Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-04-25
Saturday. .ap,a 10.
The Senate did not sit 10 day..
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

The Senate did no, sit to day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MI clayton asked leave 10 otter a resolution obiec tim
ov,hg maue' he moved Tor the suspension OF The rules. 10
amVw .,n 70 move IT. aud demance the Yeas aud Nays
The resolution was then read as follows:
res fecd, Ihat a specialC Committee be appointed for the
Purpose o, 'nq"i'ins into the expedisncy of equaitzing and
reducing the salaries OF officers. and oil other expense OF
government, In every department thereof where The same
can be cons ituuouaily done, aud also TO abolish such of.
hces as may he deemed unnecessary, and that ,l,ev hay.
power To rerort by bill or o hcr "i.e.
The Yeas aud Nays being taken, stood as ollows-Yess
l27, Nays l6.
So the House agree 10 suspen nd the ,ul.. and IN. ,o,;,,,
Mr.. Jarvis suggested the proprie'y of amending the
resolution SO as to include an inquiry in wha, cases an IN
creased compensation might be ex pedient.
Mr.. Clayton accepted the modification.
MIR. Ewing demanded the Yeas and Nays on the reso.
luton, ahd they were ordered by The House,
MIR Parker pre.uning that this resolution was I'm the
nature OF substitute for The amendments moved bv Mr.
vance to the appropriation bill. aud desiring that its pro
visions siauii he so extended as to include the paw
oil members, moved tor the posiponement of its cousid.
Grafton. lie afterwards, however. withdrew tina, motion
nr snee resisted the idea Of this resolution being in.
"ouuceu as a subst,'u c for his amendment TO the Appro-
p'a'ion Bill. This was the plan of the mover. Tn.
amendments were his own. lie knew nothing OF the re.
solution til, from the gallery OF the House, where he
happened TO be, he heard it read by the Clerk. He had
had no understanding or communication with the eeo,le.
man from Georgia on the subject.
Mr.. Parker, disclained all intention of insinua,;ng n
thing like a combination.
Mr.. pI"mrner moved sn amendment to include the pay
oil members OF Congress.
MIR. Clayton said, that The language OF the resolu,;on
was such as 10 cover the object intended by the amend.
men,. ne denied any thing like plan or ccncer, With the
gentleman rom ONO: indeed, the resolu ion had its origin
within the last three hours. BY oil. ring il siuqIv uncor.
"ee'eu VITA the appropriation Bill, all objections on thai
ecote were obviated, aud a fair test presented In The Uou..
to decide whether They were in ia, or of ero,,o,n I'm r.
public expenditure or not. '
Mr.. Hardin said that lac was in favor Of the original re-
soiution oil The gentleman from Georgia., (Nr. ltIavtou ,
and also in favor of the smenIment offered bv The g,n'Isn
ma" from mississippi, (Mr, Plummer) Bat he wished
,he amendment 10 be extended a little iurth.r-,o nm
orace an Inquiry into, and further TO regulate, the mileage
oil members OF I Congress. Because, shoulJ a n aniiou,-
I'ah' hve hundred years hereafter, get an inspection OF the
payroll OF The members of the present Cpugr.ss n.
would be led TO believe, from the number of niles M,
gentlemen gave in To lie Sergeant at arms. and received
pay for, the distance they lived from The Capi,oI. The he.
IeI would be entertained that the United States and
Territories covered AZ many square miles as the Russian
Empire, which included hall OF Asia, and one. third of
Europe. ""
he woull suppose that the State OF Missouri Law under
.ne nocNy "'o>n'sins' and dill not extend east further
INA NE u!eat Falls oil the river Missouri AMI that the
State oil Illinois lay east Of that, but did not come fn, ,,er
this way or That way than The Maiden vii ages. And
'h"' '"d ana adjoined Illinois OH the cas-, but did no, ex.
tend eastward , further than the mouth O, l.. II,,o
And that the States of Mississippi ami louisj,p, o.c,r;.d
The position OF Old AMI new California. That the I erri,orv
OF At@s"s's Jay at The rnou h OF the Colombia river-and
la truth aud in fact " as the Oregon Territory. That n.
did not intend 10 impute any thing ~ rony in The claim ~,
honorable members TO mileage, but The error consisted in
'"e vag"eneS oil Tue law, which did allow such ex,reordi.
nary claims.
Mr.: Pi"mmer accepted the amendment as a moo. flea.
ton OF his own.
Mr.. Clayton accepted both.
The question was taken OH sgreeicg TO the resol lion a =
amended, by yeas aud nays yeas 1873, Nays-2
30 me resolution was almost unanimously agreed TO-.
MIR. vase now asked consent Of the House To- offer. In n
notified iorm, the resolutions he had desired TO oder YES.
terdsy.
