The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-03-04
HfoSpAY. Feb. q.

In the House OF Representatives, 1Ir. Fuller,
from the committee on Naval Affairs, made an
unfavorable report on certain resolutions of the
state of Alabama, requesting the passage of a
law, layinT tonnage duties in the ports Of Mobile
and Blakel which was read and ordered TO lie
on the table. Mr.. F. from the same committee,
reported I'LL to authorize tie purchase Of two
powde. magazines, and tine land connected there
with, nk2aAlc Navy Yard in Brooklyn, in New
York wliyh was read first and second time ;
and, after some conversation on the character
Of the bill, and the expediency of the measure,
between Mcssrs. Newton, Cooke, and Fuller, in
which Mr.. Cooke opposed the bill, twas ordered
to be engrossed, and read third time tomor-
row. On motion of Mr.. Thompson, the COM
mittee of the whole, to which is referred the re-
ports Of the Military Committee in the case of
the Georgia Militia Claim for military services
rendered during the years 1892, '93 ana '94, and
the bill from the Senate relative to this subject.
was discharged therefrom, and they were order
ed to lie on the table. Mr.. #. said, the passage
of the bill from the Senate on this subject being
Of considerable Importance to many individuals
in the state of Georgia, he felt hope that he
should be INDUCED, at some time this week, in
having it taken up.
OFFICE OF MEASURER.
The House Oh motion of Mr.. Newton, of Vir-
ginia, proceeded to the consideration Of the bill
to abolish the office Of Measurer in the several
ports of entry III the United States An anima-
ted debate arose on the principle of this BILL in
which those who defended the bill contended
that saving of twenty-five thousand dollars an
nually, would be effected to the government by
passing the bill, without any prejudice to the
revenue or to the pubic interest; while those
who opposed the bill, argued that saving might
accrue to the revenue by aboishing this office in
the smaller ports, but that it would be detrimen-
tai to the revenue and preindicial to the mer-
camille interest, if the abolition were to apply to
the larger ports of the IT, States. Two or three
motions were made, only with view, by the
movers, of obtaining further information on the
subject, to lay the bill on the table which mo-
tons were severaily negatiyed. An unsuccessful
attempt was made to introduce proViso, that
the provisions of this act shall not be extended
to the ports OF Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Cha riCston, and New Orleans. The
question Oh ordering the bill to be engrossed,
was finally decided in the affirmative, 90 to A..
COLLECTION BILL.
The bill entitled g an act supplementary to,
and 10 amend an act, entitled an act, 10 regulate
the collection Of iutes on imports and tonnage p
passed the Cd Of March, 1893, and for other pur-
poses, returned from the Senate with sundry
amendments, and subsequently reported upon
by the Committee Of Ways and Means, to whom
the I'LL and amendments were referred, was BY
unanimous consent, taken up, and the report of
the committee, recommending the agreement of
the House to some, and its disagreement to 9th
crs, was CONQUERED in, and The bill was then re-
turned 70 the Senate