Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-06-02
TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
FIRST REGULAR SESSION.

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION.
IN SENATE.-May 23. j
Mr.. CLAY. Of KY, rose, and said he supposed l
that orders had been issued from the Post Office !
ana Treasury departments to receive for Gov
ernment dues the notes Of sPccic-Paying banks,
or at least that they were actually received, aud
he wanted to ascertain precisely the facts Of the
case whatever they might be- With this view
he offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Secretary Of the Treas .
ury and the Postmaster General scveralIy inform
the Senate whether any orders have been given
from their Departments 20 receive the notes Of
orders; aud If any instructions have been given,
that they communicate 10 the Senate what were
those instructions.
Mr. WRIGHT said he would correct the SEN
ator in regard to fact. lie had understood
him To say that orders had been given TO the
ceipt ofthesc notes; but it had not been stat
ed. The information given here was, that the
notes we're received. But Mr. w. had inquired
lately at the Departments on the subject, and no
orders 10 receive them had then been issued.
Mr.. CLAY said it was not his intention to say
any thing more than To intimate the fact that
they were received He meant to say nothing
Of tho forms tcchnicalities Of the subject; but
he took il for granted, II these notes receiy
ed, il was done in accordance with some author
ity. Bat, whatever were the facts, he wished to
know them, and bv what authority.
The resolution was agreed TO without dissent.
UMBERLAND ROAD.
The Senate proceeded TO consider the bill for
the continuation of the Cumberland road III :bc
States Of ONO. Indiana. and Illinois.
! MIR. Upton said the Senate would rccoI-
Iect that the sum proposed to- be appropriated by
the bill from the House was less than half tho
mount proposed by the bill reported by the COM
mittce roads and canals OF the Senate early
/ N the Tho road in, charVp at allie
amp experienced engineers, and they knew better
than any other person could know what sum
could be usefully applied this year to the con-
siruciion Of the road under their superintendent
In framing the ball reported to the Senate, he
had inserted the estimated for the road by the
engineer. The bill was discussed in the Senate
some weeks ago, and was laid on the table, and
call made the Engineer Department for an es-
timatc showing the sum required TO comply with
existing contracts, AM TO preserve the road from
diapidation. The estimate was now before the
Senate. II differed but little, in the aggregate
from the sum required by the House bill The
Committee Roads and Canals, seeing the en-
barrassment Ofihc Treasury, and the delay TO be
produced by amending the bill, had instructed
him to report the House bill to the Senate with
out mendmcnt, and to recommend its passagc.-
MIR. Il. said he would not consume the time OF
the Senate by speech in support of the measure.
Al understood its provisions. He was prepared
! with estimates every item of the bill, and
would now answer such questions gentlemen
> might ask in relation TO details. As friend Of
. the bill, he wanted votes, not speeches.
: This bill aud the various amendments proposed
3 were farther discussed by Messrs. NORVELL
n BENTON. WRIGHT, SMITH, Of Ia., MORRIS
Is NILES, BUCHANAN, SMITH, of Conn. MER
J. RICK, Upton, ROBINSON, and PRES
a TON.
! Mr.. NORVELI. offered an amendment, which
:, was understood TO confine the appropriations to
the two per cent. fund granted for the purpose OF
l. roads TO these States respectively.
!, %. u.s. - " 90 ''' 'A' way
, Mr.. BENTON offered an amendment rcIuir
J. ing that the appropriations of this bill should bs
ID subject to all the limitations, restrictions, &c
a contained in the act relating roads, approve,
y March 3, 1887. What these Limitations, &c. wcr
d. did not appear
This amendment was agreed to: Yeas 27,nay
i'll Mr. NILES moved to amend the bill by s,ri
10 king out that part relating TO Il bridge IN Penn
sylvania. Negatived: Yeas ii NAYS not count
c, ed
II Mr. HUBBARD, with view propor,ionably t
"a reduce all the appropriations moved to reduce tn
appropriation for Ohio from Sl5O,CO0 to $lOO
900.
This motion was negatvcd as follows:
n YEAS-McssIs. Calhoun, Clay, OF Ala. Clay
II ton, Hubbard, King, Lyon, Miles, Norvell, Pierce
Is Pren,iss, Preston, Roane, Rugg smith OF Conn
H. Strange. Trotter, Wiiliams-1!.
NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Blyard, Benton, Bucf
nj nnan, Clay, OF XIV, Crttenden, Cuthbert, DAVIS
10 Fulton, Grundy, Knight, Linn, Merrick. Morri:
y Nicholas, Robinson, Smith, OF la, Spence, Swift
e Upton. Webster, Wright, Young-23.
2 The bill. as amended, was ordered To be en-
n crossed for q third reading, by the following
&c vote:
4 YEAS-Mcssrs. Allen. Bayard, Benton, Buct
is anan, Clay, Of Ky, Critenden. Cnthbert. Davi:
10 Fulton, Grundy, Knight, Linn, 'kean, Merrict
ID Morris, Nicholas, Robins, Robinson. Sewer ,Smtl
g OLA, Spence, Swift, Upton, Webster, Wrigh
II YouD1-26.
10 NAYS-Mcssrs. Calhoun, Clay, of Ala, Clay
g ton, Hubbard, King, Lyon, MoutoD, Norvel
y Niles, Pierce, Pren,ss, Preston, Roanc, Smith C
S. Conn, Strange, Trotter, WIlliams-l7.
Mr. HUBBARD gave notice that, soon a
the general navy appropriation bill was dispose
ut of, he would call up the resolution introduced b
,e Mr.. CLAY Of Ny prohibiting discrimination in III
o, kinds Of money received as revenue, and antho
r, izing public receipts and payments in the note
to Of sound, spccic-paying banks.
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