Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-14
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FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL IA, 1926.

The House OF Representatives mas oTueieo
three thousand copies to be printed OF the IN
terestiug report Of the Board of Engineers, re-
iatiye to the proposed National Road from the
Ciy of Washington TO New Orleans--the same
report to which We yesterday adVerted' on a
motion TO print like number of copies oil the
accompanying Map, aDebate Of an hours dura-
ton, involving no more than question oil ECO
Monty, eventuated III laying The ProPositioh on
the table. The expenses Of Congress, Tor
one hour, is estimated, and we believe accurate
IL. at S6oo-while the cost of the printing IN
question was supposed to be about S375 This
may be Political Economy, worthy of Wigwam
Disouisition, but, verify, it is not that kind OF
plain common sense Economy that the people
can be made to comprehend.
We understand that motion will be made
in the House of Representatives, to day, to
postpone the private Orders-which, it will
be remembered, have precedence OF all others
on FRIDAYS and Saturdays-with view, II pos
sible, DISCRIMINATING the Panama Debate to-mor-
row night. MIR. Webster of Massachusetts,,
will address the Committee this morning.
CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.
IN THE SEN.TE-Mr. John Randolph, agree.
ably to the notice he gave yesterday, submitted
a motion 20 restore TO the Senate the appoint
rnent of its Standing Committees, and to the
Secretary Of the Senate, the correction add re-
vision of the Journal Mr. commenced with
remarking, that nothing but an imperious sense
Of duty. led him to impose the burden on him
self, and that it had lain on his mind an onerons
load dav after day and night after night. II
was in consequence Of fact, as notorious as l,
was disgusting, that the Vice Presidency had
bsen converted into mere sinecure, and that
the President pro tempore had been compelled
10 discharge the whole of the duties, while the
incumbent had received the salary-And II was
the confidence Of the Senate IN the late Mf.
Gaillard, both as member and as presiding
officer. that induced this body 70 vest In him the
appointment Of Committees, and the supervl-
sion Of the Journal In relation to the Journal,
MIR. R, stated il was owing to the incomprien-
CIV of the late Secretary Of the Senate, from
whatever cause it proceeded, that the change
was made, and having President pro 'enlpore
who discharged his duties, motion was made
10 change the rule, which prevailed Mr.. H.
then went into the history ola resolution, which
he had offered, in secret session, which had not
been allowed to remain on the Journal, and
which. when the Executive Journal was pub
lished, not being in 1t, gave him as much PAIN,
as any one event in the course OF his political
life. This resolution was subsequently entered
on the Journal, by the unanimous consent Of the
Senate.
Mr.. r. then proceeded in his usual style 10
al md
who did not act with him He declared that
he had never been taken into the service oil any
ofthe nresent parties-,hat there were not four
men in the Senate who thought sufficiently a
like to carry on any system Of opposition to the
administration-and since every ooay haa
.b.,rd of the violence Of the opposition, ne
would say, that since the days Oh John tne Dap
list. the Kingdom of Heaven suhereth violence
and the violent take it by force. He gave va
rious interpretations of his text, and as, said he
no lukewarm men ever gained the kingdom OF
Heaven. so no lukewarm men turned out John
the Isl. and no lukewarm men will succeed IN
turning out John the I'd. He would not go
with the Vice President, unless he would make
clean work; though in relation to this gentleman
there were differences Of opinion, that placed
them as impassably from each other, as Dives
and Lazarus we're, by the vast gulph which lay
between them. He pronounced the admins
tra,ion incompetent and uufaithful; though, said
he, The time is gone By tOhsn Icouid speak harshy
of them; and went on to deny that he was either
insane, or wholly under the influence OF his
passious. The battle OF Waterloo had been
fought, and the people had lost II; and unless
they could shake off the chains oil servitude,
and arouse to the defence OF their rights, their
liberties were forever gone. In the course OF
his animadversions, the reporters did not es-
cane, much less the papers, which he affirmed
the administration had bought up, and had
pros,itu,ed TO base and servile support oil
their cause, =, -.
The Senate then resumed the consideration
of the Judiciary bill, Mr.. Woodoury,s mo'ion
10 recommit, to report such amendments as
will remove any existing grievance without an
increase of the Judges Of the Supreme court:
MIR Berrieu Of Georgia, delivered an ao'e
speech in favor Of the motion, and against the
bill, and was followed by Mr.. Holmes OF Name,
on the other side. Mr.. Findlay and Mr.. Kan
dolph made some remarks, but the Senate ao-
iourned without taking the question.
In THE House OF REpREsENTArIvEs-Nr'
Holcomb, Of New Jersey, presented memo
rial of the Managers of the Delaware and ka-
that the Sec RE-