Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-02-22


table.
The resolution Submitted yesterday
by Mr., Woodcock, calling for informa-
| ton relative to the Military Academy
at West Point, was taken up, Mr.. w
avowed friendly views in relation to that
institution, but thought it expedient for
its own benefit that enquiry should be
made into the manner in which it had
been conducted, and trusted thst the re
suit would put at rest those apprehen-
sions that some gentlemen seemed to en-
terrain on the subject.
Mr. Little suggested that most of the
information called for by the resolution
was already in the possession OF the
house. With the view of ahfordipg time
to the mover of the resolution to ex-
| anime into the subject, he proposed that
the resolution be laid on the table.
That motion was supported by the NOV
err. and Messrs. Smith, of Md Condict,
and Eustis, d opposed by Messrs. Can
non, Woodcock, Wright, and Nelson, of
Md. when the question was taken On the
motion and negatived.
Mr.. Condict moved to amend the re-
solution SO as to strike out the first part,
which makes the call upon the Secreta-
| ry of War and in lieu thereof to make
| 1t the duty ofthe committee on Military
Affairs to examine into the subject, and
the resolution, thus amended, was there
upon adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Taylor, it was
Resotred, That the committee on
ways & means be instructed to inquire
into the expediency providing by law
for the payment of Anthony Martin,
formerly mate of the schooner, Alethea,
the sum of two hundred 4 twenty seven
dollars and fifty cents, being the balance
awarded under the Eth article of the
treaty of 1894, between the U, States &
Great Britain, to the captain, mate, and
people of the said schooner, and now
remaining in the Treasury appropriated
to that object, upon such terms as are
Just and reasonable.
Mr.. Bassett laid the following resolu
tiou on the table.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be directed to lay before this
house statement of the duties paid,
and secured to be paid, at the custom
house at East River, from its establish
ment, with the number of vessels in that
district employed In foreign trade; also,
;he tonnage employed in the coasting
! trade, with like statement from the
custom house at York.
On motion of Mr.. Reid, it was
Resoived, That the committee on the
Post Office and Post Roads be instruct
ed to inquire into the expediency of SO
altering the mail route from Columbia,
in South Carolina, to Augusta, in Geor
gia, that the same may be of less dis
lance and more direct than it is at pre-
cent.
On motion of Mr.. J. Speed Smith, it
was
RsSotued, That the committee on the
| Post Office and Post Roads be instructed
to inquire into the expediency of estab
| fishing a post route from Manchester.
| by Perry Court House, to Patrick's
Salt w orks, III the state of kentucky.
On motion of Mr.. Scott, it was
ReSoiued, That the committee on the
Public Lands be instructed to inquire
into the expediency of making provision
by law for ascertaining the several
boundary lines of the state o: Missouri,
agreeably to the boundaries, as estab-
lished by the act, entitled IAN act to au-
thorize the people of the Missouri Ter
ritory to form constitution and state
government, and for the admission OF
such state into the Union on an equal
footing with the original states, and to
prohibit slavery in certain territories"
approved the 9th of March, 1920, by
causing the same to be actually survey
ed, and designated.
On motion of MIR. Walworth, it was
Resolved, That the committee on the
post Office and post roads be instructed
to inquire into tn. expediency ofrequir-
ing the Post Master General to state
the price last given on the same route In
all proposals hereafter published for
contracts for transporting the mail, aud
also to inquire what farther provisions
may be necessary to reduce the expense
oftransporting the mail of the U. States.
Mr. Cannon called for the considera-
ton Of the joint resolution submitted
by him on a former day, directing the
Secretary Of State to deliver to certain
claimants the title papers of lands in the
State of Mississippi: The resolution