The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1839-01-09

Pos, Roads, reported bill to provide for
an additi0nel number Of clerks in the Post
Office. MIR. Benton, from the Committee
Oh Military Affairs, reported bill to pro-
vide COR the armed occupation and settle
ment of certain parts of land in Florida,
which is now overrun and infested by ma
rauding bands of hostile Indians. Mr..
Riyes offered n resolution calling upon the
Secretary Of War to furnish information
similar to that asked ia his resolution sent
last month to the Secretary Of the Treasury
in relation to the United States Bank. Mr..
Rycs in his resolution puts nearly the same
questions to Mr.. Poinsett as were pu, to
Mr. Woodbury.. The resolution lay over
one day. The Senate took up the special
order of the day, the bill to reduce and
graduate the price Of public lands, the mo-
ton Of Mr.. Clay pending, viz: " That the
bill he recommitted To the Committee on
Public Lands, with instructions to restrict
the right to purchase the public lands at the
! reduced price Of one dolur per acre and of
ssyenty-five cents per acre to actual settlers,
ut these prices. to quantity not exceeding
160 acres" The debate was continued un-
Ill after o'clock, =. NJ, and the question
was divided ind the motion passe d.
In the HOUSE, on Thursday, Mr.. Under
wood asked the adoption of resolution,
which was agreed to, calling on the Socr,-
tary Of War to furnish the House with eli
the particulars in relation TO the defalcatien
Of General Grariot, late an officer in tie
War Department.-The House proceeded
to the consideration of the report of the
Committee on Elections to whom was re.
ferred tho order Of the House on the subject
" of the right to n seat in the House as the
Delegate from the Territory of Wisconsin"
The report, among other things, says:
"No doubt exists as to the due election
Mr. Doty to srrve Ms n delegate for u
pf two years but the question pre-
a." 20 the committee is this Vixen does
.s t'f Of service commenced On the
1.- .'5,, It is contended that it commences
''!I his election, or at least with the date
of the Governors certificate of his election
on the other side, it is commended that the
term for which Mr. Jones was elected in the
fall Of 1886 does not expire until the 4th of
March, 1882"
After treating of the vnrious acts npplica-
bic to the case, the report concludes rs fol- !
lows:
"On the whole, after all the considera-
ton which The committee have been able to
bestow on the subject, they have no hesIta-
ton in saying that considerable difficulty
exists in reconciling the provisions of the
several acts which may he supposed to have
n bearing on the matter; yet they feel a
great degree of confidence in two positions
first, that it was the intention Of Congress,
by the net of April 1896, organizing tho
Territory, to afford the people of the Ter
ritory the privilege of an immediate repre-
senintion in Congress by a delegate To be
elected b, themselves; and second, that the
people of the Territory acted with n view to
the enjoyment of Tint privilege in cleciing
II delegate in October 1886. The conclu-
sion would then seem to be, that Mr.. Jones
has served out the term for which he was
elected in October, 1886, and that Mr. Do J
~ is entitled to the seat under his election
in 1888"
A debate followed, in which Messrs.
Thomas, Cushing, Randolph Fletcher, of
Mass, Tillinghast and Crary participated.
On motion of Mr.. De Graft, the previous
question was put and carried, and the
main question, viz. on concurring with the |
report of the committee was decided in the |
affirmative by yeas and nays az follows
yeas l67, nays %. So the House decided
TINT Mr.. Doty is, and Mr.. Jones is not en-
titlcd to seat. Mr.. Doty ,hereupon np-
peared, was sworn, and took his seat.
In the SENATE, on Friday, the resolution
offered the previous day, by Mr.. Rives,
camc up on its second residing, and the |
mover took occasion to review the repor, of
the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to
his last resolutions calling for information,
and still further to argue the connec,ion be.
tween the Administration and the United
States Bank. The latter subject was made
the chief object of his remarks. Mr.. Niles
followed, IN reply, but in the midst Of his
remarks the Senate adjourned.
la the liousr,-afier reports were received
from Committees. the House went to the
consideration of the orders Of the day, which
were private business. A bill fer the relief
Of the widow Of General Brown was befor,
the House during the day, and passed after
4 long discussion. Mr.. Duncan, of Ohm
voted in the affirmative Cor the purpose Of
moving n reconsideration. which was done
by him as soon as the bill had passed.