Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-02-11
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HOUSE W kEfREoEN AllvECs
Mr.. McLane; of Delaware, who had
been absent from the city for two or
three weeks, from indisposition, appear
cd again this day and resumed his seat.
MIR. Russell presented memorial
from sundry inhabitants Of the town Of
Mendon, in the state Of Massachusetts,
demonstrating against the passage Of q
bankrupt law; which was referred to
the committee of the whole.
Mr.. Mercer presented petition Of
the Mayor Of Georgetown, praying GER
tain amendments to the charter Of said
town.
Mr.. Newton, of Va from the commit.
tee of Commerce, reported bill for the
relief Of Isaac Collier and others, which
was twice read and committed.
Mr. Williams, of n. c. reported favo.
rably on the petition of III. b. Brevo ort;
which, on motion of Mr.. W. was laid on
the table.
Mr. Sterling, of N. Y. from the CON-
mittee on Public Lands, reported with
nate concerning the lands and salt
springs granted to the state of Missouri
for the purposes of education, and also
in like manner the bill to authorize the
commissioner of the General Land Of
fee to remit the instalments due on GER
tain lots in Shawneetown; which were
referred to the committee of the whole
house.
The house then took into considera.
tiun the resolution offered yesterday by
/ Mr.. Baldwin, calling for comparative
view of the expenses Of the army for q
series Of years, which was modified by
the mover, on suggestion Of Mr.. Floyd,
SO as to include within its scope the Mill
tary Academy also.
The house having proceeded to con-
slider the resolution moved by tlr. Cush-
man SO to amend the practice of the
house, as, in calling over the states for
the reception of petitions, to begin with
the state of Maine; and Mr.. c. having
modified it, so as to refer it to the con.-
mittee on the rules of the house.
A motion was made to lay it on the
table.
Mr.. Randolph asked, whether it would
De in order to move to amend the resslu-
ton, by striking out Maine, and insert.
ing Missouri [Tbe Speaker said it
would Mr.. r. said ne merely rose to
state. that, as the rule at present stands,
the states are called in chronological
order-the order oftheir admission into
the Union. That Of itself, said he, is
worth something. Every body must
know that that Maine is farther north
perhaps, sir, too far north for us-than
New Hampshire. All scool-boys know
this. five begin, l shall not be at all
surprized at proposition to insert some
other state before Maine. Straws shew
how tho wind blows. Inthe actual sig
natures to the Declaration of Indepen
dence, the members from the south
signed first, Why? because the good
old town of Boston, which Mr.. r. said
he way sorry to find, was about being
converted into city, had gotten into
scrape with the British Ministry, and
the south was to be conciliated-so the
oulhern members signed first Mr.. r.
said he hoped this resolution would be
laid on the table as moved.
Mr. Cushman said, he had no obiec-
ton to the resolutions lying on the ia.
BILE. If the alteration proposed by the
resolve would confer any particular dis
tinetion on Maine over any other state,
he should not have had the effrontery to
offer it. All shat he wished was. that
she should hold that relative station on
the list of states, which she does on the
map. She is the farthest, and, begin
ming north, as the list does, it appeared
to him that the extreme north state
should be called first.
Mr.. Randolph, Tin an under tone, bet
ter begin south, sir.
The resolve was ordered to lie on the
table.
Mr.. Cushman laid on the table the
following resolution:
Resolusd, That the committee on
roads and Canals be instructed to in
quire int the expediency of opening or
completing and maintaining military
post road from some point on the Ken
nebec river, in Somerset county, to the
high lands in Maine, on the line which
separates Lower Canada from the U.
States.
On melton Of Mr.. Fuller, it was
Resolsed, That the committee On Ma.