Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-26

be requested TO TO he laid before this house
sta' ment. showing the au,oun of woollcns purchns-
cd Tor the use oil tic a'uy during the years 1920 an
1871 of whom the purchases were made mt what
prices and what proportion thereof WAS OF Ameri-
can manufacture.
Mr.. Cook moved that the two communica-
tons from the Treasury Department, on the
subject ot the inspection of the western land
Offices, sc. be referred TO select committee.
MIR. REID aud Mr.. RANKIN opposed that
reference; when, the question being taken
thereon, 1t was carried in the affirmative.
The amendment from the Senate to the APP
porionmcnt bill, was read and referred to the
Committee ON the Judiciary.
The House then resolved itself into a com
miitec of the whole on the unfinished bust
ness of Tuesday, (;hc Bankrupt Billy Mr..
TAYLOR in the chair.
MIR. WooDsoN rose and addressed the house
IN speech OF nearly two hours opposed to
the motion to strike out the FIRST section of
the bill He was followed by
MIR. LowNDEs, in favor the motion, who
occupied the iloor until nearly s O'clock when
Mr.. NELSON, OF Va. moved that the com
m'ttec rise and report which was agreed to,
and the committee obtained leave to sit again
IN Tie Homse, the further orders of the day
were on motion, laid on the table and the
house took into consideration the bill making
appropriations for the military service of the
United States fol the year 1922.
Mr. Tracy remarked, that the rapid man
ner in which the bill had passed through the
committee must he his apology for not pre-
sentlnS, ut an earlier period, the objections
that now occurred To him on the final passace
OF the bill. He had remarked, on a former
occasion, that he was disposed TO thin. that
greater amounts would thereafter he called
Tor than were contemplated in the report of
the Secretary of the Treasury On IA curse
ny inspection of the documents that had been
so recently l;Id on our tables, there was. I'M
less tle short time allowed him bad led to
mistake, an essential difference between the
appropriations included in the bill on the la
Bile, when taken in connexion with tn. other
appropriations that must he inevitably called
Tor during the course of the session, and those
estimated in the report Of the Secretary of the
Treasury; and he went into detailed view
oil the subject to shpw the correctness OF his
position. and that the bill included sum great
cr, by 100000, than had been estimated TO
he necessary III the report Of the Secretary of
the Treasury
MIR. SMITH, of liarylnd, was somewhat
surprised that the gentleman from New York
should have found by intuition such very
correct and detailed inform iiion on the sub
lcci, and brought that utuitiye perception of
hgines and estimates together in manner.
and that too without time to examine them,
so perfectly calculated 10 defeat the bill. Mr.
>. explained the views of the committee AT
some length, anti observed that the Commit
tee oi Ways and Means were influenced in
making their report less by the estimates of
the Secretary uf the Treasury, than by the
existing laws Of this government, which re-
Cured d'stlnc; and definite appropriations to
the BILL
ur. TRACY reioincd, and said tha! the cs
innate OF The Treasury Department had re-
terence Ia the sam total of the expenditure
and OF course had nothing to DO with the I'M
expended balances which could not in his
view he with proprictv superadded 10 the a.
mount reported by the Secretary Of the Urea
sury.
Mr.. SMITH remarked th1t the difficulties of
the gentleman from Sew York would proha-
bly, vanish, by rejecting that the Secretary
oil Var was different from the Secretary of
tue Treasury; and he thought the gentleman
had unfortunately pleaded thcm, for that the
rcfulsliou oithc iurmer was in good degree
made through the latter.
Mr. BALDWIN Observed, that he had never
known bill like the present to have been
pressed throug' the house in the manner i'm
which this had been done. The estimates of
the Secretary were in the Ilands of the prin-
ter, and we are called on to pass bill to
which those estimates relate, and after the
passage OF which they will be entirely useless.
Ihr. b. went INTO a detailed view of the sub
lect to shew that this appropriation exceeded
the estimates by } or 600,0Oo dollars. Was
1t not then worth day or twos considera
hon and this, too, at Il time when there were
actual, not to say acknowledged, deficits ?
Mr.. IL. extended his remarks to considcra-
bic length, and concluded 6y calling for the
yeas and nays on the question of concurrence
which were ther"upun ordered.
Mr.. M'DCrFfE said il would be admitted.
that this was an ordinary appropriation for
the standing establishments of the country. |
tie thought, therefore, thr House might safely !
pass the bill, without being alarmed by the |
statements that had been made in respect TO
the reYenGe OF the country. The danger lnlt |
had bcen pouItrdyed, he thought, arose from
the peculiar circumstances aud train OF tho't |
aud feeling 10 which the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, Mr.. Baldwin, had been rlac-
I'd. He said il was but fair and correct, to
place some confidence in the reports of those
heads OF departnents to whom the project
was peculiarly conf,ied /; ard he was perfectly
satisfied, that there wonId he more tau two
millions found In the Treasury IT the close of
The year and to establish this opinion, he re-
ferred with particularly to the reports and
estimates already presented to the House by
he Treasury Department. He commended,
rom the docuncnts before the House, il was
evident that, instead of there being balance,
loating IN the ais, as the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (MT. Baldwin, had yesterday
described, 1T was actually IN the Treasury, or
occurred to entire and perfect satisraction.-
The difficulty he explained 10 BE tn blending
he revenues and Disbursements of different
years. The balances OF one year were to he
weighed ADD of set by the balances of the