Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-01-03
Eighteenth Congress.
TUESDAY, DEC. 80, 1893.
IN SENATE.

ency of establishing q Navy Yard 1t
Cbsrtleston. S. G. for the building and
repairing of sloops Of war and other
vessels OF en- inferior class, was adopted.
= The resolution offered by Mr.. King,
Of Ala. authorizing an inquiry into the
expediency Of granting a presumption
to one quarter section of land, to each
Of the counties Of Blob, Conecuh, Hen
~, Pike aud Covington, in the Alaba-
ma, tor tho location of their respective
scites of Justice, was taken up and a.
Depded on motion Of Mr.. hIng, by
striking out the weird "Conecuh," and
adopted.
IMPORTS AND TONNAGE.
The senate resumed the considera.
ton of the bill to revive and continue
in force certain acts relative to discri-
minating duties on Imports and Ton.
mage.
the bill in which Messrs. Macon. Smith
nolmes, Lloyd OF Mass. Brown, Bar
bour and Benton participated, when the
bill was ordered to third reading.
Mr.. Elliott offered the following re.
solution:
Rsso!psa, That tho President of the
United States be requested TO cause an
application to be made to the British
Government, through our Minister at
that Court, for a correct list of the
names OF such persons as may have
oeen paid, with the sums received by
| each, Tor lands held by them IN the Flo
rid.s, previous to the treaty OF 1888,
and of which they were deprived, on
the transfer of that Territory to Spain.
by virtue of the said Constitution.
The Senate Adjourned.
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
System or BANKRUPTCY.
Mr.. Webster, from the Comm'ttee
! on tho Judiciary, reported that it is not
ex oedient to establish general system
Of bankruptcy. -,
Mr., Webs.sr said, ! will ask the pa
tience of this House few moments t."
make few very brief remarks on this
reports large ma ori'y OF tho
committee think general bankrupt
system not expedient; but as | am one
Of those who have tho misfortune to
differ from the Committee, the report
Of tho Committee is made in such .
form, so that any gentleman may otter
an amend ment, 30 as to obtain The o.
pinion of the House On the possibility
of establishing some ssrJslp, l AAp say4e!
so as to give the House time to delibe-
rate both upon the negative and aAir1
native OF the question. ifthe House
think fit to proceed on this subject, 1t
Gao be done by motion, or which Is
most convenient, by a resolution or =
series Of resolutions, and theI etore,
shall move that this bill lie upon the
table.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr.. M'Lane, from the Committee OF
Ways and Means, reported unfavora-
bly, on the petition of Thomas Findlay,
which was concurred in by the House.
Mr.. Crowninshleld from the Conn
mittee on Naval Affairs, po.ted on
the petition Of Harriet Carter, request.
ing to be discharged from the further
consideration Of the petition, and that
a new reference Do given to the same,
which va. agreed to by the House.
MIR. Kent from the Committee on
| the District Of Columbia, reported an
act to refer certain powers to the Levy
Court of the county of Alexandra, ID.
c.. which was read first and second
time. committed and made the order of
the day Tor Tomorrow.
Mr.. Sloane from the Committee on
Elections, reported on the petition Of
Parmenio Adams, that lsaac Wilson 10
not entitled to his seat in this House,
The report and documents were COM
mittsd and made the order of the day
for tomorrow, and ordered to be print.
Cd.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Cook was takcu up, and agreed to.
On motion Of Mr.. Rich, it. was
Resolved, That the Com ittee on 10
dian Affairs be instructed to inquire In
to the prscticability and expedienct Of
adopting measures which shall moro ef-
fectually restrain either citizens Of the
United States, OF foreigners, from hunt.
ing or trapping on lands to which the
Indian title has not been extinguished,
and exclude foreigners from . patfici.
patton in the Indian trade.
MIR. Rich stated that his attention had :
been powerfully called to this subject
by the unfortunate events which had |
taken place in the west, during the last
summer. Our fellow .citizens had been
murdered, and lndians had been, in
their turn, sacrificed. 1t was to be no.
ned that the ATTACK on tha Indian ma xpss