Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-03-08
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
"WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2-6 O'clock.
The SPEAKER laid before the House,
a communication from the Secretary of
the Treasury, which was ordered to be
laid on the table and printed.
Mr.. Cooke moved the House to con-
slider the bill for the preservation and
civilization of the Indian tribes within
the United States. The motion was
negatived-
Mr.. TAYLOR offered the following re-
solution, which was adopted and sent
to the Senate:
Resokred, That the 18th joint rule be sus-
pended, so far as the same relates to bills and
resolutions which this day shall have passed
the two Houses Of Congress.
The object of this resolution was to
allow the Committee on Enrolled Bills,
to report at the opening Of the House
tomorrow, all bills which may have
passed both houses to-day; and to dis
pense with the usual form of sending
them all to the President on this night
MIR. M'LANE moved to discharge the
committee of the whole from the fur.
ther consideration of the bill to estab-
lish naval depot at Pensacola, in
order to bring it before the House
Ayes So; Noes 40.
The bill was then read, but there ap-
pearing to be an appropriation in it
Mr.. CALL, at the suggestion Of the
SpEAKER) moved to recommit the bill
to committee of the whole House
Ayes Sc; Noes A..
The bill was therefore re-committed.
Mr.. CALL then moved that the House
resolve itself into a committee of the
whole upon the bill, Mr.. ToMLINsoN in
the chair.
A long debate ensued upon this bill,
in which Messrs. CALL, WooD & TAT.
NALL supported, and Messrs. CLAY and
BARTLETT opposed it. On motion of
Mr.. WEBSTER twas amended by strik-
ing out cat or near Pensacola" so as
to leave it to the discretion of the Pre-
sident to select the most desirable site
in the Gulph of Mexico.
The committee then rose and report.
ID the bill as amended. The amend
ment was then concurred in and the
bill was ordered to be engrossed and
read third time.
A message from the Senate, commu.
the concurrence ofthat branch
in the joint resolution adopted in the
House, on motion Of Mr.. TAYLOR.
A bill for the establishment of ma
w yard and depot on the Coast of Flo
ida, in the Gulph Of Mexico, was read
third time and passed.
An act TO provide for arming the mi
itia of the District of Columbia, was
'eturned from the Senate with an a
by which the second sec
ion of the bill is stricken out. The a.
was concurred in.
And the House adjourned.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
Very little business was done to day,
excepting the signing Of bills, and re-
;eiving notices Of the presidents ap-
thereof.
Mr.. Forsyth laid upon the table the
GLOWING resolution:
"Resolued That, while this house anxiousIy
esires that the Slave Trade should be uni.
ersally denounced as piracy, and, As such,
hould be detected and punished under the
Nv OF nations: it considers, that it would be
ighly inexpedient to enter into engagements
nth any foreign power by which all the
Merchant vessels of the United States would
e exposed to the Inconvenience Of any re-
ulation of search, from which any merchant
essels of that foreign power would be ex-
mpted"
The resolution lies on the table.
Mr.. FORSYTH offered the following:
ResolUed, That the purchase of land from
ne Indians occupying it in the state of Geor
ia is peaoeabe extiIguishment of their Ii.
e and that purchase should be made, If it
an be effected on reasonable terms. although
lie residue of the tribes to which the said In
ians may be attached should not Join in the
ontract."
This resolution, also, was on motion of the
over, ordered to lie on the table.
On motion ofMr. MARkELEY, ofPa.
was
Resotred, That the thanks ofthis house be
'esented to the hon. Mr. Clay, for the able
lpartal and digni6ed manner in which nc
. presided over its deliberations, and per.
med the arduous and unpleasant du6eJ OF
e chair during the present session OF con-
ess.