Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-31
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making appropriations III CONFORMITY WIN CERTAIN
treaties with the Creeks. Choctaws, and other
tribes of Indians An amendment reported bv
the Indian Committee, appropriating 3O,74 dol
lars for the Choctaws who had reinquishetl lands
according to the provisions Of the 18th article of
the treaty, was agreed to, and the bull was order
ed to third reading. Mr.. Smith moved to take
up the bill to authorize subscription TO the Bal
timore and Ohio Rail ioad; and the yeas and
nays were ordered, on the reguisitiun of Mr.Mil-
Ter; when there appeared-Yeas ls, Nays %.
So the motion was negatlved. The Senate then
proceeded, on motion of Mr.. King, to consider
the bill to appoint Recorder Of the General
Land Office, and prescribing the mode in which
patents to public lands shall be issued. The
amendment offered by Mr.. Pondexter, to affix a
Mr.. Foot moved to amend the bill by striking
out the lst and Sd sections, and in the second
section to strike out the word Recorder" and
insert the words :. Chief Clerk, >" SO as 10 throw
the duties on the Clerk. This amendment was
rejected. Mr.. Forsyth then moved to amend
the bill, by striking out all after the enacting
words, and introducing provision that fac ST.
mile be substituted for the sign manual Of the
President, and that he be allowed Private Sc
cretary to use this fac simile. On motion Of MIR.
FOISSUl, Tic Uiil WuS tiSH iaiu VII huS
Ayes 81, Noes a.
The bills yesterday ordered for engrossment
were severally read third time and passed.
Mr.. Chambers, from the Committee On the
District Of Columbia, reported the bill granting
aid to the Alexandria Canal Company, without
amendment
The bill for the appointment of Commission
err OF Indian Affairs, and for other purposes, was
4, L. al Iol al, nm IniI,rc nd
the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read
third time.
The Senate then resumed, in Committee ofthe
Whole, the bill to modify and continue the char
ter Of the Bank of the United States. The ques.
ton being on Mr.. Forsyth's motion to amend, the
discussion which commenced ON yesterday was
resumed and continued.
The question was then taken on the first part
OF the motion to strike out the words requiring the
assent of the States, and decided by yeas and
nays, as follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Bell, Buckner, Chambers,
Clay, CLAYTON, Dallas, Dickerson, Ewing, Foot,
Forsyth, FreIighuysen, Holmes, Johnston,
Knight, Naudain, Poindexter, Prentiss. Robbins,
Robinson, RuggIes, Seymour, SIIsbee, Smith,
Sprague, Tomlinson, Wagganan, Webster. VIII.
kins -28.
Nays-Messrs Benton, Bib, Brown, Dud.
ley, Ellis, Grundy, Hayne, Hendricks, Hill,
Kane, King, Mangum, Marcy, Miller, Moore,
Tazewell, Upton, White-ls.
The residue, of Mr.. Forsyth's amendment. be.
ing the insertion of three or four words to render
the sense Of the amendment complete, was agreed
to.
Mr., Sprague then moved to amend the amend.
ment, by striking out, and inserting provision
that the bonus shall be divided among the States
in proportion to their population.
Before any decision on this amendment, the
Senate adjourned.
In the House Of Representatives, Mr.. Yer.
planck, from the Committee of Ways and Means,
reported DILL for the discharge Of sundry judy
ments against the late Marshal of the Eastern
District Of pennsy lvana, which was read twice
and committed.
This bill is 70, the discharge of the judgments
to large amount, upwards Of $4,000 dollars,
obtained by the Ocean, Pacific, Atlantic, Nep-
tune, Niagara, American merchants, and other
insurance companies Of the city of New York, as
damages for the seizure and detention OF the teas
in the famous cases so long in litigation, growing
out of the failure Of Thomson Of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Jarvis, from the Committee on Public
to whom was referred the bill "fOr
the benefit OF 81. Vincent's Female Orphan Asy-
lum of the City Of Washington, under the d.
rection of the Sisters of Charity" giving to the
Asylum, in fee simple, al part Of Reservation No.
in the plan of the City, reported the same with
an amendment; and the bill and amendment were
referred to a Committee Of the Whole.
The resolution, some DAYS ago submitted by
MIR. Horace Everett, for an inquiry into the con-
tracts of the Post Office Department, for print
ing and paper, &c. with the amendment moved
thereto by Mr. WhittIesey, Of Ohio, proposing
to enter into general investigation Of the con-
Germs OF the Post Office Department, came up
for consideration. Mr.. X. NJ. Johnson address
ed the House in discursive manner, until the
expiration Of the hour for morning business. Mr..
j. in the course of his remarks, expressed his per.
feet willingness to 60 Immediately into inquiry
upon any one or more specific charges, which
should be named and alleged as matter of com.
plant against the Department; or, if Mr.. w.
would postpone the subject until the next session,
he should have bis full assistance and c0.opera.
ton, to make it as general as he chose. But,
otherwise, he thought the session had advanced
too far for them now to take up the subject with
my hope Of beneficial result. unless the Select