The Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1822-1822, 1822-05-04
Congressional Proceedings.
MosnAy, APRIL 90,
IN SENATE.
! From tie National lntelAgencer.


Florida from oppressive taxes. y e
The resolution offered by Mr.. Noble
on Friday last, calling for information
to be furnished, at the next sessio4 Of
the number, &c. of pensioners, was Ia
ken up and agreed to. b.
On motion of Mr.. johnson, of Kent.
the Committee on Roads and Canals
were discharged from all the SUBJECTS
referred to them on which they have net
heretofore reported. - IT,.
The bill to alter the times and places
of holding the district court Of the dis
trict of New Jersey, was considered in
committee of the whole, and ordered 70
be engrossed for third reading.
The Senate next took up the bill
from the House of Representatives pro.
viding for the payment ofdamagess sus-
tanned by the loss of horses, &c. In the
Seminole war by the Tennessee volun.
teers. i ilaF,
The Committee of Claims of the Sc
nate to whom this bill had been referred
recommended its indefinite postpone
ment; on which question debate ofcon-
siderable duration took place. Messrs.
Eaton and Williams of Tenn. advoca-
ted the bill, and Messrs, Ruggles, Chan
der and Barton, opposed it, 's'f
The question being taken on postpo-
ming the bill indefinitely, il was negsti-
ved-ayes Is, nays "a. The bill was
then laid on the. table. 80 - -.
SOUTHERN STATES OF, AMERICA.
The Senate, then according to the or
der of the day, took up, in committee Of
the whole, Mr. Lowrie being called to
the chair, the bill from the House of
Representatives making an appropria.
ton of 100000 to defray the expen-
ses of Missions to the independent ma;
tons on the American continent.
The amendment reported by the
Committee of Fo reign Relations to the
bill, (to increase the appropriation to
$4,000, and subjecting the bill speci-
fcally to the limitations of the general
law concerning the compensation ofpub-
lie ministers) were negatived-Mr.
King, of N. Y. having expressed the Q.
pinion that they were unnecessary.
Mr.. Smith of S G. proposed to amend
the bill by adding thereto the following
proviso:
provided, nevertheless, that no mo.
ney shall be drawn from the Treasury.
for that purpose. until the President
shall be fully satisfied that such missions
will not interrupt the friendly relations
of the United States"
And the question being taken on the
amendment, it was decided In the mega
tive as follows:
YEAS Z
NAYS 20 -
Mr.. Eaton proposed to amend the bill
so that the President should not appoint
any minister but with the advice and
consent of the Senate.
Mr.. King ofN Y.said, such an amend
ment could not be necessary. because
the constitution ofthe United States was
sufficiently explicit upon the subject.
1t was only in appointments that become
vacant during the recess, that the Presi-s
dent was authorized to exercise the
right of appointing to Office. In origi.
nal appointments, where there had not
been an incumbent of the Office. such a
power under the constitution did not At.
tach to the Executive, and hence could
not be exercised. 1t was quite unne.
cessary, therefore, to provide, by any
statuary provision, for that which was
already sufficiently guarded by the con'
stitution.
Mr.. Eaton was aware that the views
of the gentleman were correct He had
no doubt but that the correct meaning
of the constitution was such as was sta
ted by MIR. K; but, however this fact
might be, it was not to be disguised, that
the President of the United States had,
by the course he had pursued on q for.
mer occasion, manifested a different un-
derstanding of the constitution. Mr..
Madison had nominated ministers to ne
gociate the treaty of Client, in the re
cess of the Senate: and these were not va
cancies, but original appointments. If
this had been acquiesced in by the So
nate, and such he understood had been
the case. it might be considered 40 au-
thor,ty for the Executive to adopt that
course again. Such . course he thought
unauthorized, and he wished, by the q.
deption of the amendment proposed to
say so. The Senate should retain the
powers that belonged to it; nor wa. lt
less material that it should judge ofthe
merits and qualifications of these VINO
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