Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-12-27

tisc, the ensuing season, for contracts FOR erect
ing the several works contemplated in the re-
solutions. Those works, MIR. l.. said, were of
pressing necessity. The navigation Of the
seas, o,e, and Within the vicinity of the Bahia
ma Banks. was exposed 10 very great danger.
and had, already suffered much from ship
wrecks. Not Ia incution The losses which had
thus occurred Ia ,essris in the merchant SER
ice, the United States had sun. red, in wrecks
"f her public armed vessels, ia these seas.
nurc than would nave sufiiced To cover thu
expense a.! the entire system ui measures pro-
passed ia these resolutions
The second resolution, he conceived In be
necessary fur making the Navigation of the Ba-
hama Channel. both ways, secure. Ships
were continually passing over The Bahama
Banks, where the water was shallow, and the
neiShborng land rery low IN consequences of
which, they were lnminsntly exposed 10
shpw rrck. The wrecks nn Abascn alone
would, he said, amount Ia an Immense sum-
a lst-hrnsc on that Island, al "r neav thu site
OF lac Hole in ia. WAN. would greatly, if not
entirely. remove the danger which now exist
ed, and rrnder ua, I.aiun safe. Bul, Gor the
ERECTION ot snch light house, previous n. gotta
ton would be nrcrssIry, in order to obtain the
ground on which To- buiid il. Or the success
at snch negotiation, there could he no doubt.
| The British Government had no interest hos
| Iii- 10 such measure; hut, on the contrary
they Syrr, Interested in It's favor, for the same
| reason with ourselves, although no, TO the
same extent. BESIDES the spnis on which
| light houses ware erected. there were others
which ought To he desiSuaied by 5uoys.
| The third resolution, MIR. L. SAID was in
tended 80 Obtain infolmati.n in respect 10 a
class Of i,lcls concerning the true jurisdiction
Of which hc confessed himself In bp ignorant [;
he meant 'nosr sroa rocky islands which are
sep rated from the Bahama Bank by deep
channels and therefore might possibly he con-
sidrrrd as not inciuded in the British irisdc-
ton, which confeSsedly extends over the Bank
| itself. II, ga investigation, il should appear
that these islris do belong 10 Great Britain,
| then they would be included in the range of
the second resolution, which relates 10 the
ce>sion of tin requisite territory for lghthous
es and brac0ns. Bat If, un the contrary, it
| hou,d be asceriancd tina, they are not Bri-
fish territory, then question would arise,
whether they were not liable to become ours
by rishtof occupancy. They would afford
tempiatlOnstO occupancy for no other purpose
! han that proposed IN the resolution They
contan, in general, no soil. heing little more
| than bare rocks washed hy the sea, vet are of
such Formation AZ To admit of the placing OF
buoys aud beacons upon them for the warning
and direction of the mariner, 81.
The question WAS then taken on the rrssu-
tions of Mr.. Livingston, and they were agreed
To, wiihou, opposition.
The resolution yesterday offered by Mr..
HeIrick, calling for detailed information res
pecting me extent of post routes, amount of
p"s'ages Gc. was cai!td up and adopted
The resolution submitted rday by Mr..
Brock, calling On the Secretary of the Trra-
sury for the amount of exports and imports TO
and from Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
from 1890 10 1892. With lIa duties on these
imports. WAS nrxi taken mp.
| Mr. Be ok. 10 explaining the object Of the
resolution now before the House, said that it
was obviously necessary, before we entered
into any measure. such as HAT proposed by a
resolution nov before The House respecting
Mission to GREECE, which might be deemed
| by the Turkish government measure at
| hostile character. that we should fully under
stand the amount of the trade, which we
| might, IN consequence of such hostility, bt
obliged TO relinquish, as wen as the probable
| amount of revenue To arise out of the trade
we may, in consequence, gain. With this
view, the resolution calls for distinct state
| menis of the amount and value of imports and
exports from and t. the countries now under
the control of The Turkish government. and
from those possessed by the Greeks in arms.
| MIR. Newton chairman of the Committee
on Commrrce) observed, that he WAS always
in favor of obanDg Information; hut, in the
| present case, If the gentleman who had moved
/ this resolution would turn TO The documents
already before his House, he uIild there find
all the information he seeks. Tile exports
and imports of'hf U. :. To every part of The
world are there distinctly stated. In The An
nual Reports of last year, the exports Of the
year ending September 1922, Ia Africa. are
1 4.
exports to lll373 dollars. 4 report of this
description ~ made every year; and that for
the present year will soon be- before the House.
Mr.. n thought therefore, thai, as the officers
of Government have So much 10 do already,
it was pity to burden them with labors of
supprerogaiion.
| Mr.. Bfeck replied. From The remarks of
the honorable gentleman, he was persuaded he
had been misunderstood. The object he
wished 10 get at Wa4 a statement of the com
rnerct nf this cnun'ry 10 Greece. to Smyrna,
aud 10 Egypt, separately. That ia Greece
| would b. included ia The tables relating 10 Eu-
rope, and that 10 Smyrna ia those of Asia so
thar the statement Of The gentleman respect.
ing our trade TO Africa did NOT reach the case
h. aimed NJ. Besides, II would b. a matter
of much labor TO pick oui of the general state
rputs from the Treasury the Information he
wanted. Ont gentleman would state il al one
amount and another al anuther but clerk in
the office could do all he wished to have done
in half an hour, and then the statement would
he clear and ineligible 10 all Then the
House would be abb. To- see, at glance. what
we must Iose bya quarrel with the Turks,
and what we are likely to gain by il, even
should the Greeks succeed in establishing
their Independence.
Sir. CambrelenG said he was not disposed,
any more than the gentleman, from Virginia,