Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-05-02
y HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

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| MIR. Alexander, OF Virginia, from the Commit
tee the District of Columbia, reported, with an
amendment, the bill from the Senate, /" TO exempt
Inc frofessere, T~t~-A, GsS~~ ards aud Students
| OF Colombian and Georgetown Colleges, from mill
tia duty
! The amendment TO the bill, reported by the com.
mittee, which extends the exemption from militia
duty to the students of all colleges and seminaries
in the District, was agreed TO by the House, and
the bill was then ordered TO its third reading to-
morrow ayes 50, noes so.
| CASE OF FRANCIS LARCHE.
| Pursuant 10 notice, Mir. Owen, Of AIab. asked
the House TO take up the resolution offered by him
on the 22d inst, which he modified 10 read as fol-
lows
'' RESOLVED, That the Committee of the whole
House to which is referred the bill ON the Senate
entitled An act for the relief of Francis Isrebe
be discharged from the further consideration of said
| bill, and the report OF the Committee of Claims
thereon; and that they be recommiued to the Com
inittee OF Cleims, with instructions to repurt the
bill with the evidence accompanying it,
| On this resolution conversation took place be
| tween hessrs. Owen, MaTtindale, McCov TAFT
nall, and Forsyth, and in which the PRINCIPLES NJ
the report were incidentally touched upon. Some
explanations passed between Messrs. Owen and
Tatnall, and the merits being about TO be anterod
upon by Mr.. Martndale, the conversation was
cut short by the Chair; and, the call for the oues
ton being loud and repeated, it was put upon the
recommtment olthe report, and carried
SURVIVING officers of the Revolution
The House resumed the consideration of the bill
Tor the relief OF the surviving officers Of the Revo
luton, with the amendments reported by the com
nittee fthe whole.
Mr.. Aston, of N Carolina, in order IN ,rv The
sense Of the House, moved to POSTPONE the con-
sideraion Of the bill and amendments indefinitely
and demanded that the question be taken nv yeas
and nays; which were ordered by the House
MIR. Webster concurred in the opinion, that de-
cison should now be had on the question, whether
the House intended TO reject the BILL He then Of
tered, at considerable length, his own views in its
behalf.
Mr. Powell expressed regret at the motion
made by Mt Aston, as not being caculatedsto
obtain fair expression of the sentiments of the
House.
Mr. Aston withdrew the motion; and M. Pow
ell then moved to lay the bill on the table for con-
sderaiion.
This motion was decided in the negative. aves
62, noes So.
The amendments proposed by the committee of
the whole were then taken up in order, and the
first six Of them were adopted
The clause Of the bill which requires that lie
benefits be confined to those who apply for them
within sir months from the date Of this act, was
changed 70 eighteen months.
Mr.. Mitchell, OF t., moved posiposement Of
the whole subject, and supported il by lone
speech Lost yeas 30, nays i24
The interest on the officers certificates yas
fixed to commence from the day other date
The question then came up on Mr. Reeds q
mendment modified yesterday:-.wben Mr.
Weems renewed bis motion 30 to modify the bill as
10 extend the provisions made for the officers
to the non-commissoned officers, Sc This motion
was rejected
On Mr.. Carson's motion, after the words
Bunker HIP in the Sd section, were inserted
and those who fought at the battles of Kings
Mountain, Guord, the Cowpsns, and E,atsu
Spring" land Mr.. Wards motion. g and
those who fought at Saratoga, and the taking of
Burgoyne, and Bennington and Lexington"
a motion Of Mr.. Barber, Of Conn. 10 add &C q,
Fort Griswod", gave rise to some discpssio, I,
the course Of which Mr.. Buchanan remarked Win
some severity on the idea Of distributing The linn.
itei ainount OF twelve hundred Thousand dollars
among al The officers, soldiers. mariners and ,,,