The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1836-01-23
Twenty-F0urth Congress.
IN SENATE.
MONDAY, January IL.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.

from the Gain quarterly meeting Oi the
Society of Friends in the State Of Penn
|sylvania, requesting Congress to abolish
Slavery and the Slave Trade within the
District OF Columbia.
Alter some debate the memorial was
laid on the table.
MIR Webster submitted the following:
Resolved, That The Secretary Of the |
Treasury lay before the Senate the re-
turns made by the back of the United
States, srd also those made by the depos-
it banks since such returns were last COM
muncated to the Senate.
The bill to limit the term Of Office, Sc.
commonly called the bill to limit Execu-
tive patronage, coming up to be engrossed
for third reading, it was advocated by
MIR. Calhoun and opposed by MIR Cuth-
bert.
Mr. Wright called for the yeas and
nays, which being ordered, the bill was
ordered to be engrossed for third read
ing--yeas "a, nays l8.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MICHIGAN.
A very long debate took place on the
motion, heretofore submitted by Mr. Han
negan, Of Indiana, to reject the memorial
purporting to come from the Senate and
House OF Representatives Of the State of
Michigan, praying immediate admission
into the Union
1 Various amendments were offered, and
the debate was at length arrested by
call for the previous question, which the
House seconded:
> And the memorial was finally referred
"to the Committee OH the Judiciary, and
ordered to be printed, ,"--lhe following
/ words having, on motion of MIR Hanne-
$ gan, been appended TO the reference
Q "and that this House, in receiving the
memorial purporting to come from the
Senate and House of Representatives of
. the State of Michigan regard the same in
no other light than As the voluntary act Of
+. private Individuals"
II And 90 the Memorial was referred to
, the Committee on the Judiciary.
IN SENATE.
TUESDAY, January l2.
) Sundry reports were transmitted from
Fl the Departments, in relation to the con-
,roversy as to the Ohio boundary laid
on the table, and ordered to be printed.
!. MIR Tyler reported bill to renew the
charter of the several banks in the Dis
trct of Columbia for one year.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
a The business first in order was the me-
> mortal heretofore presented by MIR ). 4.
Adams, praying for the abolition of slave
ry and the slave trade in the District Of
I Columbia, and the pending question Of
, appeal from the decision of the Speaker,
5 tho consideration Of which subjec; had
! been postponed to this day.
Mr. Wade, Of New York, moved the
further postponement of the subject 10
3 Monday next which motion, after some
, debate, was carried.
, IN SENATE.
"WEDNESDAY, Jan 10.
Mr.. Robbins submitted the following !:
!, Resoised, That tho Committee on Ma
val Affairs be instructed to inquire into
1.-The cxpediency of establishing a Naval
depo, within the waters Of Narragansett
!, Bay.
Resolred, That so much Of the report
of the Board OF Navy Commissioners,
made October 10, 1899, and OF the report
of the Secretary Of the Navy, made Dec
6, 1880, as relates to the establishment Of
depot within said waters, together with
; the report Of tho survey Of said bay, com
municaled to The Senate Dec 10, 1882,
with the several charts relating TO the same
be referred TO said Committee. Lie on
the table one day.
3 Tho Senate, in Committee OF the
Whole, resumed the consideration OF the
bill, for the relief of the sufferers by fire
in New York, which was ordered to be
lenprossed for a third reading.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN ID. c.
The following resolution, heretofore
offered by MIR JARVIS OF Maine, together
with the amendments thereon, came up in
the order of business
Resolved, That in the opinion OF this
House, the subject OF the Abolition OF
Slavery IN the District Of Columbia ought
no, to be entertained by Congress. And
he il further resolved, that in case any pc
li,ion, praying for the abolition OF slavery
IN tho said district, should be hereafter
presented, il is the deliberate opinion oi