The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1840-04-30

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adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Thursday. April &c.
On leave, petitions were presented
from several individuals praying for PEN
Sims, which were referred.
Sundry bills from The Senate we're read
The 6rsi and second time, and appropri.
aiely referred.
DIR. w. Cost Johnson. OF Maryland.
presented bill which he desired 10 have
printed. As he intended 10 move il as
substitute for The sob-ressury bill, when
ever that bill should be called up BY tle
chairman Of The committee Of ways and
means. The bill was ordered 10 be prin
ted.
The unfinished business OF the morn
ing hour Was the motion 10 recommit,
with instructions, The report OF The com
nitlee in relation 10 the existing contracts
for stationery. The debate was coniin-
iinued by Messrs. Johnson Of Va. John
sion Of N. Y. Petrikin and Wise.
The bill making appropriations for The
civil and diplomatic expenses of the go-
sernmens for the year 1910, was again
taken up in committee Of the whole. Mr..
Ogle (who had The aoor from yesterday
continued his remarks until near four
o'clock. Mr.. Lincoln Of Massachusetts.
then took the Aonr, and continued 10 ad
dress the committee until past o'clock.
u------ .I.~-succeedeo by Mr.. Peirikin,
on whose motion the committee rose, and
The house adjourned.
Friday, April ~.
The business Of the morning hour sill
being the recommiiment of the report oil
the committee on the stationary accounts.
Mr.. Burke. Of New Hampshire, asked
leave 10 present The memorial Of Hugh
A. Garland, clerk Of The house. request
ing the appointment Of select commit.
tee, with power TO enter into full ex.
animation Of all transactions between
himself and Mr.. Langtree, on the subject
of contracts for stationery, lithography,
&C.; and ihereupon Mr.. Burke wished
TO offer a resolution corresponding with
the prayer Of the memorial. Mr.. Wise
commended the course Of The clerk in de-
manding an investigation, and proposed
a modification Of Mr.. Johnston's resolu-
lions and instructions; which, after some
desultory conversation. was accepted by
Mr.. Burke as a modification of his reso-
luton. and in this shape it was adopted.
The general appropriation bill was then
again taken mp in committee OF the whole,
and the debate was continued until after
four o'clock, when the committee rose,
and the house adjourned.
49, Saturday. April 10.
The resolution reported by Mr.. Briggs
to abolish The committee on public ex.
penditures, was taken M, and Mr.. Hall,
Of Vermont, continued 10 address the
house in support Of the resolution until
the expiration of the hour.
The general appropriation bill was
then again taken up in committee Of the
whole, and debated during the remainder
of the day.
Monday, April 20.
Mr.. Wise asked to be excused from
serving upon the committee on the sub.
ject of contracts for stationery Tor the use
of the house. and, to the great regret oil
his friends. stated, as an argument in sup
port Of the request, that he had been for.
hidden by his physicians to enter into The
debates of the hall. He said he had .
disease of the throat which would com.
pel him to be almost silent during the
residue of the session; besides which, be
expected to be absent very soon.
i The debate upon the general appro
priation bill was again resumed in com
mit,es of the whole, and continued unit