Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-04-05


Union State, and for other purposes, taken up
and further considered. The question being on the !
amendment offered by MIR. Wright making the ad,ns
sion conditional the compliance of a convention OF
delegates, elected by the People Of Nlchgau with the
provisions of the bill
MIR Snutard addressed the Senate at length in oppo
siion to the bill, aud gave way to motion adjourn;
which being Withdrawn,
MIR. Hendricks moved two amendments to the bill,
which understood further prescribe regulate
the action OF Michigan and regard the
peliminares required Tor its admission tile Union.
The nendnens ordered to be printed; and them
on motion OF MIR Naudain, the Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MIR. Hawkes., from the Committee Elections,
ported resolution directing the clerk of the House 10
pay TO David Newand out OF the contingent fund the
same compensation for mileage, and per dem is paid
TO member of Congress, from the time he presented
inclusive.
Mr.. Griffin opposed to the resolution, and askcd
for the ayes and nays the adoption; which were
dered &c. Nc.
Mr. Evans moved TO lay The resolution ON the table and
asked for the yeas and nays, which ordered when
the motion was negaved; yeas 43, nays 49,
Inc question being ON the second to the previous ques
ton,
MIR. Patton called for the reading of the following
clauses oil the law making appropriation for the contn
gences of the House, order show that they had no
right TO adopt the resolutions
For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other inciden
a and contingent expenses of the House OF Represen
tatives, two hundred thousand dollars:
2" The said two sums last mentioned, to be applied To
the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate
ana House OF Representatives,, severay, and to other
purpose
The reading objected to-
The hour OF one having arrived, the Chair announced
the special order
Mr. Hawkins moved to suspend the rule, in order to
dispose OF the resolution which he had reported from the
Conntee oil Elections; which agreed to-ayes l05,
5l
The previous question then seconded; ayes 50,
noes AZ -
Mr. Williams of North Carolina asked for the yeas and
nays on the previous question, which ordeIed and
were, yeas lOl, nays "A.
so the main question ordered be taken and the
resolution was adopted; yeas ~, nays 54.
In pursuance of the special order OF the Goth January
on motion OF Mr. Cambreeng the House then resolved
self into Committee of the Whole the state of the
Union, Mr. Hamer in the Chair and resumed the consi-
deaon OF the bill making appropriations for the naval
service of the United States for the year 1886
The question pending, the motion of MIR Bell To
strike out the following item:
For the Improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sxty-seven
thousand dollars"
Mr. Garland of Va. resumed his remarks and COM
menced by referring the proceedings of Congress- on
the Dismal Swamp canal for an amendment IS ,6 oh
Gov Tazewel voted, and vndicated the course of the
present Administration on the subject Of internal i'm.
provemen from the charge of inconsistency With re-
gard to the $4,000 annual appropriation for he
remarked that it originated the Administrator of
Mr. Monroe and was first passed by a Republican Con-
gress. He cited the in question: Goth of April
lo24O and said it would be found that every act since
passed Tor mat appropriation, set FORTH that it to
carry INTO effect the plans and surveys directed by the
act of 3Oth April, 1924 He referred also TO vnrious
other acts and documents connected with works of inter
MAJ Improvement, in support of the argument that the
present Administration had adhered TO the principles of
the Maysvilc road veto.
lie then repealed another charge made by MIR Bell
against the Administration of neglectnp points of ma
uona Importance lie began with Pensacola and emu
mera,ed The estimates proposed for the present year.
which, altogether, for wharyes and hydraulic dock and
deepening the bar there, to upwards of FIVE
hundred thousand dollars instead of 64OO0 as stated
by the gentleman from s. Carolina, (Nr. Thompson0
MIR. Thompson inquired from whence the gcntleinnn
derived these statements
MIR Garland replied that he had procured them from
The executive documents presented the House. and at
tne apartments lie then proceeded with regard 10 for
uhcaiions; he denied that their dilapidated condition
was TO be ascribed to the Executive Department-
The fault with Congress- which had refused to !
appropriate the necessary for repairs During
the war large number of Notifications were ne.
cessariy constructed in great haste and
OF unseasoned and bad materials. He then Quoted
the appropriated by Congress which would
prove the fault lay with them In isSi the %
Inmates were $4,000; in 1922 $4,000; 1923 S23 0OO
IN 1926 came down to $l5OOo for 1885, 81 80, and
80, the War Department estimated the necessary re.
pairs at $40 600, and Congress reduced it TO 900 In
1854 pursuant TO the determination shown by Congress
to limit 1t to that sum- $40 600 reported and in 1886
nothing was appropriated The fault then was with Con-
gress lie then replied to charge brought by
Mr Bel against the Administration, that the provisions
oil war had been neglected and suffered diminish viz:
cann9ns guns, balls, carriages, &c. citing reports of
The War Department from 1880 downwards The de-
Pariment could only use the furnished it by Con.
gres and ii could not he denied that money had beer
expended IN the most udicious the service re.
CURED
With regard TO another charge that the present AID
mnistraion had been more exrayagant than former Ad
mnIsations, he replied by citing expenditures of for
ner periods and addGced the following fact to show that
the fault with tho Executive I'm the fou
OF 1891 1892 1888, and 1884 the bv Con
gress had exceeded the Executive estimates bv nearly
fourteen millions of dollars, viz $l3 85 l2S % Then
IL should DC borne IN mind that the pension had bee
extended that large had been paid Indian lands
and reservations The Black Hawk had cost con-
siderable amount of money and Congress had appro-
PFated large for harbors and for The Cumberland
road all OF which had sweled the expenditure of seve.
raj years past These extraordinary approuraons
Tor which The Executive chargeabe: and if Ia.
ken away he was prepared to prove that the present A
iDihlS'aton would bear comparison with any prece-
Ding one Tor economy. Mr. G.. then proceeded TO yndi-
cate Tie course OF the Administration subject of The
currency and the press He then adveed TO the chnrge
that nm amendment to the Constitution of the ITn;ted
States IN relation TO the election of President and Vice
President had been prevented by the friends of the Adj
minstraon lie denied that they had evinced anv dis.
position To eYade it, 1t we'll known that The Prss;
dent 1ad not Jailed TO recommend the subject
enlon OF Congress in all his annual messages and the
proposition had been lost in Congress- owing TO variety
OF circumstances He referred TO the PROCEEDINGS of the
last session. on Mr. Gilmers proposition which was one
OF great length, and involving many inn min
cIpes TO expect immediate prompt action thereon
Mr. G. went through the proceedings on those resolutions
seTdttiH from which it that the opponents of
Tue Administration voted against them almost in bodv
why had The gentleman from Tennessee himself suf
Tered the subject to lie without his having parci
pated IN 1T, from the year 1929, to the present time
MI o. held himself prepared go into the subject at any
umc whenever the public business would admit of IT,
Mr. o. then referred 10 series of statements provng
that the State deposte banks were able TO meet ali bei2
liabilities and have surplus Of assets of upwards Of
forty millions; and reviewed, great length variety
OF olhe important topics, the disposition OF the surplus
Tevehuc the Executive patronage bill the French ouea
Ton, &c On the latter, he INDICATED the course Of the