Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-05-26

$ at the disagreeing with the Senate relative
b the Creek appropriation bill was then taken ar
discussed and agreed to. A motion was then mad
to reconsider the vote by which the resolution @
the Senate respecting the proongatio of the sess
on was rejected but the House refused to sustai
the motion. Various bills were then read thir
time and passed; and motion of Mr. Cook, Join
resolution suspending the rule which prohibits tn,
sending of bills TO the President for signature O,
the last day OF the session, was adopted, and sen
TO the Senate, which body refused to concur in thu
resolution. The House then took recess from .
TO o'clock.
The evening session commenced with call O.
the House, there not being quorum present al
half past O'Clock. As soon as quorum wa.
obtained, Mr.. Everett introduced joint resolution
I" prolong the session until Wednesday, but the
House refused TO consider il. In the course of the
evening, MIR. Henry made another attempt but no
question was taken on il. The House acted on the
various bills from the Senate, which were about 30
In number OF these about twenty were disposed Of
he greater part OF them being passed. About mid
night there being no quorum, call of the House
took place. which carried far as TO close the
| doors: after which, two or three members wee
brought in the custody ofthe Sergeant Aims, and
made their personal apologies The further proceed
| inss then dispensed with, and the House
! continued in session until o'clock YESTERDAY
morning. For the last three hours there was no
quorum, and the motions for adjournment and for
call OF the House were almost unintermitted du-
ring that time.
Amongs the most important of the private bills
which were acted on, was that for the relief of Mr.
| Monroe, late President of the United States His
claim tor arrears due him was about 81 600 As
| this was due Is or I6 years ago, the committee
which reported the bill added the interest 10 the
appropriation. This item of interest was stricken
| out motion of Mr.. w hittesey of Ohio, and the
| bill passed without il. The Senate amended the
bill, By inserting additional sum of about I4 900
nearly equivalent to the interest, making the ag-
gregate amount of appropriation somewhat more
than 29, 200. The House insisted on its own bill
and the Senate insisted the amendment, and
| ask ed conference. The House refused to recede
and granted conference The Committee OF con-
ference made a report stating the impractcabty
of coming to an arrangement. A motion was then
made to recede, and the House finally adopted the
larger sum adopted by the Senate.
One or two members, during the sitting yes,er-
day morning, expressed belief that is unconsti-
tu,ona, and at variance with the rules OF the House
| to leslslate on Sunday. The Speaker decided
that although not usual for the House to leg slate
on that day, it is fully competent for the House 10
do so.
| Mr. Mercer gave notice before the House ad-
journed, that he should this morning move for call
| of the House: and Mr.. Weems, of MARYLAND also
7
Journal, the names of all the members who have
drawn their full pay, and absented themselves with
out leave Of the House.
! During the Evening Session of Saturday, on
motion OF MIR. Everett, the rule prohibiting the
sending ofbs TO the President for signature on the
last day OF the session, suspended so as 10 al
low bills to be sent 10 him this days and the Senate
| concurred IN the resolution. Nat Int.
| WAsHINGToN, May 22.-We have given up
the paper, and the supplement which accompanies
1t, almost exclusively 10 the proceedings of Con-
sress on Saturday. AS il was the last day of the
Session on which, according to rule any bill could
pass either House, the Public will look with pecu-
liar interest to the Proceedings. The House Of
Representatives, will be perceived had the great
es' dlihculty in keeping quorum, on Saturday
night, and peremptorily refused, by its votes on
successive propositions, TO prolong the session be-
You'd Monday.
! The result is, in OUT opinion, much 10 be regret
ted. More than Sirty bills, which, having been
Inatured by the Committees of the House of Re-
presentatives, had passed that body and more than
forty bills, originated and passed by the Senate,
are thus irreirievably lost. We Cannot nov par,i-
cuiarize them, but must refer our readers to the
account of the Proceedings, which state, as accu-
rately as circumstances allow, every thing done on
| Saturday.
/ Both Houses sat till daylight on Sunday morn
ing; and very important but novel question is
now depending, whether a bill which had passed
both Houses is not defeated from the want of a
quorum 10 witness its signature by the Speaker Of
! the House OF Representatives That il was difficult
to keep quorum is not at all surprising, when the
length OF the session. the fatigue of the late long
siitngs OF the two Houses the heat of the weather
and the consequent exhaustion of the members
are considered. But we cannot think that the alb
sence oil quorum to witness the signature of bill
ought to defeat that BILL, if it has Individually pas
sed both Houses. There is, we acknowledge, some
difficulty, on the score of precedent, in deciding
the point either way. But the objection being
technical, although conformable to usage, ought,
Ut seems 10 US, TO give way 10 the oyerpowefing
| force OF equity of the case. Nat Int
| WAsHINGroN, May %. The First Session OF
the Nineteenth Congress terminated yesterday, and
the two houses adjourned in apparent harmony
| Already, four-fih- OF the members present on the
last day OF the sitting have left the city; and in
day or two, none will remain Our best wishes
attend them to their homes, with our hope, that
| in the pleasure of Tejoining their families and
friends, after so long absence, they may find
some consolation for the privations, fatigues and
vexations, ola six months Punishment from all that
! is socially dear 10 them. 70
| reference to the proceedings of Congress will
show our readers that the venerable republican
patriot, Nathaniel Macon, has been chosen Presi-
dent pro tenn. OF the Senate. This was not done
until the seventeenth balloting. The Secretary of
State and two other members of the Cabinet attend
( ed In person, and were open and undisguised in
their efforts to defeat this triumph of the RepubIi-
can Party, TO call forth the direct censure of the
pure and independent Senator from Virginia, (Mr.
Iazewell,) who spoke OF them in such terms as 10
rid the Senate Of their ill-judged interference.
The people at distance cannot realize the inn
! portance which is attached to Ibis defeat Mr.
Adams commenced his administration with strong