Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-09

against circulating useful or necessary information
lie ready to give light the people any
and whether by the prime pie and against the
secret system voting BY useful and necessary pub
LEGATIONS he wished all his acts 10 be known to the pcO
pie. He would have nothing concealed or msrcprc
scented, but all his acts to be above board hs TO tac
question nndcr consideration, IT perhaps small
matter, and nothing would have induced him To say one
word in regard TO it had not been for the unccaSlng
endcavors of some gentlemen that floor to produce
impression on the public mind that the party with
which he acted were disposed 10 cXpcnd money IN use
less printing TOR the purpose of rcwardnT political Ia
vorrs. He had shown how the extravaganza, charged
by the gentleman from s Carolina had been practised
to greater extent by the party with which he acted
How the change had come over gentlemen this session
which made them such great sticklcrs for economy, he
would not pretend to say but would only observe in
reference to himself, that he should vote against the
printing of the document under consideration, he did
not believe it was wanted for The public service.
Mr. GRAVES rose to call the attention OF tie House
to the probable cost of printing this document When
the chairman of the committee Mr.. {. Johnson first
moved the printing Of this document he stated that
the main expense having already been incurced in the
cost Of engraving the plate, the printing would not
amount TO more than eight cents copy. Bnt
(said Mr. ca We are now told by the chairman that
the old plates cannot be had, and therefore the
craving must be paid for anew He would now ask
the gentleman whether he did not believe the cost
would be some four or five thousand dollars. lie had
to vote for the reconsideration moved by the gen.
tleman from South Carolina.
Mr. SMITH Of Name said he understood the gen
t!cman from Virginia Mr. Banks to charge on the gen
tleman from S. Carolina MIR. Waddy Thopnsonl and
his friends the passage Of the resolution ordering The
printing Of 20 600 extra copies Of document No 291-
He understood that in reply to that charge, the gen
tleman from s Carolina MIR ThompsonI said that the
gentleman from Nirg had Eat random stated that
which was not true. Now (said Mr.. S. hold in my
hand the resolution authorizing the printing Of 10000
extra copies of document No. 291: hold in my hand
the yeas and nays (hodng up the journa) the adop
ton of that resolutions and among the yeas find record.
ed the of "Waddy Thompson, jr. have no.
thing CONTINUED Mr. So to say that subject.
Mr. THOMPSON. | understood the gentleman
from Virgimi to charge with voting generally for
extensive printing, and not to refer TO this particular
document.
Mr. BANKS. stated expressly tina. it was docu.
ment No 29, being the report OF the Secretary of the
Treasury detalcatons of public officers referred
particularly to the document, and stated distinctly
what il was as to leave room for misunderstanding
Mr.. THOMPSON said that he had not understood
the gentleman from Virgins mir. Banksl as alluding
to any particular document, but making the general
charge that be- Mr. t. had voted for extra printing