Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-01-15

act I'd du1cnQ the OIuluduCc anu dCt6 u
Congress for the government Of the ter
ritory Of Michigan, and for other pur-
poses" Mr.. BRowN, Of Ohio, made
an exposition Of the motives and merits
of the bill. After which,
The bill was ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading-and then
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Messrs. INaHAM, SAUNDERS, PoMsETT,
F. JOHNSON, HAYDEN, ToMLINsoN, and
SLOANE, were announced as having been
appointed, pursuant to the order Of yes
terday, to compose the Select Commit
tee to whom was referred the Message
of the President of the United States,
in relation to certain accounts OF his
with the Government.
The SPEAKER laid before the House
a communication from the Department
of War, transmitting copies of letters
from Joseph McMinn, late agent of In
dian Affairs in the Cherokee Nation,
together with copy of the plan pro-
posed by the direction of the Secretary
of War, for the extinguishment of the
Cherokee claim to lands occupied by
them in Georgia, Tennessee, and Ala
bama;
Also, a communication from the De-
partment of the Treasury, transmitting
statement exhibiting the amount Of
drawback on merchandise exported du-
ring the years 1921, 1922, and 1928,
compared with the amount of duties
which accrued on the same respectively.
And, from the same Department,
communication transmitting a state
ment Of the names Of the Clerks en-
ployed in the several offices of the Trea-
sury Department, during the year 1924,
and the compensation allowed to each.
The SPEAKER also laid before the
house Report of the Secretary of
War, on the petition of James Fayette,
which was laid on the table.
The SPEAKER also laid before the
House communication from the De-
partment of the Treasury, enclosing a
report from the Commissioner of the
General Land Office on the question
whether the number of Land Offices in
the United States may not be dimin-
ished by consolidating the Land Dis
tricts; which was referred to the COM
mite on Public Lands.
MIR. McLANE, from the committee of
Ways and Means, made report, &C
companied by bill "authorising the
Secretary of the Treasury to borrow
sum not exceeding twelve millions of
dollars, or to exchange a stock of four
and one-halfper cent. for certain stock
bearing an interest of six per cent"
which was twice read and committed.
On motion of MIR. Cooke, of Tenn. it
was
"Resokred, That the committee on so much
of THE Public Accounts and expenditures as re-
late to the Department of the Navy, be in
structed to inquire into the expenditure Of the
sum of one hundred and ninety-fve thousand
dollars, appropriated by the acts ofthe last ses-
sion of Congress, for the contingent expenses
of the year 1924, as enumerated and specified
in the said act, and also the the sum OF $500
for the contingent expenses OF the office OF
the Secretary of the Navy Department, and
$4,000 for contingent expenses generally; and
to report to this House whether the said sums
have been expended for the objects enumerat-
ed in, and arising in the manner prescribed by
the said act, and whether any part of the said
first mentioned sum has been expended on
any other objects than those enumerated in
said act.
Mr.. Cook, of Illinois, laid on the ia
BILE the following resolution:
"Resolred, That the President Of the United
States be requested to communicate to this
House statement, showing, as far as it may be
in his power
LIST, the number of persons that have been
convicted, since the adoption OF the COnsttu-
ton, of capital offences against the laws fthe
United States;
Cd, The number that have been executed;
Sd, The number that have been pardoned
by the President of the United States;
4th, find, also, statement of the number
that have been convicted of each particular Of
fence"
On motion of Mr.. ]. T. JOHNSON, it
was
Resolrea, That the committee on Military
Affairs be instructed to inquire into the pro-
priety of granting relief to John Mckinney,
late Deputy Commissary of purchases, so as
to release him from the sum of 81 ,595, advance
ed by him to William Blackburn, on con-
tract, in the year 1920; for supplying the army
with clothing.
On motion of Mr.. t. P. moore, it was
Re.olred, That the committee on Pensions
and Revolutionary Claims, be instructed to in
quire into the expediency of allowing Robert
Slaughter, of Kentucky, an officer Of the Sd
Virginia Regiment Of the Continental Line,
the amount of his five years full pay, which
the officers of the Continental .4rmy were al.
lowed by the act Of Congress the year 1888,
or the half pay for life for which it was commu-
ted by the acts OF l778.
TERRITORIAL LAND TAXES.
Mr.. Taylor of N. York, offered the
following:
RESOLVED, That the Committee on the Pub
lie Lands be instructed to inquire into the ex-