Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-01-03

lie Lands
The bill from the House for making appropriation
Tor payment of the Revolutionary and other pen
sioners OF the United States; and the bill authorizing
the Legislature of the State OF Ohio to sell lands
heretofore appropriated for the of schools in that
State; were twice read and referred.
And then the Senate adjourned.
! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The following gentlemen were announced as hav
| ing been appointed Select Committee on the Ac-
counts and Claims OF the late President Monroe,
| viz.
! Messrs. Ingham, Saunders, +. johnson, Hayden,
Tomlinson, Sloane, and McDufie.
| ACCOUNTS OF MIR. MONROE.
HE resolution offered few days since by MIR.
Storrs, calling Tor statement of moneys paid to
The late President Monroe, being taken up
Mr. Storrs observed, that since the resolution
had been drawn, lie had had opportunity of look
ing at the documents submitted to the Select Com
miiiec raised the subject ON this claim at the last
session OF Congress, and he wished modify the
resolution by adding the word '' Disbursements
| TO be inserted before g emouments.''
The resolution having been thus modified
MIR. Forsyth, OF Georgia, said, as he presumed
that all which this resolution sought was nforma-
tion, and every knew that the salary of the late
President had been paid him as well as what was
its amount, he would suggest the mover hat so
mich OF the resolution called for this item of inior
nation should be stricken out, as it was wholly I'M
necessary and had the aspect of being inserted on
| ly with view to swell The amount OF public money
which the claimant had different times already re-
ceved from the Government
Mr.. S,orrs, said, that he had no disposition un-
reasonably to swell the of salaries received
by the claimant, TO enter into any debate the
resolution. 1t is well known that'he has received
his salary President for eight years past though
II can hardly be said TO be officially before the
House. There is, however, said MIR. S. one point
tpE,,
TO that fact, and our knowledge of it may perhaps
as well rest on the notoiiety of it The claimant
has proposed the justice OF allowing TO him item
oil interest on certain claims, which he states him
self TO have suffered to without adjustment from
motives ofdeicacy during his administration. Now it
may be worth inquiry at some future time If the SUBJ
ect should come before the House for the liquidation
othis charge of interest," whether such allow ance
would be equitable, while the claimant had during
the whole time, by his own consent, been in the
receipt OF very large salary, and thus voluntarily
created the dilemma which, in his opinion, has
produced the delay. He was not, however, anxious
to have official account of his salary as Presi-
dent. The objects Of the resolution would be at
tanned without it, and he consented to modify the
resolution except that salary from the call
Mr.. Mercer, of Va. felt it 10 be his duty to ex-
cept to the modification, ON the ground (if cor
recty understood his remarks, part of which were
wholly lost by our Reporter, from the difficulty O!
hearing,) that it would be desirable that the
accounts of the late President should go the pub
lie without any curtailment; both the debit and the
credit side being fully and fairly exhib ed: charging
HIM with his salary well as other public moneys
received, and cretliiing him by the amount Of the
claims he should substantiate Ii would then be
seen, that, if large had been paid this in
dvidua, equivalent services had, on the other hand
been rendered by him.
/ The resolution, as modified, was then agreed TO-
The resolution offered by Mr. Campbell, calling
for the amount OF desertions, Sc. in the army with
the amendment of Mr.. Peter, having been read-Mr
Campbell, (by consent of Mr.. Peer,) offered the
| following modification of his original notion:
Pesolped, That the Secretary of War be in
structed to communicate TO this House. what num-
Der Of soldiers deserted annually, during the three
last years, ending the 3Olh September, 1925;
how many were of the Artillery, and how many Of
! the Infantry service; also, from what posts and
garrsens, and at what period Of enlistment the
assertions took place. where born; their ages, and
avocations, at the time of enlistment what number
of soldiers have died, and where; whether deser-
tions frequently follow the commission of crime or
n1ic,ion OF punishment; what would be the proba-
bic effect Of Withholding from recruiting officers
| the premium usually allowed; we'll any other
information me may possess relating TO deserons.
| The resolution, thus modified, was agreed TO
i without opposition.
| On motion Of MIR. Mallary, OF VT. it was
fairs be directed to inquire into the expediency of
building Arsenal at Vergennes, Vermont, on the
site purchased by the United States for this pur-
pose.
On motion of Mr.. Wright, of Ohio, it was
l ResOlred, That the Committee on the PUBLIC
Lands be instructed to inquire into the propriety OF
authorizing those purchasers of public lands who
1 have aved themselves of the extended credit al
lowed by the act for their relief, passed the I'd of
March, 1921. or the acts supplemeniary thereto
| who have paid part of their purchase money, and,
by mistake other cause, suffered the time for
final payment to expire, without having completed
their purchase, to receive patents for the lands en-
tered by them, paying the balance due the
United States, with six per cent. interest thereon.
! LOSSES IN THE COLLECTION OF GUS
TOMS
The resolution offered by Mr.. Dwight, a few
DAYS ago, calling for a statement of losses in the
collection OF the customs, having been read
Mr.. Wurts offered Tire following modification
thereof, whch was accepted by the mover:
| Resolved, That the Secretary Of the Treasury
be directed 10 inform this House, whether any, and
what deviations from the instructions given by that
Department, or from the prescribed by law,
for securing and collecting the duties on imposls
and tsnnage, have recently taken place; and he
Their any, and what, extraordinary losses have BEEN
or are likely TO be, sustained by the Government,
| in consequence of such deviatons, from any
other cause stating particularly the circumstances
attending them, so far as they may have come TO
the knowledge OF the Department.
The question being on agreeing to the resolution,
~ modified
/ MIR. Forsyth said, that he presumed the resolu-
ton alluded 10 the late transaction at Philadelphia
The public rumor on that subject was, he thought,
sufficiently definite. IL stated that certain property
had been removed from the Custom House in that