Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-06-01
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF RESENrAT1vES.
"WEDNESDAY. May Goth.


The Speaker luld before the House the message
ofthe President, respecting the anciPoie ed ntorma
ton from England, relative Ia commercial rein
tions with that country, las published Yesterday,
winch being read,
Commerce. moved to refer the message to that Com
nittee. lSome nilern"n around Observing that It
ought tn go to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
hIr. Cambreleng added, that the message related
to tie commerce of the country, and ought to GO TO
that committee: another reason for moving which
was. that he had for given his attention to
the subject, and had already prepared bill to meet
the object of the message.
Mr. Archer. Chairman of the Committee For |
cign Affairs, moved to refer the message to that
4 COMMITTEE.
MIR Williams expressed the opinion tina, such mes |
sages always sent to the Committee on For |
einnS Affairs
Mr. Carsbreleng not anxious about tie mat
ter but II had been the uniform practice, he said, to
refer such subjectsto tho Commute Commerce.
AIR. Ramsay was indifferent what Committee that
Messcge was referred to- SO that did go to tho
Cnnmittee OF Commerce lie Committee If Ways
and Means. Those Committees were in The habit
ut taliiug cegnzance of subjects committed TO
Them. and ep,rtlng bills concerning the revenue.
wih"ns ms riction,-one tapping the Treasury at
o.,e end, and the o, her the other lie htd snen
the COMMITTEE of Commerce und The Committee OF
Ways and Means reporting bills. The effect of which
would have. been to empty the Treasury instead OF
Hing ito throw the country at the mercy of for
eign nations. and compel in tho Interior to
send abroad u haze our horses shod
MIR. Draytou referred TO the rules to shew tina,
the committees moved but the practice had been To
refer such communications to the Committee of Com
nierce AS the present message rc'arcd exclusively
TO Cial relations with foreign country.
Mr.. D. thought il properly within the province
ofthat comntcr; aud he made number OF remarks
10 sustain this opinion.
Mr. McDufle said he felt sort OF interest in this
contest between the Committees, and cared not
how it was decided But he saw no necessity for
the grat;tous Charge against the Committee of Ways
and Means, which the gentleman had gone out Of
AZ Iterlv nd he
ed only in ignorance He would defy any old in
this fnuse out OF it, whether scodng scoIdng fix
tina, Committee the charge which had alleged against
by the gentle nan son fennsy He though; that every
know that every branch of the country was
the rules of the House. given in charge the committee of
Ways and Means, and always committee and
'aa would he perfectly compeen, for that committee To-
60 bring bill the whole system of
tie country without any special instruction from .n iouse
king bat the ignorance could have given the
care winch had been made by the member from Pennsyva
MIA against the committee.
Mr. Ramsay said he isnoran, of the rules OF the
House, the duties of the oil Ways and Means
but the Chairman of that committee of the true
policy of the nation, and had evnced that ignorance by the
Tina, gentleman has called me an old woman but,
lie Speaker anonsed Mr. r. that the question the
ed me old woman, and my duty repe have
always understood that the duty the Ways and
a gentleman has shewn his of this duty, by just
.ns for bill ;s lndisn bin which tapped the Treasury a,
that gentleman that was the field politics him
stand ", he told tina, ana an old woman Sir VIVA,
ever that gentle may think of knowledgs of his duties
day after day, aud time after doing empty
In. Treasury. instead of filling it, Sir say
Mr. Everett, OF Massachusetts thought message was
certainly OF kind to require the Of the
teeign Affairs and that could 60, rroprie,y no
cher If the message should contain any thing
requiring the action of the committee of Commerce. part
of , be sept that to as The assigned by
namely that he had prepared N af.e
PATTON was reason with him ir E. for pre- fe,g another
committee lie would rather that should take up
the suhjec, that had made up opaion &c
Dar OfM
neg r. Barbour, and Mr. acDue the question wa aken
Ayes S. noes 81. VIC N''''''''ea Oh commerce
THUaspAr. MAY 81.
The VEro.
y Message was received from the President of he
United States by Mr.. Donelson his private Secretary
returning the bill which originated in his House and
which had passed bot Houses, for authorizing sub
scriptlon TO the Stock of The Maysyie and w shno
ton Turnpike Road Company in Kentucky ,viib III.
reasons at iarge for refusing to sign The same
The Message was read through by The Clerk and
heard with great attention.
When the reading was concluded there aroee q
hurried and anxious debae, involving no principle Of
the BILL bu, merely The question whether the bill
sho 20 DC fecohsig 'S - r VIE er the re
con i erat'on should p sl.oned until -;norrow
d. g tie whole of this proceeding, there was cons
taht 'endcncy 10 debate the main question: and an eff
orion the part of The Chair confne the Det,ae TO
Tie question Of post p"nement In his skrmishing
M:. irwin, of Ohio, Alr Daniel. Mr.. Vance Mr. Iuper
sol Mr.. Brown. Mr. Potter Mr. P P Barbour
Mr. Wlckffe, NJ Polk, Mr.. Bell, Mr.. Coleman,
MIR. Letcher, Nh Burgess. Mr. Yancey, and Mr.
BarrlDgcr, tnok some part
FINALLY, os by common consent it was agreed tha,
the reconsideration be postponed until to- morrow BIZ
which time the Message, 1t was supposed, would be
printed, and III The hands of-every member
The question of printing the Report give rise TO
some debate by reason of the Intervention of the
rule requiring days notice for order for an ex
ira number of copies of any document. For the pre-
sent, under that rule the usual nunbsr only was Or
dered to be printed.
THE COLONIAL TRADE.
Mr. c mbreeng, from the committee on Com
ncrce, reported the following bill:
4 Bill TO amend the acts regulating the commercial
intercourse between the United States and certain
colonies of Great Britain.
Sec. l. BE IL enacted. &c. That, whenever the Pre-
sden Of the United States shall receive satisfactory G.
..idence Lhnt 4he l1-,at