Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-30
With great respect.
Your Obedient servant.
JAMES ii. PECK.

The House of Representatives were occupied
during great part of Wednesday in consid-
ering the bill to amend an act in alteration of the
several acts imposing duties on imports in COM
ml,5ee Of the Whole on the State of the Union.
MIR. Nc. ID liiie continued his remarks in oppo-
sl'ion to the Bill. and in support of the amend
ment whiclr-he had offered, and which we here
suboin:
/ Mr.. 4HcDubfe proposed to amend the said bill
BY striking, out all after the first section, and in
lieu thereof inserting the following amendment:
SEC. 2 IND be II further enacted That, from
and after the thirtieth of June next, so much of
the act Of the nineteenth of Nav, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-eight, as increases
the duties on wool manufactured. and on man
ufactures of wool, or of which wool shall be com
ponent part, be repealed, leaving the duties on
said articles as they stood previous to the passage
Of that act, and that from and after the thirteth
of June. one thousand eight hundred and thirty
one, SO much of The act of the twenty-second of
Nav. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
four, as increases the duties aforesaid articles,
be also repealed, leaving the said duties as they
stood previous to the passage of the said act.
SEC. 5. find be Il further enacted, That,
from and after the thirtieh of June next so much
of the aforesaid act of nineteenth Nav one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty as increas-
rs the duty on iron in bars and bolts, whether
manufactured BY rolling or hammering. on hemp,
on flax, on cotton ba g,lng. on molasses, on indi
90. and on manufactures of cotton, of which
cotton i IA component part, be repealed, leaving
the said duties as they stood, previous to the pas
sare of the said act: and that so much of the
aforesaid act of the twenty-second May, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, as in
creases the duty on any of the aforesaid articles.
be repealed from and after the thirtieth June, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, leaving
the duties on the said articles they stood before
the passage of that act.
Sec. 4 .4ad be ii further enacted, That, the
duty on salt, be reduced to ten cents per bnshel
of 6fy-si pounds, from and after the thirtieth of
June next.
Remarks of Mr.. Uicklifs, on the bill for the
punishment ofcrimes in the Dist. COl.-We repub-
Gsh the remarks of this gentleman, on account of
an error in the printing of the l4th section of this
bill. introduced in his speech. The amendment
proposed by Mr.. Barringer, it will be seen be-
low, was adopted subsequently to MIR. Wickli6ss
observations.
The following is correct statement of this
part of the debate.-1slegraph Of Thursday.
Mr.. Uickli6e said that he had, by the amend
ment which he had heretofore offered, designed
to con6ne the operation and provisions of this
bill to offences committed by free persons, the
House had determined, by its vote to-day, that
the slaves of this District, convicted of petty Of
fences, should be taken from their masters and
confined in the Penitentary for two years and
longer. and thereby deprive the masters Of their
right to property. He now rose to invite the at
tention Of the House, and particularly the Com