Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-01-16

Virginia L. on the continental establish
ment, and on her own State establishment !;
if not, wha! provision ought to be promptly
made for that purpose.
Thirdly. What quantity of the ceded
territory has been, or the proceeds thereof,
devoted and applied towards the specific
objects enumerated in the deed of cession
and what quantity the said territory has
been devoted TO uses and purposes not com.
pretended in the terms and conditions OF
cesson. Finally, if it shall appear that
there will be a surplus Of land in the ceded
territory, beyond what is required to satisfy
the objects and purposes specially enum-
ated in the original terms and conditions in
pursuance of which the deed of cession
was executed, whether Congress is not
bound, by the manifest intention of that
deed, to provide for prompt and " ION
fde" distribution Of The proceeds Of the re-
naming lands, s,includng tho value ofso much
of those, lands, if any, as may have been
devotel to. purposes not warranted by tie
deed, amongst The States Of the Union r.
cording TO the ratio redistribution spe& Id
in the deed Of cession, for the sole usQ and
benefit Of the said States. And that The
committee have leave to report by bill or
otherwise.
Which. having been read, were referred
to the Select Committee on the public Lands,
and were ordered TO be printed.
Monday January 7, 1889.
AS soon as the journal had been read.
Mr.. Slade wished to know if it would be in
order for him to call up for consideration a
memorial presented by him on former day
relat ng to the recognition of Hayti:
The Speaker decided that it would not.
Mr.. Slade intiniating that he was desirous
to address the House on the Subject of the
memorial, moved that i. be taken up for con-
sderation, and on that motion demanded the
yeas and nays which were not ordered.
The motion was rejected.
Mr. Johnson of Louisiana presented me-
mortal Of Duncan H. Herman, clerk of the
United States District and Circuit Court for
the eastern district of Louisiana, exhibiting
charges against p. K. Lawrence, United
,, States District Judge of Louisiana, Of negli.
gence, corruption, intemperanee e, &c. Mr.. ].
said, as it was subject of much Importance to
the Judge, as we'll as to the State, he would
M We to refer it to se,ect committee.
, Referred to select committee.
. Mr.. Wise said he was about to present a
petition of rather uniqne character. It had
I been forwarded to him, and was addressed to
the House of Representatives. 1t came from
one woman and one man. w.
There was seal upon the paper also Of a
singular character. Stamped upon the wax
7 was the representation of sheaf of wheat
t sitting on an end in wheat field. The inscrip.
tion 'aereon was you deserve thrashing.''
The prayer of the pctItion was that tho House
would resciud its standing resolution by which
a. oolition papers are laid upon the table.
Mr.. w. then moved, thar the petition
, be referred to a Committee ofthe Whole or
The stale Of the Union, with Instructions tc
report resolution resembling the "Arther.
!, , ton resolutions" and moro especially tha
portion ofthem by which Abolition paper:
are laid upon the table on presentation tina
the memorials already received by the
= House and laid on the table, be taken from
the files ofthe House and returned to TIT
: petitioners, and that in future all AholItio!
. memorials of whatever character, be not re
ccived by tbs House.
Mr.. Droomgoole moved TO lay the wholt
subject on the table /; but.
Mr.. Wise intima'ing desire to address
the House on the subjec., the motion 10 lay
on the table was Withdrawn.
. Mr.. Adams presented memorial from sun
dry inhabitants of Boston, in the State 0
e Massachusetts,, asking Congress to remove
It the present seat o. Government from the Dis
E trIct Of Columbia, to some point north, whert
n the principles of the "Decralation of Indipen
s dence" are not treated az "a mere rhetorica
= flourish"
Mr.. Adams presented another memorial o!
humorous character asking the appointment
D of "committee on color" to whom shoult
, be referred all ofics holders and members o
/. Congress, for the examination of their respec
tive pedgrees; said committee to report OF
the same, andin all cases where the partie,
shall be found to have the least drop of coloret
! blood in their veins, they shall be expelled
from office and their places filled by persons o
pure Anglo Saxon blood.
3 Mr.. Adams was about to make some re.
5 marks on the subject, when
Mr.. Dromgoola rose to ask if.the memoria
had been received as, mot, he would raise
the question OF reception. He considered the
memorial as an evident ridicule of the House.
The Speaker stating that it had not as ye!
been received---
} Mr.. DromgaoIc raised the question ofrecep'
tion.
Mr. Adams denied that ,he!memorial was IN
the least disrespectful to the House, and DE;
manded the yeas and nays on the question ol
reception which, heing ordered, wsre-yeas
d4, nays III.
From the London Morning Chronicle:
!, TopD RyRON.