Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-01-24

grant remuneration to certain individuals
claiming to have been the inventors OF steam
navigation, was referred to select committee.
THE PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, moved to
suspend the Rules to enable him to offer the
following resolution:
Rcsolred, That the Committee on Public
Lands inquire into the expedlency OF prohlb-
iting by law the purchase Of lands, at auction,
with a view to forfeit them and afterwards to
obtain them at Government price OF one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre.
Mr.. W. called for the yeas and nays on the
motion to suspend the Rules for this purpose,
which were ordered; and, being taken, were.
yeas l54, nays36. So the House suspended
the Rules.-The Resolution was adopted.
DEposrTE BANKS.
Jan.3. The House proceeded to the con-
sideration of the following resolution, hereto
fore offered by Mr.. Garland of Virginia.
Resolred, That the Secretary of the Treas
ury communicate to this House, if within his
power, the dividends and surpuses which were
declared by, and the surplusesiand contingent
funds remaining in the several banks in which
the public money is deposited, for years 1883,
1884, 1885, and 1886, severally,
To which resolution the following amend
ment had been heretofore offered by Mr. Har-
Ian:
.And that he state also, whether theisalary
or compensation of an agent at the seat of the
General Government composes "a part OF the
said banks; the name Of the said agent, and
the several sums paid to him by the said insti-
tutions respectively.
The question being on the following amend
ment to the amendment submitted by Mr..
| Tanderpoel.
"And whether the Treasury Department
has anv agent or attorney to correspond OF
communicate with said deposite banks in re-
lation to the public deposites; if So who is
such agent or correspondent; what compensa.
ton is allowed to him, and by whom is such
allowance made OF paid"
Mr.. M'Kay moved to amend the resolution
by calling for the amount of public money on
hand, in different years, in those banks, and
also, for statement, as far as he may be able
to make it, of the profits made, during the same
year, by other banks, than the deposite banks
Mr.. Garland accepted the amendment as
modification of the resolution.
The question on the different branches Of
the resolution was taken separately, and car
ried in the Affirmative. The last branch was
agreed to unanimousl ly-yeas 1919.
Mr.. Wise's resolution for an appointment
of a Select Commute to consider and report
upon that part Of the Presidents Message
which speaks of the ability and integrity with
which the several Offices Of the public Depart
ment have been discharged, was taken up.
Mr.. Pickens spoke at some length in support
of the resolution; after which ~.
The House adjourned.
Jan. 4. Mr.. Allen, of Kentucky, offered a
resolution directing an inquiry, by a Select
| Committee of one member from each State,
into the expediency of granting each OF the
old States the same portion Of the public lands,
for the purposes of education, which has been
granted to the new States for that purpose
to report by bill.
Mr.. Vinton moved to amend the resolution,
by adding provision thai said Committee, in
any bill that they may report, shall insert a
clause compensating the new States for the
improvements made by them on the public
lands, and also paying them an amount equiv
alent to the taxes which the new States had
been restrained from imposing on the lands in
their limits. Mr.. v. contended tina. the Gov
ernment had not granted land enough to Ohio
to pay for the improvements which the State
had made through the public lands.
Messrs. Briggs, Parker, and Allan, Of Ken
lucky, supported the resolution, and claimed
for the old States an equal share in the public
lands, on the ground that the old States had
acquired these lands by their blood and trea-
sure, and that their citizens had settled and
improved the lands.
Mr.. Johnson, of Indiana, denied that the
grants of land in the new States were consid-
cred as donations when they were made
They were granted as an equivalent for the ex-
emption of the public lands from the taxation
for five years after their sale. He moved 80 to
amend the resolu ion is to embrace In the pro-
posed distribution the new States as well as
the old.
Mr.. Allen accepted the amendment as a
modification.
Before the question was taken, the House
preceded to the orders of the day.
| EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.
The House resumed the reconsideration of
the resolution heretofore offered by Mr.. Wise,
for the appointment of a Select Committee, to
inquire into the management of the Executive
Departments.
The question being on the motion of Mr.: D.
! !. Pearce to amend the resolution by substitu-
ting for it proposition for an inquiry into spe-
cifc charges against any department or bu-
reau.
Robertson,of Virginia, who was entitled
to the floor, rose and spoke at great length in
opposition to the amendment, and in support
Of the original resolution:
Jan. 6. Nothing worth reporting.
Jan. Z. The unfinished business OF the
morning hour was the resolution heretofore
offered by Mr.. C. Allan.
| Mr.. Lane who was entitled to the floor, pro-
ceeded to address the House at length in OPP
position to the resolution. He denied the
truth of the assumption that the lands were
ceded as donation and contended thatth