communication between Ten
nessee river, - those ofCoosl and Tombigbec
rivers, AID OF the shoals ard falls OF the two
last mentioned rivers.
MIR. PicifeHs made few remarks in support
Of his motion.
Mr.. Randolph suggested that all the favor of
gentlemen of the House appeared to be direct
ell 10 the new countries in neglect Of thc old
states. In regard to the part OF North Carroll
ma which the gentleman represented, and the
adjoining territory OF Virginia, there was no
part of the country that had experienced less
of the sunshine OF government than they had
But the fact was, they had asked nothing
of the government; they were in tie habit OF
living on their own mears--DOt of quartering
themselves on the nation, on the public, or on
the parish. No district in the United States,
he said, stood much in the relation of a
step child, as the country represented by him
self and the honorable gentleman. There
was no country for which so little had been
done, He did not know that he should have
troubled the House with any remarks on this
head, but for morning puff on the Post Of
flee Establishment, tue benefits of which, he in
tiInated. were dispensed with "a snarinp
The excellence of the establishment there was
such he said, thata broad wheeled waegon
laden with two heavy hOgSheads of tobacco
wOaid 90 from his house to Richmond in a day
and half, less time than the mail did, which
was besides, only weekly. lie wished to know
of the committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads, whether any thing was to be done to
remedy this evil. But with regard to the ma
vigdtion of the TOmbiglIee-Wcre The old Uni
ted States about to play the part of King Lear
in .e tragedy! Was The whole territory the
whole soil, to enurc the benefit of the Western
States and Territories, and were the old states
to have no part at all of the common stock =
What was to become then Of the navigation of
the waters OF the Chesapeake and configu
0Us waters-and of the Navigation OF the