The Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1822-1822, 1822-05-07
After spending short time on Exc
cutive business.
The Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REFREsEN TATIvEs.

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! Mr.: F. Johnson, from the COMMITTEES
on Post Office and Post Roads. piesen-
ted communication from the Post Aas-
ter General, developing tho situAtion Q
the General Post Office; which was Or.
dered to lie on the table.
MIR. Tucker, Of Va. from the Com-
mittee on the Military Expenditures,
made report thereon.
The report, which shall be hereafter
published, concludes with the tollpNipg
resolutions: !.
ResolUed, That the standing rules of
this House shall be 30 amended "a that
the Committee on the Accounts 4 Pubs
lie Expenditures relative to the Waf, De-
partment, shall hereafter consist of 90,
ven members.
. Kesotued. That the Committee on the
Judiciary shall inquire into the expedi-
ency of enlarging the duties Of the Ate
torney General
The report was ordered to lie on the
table.
MIR. Kent, from the Committee on the
District Of Columbia, to whom was re-.
committed bill for altering the juriss
diction of Justices of the Peace in said
District, reported the sane with amend
ments made pursuant to the direction Of
the House, and the bill and amendments
were ordered to lie on the table.
Mr.. Barbour, Of Ohio, submitted the
following resolutions for consideration:
Resolued, That the Post Master &c.
neral be directed to report to this house
at the commencement of the next ses.
sion, q bill for the establishment of post
roads throughout tho United States;
which shall contain all the post. roads
now established, which may appear TO
him useful; and that he point out such
routes az he may omit in the bill, and
such alterations and new routes as he
may insert therein, together with his
reasons therefor. (.
RESOLVED, also, That the Post Master
General report bill for regulating the
Post Office Department, digesting the
existing acts on the subject, into one
view; and that he point out such alter
atoms az he shall have made in the exiss
ting acts, and his reasons therefor. :
The question Of consideration being
required. it was taken and detern ined
in the negative. 80 the House refused 70
consider the same.
Mr.. Gsrham moved for the printing
Of 1000 additional copies ofthe report Of
the Committee on the suppression Of
the Slave Trade, which it appears it is
not intended to call up for decision at the
present session. The melton was sop-
ported by the mover, and Mr. Tomlin.
son. on the ground Of the Importance Of
the subject, and the necessity for foil
examination of it during the recess. and
was opposed by Mr.. Cooke when the
question was put and carried--yeas ~.
Mr.. Coo Ike moved for the considers
ton of the resolution heretofore submit
ted by him for the appointment Of q
committee Of investigation to sit during
the recess of Congress but the Hsuse
refused to consider the same.
Mr.. Conkling presented for consider
atisn, the following joint resolution:
Rssoluedby tho Senate and House Of
Representatives ofths United States Of
america in Congress assembled, tUo
thirds Of both Houses cencurring, That
the following amendments to the consti-
tuition Of the United States be proposed
to the legislatures Of the several states,
which. when ratified by the legislatures
of three fourths Of the states, shall be
valid, to ell intents and purposes, a. part
of the constitution.
"That No increase Of the compsnsa-
ton Of members Of Congress shall take
effect during the continusnce Of the
Congress by which it shall have been
made. And no law shsllb be passed fx-
ing the pay Of members Of Congress ct
q greater sum than six dollars for each
davis attendance, and six dollars for e.
very twenty miles travel in coming to
and returning from the seat Of govern
ment."
In Offering this resolution. Mr.. Conk-
ling said, the House has now been for
several days engaged, how ffuitleisly en-
gagged he need not say. in eDdeavcring
to tx the amount of our compensation.
For his part, he had witnessed the pro-
c eedings efthe House with pain & more
tification: and his mind had been ire.
sistibly impelled to the conclusion that
this was an unfit subject for unresssais-
ed legislation. With a view, therefore.
if possible. to prevent thesrecurrence Of
such. he would not say aisgraceful. bus
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