The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-02-17

the claims of certain States for interest on their
advances during the late war, was ordered to
be engrossed for third reading.
After the consideration of executive business,
the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE. Mr. Wickliffe offered a resolution
which was agreed to, instructing the committee
on Internal Improvements to inquire into the
expediency of authorizing further subscrip-
ton of the stock of the Louisville and Portland
Canal Company
| The bill authorizing the taking of the fifth
census was read third time and passed.
/ The Judiciary bill was then taken up, when
several amendments were considered and agreed
| to.
THURSDAY, Feb. II.
SENATE. The motion submitted by Mr.
Foot yesterday, relative to entertainments upon
lands belonging to Indians, was considered.
( Mt. Forsyth moved to lay the resolution on
the table; which was determined in the mega
tive.
/ Yeas-Messrs. Adams, Brown, Ellis, Forsyth,
Grundy, Iredell, Kane, King, Mckinley, Ro-
wan, Smith of S. c., Tazewell, White-l3.
Nays-Messrs. Barnard, Barton, Bell Bur-
net, Chambers, Clayton, Dickerson, Dudley,
Foot, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Holmes, John
ston, Knight, Livingston, Mclean, Marks, Nau-
dain, Robbins, RHggles, Sanford Seymour, Sis
I L
J The resolution was then agreed to-
The Senate then resumed the consideration
fof MIR. Foot's resolution in relation to the pub
lie lands, and Mr.. Barton concluded his remarks,
when the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE. The appropriation bill being I'M
der consideration, Mr.. Verpanck undertook to
shew that the diplomatic expenses Of the pres
those of the last. Mr.. Ingersoll replied, shew-
! ing that Mr.. V. had made mistakes in his CON-
putation. He replied also to an insinuation OF
Mr.. V. of former abuses. &c would suggest,
said MIR l., "to the gentleman, if in referring
to abuses which have heretofore existed, it is
worth our while to run into those which we
have condemned? Are we, in the first year Of
reform, to do the very thing we have once cen
sured 1t appears that outfits have been taken
this year from the contingent fund | DO moi
complain because they do this, but because they
do now what, during the last administration
they condemned
Mr.. Everett said, that during the last year
outfits, to the amount of over forty Thousand
, dollars, have been paid, without any specific
appropriation On the contrary, gentleman
from Georgia, (Mr. Wilde) the last winter
proposed in committee of the Whole, to make
: an appropriation for the outfits of ministers wht
might be appointed and the committee de
cllned making such an appropriation. The.
passed the bill. as they found it, with specific
appropriations for certain designated salarie
or outfits, with an estimated addition, for con
tingences, of twenty thousand dollars. Thi
looked rather, when considered in connexiol
with the refusal of the committee just allude
to, like excluding all outfits not provided for i
u the bill. And yet, notwithstanding this, fort
y thousand dollars, in outfits, for which no appro
;, prlation had been made have been expended dul
u ing the past summer
Mr.. +. did not mention this, as criminatin
the present administration, but as vindcatin
: the past 1t had been asserted and reiterate
Z here and elsewhere, that the late ADMINISTERS
: ton had improperly paid outfits out of the cor
), tlngent fund; and transferred to one object
what was specifically appropriated to anothe
= Now here we have forty thousand dollars el
pended IN outfits, without any specific apprc
prlation although two outfits, he believed
y were specified in the act of last year. TIL
= Ha''a' - Or SoLnferr taken notn drner items.
TINS ne was not disposed to complain but h
r hoped gentlemen would now feel how uniustl
the late administration had been criminatec
ior course SO soon adopted by She present
> and which must of necessity be adopted by an
: administration.
, MT. M Duffie replied, that whatever othe
q people mad said, he had made no such charS
- against the late administration nor had he sal
that such appropriations were wrong. Who
q q ever made such objection could not understan
II the subject.
Mr. Everett replied, that he did not maintai
mat the gentleman from South Carolina ind
.. Vioualiy, had held this doctrine. But it ha
oeen distinctly laid down. in the REPORTS of tw
= committees of the House, at the last Conrres,
I the committee on the expenditures of the dc
partment of State, and the retrenchment com
mittee The latter committee had recommend
ed the abolition of the fund for the contingen
expenses ofthe foreign missions, on the proun
that 1T enabled the executive, at his discretion
= to augment the allowance to foreign minister,