Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-03-22


CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.
The SENATE was engaged the whole day in
the discussion of the Greek Treaty.
In The HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs.-Mr
Hamilton, of South Carolina, from the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, who had been in
structed by the House, to inquire into the ex-
pediency Of authorising, by law, the retroces-
sion, to the State of South Carolina, of the
lands formerly occupied by the United States,
as site for an arsenal at Mount Dearborn, in
tina, STATE, made report thereon, accompanied
by bill authorizing such retrocession; which
bill wa twice read and committed.
MIR Hamilton from the same Committee, to
whom the subject had been referred by a rcso
lu,ion of the House, reported bill authoris-
ing the Secretary of War to purchase site
for an arsenal at ST. Louis, in the State Of Mis-
souri,, and to provide for the erection OF an ar.
senal on the same; which bill was twice read
| and committed
Mr.. Varnum, from the Committee on Mill.
tary Pensions, VINO had been instructed to en-
quire into the expediencv of extending the pro-
visions of the &C, of the 18th of March, 1918, 10
the surviving officers and soldiers who served in
the expedition Of l775 against Quebec, made a
and were discharged from the further consider
alton Of the subject,
The resolution Yesterday laid on the table by
Mr.. Wright, Of Ohio, calling on the President
of the United States for Information concerning
the Navigation Of the Ohio River, was consi-
dered and agreed TO- And the resolution sub
mittrd yesterday by Mr. Hayden, OF New York,
in relation to the time of moving for an al ourn-
ment of the House, was read and again laid on
the table.
The Speaker laid before the House letter
from the Secretary of the Navy, accompanied
bv printed volume containing the proceed
ings of the late Court of Enquiry and Court
Martial, in the case of Commodore David Por-
ter; and also copies Of sundry papers, embrac,
ing information called for by the House in De-
cember last.
On motion of Mr.. Buchanan, of Pennsylva-
MIA, the Secretary of the Navy was directed to
furnish the Speaker and each member OF the
House with copy Of the Trial of Commodore
Porter, which was published under the autho-
ri,y of the Navy Department
A message was received from the Senate by
Mr.. Lowrie, their Secretary, notifying the
House that the Senate had passed the bill en-
titled can Act making Appropriations for the
Military Service of the United States for the
year 1926
The House proceeded to consider the joint
resolution submitted some days since by Mr.
Ward Of New-York, fixing day for the ad-
iournment of the present session of Congress
when, a motion was made by Mr.. Dwight OF
Mass. to fill the blank in the said resolution
with the words "6rst Monday in May" so as
that the present session Of Congress be closed
on that day. Mr.. Edwards of North Carolina,
moved to fill the blank with the "second Of
May and MIR. Hemphill of Pennsylvania,
moved to fill it with the "l5th day Of May -
Upon these propositions wide debate took
place, which was finally arrested by laying the
resolution on the table. A motion was then
made by MIR. M'Lane of Delaware, that the Sc
lect Committee to whom similar proposition
had been referred, be discharged fiom the fur
Their consideration oft, with view OF bringing
the question again before the House-and after
some discussion the subjec: was postponed 10
Monday the 27th inst. Mr.. Wright then sub
mitted the following resolution
Resolved, That committee be appointed on
the part Of this House, to join such committee
as may be appointed by the Senate, to examine
and report what business ought 10 be acted up
on at the present session-and also, at what