Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-01-21
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CONVERSATIONAL ANAIysTS

The Senate, Tuesday, after the morning business. pro.
ceededt TO the consideration of Executive business, i'm which
it was engaged two or three hours.
In the House Of Representatives., Mr.. johnson of Ken
lucky, from the Committee to whom the subject had been
referred, reported a bill for the aboishment of Imprison-
ment for Debt. 1t was read twice and committed to a Com
mittee of the Whole House. Mr.. Bouldin's resolution on
the subject of the Tariff, was further discussed by Mr..
Stewart of Pennsylvania, until the expiration of the hour
allotted to morning business. The bills for the relief of
John Rogers, and Prosper Marigny, and TO authorize the
Governor of Arkansas 10 lease the Salt Springs in that Ter
ritory, were passed. The House spent considerable time
in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union on
the Apportionment Bill. The motion to strike out IS, 900.
as the ratio, and insert &c, 900 was lost. The original mo-
uon to strike ont $4,000 was lost by a vote of 81 10 SO.
MIR. Hubbard then moved to strike out 49, 600 and insert
44'OoO, nut before the question was taken ON This amend
ment, the Committee rose, reported progress. and he
House adjourned.-Glo6
WARRINGTON Jan. I9.--In The Senate. Yesterday.
Mr.. Sprague's calling for the correspondence which led 10
the selection of the arbiter Of the disputed boundary ques-
tion, was adopted, with a proviso, that the correspondence
should be communicated "confdentiallv or otherwise"
ds the President may think proper-Tbe bill for altering
the draw OF the bridge over the river Potomac, was, az
ter some discussion ordered TO a third readirr.-Therc
was a debate OF considerable length on the bill for the re-
lief OF the representative of Colonel John Laurenz, which
was ended by laying the bill on the table, for the present.
Mr.. Benton gave notice that he would, Tomorrow, ask
leave toiatroduce a bill declaratory of the meaning of the
Charter Of the Bank Of the United States, in respect to the
currency.
In the House Of Representatives Mr.. Stewart conclud-
ed his remarks on Mr.. Bouldin's resolution on the subject
OF the Tariff. Mr.. Davis, of Massachusetts. offered an
Committee on manufactures, TO enquire into the practical
eject oil the revenue laws upon the commerce, agriculture
and manufactures OF this country; and whether frauds are
not perpetrated in the importation Of goods, and the revenue
thereby reduced, and how such frauds may be suppressed,
sc. Mr.. Wicklife moved the previous question, which
was sustained by a vote OF 90 TO n. The question was
then Propounded, "shall the main question be now putY'
which was decided in the negative. by Yeas 03, NAYS g6
Considerable time was spent in Committee of the Whole
on the state OF the Union on the Apportionment Bill. The
merits and principles Of the bill were discussed with much
zeai upon MIR. Hubbards motion to amend by striking out
5000 as the ratio, and to insert $4,000. Before the ques-
ton was taken on this amendment, the Committed rose
reported progress and the House adjourned.
The bill explanatory of the act for the relief OF the Off.
GERS and soldiers Of the Virginia Continental line and Ma
Wy of the Revolutionary War, was read a third time and
pdssed.-U.