Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-02-08
CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY


In THE SENATE-The bill to authorize tho lie.
Rouge, and those claiming under him, to insti-
tute suit against the United States, and for
other purposes, was under discussion the whole
day The bill was reported by the Judiciary
Committee, and gave rise TO good deal Of de-
sultory debate, on the details Of the bill. in
which Messrs. Van Buren,, Randolph, Taze-
well, Johnston, Berrien, Holmes, Brown, and
Eaton partici pated. Mr.. Randolph opposed
it as novel in its principle, and one as extraor-
binary, as to pass a law establishing an order
Of Nobility, or an exclusive Church. If this
rat, said he, should burrcw through the dyke,
through the levees of the Mississippi, the
whole country would be inundated. 1t intro
duced principle not only unknown, but in
compatible with free Constitution, which
meant equal justice to all men, He was oppos-
ed to the mode of settling such large cases by
judicial tribunals.
In THE HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs.-M
John c. Weems, of Maryland, elected in the
place Of DR.. Kent, appeared, and was qualified
No reports were made that could be con-
sidered important, being wholly confined to
private affairs.
The resolution yesterday laid on the table by
Mr. Taaferro of Virginia, proposing certain
amendments to the Rules Of the House, was
read, and although the mover was ready, he
said, to give the House his views on the propIi-
ETY. of making the amendments, yet, as the re-
solution had not been printed, as was ordered,
he would permit it to remain on the table until
the members should be furnished with printed
copies.
Mr.. Owen, of Alabama, presented sundry re-
solutions, adopted by the legislature of his
State among them was one soliciting that the
Notifications heretofore commenced on Dau-
phin Island may be completed, and that an Ar
senal and Armory may be established on some
suitable point of the Tennessee river, within
the limits If that State; and another, soliciting
that the right to such part Of lands acquired
from the Creek Indians, by the treaty recently
concluded at the Indian Springs, as lies within
the State of Alabama, may be granted 10 that
State. The first was referred to the Committee
on Military Affairs, and the last to the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs.
Mr.: WickIiffe, Of Kentucky, said that the
great importance Of the Report yesterday made
by the Committee of Ways and Means, relative
to the state Of the Finances and the Public Debt,
induced him to move that 5000 copies he print
ed instead of 5000, as ordered; which motion
was sustained by the House
On motion of Mr. Newton, of Virginia, the
Committee OF Ways and Means were instruct
ed TO inquire into the expediency Of increasing
the salary Of the Post Master General
Mr. Livingston, Of Louisiana, called the at
tention of tine House TO resolution, submitted
by him some weeks ago, in relation to unclam-
ed dividends on the Public Stock. The reso-
luton, he said, had been referred to the Com
mttee Of Ways and Means, from the Chair
man of which, it was his object now to ask in
formation in regard 20 what had been done
with it; and he asked it publicly that the House
might hear it, being convinced that the ottener
the subject was introduced, the more clearly
would the importance Of the Development ask
ed for be seen. Mr. .McLane of Del. replied that