Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-01-19
MIN ETEE.MT CONGRESS.
ffRsr SESSION.
MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1926.
IN SEN ATE

OF the number of Clerks employed in that Depart
men,. ami the amount OF salary paid to each.
The Vice President also communicated a SINH
lar statement from the Postmaster General.
Mr. Ellis submitted the following motion for con-
| 81 dera,ion
RESOLVED, That the Committee on Military Affairs
be instructed to inquire into the expediency OF re-
moving at the public expense, all distractions
thrown into the river Ibberville and Bayou Man
chac, during the last war, by order of the Com
harding General of the 7th Military District 30 as
10 open nsvisable commune ton between the ri
yer Mississippi, and the waters OF Lake Maurepas
, and Lake Pontchartrain.
| Alr. Hayne, from tile Committee OH Naval Az
flfs, made Tho following report.
=" The Committee Oh Naval AlfLirs, to whom
was referred letter from Captain David Porter, of
the United States, Navy, Z" requesting, au invesii-
CATION OF charges contained in communica lions
from Thomas Randall aud John Moun,ain;" and
TO whom was also referred letter from Thomas
Randall, the subject, together with
communication from the Secretary of the Navy,
| covering " the proceedings of the Court OF Inquiry
and Court Martial, III relation to Captain Porter
report:
"That they have had these several communca-
tons under consideration, and find nothing in the
character OF the transactions to which they relate,
that requires the interference OF this House.
g 1t appears that the case OF Captain Porter has
committee do not feel themselves warranted in
forming any opinion unfavorable to ;!eir decisions
or INDUCING any impression that their proceeding
require revision. The committee consider it due
alike TO the preservation OF proper discipline
and to the reputation OF our officers that appeals
should not be encouraged from the decisions OF the
military courts. Under this view of the subject,
and seeing satisfactory for interposng the
authority of the House in matters which have been
led nv he n
miltee ask leave to be discharged from the further
consideration OF the subject
The report was read.
Mr.. Hayne submitted the following motion for
considerations
Resoired, That the Secretary Of the Navy be
directed 10 communicate to this House the officers
employed under the act authorizing the nina
ton Of the harbor Of Charleston in South Carolina
and ST. Mary's in Georgia, for the purpose of as
certainins the expectancy OF establishing Navy
Yard at either OF those Places together with such
surveys or documents connected with the subject
as may be in his possession
The engrossed bill 10 .'prevent desertion in the
army and for other purposes was read third
t-e, passed, and sent 10 the other House for con-
currencc.
The Senate then proceeded, as in committee of
the whole, 10 consider the bill declaring the as
sent of Congress to an act of the State of Alaba-
ma" Laying tonnage duty vessels, for the
| Improvement of the river Mobile.I
| Tie bill was supported bys Messrs. King and
Smith, who explained the situation of the harbor
OF Mobile, the necessity of deepening the channel;
and commented on the benefits which W ould result
to the commerce of all parts Of the Union trading
TO Mobile, from the Improvement cont ernplateI by
the act OF the Stale Of Alabama. The bill was on
posed by Messrs. Lloyd, of Mass. and Holmes.
who expressed some doubts as to the right possessed
by the Stale OF Alabama to impose such duty; and
that cents per ton was too much The bill was
finally laid on the table, Mr.. King expressing his
intention OF calling il future day; and should
he be unable TO effect the object in this way to pro-
pose an appropriation from Congress for The i'm
provemen, OF the harbor of Mobile
The Senate then spent some time in the con,i-
Iteration OF Executive business; and then
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Upwards OF eighty petitions were presented
and referred this day
AIR. Hamilton from the Committee on Military
Affairs, delivered in the following report:
" The Committee Military Affairs TO whom
was referred such parts of the Message of the
President. as relates TO the Army, beg leave to
Report: That they have had under consideration
the communication from the Engineer Depa
meni, appended to Report of the Secretary of
the War Department, in which necessity for
with a reorganization OF the Corps of Topoera-
phical Engineers, is strongly exhibited
" Your Committee, believing that the exigencies
oil the public service very imperatiyey demand an
increase of the one Corps, and an increase and re-
organization of the other, early directed their own
attention, and invited that of the Department OF
War, 10 this subject.
g The result of their deliberations, with those
oil the Department, they have now the honor of
m he ann I'D
with the bill, they now report.
" 1t will be seen that in this bill, your Commit
tee have not provided for organization in the
Corps OF Engineers quite so extensive AZ the one
recommended by the Department; they, however,
believe that The provisions therein instituted will
meet all the immediate wants Of the service
Z" They deem it unnecessary to indulge at present
in any argument to shey the necessity of he passage
OF the accompany bill, as the whole view of this
subject is so fully and ably presented in the annex
ed letter OF the Secretary of War, to which they
earnestly and confidently REFER
The report was accompanied by a bill for The
gradual increase OF the Corps Of Engineers, for the
organization of the Corps of Typographical Enpi-
neers, and tor other purposes; which was twice
read aud committed.
Mr.. Burgess, from the Committee on Military
Pensions, to whom was referred so much of the
Presidents Message as relates to that subject. re-
ported bill :" to provide for certain persons eng.
ged in the land and naval service Of the United
States, in the Revolutionary war, and whose cases
are not proviaed for by any law now in force;'
which was twice read. and made the order of the
day for Monday, 30th January, instant.
NORTHWEST COAST.
Mr.. Baylies, from the Select Committee, on go
much Of the Presidents Message as relates TO the
subject, made report, accom- panied by bill 20 au-
thorize the establishment Of military pos, or posts.
in the Territory of the u S on the Pacific Ocean
and to provide for the exploration Of its coasts and
waters; which bill is in the following terms: