Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-02-04

To, and reported. Ailer which, it was
read third time and passed.
Mr.. White offered the following reso-
luton, which was agreed to:
Resolved, That the Committee on
Military Affairs be instructed to inquire
into the expediency Of raising a regiment
Of mounted rillenen or Dragons, to Ope-
rate against the Indians, il in the oP'n-
ION OF the President VI the U. 5. the
public service require Il.
The bill amendatory Of an act entitled
"an &C: in addition to the several acts
for the regulation Of the War and Navy
Departments, was read twice aud conf
mItted.
The bill making appropriations for the
Civil and Diplomatic expenses Of Co
vernment for the year 1886, wus read
twice and committed.
And then the House adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 9th.
Mr. Jarvis, from the Committee on
Naval Affairs, reported the "bill to re-
ward the captors Of the Tripolitan Fri
gate, late the PhiIadelphia," which was
twice read and committed. This bill is
similar in object, but not in provisions, to
The bill, so long debated in Congress, for
the relief OF Susan Decatur and others.
Alter the report of several private
bills from the Standing Committees,
The House proceeded to the conside-
ration of the resolution offered on Friday
last by Mr. John Quincy Adams:
The question still being OIL the motion
Of MIR. Williams, Of N. G. to amend the
resolution by adding to it, "with power
to send for persons aud papers,"
MIR Cambreleng, who was entitled to
the floor, spoke at considerable length,
in vindica Of himself aud of the house
from the charge brought against them,
here and in the Senate, Of having defeat
ed the iortificution bill.
MIR Reed, Of Mass. followed, and
maintained at length, that the Fortifica-
ton bill in question was defeated by the
President himself and the party acting
with him. He remarked that he had
heard with PAIN the remarks Of the gen
tleman fiom Mass his colleague, Mr.
Adams, impeaching the character and
acts OF the Senate, and pronounced them
disorderIv, unjust, aud untrue.
MIR Hardin took the floor, but gave
way for motion to adjourn which pre-
vailed.
THURSDAY, January 2Sth.
The House resumed the consiJera-
ton of the resolution Of Mr. Adams, on
the loss Of the Appropriation bill, at the
last session. The question being OIL MIR
Williams motion to amend:
MIR Hardin, who was entitled 10 the
floor, rose and addressed tho House.
He adv0rted first to the manner in which
the resolution was brought, and the un =.
derstanding which appeared to exist in
relation to it, between the mover and the
Honorable Chairman OF the Committee
Of Ways and Means, Mr. Cambreleng. J
He commented on the extraordinary
character Of the resolution, and appealed d
to every gentleman in the House 10 say
whether any parallel to it was known in
the history of this or any other legisla-
tive body. But the gentleman had an
object in view, as every man has in every
act; some men marched up in a straight
line to their object, and others approach
ed it indirectly. The genileman's OBJ
ject he exhibited very plainly. The re-
solution proposed nothing for the action
Of the House. 1t proposed nothing but
an idle and ridiculous inquiry into the
history OF the last session. Was any ac-
lion to grow out Of it? no-such pro-
ceeding was never heard of. He went
into history Of the proceedings on the
Forti6cation bill, till the time when The
three million appropriation was offered.
He voted against the appropriation on
the ground that it was unc utional; !;
and he went into many arguments to
show that It was unconstitutional, as a
general appropriation, without speci6ca-
ion of object.
The Hon. gentleman from Massachu-
setts Continued MIR ii said, ,re, ace, zoe,
cannot be denominated man worshippers.
The gentleman was never accused Of
man worship. His fault was Of another
kind. 1t could not be said Of the gentle
man, as it was Of Cesar, Washington,
and of Buonaparte, that he never forgot
a favor or deserted a friend. There
were seventy or eighty prescribed indi-
viduals on this floor, who could attest,
hat the gentleman worshipped nothing
but himself. He was one Of those who
had devoted his energies, his resources,
and his zeal to the support of that gen.
lleman-and here he would declare, hat
if God would forgive him for the error,
ne would never sin in the like manner
again. These men who were once pro-
scribed as the friends of the gentle man,
are now denounced by him, as ready to
open the door Of The Capitol 10 the enc
my. He, for one, repelIed the foul i'm
putation with indig nation and cast A