Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-12-18
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

1ucSNoh nus put
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The Speaker laid befOse The House com
,nunicaton from the Department Of the
Treasury, ACCOMPANIED by report from the
First Comptroller Of the Treasury, with en-
closures on the subject of the collection Ut
tonnage duties on Canal boats.
Mr.. Sturrs moved that these papers be
referred to the Committee on Commerce, with
the following instructions, viz.
That the communication aud accnmpanys
ing papers be referred tn the Committee an
Commerce with Instructions To inquire into
the expectancy Of sO amending the acts OF
Congress regulating the commerce Of the
United States, and imposing duties on tonnage,
that they shall not be construed To extend 10
boats employed Exclusively in transportation
on the interior canals Of the respective states"
The motion Of Mr. StoIrs was agreed 10.
| WAsHINaroS, December II will he re-
collected that, at the last Session of Congress,
loan of Five Millions of Dollars, at AN io
lerest of -four and half per cent. WAS au-
,horzed to be raised. to be applied 10 the
payment of the six per cent. stock OF the
year 1879. This loan was yesterday taken
| by the Bank of the United States, at par
| by this operation, clear saving to the United
| States Is effected of $4,000 dollars year.
Nat Int.
| On the preceding page, the reader will find
further selection from the Documents which
| accompanied the Presidents Message Thes.
with the rest Of the series, relating tu the War
Department, afford very gratifying view oi
| the administration of the concein rs If that De-
| partment of the Government. The acts of
Congress for enforcing the accountability OF
public officers, which have sometimes been
termed "radica" measures, seem TO have had
a radical effect, as beneficial as decisive, which
| has b, EN- aided, no dOubt, by the efficiency
with which their provisions have carried been
into execution by the Secretary OF War.
| There are some paI ticulars disclosed, in the
Documents which we have not published al
large, which may be interesting IT, our readers
such rs the following
| The whole number uf men enlisted to re-
crut the army, for the year ending S0ih
September, 1928, was 1858.
The aggregate strength of our little army,
by the latest return, was 8, 779. The aggregate
permitted by law, if the ranks were full, is but
I6I33.
The Quartermaster General and Commits
sary Generals Departments appear to have
been admirably managed, and, as to the Pay
masters Department the head of it says, in
his report, that he is confident, that the whole
of the troops now paid to the first
III September, and a considerable portion
| To the first OF November, and that the Pay
masters will render vouchers before the close
Of the year, which fully account for all sums
| advanced 10 them within the three first
| quarters.
The annual expense of medical stores for
the army, appears by the Surgeon Generals
| Report,ha not been more than 81 81 per man.
The deaths in The army in the two first
quarters of the year We're but So, and l3 of
| them Were from cunSumOtIun.
The expense of the National Armory, in
] Springfield, Ms. for the year 1898, was lS6,824
| dollars that of the ArInory at Harper's
Ferry, Vir. WAS i94,368 dollars.
| lD the year 1898, fifteen thousand stand of
arms were distributed amongst the militia Of
the several states and Territories, under the
act of 1908, for arming and equipping the
whole body of the militia"
| The number of Revolutionary Pensioners
is 1904, that of Invalid Pensioners, 3,7se,
and that of halfpay in lieu of bounty land,
cog. OF the first class there died, in the three
first quarters of 1894, AL of the second class,
| I3; ut the Sd class, none. The annual amount
oI Pensions to the first is 8 1887 SIG, to the
| second S293,000, 10 the third, S9S76
The numbers of Military Bounty Land
Warrants issued, up to the 22d Of November,
1924, IS 26,76l, covering 475, 632 acres Of
| land. fU.
|
New York, for thousand dollars u side, be-
| tween the boat of British frigate and boat
belonging TO White Hall, lin tile city of New
York; Us an interesting occurrence, from the
honorable manner in which it was conducted
on both sides, aud the reciprocation of
cOurleses To which it has given rise We are
glad TO see the spirit with which the winners
have invited the whole crew Of the frigate
Hussar TO an entertainment, and also the
liberal feeling which has recommended the |
public dinner that is about to be given 10 her
commander, Capt. Harris. He has probably
done more, by his frank and generous de-
portment this occasion, to produce a
cordial feeling towards his nation than all the
commanders in her Navy, put together, that
have visited the waters of the United States for |
live aid twenty years past. lIb.
WAsHrSGroN, December I5.-John Gail |
lard has been reelected Senator of the |
United States from the State Of South Ca |
rolina, for six years from the third day of
| March next, when his present term Of service |
wal expire. Mr.. u. has been for some years
the Father of the SeDate--that is, the Mem |
Der who has been for the longest period. |
without interval, a member of that BODY. He
first entered il in january, 1905.
MIR. Newton IL is well known to most read |
eTs, is, and has been for three or four years. |
The Father Of the House of Representatives,
He il the only remaining Member who was |
a Member at the time of the passage of the |
celebrated Embargo Law.
There are several gentlemen in Congress
who were Members before Mr.. Newton was.
Of whom MIR. Senator King, of New York, is
the oldest, he having been Senator from
Massachusetts in the first Congress tI7e9 y
The next Oldest 10 him, probably, is Mr.. Sc