Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-01-10

cOmpanymS TINS day 3 bazeUe, Tor thc Sohi-
plete and triumphant yIndIcstlon OF MIR. CLAT,
sg slnst the base SANDERS industr,ously clreula
ted against him oy his personal and political
enemies. Ali that We ask Ut the reader Is,
that he give 1t an attentive peruszl.
II will be seen by synopsis Of the
proceedings of Congress that Mr. Mer-
Ger has reported a biil authorizing a
subscription to the stock of the Cnesa-
peake and Ohio Canai Compauy.-IhIs
bill, as reported, is here gwen
Be it enacted, Sc. Tnat the Secreta.
~ of the Treasury, be, and is hereby
authorized and directed to subscribe,
in the name, and Tor the use of the u.
States, for ten thousand shares OF the
capital stock OF the Chesapeake aud u
hlo Canal Company, and to pay for the
same at such times, and in such pro-
portions, as shall be- required of the
stockholders, generally, by the rules
and regulations of tue company, out OF
the dividends which may accrue to the
United States upon their Bank stock, 10
the Bank of the United States, Prov
ded, that not more than one fifth part
of the sum, so subscribed for the use of
the United States, shall be demanded in
any one year, after the organization of
the said Company and provided; more
over, that for the supply of water to
such other canals as the State of Mary
land or Virginia, or the Congress of the
United States may authorize to be con
structed, in connection with the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal, the section OF
the SAID Canal, as leading from the head
of the Little Falls of the Potomac River,
TO the proposed basin, next above
Georgetowu,in tue District of Columbia,
shall have the elevation abova the tide
OF the River, at the head of the SAID
Falls, and shall preserve throughout the
whole section afor. SAID, breadth, al
the surface of the water OF not less than
sixty feet, and depth, below the same
Of not less than five feet, with sulta
bile breadth at bottom.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.
That the said Secretary of the Treasury
shall vote Tor the President and Direct
ors of the said Company, according to
such number Of shares as the u States
may at any time hold in the stock there.
OF, and shall receive upon the sand stock,
the proportion OF the tolls which shall
from time to time be due TO the United
States for the shares aforesaid; anu
stall have, and enja,, in behalf of the
United States, every other right of the
stockholder in the SAID Company.
We gather from the National Jour.
nal some facts, in relation 10 the .eso
luton offered by the Committee OF
Manufactures Cd Monday last, and the
vote on that resolution Our readers
will remember that the resolution gave
to the committee the power ta bring in
dividuals from the most distant parts oil
the Union. to be examined on oath, and
thatit was adopted by a vote of lO2 to
S. PheniG GaS
The journal says, that the power
granted is an arbitrary power as it re-
fers to persons. and an inquisitorial pow.
eras itrefers to papers. ltenables the
COMMITTEE to open the iron chests OF the
manufactures, and drag forth their
most private Memoranda. Ii does, in
fact, what rendered the property tax
England odious, and threw into a MI
notity the ministry which attempted to
Continue it; throws open the items of
very mans incometo the inspection OF
the Committee on Manufactures.
The proposition for this power, we
are Informed, originated in Committee
with Mr.. Martin of s. c.. who was &C
knowledged by the Telegraph to be op
posed TO the Tariff That il is a meas
ure of hostility to the manufacturers, is,
therefore, fairly presunable from the
source in which it originated.
The Southern members who are
known to be decidedly against the Ia
FIJI, supported the resolutions; all the
Tennessee members, and, with one or
TWO exceptions, all the friends OF Jack
son present voted the same way.
Mr.. NaIary, chairman of the Com
m'ttee, and Mr.. Condit, botL of whom
voted for the bill of the last session,
went against the resolution, Mr.. Moore
and Mr.. Stevenson, both of whom voted
against the bill of the last session. and
all the jackson members from Pennsyl
wanna voted with Virginia, South Car.