Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
WednssdaA March I.
IN SENATE.

Noble, was taken up and modihea. 10 READ
as follows.
Resoiusd, That the Secretary OF the Trea
sury be directed 10 lay before the Senate
statement exhibiting the amount of the
two per cent fund arising from the sale OF
the public lands lying within the state Of In
diana. within the state Of Ohio, and within
the state ofIl}inois and also the amount OF
said Gnd arising from the sale Of public
lands within the state of Illinois which
was reserved for the purpose of making
roads leading to the states, and to be APP
piled under the direction of congress.
Mr.. Noble said that he would briefly state
his reasons for ofering the resolution. II
would be recollected by the Senate, that,
by the " act of Congress to enable the peo-
pie OF the Indiana Territory to form con-
sttution and state government, and for the
admission Of such state into the union Oh an
equal footing with the original states" GER
tain propositions were offered 10 the people
of the territory, for their acceptance or
rejection. The propositions were accepted ;
and the third provides, I" that FIVE per cent
arising from the sales Of public lands with
in the state should be reserved for making
roads and canals, Of which three Fl tbs
should be applied tothat object within the
state, under tho direction Of the Legislature
of the state, and two 6fths to the making of
roads leading to the state, under the direc-
ton of Congress, In Illinois two per cent
arising from the same source, were to be
applied in making roads leading to the state
Congress, in passing law to carry into ct.
feet the above proposition, and to authorize
the payment Of the three per cent to the state
of Indiana, declared that, unless the state
should exhibit to the Secretary of the Trea.
sury, statement showing the annual appli-
cation of the fund to the objects intended,
the payment should be withheld by the Sc
cretary of the Treasury. It is then bet lair,
in carrying into effect the proposition, the
scales of justice should be equal and reci-
procal between the United States and the
state of Indiana, as also Illinois, and that the
two per cent should be annually applied to
the object intended. Tn. committee on
roads and canals have the subject before
them, to continue the road from Wheel
ing to the seat of government for Ohio, to
the contemplated seat of government for In
diana. thence to the seatof government for
Illinois, and thence TO St. Charles" What
The committee would do, he said, he could
not say !; but it was important to ascertain
from the Treasury Department the amount
Of the fund, that the Senate as we'll as the
might be better informed how far
the fund would warrant the measure or ex.
tend the road He said, that as the reSolu-
ton in its operation only went to ascertain
the amount of the fund, whether bis views
were correct or incorrect in regard to the
before alluded to, and the annual
application of the fund by Congress, he no.
ped the Senate would adopt the resolution,
The resolution was then agreed TO.
Mr.. Trimble submitted for consideration
the following resolution:
Resolvea, That the committee on Indian
affairs. be instructed to enquire into the ex'
pediency of providing for the abolition OF
the system of Indian trade, established by
law of the Cd CT March 1911, which has been
continued in force until the Sd March 1921,
and for the disposition of the goods and pub
lie property, and the payment Of the pro
ceeds into the Treasury.
The resolution lies on the table,
The engrossed bill for the better regula.
ton Of trade with the Indian tribes, as pub.
lished a, large in our last, was read third
time and passed.
The engrossed bills for the relief OF Lab
edoyere de kermion for the relet of 10.
seph M'Neil; for the relief of B. Duvergne;
for the relief of Robert Purdy, were seve
rally read third time, passed, and sent to
the house OF representatives,
The engrossed bill for altering the place
for holding the federal courts in the state of
Ohio, and the engrossed bill to amend the
post office law so as to extend to the Presi
dent pro TEN of the Senate the same privi-
Ieges of ranking, as belongs by law. to the
Vice President Of the United States were