Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-02
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Offices oil Second Auditor and Second C0mptroi-
Ter, made Report, that these Offices could not
be abolished. without injury to the public SER
vice The resolution offered by Mr.. King re-
spccting the payment Of two per cent. out OF the
proceeds Of the sales of Public Lands in Alabs-
ma, to that State. was taken up and agreed to-
A bill was reported by Mr.. King, from the Com
mittee on Public Lands, for the relief of Richard
w. Steele, which was read and ordered to sec.
ond reading; also, a bill compensatiug the Regis
ter and Receiver of the Land Office in Tallahas-
see. for certain services. which was read. and
ordered to second reading A bill from the
House to authorize the Governor of the Terrific
nv of Arkansas to select ten sections OF land for
the erection of a Court House and jail, at l. lie
Rock. in that territory, was read first I e.
and ordered to second readin, On motion It
Mr. Brown, 5000 copies Of the Report of the So
cretary of the Treasury. relating to the Tariff,
and the draft Of bill accompanying the same.
were ordered to be printed. Mr.. Foot then
moved the Senate 10 take up the Penslon Bill.
bat motion made By Mr.. Smith that the Senate,
proceed to the consideration of Executive bust
ness, was agreed to, and the galleries were clear
ed and doors closed accordingly.
In the House Of Representatives, after few
petitions had been presented and referred
Mr. Doddridge moved to suspend the rules Of
the House, so as to alow him to move resQlu-
ton for appointing Committee to inquire into The
expediency Of changing the time of meeting of
Congress. so as to meet a, an earlier day than
the first Monday in December next
Mr.. Wickliffe said that, for any thing he could
see it was not certain whether the House would
adjourn before the first Monday in Drcember.-
For his own part. he was opposed to suspendng
the rule with view to change the time of the
commencement of the next session, until he knew
when the present was to terminate.
The question was then taken on the motion to
suspend the Rule, and decided in the Negative,
by Yeas and NAYS, "a to &c. (two-thirds of the
members present being required to suspend u
rule
Mr. Horn moved that the bill to enforce the
collection Of the revenue, reported some time ago
by the Committee Of Manufactures, be RECON-
mitted to that Committee. His reason for max
ing this motion was, that the late Report Of the Sc
cretary of the Treasury embraced part OF that
subject, perhaps the whole of it, and il was proper
that the bill should be considered in connection
with it. Mr.. Adams suggested an amendment TO
this motion, which should include the Memorial
of the Free Trade Convention, which Memorial
was said to be from the pen of Mr.. Gallatin. He
made this motion, he said, because the Memo
ferred to the Committee on Manufactures, and
there was an obvious propriety in giving to the
Memorial on the opposite side the same direction.
Such reference was also mark OF respect due
to the Convention in whose proceedings the Me-
the Memorial. The motion OF Mr. Horn and
that of Mr.. Adams were both agreed to.
The further hearing of the case Of Samuel
Houston was again postponed. in consequence of
the continued indispostion of Mr.. Key,his Couu-
sci.
The amendment of the Senate to the General
Appropriation Bill coming up, the House con-
Cured with the committee, in the amendment
made by the Senate, appropriating Bic, 900, for
the printing of the unpublished DIPLOMATIC cor
respondence between 1888, and 1879. Yeas 81
Mays 68. The proprIety of the appropriation
Of $4,000 for the survey Of Naraganset Bay. was
discussed at length. by Messrs. Pearce and Bur-
ges, in favor Of, and Messrs. Nc DuIie, and
Hoffman, in opposition thereto; and was even.
tualy agreed to. On the appropriation of S17,-
500, for the purchase Of a road near the Naval
Depot at Norfolk, Mr.. WickIiHe moved an
amendment that the Attorney General should be
first satisfied Of the validity Of the title; which
being carried, the question on cOncurrIng in the
appropriation was then taken, and rejected
The 5000 dollars for the Statue of Washington
was also agreed to, and the amendments of the |
Senate to the bill were finally gone through WITH
and returned to the Senate, with part of the |
amendments disagreed to, and part Of them con-
CURED in
The amendments of the Appropriation Bill
having been gone through. Mr. Watmouth made
an earnest appeal to the House to permit him to
move an appropriation for the Delaware Break
water, for the want of which the public interest |
was greatly suffering. The House seemed evi. |
IDENTIFY disposed to indulge him, and even to sus-
pend the rule to permit him to make the motion |
it not being in order wilhout-but at the in
stance of several friends he waived his object,
for another appropriation bill, which it was I'm.
Ierstood would be taken up at his instance to-
morrow for the purpose. as the General Appro-
priation Bill was beyond the reach of amendment
unless by re-commitment. which would throw the
whole of the Senates amendments again open to
discussion.
The House then, on motion of Mr.. Clayton,
suspended the rule, 50 as to enable the Commit
&c OF Visitation TO the Bank of the United States