Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-02-07

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whether any person had been dir,c'ts :.
Is examine it. This was the info,mu
Ton which he desired by the frat r..a a'
luton, and which he presumed ays' ~.
would be DESTROYS t. h.va
complete the infor nation before ~ -
House. Upon the branches embr,s s's
by the other resolution, Mr.. C. said Nv
house had not the information which I
had been his object to obtain. F.a'
the report which had been made i - ~
peared there was gentleman now !"
this city, and who had been in thi, c;,a
since the commencement of the Ses.;o'
of Congress, who was employed 10 -
anime the land Offices, whose accom-.
had not been adjusted. If the Secret,,s.
of the Treasury had thought prone.
Mr.. C. said, it would have been y..,,
easy to have had that account adiu,t.j
and if he had thought proper, no douS,
he would have done it. Mr.. C W.
wished for that information; and h. +.
said, when that information came hs
fore the house, he believed he sbonM
not be considered, as some in and ous
of doors had affected to regard him. =.
pursuing personal course. When
said he, / see halfthe nation apitated hy
the appointment of Postmaster from
this floor; when l see public meeting.
of respectable persons reprobating i.
when see the leading newspapers Of
the country unite in condemnation Off
l cannot see any thing personal to III.
Secretary of the Treasury, or in itself
improper, in inquiring into the appoint
ment of Member of Congress, whilst
he was a public officer, to examine into
,he land Offices Let it be inquired into
said he, and let it be determined whs.h.
er it consists with propriety that thi,
course should be pursued, &c.
Mr.. Lowndes objected to the OH,
seology of one of the resolutions, asa,
suming for fact that Of which, il an.
peared to him. the house had no sffich)
knowledge. On this point some con.
versation took place been Mr. Lownd.,
and the mover, when, with the conssH |
of the mover,
The resolutions were ordered to lie
OR the table.
APPORTIONMENT BILL,
The House then resumed the consid.
GRAFTON of the bill for apportioning Rep.
resentatives according to the fourth Cen.
sus Tho question under consideration
at the time of adjournment oD Saturday
last, and now recurring, was on mo.
ton OF Mr. Condict to amend the motou
for recommitmsnt of the bill to seles.
committee. as that the committee b.
instructed $50 to medify its proyi,ion
as that each member hereafter eleets
to this House shall represent an squi
number of persons entitled to be repre-
sented, as nearly as may be practicabt
agreeably to the 4th census, and not d,
minish the present number of represes
tation from any one state"
After debate, Mr.. Trimble called ia
a division ofthe question, SO as to taksi
frs, on tbs clause ending with the Wort
census"
The question having been taken d
agreeing to the first member of ther
| struction, az above recited, by yeassM
nays, it was decidedin the negative,
vote Of l25 noes to 43 ayes.
Alr. Woodcock then moved to reea1
NIT the bill to select committee. wit
Instructions to insert instead Of 49N
the words 50, 900. This motion wasdtf
clared by the chair to be out Of ordsr.h
wing been once before voted upon 81
negatived by the House IL
MIR. Sanders moved to re-considera}
vote by which $4,000 was rejected;
the House refused to reconsider Q 4
same ayes Sc, noes 100 and odd.
Mr.. Ball then moved to insert S'lN
instead Of $4,000, in the proposed d
struction to the committee. =
The questionbeing taken On u
Balls motion, was negatived.
MIR. Walworth then proposed 10
mend the motion as follows-StrlEe@
all after tho words select committaD
insert consisting of one member ha
each State, with instructions to .'D
out the words forty thousand, to m''
fort -one thousa nd, or to insert some
Their ratio above 4l.00O."
This amendment was also negative
Mr.. Nelson moved to divide the 9"
ton SO a. to take the sense ofthe INV
first on the e1pediency Of rscomm''us
the bill.
Mr.. Tucker, of S. C.. having So"
that ratio of 40. 600 would deprive
Carolina of one member and lea" w.
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