Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-03-10

instructions prepared by the Secretary of State
ana furnished TO tho Ministers of The United
States, appointed attend AZ the assembly of the
American Plenipoen,ary first held at Panama,
and thence transferred TO Tacubaya, the occasion
upon which they were given has passed away,
and there is no present probability o. the renew
al OF those negotiations, but the purposes for whch
they were intended are still Of the deepest inter-
to our country. and to the world, and may here
alter call again for the active efforts and benecent
eEcrgics Of the Government of the United States,
the motives for holding them rom general publ
cations having ceased, justice TO the government
| from which they emanaied, and to the people for
whose benefit twas instituted, require that they
should be made known. With this view, and
from the consideration that the subjects embraced
by those instructions, may probably engage here
alter the deliberations OF our successors, deem it
proper to make this communication TO both Houses
of Congress. One copy only Of the instructions
being prepared, send il TO the Senate, requesting
that IT may be transmitted also TO the House o!
Representatives.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Mr.. Taylor moved that il be laid upon the table
and printed.
MIR. Wick,ifFe asked for the reading Of the in.
structions, ii they were not too long.
The Speaker adverted 70 the Message which
stated that bu, one copy had been sent to Con-
gress, which copy was in the possession of the
Senate.
Mr.. Hamilton moved to divide the question be
| fore the House for laying upon the table and for
printing the documents referred TO, in order that
the latter part OF il might be investigated next
| sion, by the Committee Accounts, for the pur-
pose OF estimating the expenses attendant up
on it..
Mr.. Taylor and Mr.. S,orrs severally uttered
some observations.
Mr.. Haynes said, that il was the first instance
| in his recollection in which it had been proposed
| to print documents not in the possession Of the
House. He saw no necessity for the motion, as
| the subject would necessarily be disposed OF in
the other branch of the Legislature, which it ap.
peared was possessed Of the documents in ques-
| ton. The resolution was divided, and that part
Of it to lay the documents on the tabie was "a
dopted.
| Upon the question Of printing,
Mr. Hamilton said, of all extraordinary propo.
sitions under the sun, he considered this as the
| most extraordinary-itwas TO print a document,
not in the possession of the House, and not TO be
in its possession during its political existence which
! was now drawing to close, ard would be defunct
| in few moments. We we're called upon to print
! WHAT A non-entity,it was not even upon the
table for told there is nothing there; but il
seems we TO send to the Senate for something
| to print; we must do this speedily, Sir, or our vo-
cation will soon be gone. But suppose the Sc
nate should consider the subject matter of the
Presidents message as confidential, and so put its
stamp OF exclusion upon the whole atlair.-Have
you any power, much less have you any right
| TO delegate such power TO the Clerk Of your
House TO demand ue paper for publication!
But CHI bona? Is it for the mere purpose of
digging up the poor old exploded project OF the
Panama Mission! He thought thet its funeral
| ohseques had regularly taken place. that it had
expired without groan, 'unwept, unhonored,
and unsung," that it had been regularly nurned
| and that even its epitaph had been written at Ia
cuhaya. He had not dreamed of this hopeless
recuscitaGon-as idle, he thought, as an attempt
TO revive witchcraft astrology. Is il TO call
back "trom the tomb of the capulets' the first
hpr,, ~ l.,.s.- 4
to the stars from whence it had not come, but TO
another heavenly body, to which noun-struck, as
1t certainly was, it appropriately belonged.
But 1t seems that the power OF this House is
wanted to usher forth these documents under its
official sanction. III mistake not, on the nativity
Of the Panama Mission, similar vocation was as
signed us. What is another rccoii expected from
another coordinate body:-Where we told the
project has struck and str snded? Are we supposed
10 be more compaissnt. Sir, il this tran is spruue
upon us, We shall. indeed observe the unpitied
calamity OF being caughttwce in the same snare"
Let US nail the proposition upon the table, aud up
on its rejection call for the yeas and nays.
MIR thompson moved to lay the resolution for
printing upon the table.
Mr.. Vinton called for the yeas and nays and
sufficient number OF memb ers rising in support OF
the call they were ordered.
Mr.. Weems addressed the Chair on question of
order Was II in order TO print document not ac-
tuaily in the possession of the House,
The Speaker said that that was an interior point
The question then before the House was the mo-
ton tolay the motion for printing upon the table,
and that OF course took precedence.
The question being tax, n By yeas and nays, the
motion OF MIR. Thompson was carried by ma
jority Of Is to 80.
The House therefore resolved 10 lay the motion
for printing upon the table.
Mr.. Ward oil n. T., moved the following reso-
luton:
Resolved. That Committee be appointed on
the part of this House, to join such Committee as
may be appointed by the Senate, to wait on the
President of the United States, and notify him,
that unless he. may liaye further communications
to make TO the two Houses. they are ready to ad-
journ.
Mr.. Ward Of +. y, and Mr.. Bates of Massa-
chusetts, were appointed the said Committee ON
the part Of the House.
Mr.. Haynes moved that the House do now ad-
iourn.
The motion being carried in the affirmative, the
Speaker rose and addressed the House.