Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-12


dietary, reported q bill further 20 amend the ju.
dicial system Of the United States. This is the
same bill that was discussed ssthe last session
II was twice read and committed.
i Mr.. McLane, Of Delaware, from The Com.
mittee of Ways and Means reported bill max.
ing appropriation for the support Of Govern
ment during the year 1927; which bilI~as COM
mit,ed to a Committee Of the Whole on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed.
| Mr. Powell, Of Virginia, from the Commit
tee on the District of Columbia, reported 4 sill
concerning free persons Of color In the county
Of Washington, in the District Of Columbia,
and for other pnrposes;-tWiee read and con-
United. The bill provides that whenever any
person shall be apFehended or oommitted in the
City Of Washington or Georgetown, or in the
County of Washington, asa runaway, should
it appear that said person ls entitled to free
dom, the expenses ofapprehension shall be paid
by the Corporations or County as the case may
be. The bill also provides for the repeal of all
existing laws, in force in the said county, whic
authorizes the authorities Of the County TO sell
free persons of color for prison fees and other
charges of apprehension. An interesting and
argumen,ative report accompanied the bill, con-
tending that the laws Of Virginia and Mary
land deeming all colored persons slaves, until
then shall have proved to the contrary, are in
dispensably necessary 10 the security Of propri-
etors Of slaves, and ought to continue in force
in the District Of Columbia.
Mr. Letcher, Of Kentucky, from the Com
mttee on the Judiciary, reported a bill 10 au-
thorise the President OF the United States TO
run and mark line dividing the Territory Of
Arkansas from the State Of Louisiana;-twice
| read and committed.
Mr.. Drayton, from the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, reported bill explanatory OF and
supplementary to an act, entitled ian act to re-
duce and fix the Military Establishment Of the
United Sta,es," passed the 9TH March, 1921;
which was twice read and committed. The
object Of this bill is to authorize the appoint
ment OF Colonel to the al Regiment of Ar
| tillery, which has not been done in consequence
Of the vagueness of the existing laws The va
cancy is required to be filled by an officer OF the
Corps who was in service on the I'd Of March,
| 1921, and such officer is 10 be entitled to the
same rank, pay and emoluments, as he would
have enjoyed had he been appoisted at the
time that he ought 10 have been. 80
Mr.. Taliaferro of Virginia, from the Com
miuee on Military Affairs, reported a bill con-
corning appointments in the Staff Of the Army;
twice read and committed. The bill provides
that all Military Staff appointments, which
| confer rank in the Army, shall be taken from
the linz Of the Army; and that all officers who
| may hereafter be appointed Adjutant General,
Inspector General, Paymaster' General, or
Ouarterlnaster General in the Army, shall sew.
orally, from and after their acceptance of such
appointment, cease 10 retain their rank in The
Army.
Mr. Forsyth, Of Georgia, withdrew the reso-
luton which he submitted some days before,
requesting the Presiden, Of the United States
10 lay btfore the House copy OF The Conven-
ton made between the United States and Grea,
Britain, relative TO the mixed commission now
sitting under the first article Of the treaty of
Client.
Mr.. Livingston of Louisiana again called up
his resolution, proposing 10 assist the suffering
Greeks, and demanded the ayes and noes on The
question of consideration. The demand was
sustained, and on the question Twill the House
consider the resolution" the vote was as fol-
lows
YE.s-Allen, Mass; Aston, Anderson, An
gel, Archer, Bailey, Baylies, Cambreleng, Da-
Wis, Fiudlay, Of Ohio; Forward, Garnsey, Cur
ley, Halle, Hayden, Holmes, Hugunin, Hum
phrey, johnson, Of N Y; Klddsr, Kittera, La
throp, Lawrence, Little, Livingston Locke,
Mallary, Markell, Markley, Marvin, Of N ";
Ma,tocks, Mexican. McManus, Mercer, Miller,
Of n. Y; John Mitchell, Mitchell Of Md I;
Moore, of Alab; Orr, Rose, Ross, Sands, Saun-
dcrs, Sawyer, Shannon, Sill, Stevenson of Pa;
Strong, Van Rensselaer,, Verplauck, Wales,
Webster, Weems-54.
NAYs--Adams, Of N. York; Adams, of Pa;
Alexander, Of Ten Allen, Of Ten, Armstrong;
Baldwin; Bartlett; Barbour, Of Va; Barringer;
Bassett; Beecher; Blair; Brown; Buchanan; Ca
~, Cassidy; Claiborne; Cooke; Condict; Con-
ner; Cook; Crump; Davenporg Deitz; Dorsey;
Dray,on; Eastman; Edwards, Of n. e.; Find
lay, of Pa; Forsyth; Garrison; Gosan; HamiI-
ton; Harris; Harvey; Haynes; Henry; Herrick;
Hines; Hobart; Hoffman; Hole ombe; Houston;
Ingham; Isacks; Johnson, Of Va; Krebs; Kre-
mer; Lecompte; Le,eher; Long; Marable; Mar
tindale; Mccoy; Mediation; Mckee; MeLane,
of Del; Mclean, of Ohio; McNeill; Merriwe-
,her; Merwin, Of Con; Metcalfe; Miner; Jas.
S. Mitchell; Mitchell, Of S. C.; Moore, Of Ky;
Newton; O'Brien; Owen; Pearce; Peter; Plu-
mer; Polk; Porter; Powell; Reed; Ripley; Riyes;
Scott, Sloane, Smith, S,evenson of Va; Stewart,
Swan, Tal,aferro, Taylor Of Va; Test, Thomp-
son Of Geo Thompson, Of Ohio; Tomlinson,
1,r.,y,n, Turks, nc N J.: Tucker of S. C.: