Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-12-22
ALEXANDRIA,:
.UG.S'U.4T, DECE.VBER 90, 1871.

| IUt INC opposite the to"f'. al!u LOT some
| distance below it. This circumstance is
st This tine peculiarly to be regretted
as many vessels were preparing for TO-
reign voyages, some Of which had already
taken in valuable carsOes. 1t is conf.
IDENTITY believed however, that the picsen!
severe weather will he Of short duration.
ard that the navigation of The river vii
again be free for few days, before it BE-
comes permanently obs.luctcd for the re-
: n1indcr Of the winter.
TThe following letter is out of cGurse--
it having reached Us Oh Saturday n.orn-
ing. 10 the southern mail.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT At WASH
INGT0S.
Thursday. December IS, 1917.
1t vas yesterday, on motion Of Mr..
Holmes, in the House Of Representatives,
referred to a select committee to enquire
into the exPedieney Of fixing upon COM
pensation for members Of congress. The
consideration of The Communication bill was
then resumed ia continuation from the
day before, and Ercdu ed discussion
sill mere dull, tedious and uniuteresting
than the former, because less en,iyened
by variety or novelty. Again was the
subject presented in the same aspects in
which it had been so often viewed before
with little ether difference thar what
it derived from The names and MANNERS
Of some two or three advocates on both
sides.-For instance, Mr.. Bail, Mr.. Col
ssen and Sr. Reacher were added TO the
number of orators Nho opposed the bill;
and Nr. Baldwin and Sr. Anderson TO
those who Supported it. Mr.. Ball, adj
verting to the frequent use of the word
LIBERAlIrY vi the nation, during this
proceeding, said that whenever he saw
the brave and virtaOus men who success
fully fought aad bled in the revolutionary
war for that independence we all now
enjoy, generously provided for, then, but
not till then, should he be able to hear
the liberality OF the patton talked OF in
that House witbUuta blush. Mr.. COlstcE
deprecated the idea Of paying SO muck
money for the convenience Of number
OF soldiers who had no cause to complain,
nor indeed did nurmur, while eight nil
lions OF our labouring population were
squeezed by severe taxes en- the imnsdi-
ate necessaries Of life-taxes, on salt, Oh
brown sugar and on coffee, the duties 0!
which alone amounted, in the aggregate,
to more than two millions of dollars a
year. On the other hand, 1t was urged
by Mr.. Baldwin that the very fact Of 60.
yernment's Offering an established price
for those lands, would operate as a bar.
rier between the soldier and the specua.
tor, while on the contrary, if government
should offer TO price, there would be no
IN the market, and TIE SOL
diers would be lett entirely at the mercy
Of the spectators and he cited raric-
ty Of past instances in which bounty
lands were raised by the interposition ot
government from very low price Up to
a very high one. As to there being
deficiency Of money to carry into effect
the provisions Of the bill which had been
he could never yield 10 such
an apprehension, since the house had the
best possible authority in the nation tina:
there was money enough in the treasury
for every purpose. Mr.. Holmes derided
the extreme sensij;Iity expressed by sons
persons for those poor megitorious sol.
diers. The poor soldier (said he) Is
TO you as aviI tuous, war.worn
veteran, coming through the wilderness,
bending beneath the weight Of distress
and sorrow, and fatigue, hi. lettering
frame sustained by a crutch, and hObblinS
along on one wooden leg-his bare head