Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-01-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
December 6,

10y ia INC appointment VI otdioAlis, ooii
mittees
COMMITTEE of Eiecdons.--Mcssrs
Sloan, Edwards, of N C. Tucker, of S
{. Moore, of Va. Walworth, Rogers
Smith, ofKy.
Committee Of Eays and Means
Messrs. Smith, of Md. Tod, Pitcher
| Mitchell, of S. c. Jones, of Tenr
Thompson, Stevenson.
CiaimS.-Messrs. Williams, of n. C
Rich, M'Coy, Moore, of Pa. Edwards
of Conn. Metcalf, Li,cbheld.
Commerce.-Messrs. Newton, Tom
linson, Hill, Minor, Kirk land, Abbot
M'Dufiie.
Public Lands.-Messrs. Rankin
Scott, Hendricks, Cook, Stewart, Can
non, Sterling, OF N. Y.
Post Office and Post Roads.-Me
Francis Johnson, Hooks, Gross, Stod.
dard, Campbell, ON. Y. Batcman, Over
street.
District OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Kent,
Mercer, Neal, Matlack, Patterson, OF Pa
Rochester, Mallary.
Jndiciary.-Messrs. Sergeant, Plu-
mcr, of N. H. Dickinson, Nelson, of Va.
Burton, Sanders, Johnston, OF Lou.
Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.
-Messrs. Rhea, Little, Eddy, New, /
len, Of Tenn. VIM. Smith, Hubbard.
Public OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Mont
gomery, Dwight, Crafts, Gebhard, Gist,
Barber, of Ohio, Tatnall.
Private Land Ciaims.-- Messrs.
Campbell, Of Ohio, Conk ling, Moore, of
Alab. Whitman, Upham, Sterling, of
Conn. Crudup.
Nanutacturca.--- Messrs. Baldwin,
Conner, Woodson, Nelson, OF Md. Dur
fee, Floyd, Condict.
.4gricuhure-Me Butler, Bay
lies, Garnet, Buchanan, M'Niel, Vance,
Blair.
Refusal and unfinished 6usiaess.-
Messrs. Lathrop, Burrows, Ross.
.1ccounts-Messrs. Allen, of Mass.
Swan, Rugg!es.
Expenditures in the DEPARTMENT Of
State.-Mcssrs. Wood, Alexander, Bar
Der, of Conn. e
Expenditures in the Treasury De-
observation-disclosures. Tracy, Reyes, Hoi-
comb.
Erhenditures in the DEPARTMENT IF
War.-Messrs. Tucker, Of Va. Chan :
bers, Lincoln.
Erhenditures in the Nary Dehart-
Edwards, OF Pa. Patter-
son of N. Y White.
Expenditures in the Post Office
Mcssrs. Denison, Woodcock, Sawyer.
Expenditures on the Public Build
ings.--Messrs. Nelson, oil Mass. Pier
son, Lefwich.
Mr.. Hood presented the petition of
Cadwallader d. Golden, contesting the
election of Peter Sharpe: and Mr..
fright like petition of Philip Reed,
contesting the election ofJeremiah Cau5-.
den. Referred to the Commute on EIeo-
tons.
Mr.. Campbell moved the following
resolution:
RESOLVED, That committee be APP
pointed to report bill providing for tie
apportionment Of Representatives among
the several states, according to the Ath
census.
Mr.. Cook, Of Illinois, presented the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the committee on the
Public Lands be instructed to inquire in
to the expediency of extending the pro-
visions of the LIST section of the act Of the
I'd of March last, entitled can act for
the relief of the purchasers of the public
lands prior to the first day of July, $780,"
to the 3oth Of September, 1922.
December z.
Mr.. Cook, of Illinois, submitted the
following resolution:
Resoived, That the committee on the
public lands be instructed to inquire
whether any, and, il any, what provision
is necessary to be made to enable the
people of the state of Illinois to open a
canal through the public land to connect
the waters of Lake Michigan with this
Illinois river.
Mr.. Floyd, of Va. opposed the resolu-
ton. He thought that Congress had al
ready sufficiently evinced its liberality to
the new states. On former occasion.
he had proposed resolution to apprp-
pirate portion of the public lands for
the endowment of colleges. That reso-
luton had received the decided OPPOSE
ton of the new states A constitutions
question was raised on the subject.
which, it it did not convince, at leasi
created so much doubt, in his own mind,
as to induce himto forbear to press it,
Nor could, he, in the present instance, as