Objection being made, he moved to suspend the rules
% allow MN 10 move them, and demanded the Yeas and
Nays, which we've ordered.
The resolutions were then read as follows:
ffes0lued, That the custody and control of The moneys
OF the United States. not appropriated by law. and not
dish"rsed under appropriation by law, are, by the Consti.
tntoh, placed under the order aud direct "A of The Cun.
gress of the United States.
HeSoiUed, That no change of the Constitution of tho
UmeG S.a.esis necessary TO authorize the Congress OF the
united STATES to enirust the custody OF The pablic money.
not appropriated by law, 10 other agency than tia, of he
Executive department, and The custody OF The public mo.
ney must moi be, necessarily, under the Constitution. en-.
trusted to the Executive Department.
hesoired, That Congress can take out of the hands of
III Executive department the custody OF The public pro-
perry o money without an assumption OF Execu i've pow
er, or a suoversion OF the first principles o. the Constitu.
hoa, by tie repeal aud enactment OF such laws as nav be
necessary TO that end.
The Yeas aud Nays being taken upon the cues,io, ~
suspending the rule, were as follows:
~feds-Mie'rs John Q. Adams, Hemsn Allan. J. ].
Barber, BdTnItz, BAriinger, Bates, Bay lies, Beale, Beaiy.
James M. Bell, Bouidin, Briggs, Bull, Burd, Buryes. Nv.
num- age' Campbell, Chambers, Chiffon. Claiborne, vii.
nam CLARK, Clayton, Clowney. Conner, Corwin, Crockett.
Darlington, Amos Davis, Davenport, Deberry. Denny
DICKSON Duncan Ellsworth, Evans, Horace Everett, Ew.
ing, Fielder, Foot. Fowler, William X. Fuller. Fnit,,
Gaibraitb, Gamble, Gholson, Gordon, Gothsm. Grab,n,
Grayson, GrennelI, Hardin, James Hs,per. Hazsiins.
neaih, Hester, JabtZ w. Huntington, W. G.. 10, nsou,
.. Jones, Lincoln, Love, Loyal, Martingsle. Marshall
John Y. Mason. McCariy, McComas, McKennsn. Mer.
Ger, MuHgan, Moore, Patton. Potts, Ramsay, Reed, Sell
den' w Is Shepsrd. A, II. SbePperJ. William Sistie,
Stone, Stewart, William p. Taylor. p. Thomas. TweeSv
Vance, Yin,on, Watmough, L. d. White, +. WbiltIrscy
Elsha' Mhitlesey, Wilde, Williams, Wilson, Wise
Young-99.
.NdyS-Messrs. john Adams, Anthony. Bean. Ds,rIs
ley, Beaumont, John Bell, Blair, Bockcc, Boon. gnucb
C'Inbrtleng' Carmichael, Carr, Casey, Clancy, s. Clark
ooiiee' Crs,ner' Day, Dickinson, Dunlap. Fillmore, Fores.
Ter, =; l. RULER, Gii!eli, Joseph Hall, T. H.. Hall, Hal.
sey' Hannegan,J. NJ. Harper, Harrison, Hathaway. Hsw-
sins. Howell, Hubbard, Abel Huntington, Richard Al.
nard, Lane, Lansing. Laporte, Lawrence, Lea, Leayiu.
Lyon Lyle, J. X Mann, Mardis, Moses M ason, McIn.
yte, Mckay, McKim, Mckinley, McLepe, Nj Yean
murphy, OSgood. Page, Parks, Parker, Patterson. /
rear'e, Peyion, r. Pierce, Pierson, Plummer, Polk, pope.
Schenck, schiey, Charles Slade, smith Speighi, Sisnde.
Ter, Solder, william Taylor. Thomson, Tur in. van
Honten, Wdgener, Ward, WardwelI Webster. Whsilou
Z. Z. Wbite-9I. ~
Two thirds not having voted In ,Is .G.u.,,. =,
rules were not suspended.
MIR. Pey'on now made a similar request for leave 20 Of
Ter tie resolutions he had brought fi ard YESTERDAY =
" JeclIoh being made, he, too, moved for the susnensiop
OF u rules, TO allow him TO offer them. The on,sin,
e sad was inevitable II must rome into the House.
The resolutions were then read as follows;
RESOLVED, That the President Of he United States in
ns Ide Executive proceedings in relation TO the pobnc
nrFeh"e, hot assumed "up0n himself authority and
power not conferred by the Constitution and Lava I'm,
that he has acted IN conformity to 10th. "
Hes0iped That the Senate Of the United States 4,
lave resoIu ION passed by Ihat body, Ia the words following
to wit: 'ReSOiced, T5at the President. in lie Iats ~
curve proceedings III relation 20 The public tevenue. ~.