Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-01-07
Congress Of the United States
SEVENTEENTH CoNGRhss--ZD sEssIU
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1923.
The SENATE did not sit to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Fourteen petitions, all but the follow
ing of private character, were presented,
and referred 10 appropriate committees.
Mr. Stewart presented petition OF sun
dry inhabitants oi the state OF Pennsylva.
MIA, praying 70, the aid OF congress IN o.
pen'ng d water communication between
the rivers Potomac and ONO; which Pc
iilton was referred to the committee on
roads and canals.
Mr Rank 8, m the ,muit;ee on pub
lie lands, to whom the subject was reter.
red. reported bill extending The time Tor
ISSUING and locating military land warrants
to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary
army which bill was twice read ana
committed.
Mr.. K from The same committee, re-
ported bill reviving the filth sectionof an
act OF the Sd OF March, 1911, giving GER
t. n pre- mil q rights IN be State OF LOU
IsIana. which was twice read and CON-
mnted.
Mr. Cannon, OF Tennessee, also from
the committee on public ands, made an
uDtavorable report on the petition OF the
Western Missionary society, in the stale
OF OHIO, asking of Congress a grant OF
land, the better to enable them TO effect
the civilization Of the Indians within he
sphere OF their operations which re-
port was agreed 70 by The house.
The resolution laid on the table on
Tuesday calling tor certain information
respecting the Surgeons of the Navy, was
taken up; but. on motion of Mr.. Mitchell,
OF S. c. (who introduced H. it wss or
dered again to lie on the table, 10 await
some information he expected to receive
Oh the subject, before he wished the re-
solve acted upon.
On motion OF Mr.. Moore, of Alb. it was
RESOLVED, That the papers of General John
Coffee, accompanying the bill for his relief,
from the senate, last session referred to the
committee on publ. LANDS, be again referred TO
that committee.
Mr.. Woodson Of Ky. offered the follow
i"g resolution, which was laid on the table,
and ordered TO be printed:
ResOtUed, That it is expedient and proper
tnat the general government should interpose
in the accomplishment or at least render its
aid i'll promoting tie whole, or some portion of
WV 'oiio"S S'Sot opJSSto Vi "teiDal i'iiptONc.
ment: canal, or canals, through the 18th.
mus Of Barnstable that part of New Jersey
which eXtenGs from the Rariton to the Della
ware the Peninsula between the Delaware
and the Chesapeake, and the tract of country
which divides the Chesapeake from Alber-
marie sound. Also, a Canal from Lake Erie,
or its waters to the Ohio river. or some one of
its tributary streams, and around the falls OF O.
hio, together with artificial roads, from
three OF The great We tern rivers, the ALE
ghany, kenhawa, and Tennessee, TO the near.
est corresponding Atlantic rivers, the Susque
hannah, or Juniata. James river and either the
Santee or Savannah.
And thatthe committee on roads and canals
he instructed to report bill. or bills, in con-
fermity to the foreg ding resolution, embracing
the whole, or any portion of the specified OBJ.
Jects, as to them may seem most expedieut
Air. Rankin offered lie following seso.
luton, which, by the rules of the house,
lies. On the table one day of course
Resotred, That the Secretary of the treasu.
ry be directed to furnish this house with
statement OF the several amounts which have
arisen from the sales pubic lands within the
states OF OHIO, Indiana, Mississippi. Illinois,
Alabama, and Missouri, appropriated by law
for ''oPening roads and canals leading to said
states" and the amount which has been paid,
or IS due, to each Of said states, and appropria.
ted ey Jaw, Tor opening roads and canals "with.
IA the saine,''