Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-01-10

gsiaie on the subject
And the resolve was ordered 10 lie on tb.
table.
| On motion Of Mr.. Butler, it was
| Resoived, That the committee of Ways and
Means be instructed to consider the expe,lien-
cy of changing the duties on all kinds OF pa
per imported from AL valorem to specific du-
| ties.
| Dir. .Mefcd!G submitted for consideration
the following resolve, which lies ON the table
one day of course
| Resotred, That the President of the United
States be requested IN submit to the house
I any information which BIZ may, have of the
condition of the several Indian tribes within
the United States and the progress of the
measures hitherto devised and pursued for
their civilization
| On motion of Mr.. .4ier. .Smyih, it was
| Resotred, That the committee Ola Pensions
and Revolutionary Claims be instructed to
inquire into the expediency of increasing the
pension of William Fields, /, soldier who was
wounded in the war of the Revolution.
| The resolution yesterday offered by Mr.
Cook, calling for information respecting the
mode ofinspecting the land Offices, lately and
heretofore, was taken up aud agreed to.
| The resolution moved by Mr.. Eastman on
the Goth nit. for directing the committee on
Revolutionary PENSIONS to revise the Pension
Law of March rs, 1913, or of SO modifying it,
that, by lessenipS the quantum of bounty to
individuals, its provisions may be extended To
certain descriptions of Revolutionary soldiers
IN reduced and ncccsstous circums unccs,
though not absolutely dependent on public or
private charity" WAS, GA his motion, taken up
aud agreed TO.
| The house, on motion of Mr.. SMITH, of
Maryland, then agreed Ia take into considera-
ton the unfinished business OF yesterday
the bill for making partial appropriation for
the military service of 322, &c.)
| MIR. Tracy moved 10 reconsider the mo-
ton To determine the question of the apprD-
priation for the Indian Department by ayes
and noes-hc having voted in the affirmative
on that question.
The SPEAKER decided the motion to be out
of order, The number of % voting for the pri-
or motion) not constituting majority within
| the rule.
| Mr.. Tracy suggested that in the preceding
Congress it had decided in IA similar case
that Il majority for this purpose was a major
| lily pro hac Uice, which authorized ii rcconsid-
Grafton
The SPEAKER adhered TO his decision 10
which Mr.. Tracy yielded.
Mr.. RANDOLPH, moved To recommit the
| bill To committee OF the whole House, with
a view TO bring into nattirer discussion and
|
been asked for by the Sec,c cary of Var. Unrea-
sonable jealousy ofthc Execute, government,
he observed, often led TO the opposite extreme,
and To blind confidence in the governing pow
er. From this jealousy, and that confidence,
he protested himself 10 be equally free--and
he believed that this House, also, was. us
free from unreasonable jealousy, as any rep
reseniatiye body ought Ia he In fact, jcal-
ousy npubc life, was Ike that same green
eyed passion in the domestic circla. which poi
soped the source of all social happiness. Ii
was extraordinary but yet apparent, iiiat the
casc had occurred in which confidence had
lost ITS true character, and taken another
which he would not name IL this house. 1t
was remarkable as wei on tn o her side OF
the Atlantic as on this. that general suspicion
had gon" broad that tn. department which
empha ,c;,lly holds the purse-striags os the
nation, WAS more reulss than any other in
guarding the expenditures of is suboFdniate
agents and, ifit should BE- generally and uni
versay understood, that the body whose du-
ty if is TO guard the public treasury from waste
ful expenditure, hid abandoned their trast
to blind confidence in the dispensers of the
public patronage, they must immediately and
justly lose all the confidence of the commu-
nifty. He had heard yesterday, with aston
ishment, a proposition to surrender inquiry tn
II confidence in the integrity and ability of the
officer who had made the requisition. When
this house should BIZ disposed to become II
mere chamber, in which to register, not Prrsi-
dental, but Departmental DEGREES, it would
be unimportant whether the members OF this
house protested to representa- lividually 5000
freemen, or collectively the single borough OF
iOid Sarum. This proceeding, he said, was
to him unprecedented. He had been himself
once personally acquainted with the proceed
iDgs Of the committee of Ways and Means,
and he had himself brought ID many bills to
make partial appropriations -nD, hr said, not
J many of them /; for the business had been III
I those days so conducted as not to leave much
room for thrn,--but nc INT brought in such
bills and supported Them too, aud he would
IA gain support such bills when they were me-
cessary. He would give to the government
his confidence where confidence WAS uecess;t-
ry, and Inc would not give tito the government
nor to any Onc, further than that, hulesSs 10
his bosom friend. But diere was wide differ
ence, Mr.. II. said, between voting for aD od
vance for the service OF the current year, aud
voting for the same s,inI 10 cover Il deiicien
cy for the past year, under cover Of an ad
vance for The pcsent year, SJc. &c, He wish
ed this bill to be- r.eemmittcd, that the apprO-
pria;ion nigh; be- put on It's proper footing
4 Ste. Whilst | am up, said Mr.. X. will max,
one more remark That, by the best estimate
am able To make-aud that estimate r.d'
been fortified by what RVS fallen from Others
in the course of this deiIaie-these Indian
cost us, on the system of civilization and con
citation, rather more than if they were black
and our properly, aud working on our estate:
for our benefits. And this. Mr.. II. suggested
without reciprocity for though the mastc
be bound for the whole expense Of food ant
raiment for his servant, he is entitled To hi
services IN return. The United States, MI
z, IL. said, he thought, onght not TO he expectc
I wholly 10 clnthe and feed these neonle the