Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-01-27
The motion to postpone was mega

The Chairman put the qu sfinn to
agree to the resolution, and it Was ne
gativcd by a large majority
The committee thea rose and report.
cd their decision t" Tie house.
The Speaker put the question on a.
greeting to the amendments made IN
committee, by filing the blanks in the
resolution.l
1t being objected. that the report OF
the committee had been to reject the re-
solution
The Speaker decided that no conf
mittee, whether select or OF the. whole
house, has the power of rejecting any
bill or resolution referred to it. Bills
and resolutions are referred To Commit
tees to be discussed and amended or
not, and not to be agreed to ~ reject
ell in form, though sometimes virtually
rejected by striking out their vital
parts"
This decision was objected to by
Mr.. Randolph, Mr.. Barbour, and MIR.
Cobb, but justified by Mr.. Sergeant q
in part at least by Mr.. Lowndes. In
the end, however, no appeal was taken
from the decision Of the chair.
The House having agreed to the a.
mendments made in committee of the
whole
The question was put. without de-
bate. on ordering the resolution 10 be
rngrossed for third reading. and de-
cided as follows:
YEAS.-Messrs. Baldwin. Eustis,
Hill, Little. Smith of Md. Stevens-6.
NAYS.-Mcssrs. Abbot, Adams, A.
lexandcr, Allen of Mass. Allen of NY.
Allen of Tenn. Anderson, Archer OF
Md. Archer of Virg. Baker, Ball,
Barbour. Bateman, Bayly, Beecher,
Bloomfield, Bodep, Brevard, Brown.
Brush, Buffum, Burton, Burwell, But.
Ter of N. II. Butler of Lou. Campbell,
Cannun, Case, CIsgett. Clark, Clay,
Cobb, Cooke, Cook, Crafts, Crawford,
CrnwelI, CuIpepper, Cusbmam, Cuth-
bert, Dane, Darlington, Davidson,
Dennison, Dickinson, Earle. Eddy,
Edwards of Conn. Edwards Of N. L.
Fay, Fisher, Foot, Ford, Forres', Full
Ter, Gorham, Gray, Gross of N. Y.
Gross of Penn. Guyon, Hackley, Hall
of N. Y. Hall of N. &. Hardin, Hemp.
hill, Hendricks, Hill, Hobart, Hooks,
Hostetter. Jackson, Johnson, Jones of
Va. kinsey, kinslcy, Lathrop, Lin
coin, Lowndes, MacIay. Mccoy, Nc.
Creary, Mccullough, McLane of Del.
McLane Of Ken. Mallary, MarcI,and,
Meigs, Metcalf, Montgomery, r.
Moore, S. Moore, Il. l.. Moore, Nor
ton, Moscley, Murray, Nrale, Nelson
&c Mass. Nelson of Va. Newton, Par
ker of Mass. tarker of Va, Patterson,
Philson, Pinknry, Pitcher, Plumer,
Randolph, Rankin, Reed, Rhca, Rich,
Richards, Richmond, Kinggold, Ro-
bcrtson, Rogers, Ross, Russ, Sawyer,
Sergeant, Silsbee, Simkins, Shaw,
Sloan, Smith of New Jersey, Smith
of North. Carolina, Southland, Storrs,
Street, Strong Of N. Y. Tarr, Terrell,
Tomlinson, Tompkins, Tracy, Trim.
BILE, Tucker of Va. Tucker of S. C..
Tyler, Udree, Upham, Van Rensselaer,.
Walker, Warfield, Wendover, Whit.
man, Williams of Va. Wood.-l46.
So the resolution was rejected.
After a pause
Mr.. Clay ruse, and gave notice, that
if no other gentleman. made any mo
tion on The subject. he should on the
day after tomorrow move TO 60 into
committee of the whole on tho State of
the Union. to take into consideration
the resolution from the Senate en- the
subject IF Mi, sour.
The following bills passed though
committees of the whole, i'm succession,
viz:
The bill for the reliefof Jacob Hun
singer.
The bill extending the time for issu
ing and locating land warrants to offi :.
GERS and soldiers of the Revolutionary
war.
The bill to regulate the luration of
land warrants and the issuing ofpatents
in certain cases.
The bill for the relief of. James Bra
dy.
Tie bill for the relief Of Joseph NJ.
Mel.
The bill for the relief Of Alexander
NiInu