Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-05-25

ZION, the Third Ste!
In Senate, on Sat4f =
Military Affairs and CQgple = 49, Il
from the further con81d ation; 3< ~
ireferred to them, not YET repgf<e< [<} az
mi h;Il. were ordered to lie on the tac I!
Of time to examine their merits, and to Il
on the propriety Of passing them. Amon8
were the bills making provision for reflnding the
increased duties imposed by the tariff OF 1895.
ON all merchandise, except ironmongery, ordered
previous to the first of May, lS2S,upon which the
duty had been collected; and the bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury OF the United
States to subscribe to stock in the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail road Company, to the amount OF 49,.
600 dollars. An interesting debate grew out OF
an amendment proposed by Mr.. Livingston to the
latter bill, which required that the funds to meet
the subscription, should be drawn from the pro-
ceeds of the sales of other stocks, invested IN
works of internal Improvement and owned by
the United. States. Mr.. Livingston was urged
to this course from conviction that nothing
could save the system of internal improvement
from destruction, but the adoption of such a mea-
sure. When the applications now before Con-
cress for aid in the execution of works of inter-
nal Improvement were enumerated, and the
amount of money which they would require were
contemplated, in common with the numerous
claimants who were now calling upon US for the
Just debts, he saw no alternative but to adopt this
measure. The treasury of the Union would
prove utterly inadequate to meet the calls of DIFF
ferent companies engaged in works of internal
improvements, all of which had equal claims on
the aid of Congress. Unless this system was
adopted and the United States funds transferred
from the one to the other, as soon as the works
were finished and in full operation, the best
friends of internal improvement would be forced
to abandon it, and the whole system fall into dis
repute. Mr.. Chambers protested against Sc
lecting this bill as the spot on which this plan
was to be erected Mr.. Grmady saw no good
reason why this bill should not be as well select
ed as any other. 1t was matter of indifference,
he should think, to the company, whether the sub
scription was made from the proceeds of former
investments of the United States in works of in
ternal improvement, or from the Golfers of the
treasury. One thing, he said, was certain,
from an account which he held in his hand, of the
appropriations already made, and the estimate of
the revenve tot the current year, the treasury
could not meet the demands which would be Gre
ated by the passage of this, and similar bills, be-
fore Congress, unless resort was had to some
such plan as that proposed by the gentleman from
LUulSldUds WI, W tUotCI CUHCuIlCu III NlSNS
of Mr. Livingston, in relation to internal i'm
provement. He thought that the investments of
the General Government in stocks of this cha
racter, should be viewed and managed as kind
of circulating fund, to be transferred from the
one to the other; and the disposal or transfer of
such stocks required the exercise of great pru-
pence and discretion, lest the market should be
glutted to the injury of the individual stockhold
er and the Government. The Senate spent some
time in Executive business.
In the House of Representatives on Saturday,
Mr.. Drayton gave notice that he should, on this
day, ask the House to take up the bill for the
protection of the Western frontier of the United
States and the bill for the settlement of the Mas
sachusetts' claims. After the transaction of va
rous other business, Mr. Pettis offered an amend
ment to. the bill! for the survey of the northern
and western boundary lines of the State of Mis-
souri,. The resolution for printing 5000 copies
of the Treatise on the Culture of Silk was dis
cussed until the close of the hour, after the re-
lection of motion to lay it upon the table. A
joint resolution in relation to the mode of trans
hitting the returns of the census, was read three
times and PASSED. Private bills occupied the
House, afterwards, until o'clock, when an add
journment took place.