The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-01-09
eTWe0tieSt, Congress.
FIRST SESSION.
MONDAY, Dec. 81.

SENATE. Mr.. Paris presented The memo
rial of snndry citizens of Washington county,
Maine in relation to the aggressions of the
authorities and citizens of New Brunswick.
The memorialsts claim the protection of the
government in the disputed territory. They
say they have long wished for such protection,
TO give them security n their settlements, and
redress their wrongs; but they have received
no protection redress. These border Jars,
they say, seem likely TO open vein of blood in
tins part of the country, if protection is af-
| torded. Ii has nearly come to this already.
The weapons of death have been presented with
threats 10 kill if lheir opponents did not sub
init. Mr. Paris also submitted a resolution
calling on the President of the United States
for information relative to any alledged aggres-
sion on the rights of the citizens of the United
States, by persons claiming authority under
the government of the Province of New Bruins
wick. Adjourned to Wednesday,
HOUSE. Mr.. Cambreleng, from the COM
mite on Commerce, reported on Monday, a
bill extending to tacO years the term within
which merchandise may be exported with ben
eft of drawback, and allowing the Secretary of
the Treasury further to extend the term in cas-
es where certificates shall be produced settinp
forth that the duties and all other charges have
been paid. The resolution authorizing the
Committee on Manufactures to send for peY-
sons and papers, was submitted by Mr. NAL
larry, in obedience to the directions of the ma
lority of the committee. The discussion was
long and animated. The resolution as amended
on motion of Mr. Oakley, reads as follows =
"That the Committee on Manufactures be
| empowered to send for. and to examine persons
on oath concerning the present condition of
our manufactures, and to report the minutes of
such examination to this House
The question upon the resolution, thus
amended, was decided as follows Yeas 1902
Nays g., all the New England Members pres
ent except three voting in the negative.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. g.
HOUSE. Several petitions were pre-
scented for higher protecting duties. from
Connecticut and Vermont, and against the
measure, from Virginia and South Carolina.
Several bills we're reported and committed.
Among these were bill to authorize
suhscrptionto the Stock of the Chesapeake
| and Ohio Canal, which authorizes an ap
preparation of one million of dollars to that
object "a bill for the preservation and re-
pair of the Cumberland Road. and bill
for the continuation of the Cumberland
Road "a bill to lay out and make a Ma
! tional road from the City of Washington
to the City of New Orleans.
The following resolution, offered some
days since by Mr.. Maxwell, was taken up
and read:
Resolved, That the Secretary of War
be directed to communicate to this House
the report of the Engineers employed to
examine and ascertain the practicability of
uniting, by a Canal, the waters of James
and the Great Kenhawa rivers"
Mr. FlOVd of Virpinia v;olon+1,, on,,o1
the resolution, and made a furious attack
upon the President, for EMPLOYING the En-
gineers of the United States in MAKING sny-
Vveys IN the ancient dominion. Mr.. r Of
tered an amendment to the resolution, cal
culated to defeat the object in view. Gen.
Mercer, of Virginia, replied TO his col
league. lie said, the remarks of Mr.. F. re-
fiected more on the House than on the Ex-
ecutlve and but for that he would not have
risen this time. The proceedings of the
I'Fresldent, right or wrong, were in conse-
quence OF a request made to him by thirty
or forty Representatives in the Congress be-
fore the last. The compact between the gov-
eminent of the United States and the State
OF Ohio, was the foundation of the Cumbey-
land Road; and there were three resoIu-
tons of the State of Virginia, all touching
this subject. Tine compact between the
government of the United States and the
State of Ohio, which led to her admission
into the Union, provides for one or more
connections between the Atlantic and the
waters of the West, line of which was the
projected canal between the James river
and the Great Kenhawa. In the year 1915
a resolution was almost unanimously. he he
heved he might say unanimously, adopted
by the Virginia Legislature, inviting the
government of the United States to Coon
crate IN the construction of rail way, or
other road, between these two rivers. The
next year a similar resolution passed the
Legislature.
| DR. Floyd, replied, and Gen. Mercer, &c.