Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-01
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SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL /, 1926.


+, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL !, 1926.
We learn that the Senate ofthe United States
have confirmed the appointment OF GEORGE
Hay, Esq. Of Virginia, TO be a Judge OF the Fe-
deral Court for the Eastern District OF that
State.
II was Yesterday conceded by all, that the
question. on the proposed amendments to the
Constitution, would be taken that evening; but
Mr.. Mc'Dufhe's speech has given a new turn to
the debate, and will probably procrastinate it
for another week. Such were his bold and
pointed charges of corruption against Mr..
Adams, Mr.. Clay, and several gentlemen Of the
House, that a reply to him seems to be deemed
ipdispensably necessary.
The reader is requested 10 correct an error
which escaped the proof reader, in the essay
published in yesterdays Gazette, signed "Her-
schel." In the third line of the second para
graph for "admiis," read "omitS."
CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.
The Senate was engaged on Executive bust
ness, the principal part Of the day.
In THE House. OF RsPREsENTATIvEs-Mr.
Powell from the Committee for the District OF
Columbia, to whom had been referred the me-
mortal of the Judges of the Orphans Courts
Of the said District, reported a bill concerning
the Orphans Courts in the said District; which
bill was twice read and committeeman MIR.
Alexander, from the same Committee, report
ed a bill for the relief OF Rehecca Blodget;
which was also twice read and committed.
Mr.. Cooke, from the Committee on Indian
Affairs, reported i bill for the establishment Of
A General Superiutcndency o. Indian Affairs,
in the Department of Var; which bill was
twice read and committed.
MIR. Wright, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, who were instructed OH the 4th inst.
10 inquire into The expectancy of changing the
time of holding the Courts in the Western
District of Virginia, reported a bill for that
purpose; which was twice read and committed.
MIR. Bartlett, Of New Hampshire, laid a rcso-
luton on the table, directing the Secretary OF
the Navy to communicate to the House any IN
formation which exists in that Department,
which may show whether taxes have been I'M
posed or paid on the Navy Yard near the city
of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Mercer, Of Virginia, laid a resolution on
the table, directing the Secretary OF the Trca-
sury 10 communicate to the House, such portion
Of the proceedings of the United States Com
missiouers in Florida, (appo;nied to SETTLE the
Claims OF Spanish sublects) rs relates to the
RIGHT OF certain persons, therein named, to the
cargoes of the slave vessels Constitution, Loui-
sa, and Mariana; and also to communicate the
amount Of the several sums OF money, (if ANY
paid to the said claimants respectively; also The
dates Of the payments, and the authority under
which they have been made.
Mr. Wilson, OF Ohio, presented sundry reso-
buttons, adopted by the General Assembly of
the State Of Ohio, in which the Senators and
Representatives in Congress from that STATE,
are requested 10 use their e~xertions to procure
the passage OF a law providing for the location
and construction Of q Road from Lower San
dusky, to the boundary line established by the
Treaty of GreenviIIe, according to the provision
Of the Treaty of Brownstown, which resolutions
were read and referred to the Committee on
Roads and Canals.
The Speaker laid before the House several
communications from he Treasury and Navy
Departments, viz:
l.. Report from the Secretary of the Navy
containing the information called for by the
House, on the 18th March, instant, in relation
to the utility aud necessity Of Docks in the
preservation and repair Of ships of war.
I'd. A letter from the Secretary of the Irea-
sury, transmitting an abstract of official emolu-
ments and expenditures, for the year 1925, Of
those officers of the customs who have rendered
the statements required of them by the law OF
March, 1893.
5 And a letter from the same Department,
transmitting the annual statements of the COM
merce and navigation of the United States.
The Resolutions proposing to amend the
Constitution Of the United STATES, in relation, to
the mode Of electing the President and Vice
President Of the United STATES, were then ia
ken up, in Committee of the Whole on the
state Of the Union, and Mr.. Mc'Dufie, address
sed the Committee, nearly four hours in sup
port ofhis propositions, an in reply to gentle
men who had opposed them. Mr.. Everett Of
Massachusetts said a few words in reply to an
allusion made to his Inconsistency by Mr..
McDufie, and MIR. Trimble moved that the
Committee rise; which was agreed TO, and
leave having been granted for the Committee
10 sit again, the House Adjourned
From the National hielFgencer.
THE U, STATES AND SOUTHERN REPUBLICS.
The following Message was received from