The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-03-11
HOUSE.
MCTILATED DOCUMENTS.

THUDsnAY, Feb. 81.
| Mr. CAMPBELL, from the select committee
appointed 70 enquire, who committee! TIE act Of
suppressinr certain passages of documents trans
mtted to the House, made a report, and re-
quested to be discharged from further inquiry.
4 Laid On the table. It appears that the ques-
ton, who made the pencil marks on the docu-
rlents marked A ; ? remains exactly as it did
/ before. Nobody, the great mischief-maker, did
| the deed. Some new facts were disclosed, but
nothing decisive.
| a bill TO place in the hands Of the Secretary
OF the Treasury the disposal of the public lots in
. Washington city, passed.
| The Florida Territorial Government bill pass
! ed.
The amendment of the Senate, which proposes
10 reduce all the Revolutionary Pensions 20 per
cent. was decided in the negatyc-Yeas 81.
Navs 102.
A bill respecting the establishment and dis
continuance Of Post Reads two bills on the
subject of Florida roads, and land titles and 4
bill to establish an additional Land Office in
Michigan, passed.
TREATY WITH SPAIN.
A bill to carry into effect the Spanish Treaty
of 1919, being engrossed, passed.
bill for the relief Of persons who paid duties
on goods imported into Castine, also passed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 90.
The Senate took up the Message from the
House of Representatives, announcing its disa-
rreement 10 the Sanate's amendment to the bill,
supplementary to the Eevolutionary pension law.
THE amendment disagreed to by tie House Of
representatives., was clause inserted BY the
Senate, to reduce all the Revolutionary pensions
90 per cent? Mr.. Noble, moved 10 postpone
the bill indefinitely, and after some debate, the
motion was lost--ayes 90, noes o. Mr.. Barbour
then moved that tie Senate rccode from It's
anne ndment, which motion was agreed to, by
yeas and nays--yeas %, nays II. About
O'Clock, the Senate adjourned
in the House OF Representatives, Mr.. Fuller
introduced the following resolution. Eesolred,
That the President Of the United States be re-
qucstcd to communicate TO tins House, as far rs
the public interest EiH permit, what measures
have been taken to remove or annul tile Illegal
and pretended blockade of the ports OF the Span
ISL Main; to obtain rcatituton Of vessels ii the
United States captured by prigateers fitted ont
in Porto Rico and other Spanish Islands under
pretcxt Of breach Of the SAID blockade and to
prevent such illegal and unwarran+able captures
hereafter"
SUPPRESSION OF TINE SLAVE TRADE.
MIR. Mercer, prefaced motion TO take up tine
following resolution, with some remarks on the
propTiety and necessity Of otectng the great and
important national objeet contemplated by the
adoption of this measure, &C Res0iUed. That
the President of the United States be requested
TO enter upon and TO prosecute, from time to
tEae, such negotiations with the several mari
time powers of Europe and America, as he may
deem expedicnt for the efFcctual abolition Of the
African Slave Trade. and its ultimate denuncia-
tion as piraet, under the law of nations, BY the
consent Of the civilized world Mr. MERGERS
motion of consideration was then taken, and de-
cided in the affirmative, ayes 63.
| The main question Ton agreeing TO the res
| oution as above stated was taken by yeas and
nays, and decided in the affirmative, 1911 TO 9.
| The bill from the Senate, TO authorize the es-
Enlistment a a national armory on the ives
tern waters was amended BY requiring an
| engineer, which Tie bill contemplates creating,
TO examine and report an eligible site for the
erection Of the srnory, to report to the Con-
! gress, instead Of 10 the President Of the United
States, as provided by the bill and the appro-
pration was reduced from 900 to 1000 dol
lars.