Litchfield enquirer., 1829-03-12

| the list, could obtain place on the pension list under any circumstances. MT. Davis. Of Mass. stated that the whole number of men, who belonged to the regular army during the revolution, was about SOO,OOO, and that in 1913, less than SO,OOO applied for pension. The number of militia who went into service was unknown, but he did not believe that more than SS,OOO could now be found, and upon these Is the restriction m the bill. He thought the militia as meritOriOus as any oth- CT class of men, and considered the resources of the treasury sufficient to pay them. The friends of the bill admitted, however, that it would make heavy draft upon the treasury Mr. Wood thought MT. Davis estimate of the regulars was too high; he said the regular army never exceeded 3O,OOO at one time.- He calculated that the militia were as four to one to the regular army, and that the appIi- cations would be in the same proportion.
 In the House, on the same day, bill for the relief of widows who were the wives of officers and soldiers at the close of the revolu tionary war. and bill for the relief of sun dry revolutionary officers and soldiers, banned thereiu,) were read the third time and passed.
 Loter.-The discussion of the bill to amend the pension act was resumed on Wednesday; d motion to recommit was rejected, and the bill was passed bySa vote of Ill to 67, and sent to the Senate.
 The regular soldier who served nine months or more, is not required to show that he is poor, or that he needs the bounty of his country but he must show thathe is 65 years ot age.-Hamp. Gaz.
 In the Senate, on the 2d inst. the bill mentioned above, aHer long discussion was laid the table where it of course sumbers until the next session of Congress.
 The National Journal says-The bill for the relief of Susan Decutur, was rejected in the House of Representatives on Saturday, distribution of 1OO, ,OOO dollars among the off ployed in cutting out the frigate Philadel- phia. It was proposed to amend the bill, 80 as to admit to a participation in the benefit such of the officers and crew of the Syene as went into the harbour of Tripuli to assist in the enterprise, but the proposition was rejec- ted: and thus several members, who would have supported the bill in it's amended form. were driven to record their votes against it.
 Ihe Acts of Congress.-Never has a ses- sion passed under our observation, in which so little business has been done, good, bad, or indifferent; which peculiarity of this session is obviously attributable to party organiza- ton existing in both branches, stronger than either the personal convictions of members or the imperative demands of public duty.- | [This is subject which we shall have occa- sion to touch upon hereafter, and which we purposely avoid until the hurly -burly is over and we can coolly discuss it.
 Few sessions of Congress have ever passed. however, to whose actual doings SO little ex- ception could be taken. Congress certainly have left undone many things which they ought to have done but what they have done is much of it (what little there is of it) good.
 The appropriation bills for the support of the various branches of the government have all passed; and liberal appropriations have been made for Notifications and fo: the Pub lie Buildings.
 The other public acts, of most importance. are those which have relation to objects of internal improvement. towards which seven hundred thousand dollars have been appro- priated. at this session, by various acts; such as the act for the continuation ofthe Cumber- land Road, the act for extending it beyond Zanesville, and the act for providing for the repair of the road, for which latter object hundred thousand dollars have been apprO- priated, (the provision for erecting gates upon it having been rejected in the Senate.) The Louisville and Portland Canal, the Chesa- peake and Delaware Canal, and the Dismal Swamp Canal, and the Military Road in Maine, have also received, in several acts, the aid of Congress.
 After the bill concerning Public Buildings, the only interesting measure of the session, concerning the District in which we live, is the bill for organizing the government of the Penitentiary, which will place it in situation to be occupied if Congress shall, at the next session, provide system of Penitentiary pun ishmcnt within the District. A vast number of bills fell through, in both Houses, by not being acted upon; amongst which, the most important were all the bills proposing retrenchment, which seem to have been reported by way ofjest; all the bills for graduating the price of public lands, Sc. &c.,; the bill for placing all the surviving militia of the Revolution on the Pension List; and the bill for repeating the tonnage duty. The bills lost, which were most interesting to this District, were the'bilf authorizing a subscrip. ton to the stock ofthe W Washington and Fred erick Turnpike Company, which was defeat ed by the attempts to change the route, and the bill reported in pursuance of the memori- al of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com pany. the passage of which had opponents also among ourselves.
 | Of the other measures which failed thrO' | the purnOsed nr ind0lent neglect of dutv m