Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-01-12
AattntraI ze9tslature.
Eighteenth Congress. Second Session.
IN SENATE.

The bill Tor The rellef OF the COlumbl-
an College, was reported, and read
second time. On the question to give il
third reading, a debate ensued. Those
opposed to the immediate passage Of the
bill (Which goes to the remission of a
debt of about $4,000 due by the Col
lege to the United States) wished for in
formation, whether the Institution was of
such national character. as would war
rent its endowment by Congress.
MONDAY, JAN. 8.
Mr.. Smith, from the Joint Committee
appointed to announce to General La
Fayette the passage of the act in his IA
7or, and to request his acceptance of the
provision made for him, reported the
following copy of an address to the Gen
era, and his reply:
From the Joint Committee to General
La Fayette.
General We are Committee of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
charged with the Office of informing you
of the passage of an act, copy of which
we now present. You will perceive
from this act, sir, that the two Houses Of
Congress, aware of the large pecuniary
as well as other sacrifices which your
long and arduous devotion to the cause
of freedom has cost you, have deemed it
their privilege to reimburse portion of
them, as having been incurred in part
on account of the United States The
.r----:rl~e chat nave marked your Char
actnr will not nn--~;t J-ou 10 oppose any
objection to the discharge of so much of
the national obligation to you as admits
OF it. We are directed to express to
you the confidence, as we'll as the re-
quest of the two Houses, that you will,
by an acqulescence with their wishes in
this respect, add another to the many
and signal proofs you have afforded Of
your esteem for people, whose esteem
for you can never cease until they have
ceased to prize the liberty they enjoy.
and emulate the virtues by which it was
acquired. We have only to subjoin an
expression of our gratitica ton in being
the organs of this communication, and of
the distinguished personal respect with
which we are,
Your obedient servants,
ROB eRo 7. H fs5S c0m on
D. BoULIGNY, The Senate.
WIN. S. ARCHER, } Committee
SWAN RENSSELAER,, of the
PHILIP S. MARKLEY, House Reps.
Washington, Jan, l, 1925.
GENERAL LA FAYETTE's REPLY.
WASHINGTON, JAN. /, 1923.
Gentlemen of the Committee of both
Houses Of Congress:
The immense and unexpected Gift.
which, in addition TO former and consid-
cradle bounties, it has pleased Congress
to confer upon me, calls for the warm
est acknowledgements Of an old American
soldier and adopted son of the United
States-two titles dearer to my heart
than all the treasures of the world.
However proud am of every sort of
obligation received from the people of
the U. S. aud their Representative in
Congress, the large extent of this bene-
faction might have created in my mind
feelings of hesitation, not inconsistent, |
hope, with those Of the most grateful
reverence. But the SO very kind reso-
luton of both Houses, delivered by you,
gentlemen, in terms OF equal kindness,
precludes all other sentiments but those
of the lively and profound gratitude of
which, in respectfully accepting the
.munihcent favor, | have the honour to
beg you will be the organ.
Permit me, also, gentlemen, to join a
tender of my afectionate pers onal
thanks to the expression of the highest
respect, with which | have the honour
10 be,
Your obedient servant,
LA FAYETTE.
TUESDAY, JAN. a.
The bill to abolish imprisonment for
debt was ordered to be engrossed and
read third time without division.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5.
The bill to abolish imprisonment for
debt, was taken mp for a third reading
and postponed TO Friday,