Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-06-01
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
thursday, May 81.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, May 81.
The House met ct 8 o'clock.
Several Communications were re-
csiyed from the President of the Unit.
cd States, announcing his appreciation
and signature of bills passed by both
Houses.
Mr.. TAYLOR then rose, and said, that
il had yesterday been decided, that
three members OF the committee OF ID.
yes;igs,iou in the case of MIR. Ninian
Edwards should not be = quorum OF
that committee. He had understood
that one of the members of that com.
mi,tse had left the United States. and
that another Was gone home to his re-
sidence in Alabama. 1t was very desi.
rable that tho committee should be fill
Cd I'D and, with q view to that object,
he moved that two members be added
to the committee, to supply the place
of the two members absent.
Mr.. Webster said he rose partly to
second the motion of his honorable
friend, but moro particularly to express
his atonishment at paragraph. which
he had this moment seen ina Richmond
paper, of Tuesday, In communication
signed John Randolph, of Roanoke -
The paragraph is in these words: 1t
was ut nv instance, and not without
considerable resistance on the part of
majority of the committee that the Sc.
cretary had the opportunity given him,
TO file his answer to the accusation OF
MIR. Edwrds.' A regard to my own
character, sir, said MIR. w. aud to the
character of the committee with whom
] am associated, docs not allow me to
PASS over this Abatement, and l rise tor
the purpose Of saying, that the order IN
committee, for communicating the adj
dress to Mr.. Crawford. for the purpose
of giving him an opportunity OF answer-
ing il, was not made at the instance Of
Mr.. Randolph. and, further, that no
one of the committee made any oppo.
alton whatever to that motion. ihope
] am fully and distinctly understood; l
wish 10 be so; aud, again assert. that
no one of the committee intimatsd the
least opposition to the motion. Fortu.
uately, the original minutes OF the pro-
ceedipss of the committee are preserv-
ed, and the entry as it now stands, IN
the hand writing of one of the commit
tee, 10 as fellows:
APRIL 80. 1924.
Committee met--all present.
On motion OF Mr.. Taylor,
Ordered, That the Chairman trans-
nit to Mr.. Crawford copy of Mr. Ed
wards's memorial, and the accompany.
ing pa pers. together with copy Of the
resolution creating the committee, To
which MIR. Randolph proposed the fol-
lowing amendment: and inform him,
that the committee are proceeding In
the exa miuation, and that they are res.
dy to receive any communication which
he may think proper TO make, in refer.
euce to the same: which amendment
was cepted by Mr.. Taylor; and thus
amended, war unanimously adopted
Mr.. Little. Of Md thought that the
measure proposed by the gentleman from
New York, was not necessary. he
Thought tho present CON mi.tee entirely
competent to the business which had
been referred to them. and that 1t
would be best to leave them to settle
their own affairs. Ii must be very
disagressbie thing to remain confined
here after the session of the House was
closed. aud ne would not willingly i'm.
pose upon another that to which be
should be averse himself. He regret.
ted for his part, that this matter had
ever been brought before the House,
and that it had been referred to the
committee. giving it thus an impor-
lance which did not properly belong to
at.
MIR. Williams, of n. c. observing
that the House was very thin, thought
it best to defer the consideration of the
motion till fuller House should DO oh.
tanned: and with that view moved to lay
the resolution on the table.