The Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1822-1822, 1822-04-11
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday, april 6.
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Mr.. Cooke laid on the table the follow
ing resolutions:
Resolved, That the Secretary of State
be directed TO furnish this house with a
statement of the amount of money paid as
salaries, outfits, and contingent exren-
ses, TO foreign ministers, since the year
eighteen hundred. and the amount paid to
each. Also, the court at which they
were employed, and the time they were
respectively engaged 10 the discharge of
their duties as ministers from the United
States.
The Speaker laid before the house a
communication from the Department OF
State, on the subject matter of a resolution
OF this House, relative to the recording
and delivering up, of the evidence OF
claims to lands in the state Of Mississippi,
sc. which was ordered to be laid 'on the
table.
APPROPRIATIONS.
The house then resolved itself into a
committee OF the whole on the unfinished
business OF Yesterday, (the general appro-
pr,ation bill y Mr.. TonIinson in the chair.
The clause to provide for repairing the
Cumberland road being under considera-
ton:
Mr.. Condict moved to strike out the
clause. He said the United States had al
ready expended enormous sums in the
construction of this road. and he could not
consent to impose upon his constituents
any further expense in repairing it.
This motion gave rise TO considera bic
debate, when the question thereon was Ia
ken and carried;
YEAS 70
NOES az
Mr.. Condict then moved 10 strike out
the clause providing for the erection of a
wooden bridge ever the .Monongahela RI
YER, where the Cumberland read crosses
the same at Brownsville. The motion was
supported by Mr.. Minor, and opposed by
MIR. Stewart and Mr.. Jones, when the
question was taken thereon and carried
ayes 80, noes 80.
The bill having then been gone through
With, Mr.. Baldwin proposed 10 amend the
section, by adding thereto clause, the
purport of which was to have the year
commence and end in the month of April
annually instead of January, $50 far as re-
CARDS salaries, but not contingencies tor
the purpose of avoiding Inconvenience
that were row often and severely telt.
The question was taken on the motion and
Degatived--55 to So.
DIR. Tracy proposed an amendment of
the bill in relation 10 the compensation to
the messengers. When be first agltated
that subject, his object was not to reduce,
but to define their compensation.
The Chairman decided that the blank
having been filed by the committee, it was
not competent TO propose d'aerent sum,
unless that vote should be previously re-
considered. and that il was not competent
to move reconsideration oil that vote, be-
cause more than one day had elapsed since
the vote was taken. The decision was &C.
Quiesced in.
Mr.. Williams, OF N. c. then moved an
amendment, the pnrport OF which was TO
exclude and prohibit all allowance from
the contingent expenses of The War De.
partment being made to the Surgeon Gen.
eral for quarters or fuel.
This motion was supported by the mo.
yer and Mr.. Cooke, and opposed by Mr..
Fuller, Mr.. Dwight, Mr.. M'Dufie, Mr.. /,
Walworth, and Mr.. Smith. of Md. but be,
fore any decision was had definitely there
on, The Committee rose and reported pro
gress. and obtained leave osit again; and
The House adjourned.
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