The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-02-20
TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
MoNDAY, Feb II.
FIRST SESSION.

MONDAY, Feb IL.
SENATE. The bill to compensate Susan
Decatur, and other was, passed, and sent to the
House for concurrence.
HOUSE. MIR. Hamilton, (Chairman of the
Military Committee) moved the following reso-
ResoiDed, That the report of the Committee
on Military Affairs, made to this House ON Ger
tain documents communicated by the Depart
Isent of War, touching the proceedings of
Court Martial which convened at Mobile on the
9Th December, 1914, and correspondence be-
tween the Secretary of War and Governor
Biount, respecting certain drafts of the Militia
of the State of Tennessee, be printed, l0iih sad
documents sokich hare been previously ordered
to be printed By this House. A debate arose,
which occupied the House till near o'clock
The turning points of the debate were, whether
the Report Of the Secretary of War, and docu-
ments, should accompany the Report, or should
be printed separately from it, las ordered to be
printed when first laid before the House -
whether they should be printed in the order in
which they had come from the War Department,
or In different order as arranged by the Com
mittee or whether they should hot be printed
twice, first in the one order, as forming part
of Executive communication, and then in the
order, as pertaining to the Report Of the Com
nittee on Military Affairs.
The question was then put upon the resalu-
ton of Mr.. Hamilton, and it was adopted by
ySus anu nays as ToIIoMs :-Tl cas- IuS-Nays 50.
TuEspAY, Feb, l2
SENATE. Several petitions were presented,
some of which, from Pennsylvania and Ohio,
were in favor of granting aid to the COLOMBIA
ton Society.
HOUSE. The bill from the Senate, entitled
an act TO compensate Susan Decatur and 9TH
crs, was read twice and committed.
Mr. Nlallary proposed as an amendment to
the bill in alteration of the several acts impos-
ing duties on imports to strike out the first Sec
ond, third, fourth, fifth. and sixth paragraphs,
and in their place insert paragraphs providing
that all wool unmanufactnred the actual value
of which, at the place whence imported, shall
exceed eight cents per pound, shall pay twenty
cents per pound, until June, 1899, after which
time, further duty of two and one-half cents
per pound per anhun, in addition until the
whole duty amounts to fifty cents That wool
len goods, the actual value of which, at the
place whence imported, shall not exceed City
cents the square yard, shall.be deemed to have
cost fifty cents the square yard: those which
exceed htty cents the square yard, and shall not
exceed two dollars and fifty cents the square
yard, shall be deemed 30 have cost two dollars
and fifty cents those which exceed two dollars
and fifty cents the square yard, and shall not
exceed four dollars the square yard, shall be
deemed to have cost four dollars those which
shall exceed four dollars the square yard, and
Z shall not exceed six dollars the square ward
shall be deemed to have cost six dollars. and
shall be charged with duty of forty per cent
on such valuation till June so, 1899. after which
duty of five per cent. per annum in addition
till it shall amount to fifty per cent Manufac-
lures of wool, the. actual value of which. at the
place whence imported, shall exceed six dollars
the square yard, shall be charged with the a.
mount of duty, and In the manner before pro
vided
WEDNESDAY, Feb Is.
sEN.4TE. The bill to regulate processes in
the Courts of the United States, admitted into
the Union since the 29th Sept 1889, after some
modification, was ol3ered to be engrossed for a
third reading.
HOUSE. Mr.. Stevenson. of Pam. gaxe-nn.
made that the House resolve itself into com
OF the whole on the State of the Union. with :
view to consider the bill reported by the Com.
mittee ON Manufactures, entitled A Bill in al
iteration of the several acts imposing duties On
Imports
THURSDAY, Feb II.
SE.T4TE. An amendment offered bv Mr.
Foot to the Rules of the Senate, giving the
Chair concurrent power with the Senate "a
call members to order, and subiecting his decis.
Ions to an appeal, was, after long debate
adopted
HOUSE. The bill making appropriations 70,
internal lmproVementswas taken up Mr. Mar.
I'm, OF ). e., moved to strike out from the bill
the clause appropriating 5000 for surveys
which led to discussion, which was not terini
mated when the House adjourned.