Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-02-20

riculiure, TO which was referred the letter of the Sc
cretary Of the Treasury, accompanied by a manual
and report upon the subject of the growth and manu-.
lecture Of Silk, made in obedience to the resolution
Of the House of Representatives, of the 18th May,
1926, made areport; which was read, and the resolu-
ton therein submitted was agreed to by the House,
viz: !
Reeoired, That six thousand copies ofsaid manual
and report be printed for the use OF the House.
yILITIA COURTS MARTIAL.
Mr.. Hamilton, Chairman of the Military Com
mittee) moved the following resolution, VIZ:
Resoired, That the Report of the Committee on
Military Affairs, made to this House on certain docu-
ments communicated by the Department Of War,
touching the proceedings of a Court Martial which
convened at Mobile on the 9th December, 1914, and
a correspondence between the Secretary Of War and
Governor Blount, respecting certain drafts OF the
Militia of the State az Tennessee, be printed, ,ciM
said documents, ,ohich haze been previously order
ed TO be PRINTED by this House.
Mr.. Stoirs moved to amend this resolution by strik-
ing out these words " with said documents, which
have been previously ordered to be printed by this
House."
And on this amendment a debate arose, which oc-
cupied the House TIL near 7 o'clock, when it was f.
nally terminated by the previous question.
The turning points of the debate were, whether the
Report of the Secretary Of W ar, and documents,
should accompany the Report, or should be printed
separately from it, (s 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 a different order, as arrsng-
ed by the Committee or whether they should not be
printed twice, first III the one order, as forming part
ofan Executive communication, and then in the other
order, as pertaining to the report of the Committee
on Military Affairs.
The debate was characterised by a good deal of
animation, though necessarily limited in its scope.
Several attempts were made to lay the motion of
MIR. Hamilton on the table, (the effect Of which
would have been, it was supposed, to have the docu-
merits printed as received from the War Depart
ment,) but all motions to this effect were ncgatived.
A motion was made by Mr.. Beecher to postpone
the consideration Of the motion before the House, 10
Monday next-but equally in vain. The yeas being
II, the nays 10. A motion to adjourn was rejected
by a still larger majority-Yea 36, Nays l35.
The amen,iment of Mr.. Storrs was then negativcd
Yeas So, Nays l07. When, after some further
I debate,
Mr.. Wickliffe, of Kentucky moved the previous
question.
The House sustained the .motion-Ayes 90, Noes
II.
And the question being put, " Shall the main
question now be put - (Which excludes all amend
ments and all farther debate) it was carried, by yeas
and uays-Ycas lO5, Nays IS.
The question was then put upon the resolution Of
Mr.. Hamilton, and it was adopted by yeas and nays
as follows Yeas los, NAYS 60.
AT some period during the proceedings. Mr.. HIS.
resolution underwent an alteration, by substituting,
for the words moved to be stricken out by Mr.. Storrs,
these words: &c and that the documents heretofore
ordered to be printed, shall, when printed, be ap-
pended to said report, in the order in which they
have been arranged by the Committee."1
So the documents trem the War Department were
ordered to be appended to the report thereon from
the committee OF. Military Af,irs, and printed in the
order designated by the Committee.
lTbe speakers cannot be particularly classed with
out a reference to the debate, Ga report of which will
be hereafter given, if we can find room for it, Those
gentlemen who engaged in the debate were Messrs.
Hamilton, Polk, Weems, Ingham, Floyd, Haynes,
Stevenson, of Pennsylvania, Storrs, Dorsey, Burgess,
Whittlesey, Whipple, Bartlett, Woodcock, Taylor,
Wright, Woods, ~Spraeue, Sloan, Marvin, Brown,
Beecher, Reed, Dorsey, and Drayton. l-Nat. Int.
After the decision Of this question, the House ad-
journed.
In the House of Representatives, on Tuesday,
Feb. PM. Flovd ofVir~inia, moroA thc f'ow-
ing icsolution; which was read and laid on the table
until tomorrow, viz:
Resoiued, &c. That the President of the Senate,
and Speaker of the House Of eprcsentatives, be au-
thorisei TO close this session, by adjournment of their
E respective Houses. on the 9Th day of April next.
, MIR. Weems moved the following resolutions; which
by rule, lies on the table one day.
= R~esoiccd, That the Secretary of War be directed
|, to furnish this House with Il list of the Cadets now
at West Point; their names; the States, and Con
= gressional Districts, from whence they were sent
and the dates when they were received. Also, a
statement shelving the present existing rule of the
S Department as practiscd relative to the manner o
filling up vacanies, &c.
THE TARIFF BILL.
Mr.. Mallary submitted the following amendments
to he proposed TO the bill in alteration Of the severa
acts imposing duties on imports; which were commit
ted to the committee of the Whole House on tn,
: State of the Union, to which that bill is committed
" In section second, strike out the first, second
third, fourth .ffh, and sirh paragraphs, and il
their place insert:
O FIRST. On all wool manufactured, the aetna
value OF which, at the place whence imported, shal
exceed eight cents per pound, twenty cents pc
d pound, until the thirticth of June, eighteen hundre'
and twenty nine, after which time, a further duty o
two and one half cents per pound per annum, in ad
dition, until the whole duty amounts to fifty cents.
y Second. All manufactures Of wool, or Of whicl
II wool shall be n component part, Except blankets
worsted stuff goods, bombazines, hosiery, mits, gloves
caps, and bindings,) the actual value of which, at tn
place whence imported, shall not exceed fifty cent
the square yard, shall be deemed to have cost fit
cents the square yard, and charged with a duty {
forty per cent. on such valuation, until the thirtiet
rs day OF June, one thousand eight hundred and twcnt
nine; after which, a duty Of five per cent. per annuu
rt in addition, until the whole amount Of duty shall b
of fifty per cent.
IN Third. All manufactures of wool, or ofwhich wo'
re shall be a component part, except as aforesaid, I'll
IT, ac,ual value of which at the place whence importe'
IL shall exceed fifty cents the square yard, and sha
d. not exceed two dollars and fifty cents the square var,
shall be deemed to have cost two dollars and fiji
he cents he square yard and charged with tho amour
r. Of duty, and in the manner before in this section PR
ry vldcd.
of Fourth. All manufactures of wool, or of whic
lt wool shall be a component part, except as aforesal
o. the actual value of which, at the place whence IN
,r- ported, shall exceed TWO dollars and fifty cents Il
IT, square yard, and shall not exceed four dollars Il
nd square yard, shall he deemed to havo cost four dc
,r- lars the square yard, and charged with the amount
tic duty in the manner before provided in this section.
he Fifth. All manufactures Of wool, or of which wo
shall be a component part, except as Aforesaid, d
actual value %ofwhich, at the place whdnco importe
H. shall exceed four dollars the square yard; and shj