Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-04-07
Correspondence of the Baltimore Chronicle.
WASHINGTON. March %. Is3s

WASHINGTON. March %, 1888.
From the Committee Public Buildings
had Bill. prov idiny for the removal of the walls
of the Treasury Building. partly erected, Presi
dents Square, and for the erection of another fire
proof Treasury Building. on the site of the burnt
Post Office. The appropriation in this bill is 81 1O,-
900 only, 10 which add the cost of the building
thus far completed, and the expense OF building
up the new to about the same height)
Gov. Lincoln, who occupies the important post
Of Chairman Of this committee, had to staEd god
father to this proposition, and to-day he moved to
fix a dav certain for the consideration of this bill
Bat to this Cambreleag entered his negatur.-
and then Mr. Lincoln moved to refer the bill TO the
Committee of the Whole, and that was done.
1t seems that this Government Treasury Bull
ding "iob'' turns out something as the Sub-Trea-
surv scheme would doubtessly do. if it be ever
commenced, (Which heaven forbid9 The foun-
dation is too weak to sustain the projected super
structure!
A debate sprung up, Immediately after this b-
sness was disposed OF. upon a resolution of Mr..
Sladc of VT, calling for information relating to
the operation OF the Presumption Laws. and to
the sales of public lands in the different states
and territories. This resolution had been adopted
on a former day. and il was on motion to re-
consider that VOTE that this discussion arose. II
went on the ground that the information required
could not be obtained without greater trouble and
greater expense than would be repaid by any good
that could possibly result from It's being OBTAINED.
But the motion to reconsider thrown out
The House then went into Committee Of the
Whole, again, and resumed the consideration of
the Military Appropriation Bill: the discussion of
amendmert Is to which and to the Naval Appropria-
ton Bill, and others, occupied the remainder of
the day.
After these bills had been all handled once.
and the committee were about to rise and report
them Mr. Mallory. of Va, rose. and made some
injuries of the Chairman of the Committee ot
WAYS and Means. whether in the Navy bill there
was anv thing specific otherwise. for the Ex-
ploring Expedition? Mr.. Cambreleng gave a shuf-
fling kind of answer, giving kind of abstraction
upon that point: and then Mr.. Mallory went into
n very pointed and severe animadv ersion upon the
whole management. or misnana cement Of this
subject. He described the course Of Mr.. Decker
son with regard to it, from first last. which he
showed to have been such as to have rendered that
member Of the Cabinet the most ridiculous person
in the country. He adverted to the nsolent con-
tempt with which that imbecile functionarv had
habitually treated the resolutions of the House.
making enquiries as to the progress of that expe-
dition.
/ Mr. Montgomery. Of \. c.. was for having the
bill referred back to the Committee Of Ways and
Means with instructions to make this appropria-
ton specific.
Mr. Cambreleng wished the hundreds of thou
sands expe nded on the expedition were back gain
in the Treasury. The bill contained no specific
appropriation for that particular purpose, although