The Madisonian., 1840-02-20


Mr. CAVE JOHNSON then offered the follow.
Ing amendment 10 lieu Of tie above. offered BY Ain
on former day.
Z" That all the proceedings and papers before tle
Committee Of Elections IN relation 10 the New ger
sey election b. reported 70 he House BY tie Cen.
mi,tee, with statement Of The names Of ne iret
viduas who received majority OF an the yo.gs
given al the elections for members Of the 25h e n
greSs IN thai Stale snd that the be printed or
the Of the House and the Committee and iha,
said committee have leave 10 have such other parff
and documents 10 relation 10 other contested tcc rs
pending before them printed By HE public PRIMER 1!
Congress"
Mr.. j. then ssd that he had been cstd on i, =.
rious members Of The House ~ihdaw the dem,nl
for the previous question and also BY several mem.
befs Of the committee, who desrtd 70 give some Il
planation their and although lie had t,tq
Of opinion hat BIS public duty required him make lLe
motion. yet, The substitute which he had oa,,d
covered the whole ground, be wiling 10 withdraw
the demand
So The call fgr the previous question alibdrann
Mr.. CAMPBELL, 81 Soah Csralrs (Chairmap Il,
the Committee Of Eieciorsi then rose and entered y,
leugih into statement of The proceeding. of e
committee speaking especially IN regard 10 his o~n
course as member q that committee, aid IN yudca.
fion thereof
Al one O'Clock. Ar concluded, When lhe Speaker
first having gsso ,.e floor 70 Mr. FILLMORE Al.
nonnced the special order Of the day beng the eoas
deraton oi the
F1*slgA BILL
o. po'iea of 81 JONES Of Virginia tie Howe
resolved ifsslf a,o carrnistee or tie Whole on be
.'s'e q - t-ssa NJ Lincoln of Msssschusctis. n
ias L~s@ y re hta nskng sppropris ions for tAe
pstssaf 2 - RsyolatcaafY ard Other pensioners Of
~ e-ec S.stes M .hs teaf 1893
&@E ss- Yf RiCE GARLAND had hereto.
f.rs ssst y t--e.c - astrt.ng the following clause
"Bs . frrlier ets>,sS. Tali ~ money appropriated
By :fas a. szsA x f'scsa ii me baud, Of pension
aEsas. uars taaa o4e nsa,A before lhe dsy for ,ho
seaas-aaEz4s pagsastt q pensaOas'
To ~tca .ust5uenr Nr UNDERWOOD A.a
heretofore Offered rse fglo.lag amendment;
Esea p<u.soa aEea, ,hsi IL allowed a. compcn.
sston i1r lls serves - pef cent % the amount II
n7ney dabafssd p bin Prer,std, That no peu.ldn
sgeai sAsl fecsiFe as compensation more than 800
doliars Per snngn.8
Be II farfisv eagcts4, Tia, shli Sc urlawfJ III
any pensaa agent 70 use appF 10 his Purposes
10 leGd 70 sny person persons suffer any per
500 or Pers2ns 70 use. any part of The poUlc
placed 10 he hands Subject 20 his control snd If
anY pension agent shall violate the foregoing provisions
Of thus section be shall Upon thereof before
any court Of competent jurisdiction. undergo aud suffer
Imprisonment for period OF time less than one for
more tnan h'e yesfs az ne discretion OF The jury
yc,ing the ofeuder"
And the pending question was on the amendment to
the amendment
Mt WHITE, OF Kentucky. referring TO the opposi.
o a
former OCCASION took repudste the idea that
he in any way opposed paying the pensioners
the pii,snce which il allowed them In this respect he
wished to Sc, himself right before The House and the
country.
Mt w proceeded to argue (at lengthy ,ha, the bill
oughr not to pass lie coniendsd that power cx-
lsed IN the heads Of Departments with the appreciation
Of the President, TO transfer expended balances un
der certain heads Of appropriation, certain other
heads. during the Of Congress and il the Sc
..azftt - D..
there would have been no deficiency in the funds to
meet the pension payments falling due on the 5th uf
March.
There seemed to be some doubt as to the power of
transfer BY reference 10 the law OF 1902 (Which MI
w read gentlemen would find tha, there a gene
raj provision, applicable all The Departments autho
rizg the transfer OF fund another OF the same
Department; and II the President and Secretary hsd
done their duty under that law and transfers had htea
properly made, there would have been All excess of
Sl7i 900 IN these various funds instead OF there beng
now demand upon the Treasury for one mill on oae
hundred and seYeniy-one Thousand dollars And Mr
w contepded that all that WAS necessary to be done
now was. that Congress should authorize the transfer
which ought have been made in the recess under lie
general law, TO be made
The debate was continued bv Messrs. TILIING.
HAST, RICE GARLAND WHITE, Of Kentucky
TRIPLET'r, JONES, WISE, EVANS, GRAVES.
CURTIS, BELL and POPE. and was not terminated
I'LL past o'clock, when the committee was brought 10
a vote on Mr.. GAELANDs amendment TO the bill pro
posing 10 limit the time within which advances should
be made to pension agents which amendment was re.
jectrd bv vote Of 7s to So
Mr.. WHITE, OF Kentucky then moved 10 amend
the bill by striking out all after the enactug clause and
inserting the following
- That the Secretary Of War, with the appreciation
OF the President Of The United States be- and he is
hereby authorized to transfer the unexpended balances
OF appropriations heretofore made the different class
Of The genersl pension fund any Of classes
of which the specific appropriations may deficient, FOR
the purpose of meeting the claims upon any of
the classes Of sad general pension fund.-
90 this amendment the was taken BY tellers and
resulted as follows Yeas So. NAYS 7s
So the amendment, was rejected
On motion Of Mr. JONES, the committee then rose
aud reported the bill TO the House
Mr.. CURTIS moved an adjournment, bot, the yeas
and nays being ordered, withdrew :he motion
Nh. CLIFFORD, of Maine, moved the previous
question.
Mr., LEWIS WILLIAMS renewed the motion 10
adjourn
The yeas and nays again ordered, and ing
taken, resulted as follows Yeas % nays ll6
So the House refused to adjourn
The previous question thereupon seconded pnt,
and carried and the main question being engrosslug
the bill, and ordering third reading was decd-
cd by yeas aud nays as follows Yeas 1876, nays 0.
So the bill ordered to its third reading
II then read a third time. when Mr. TURNEY
demanded the previous question: which was seconded,
put. aud carried and the bill was then passed
The House then, at 6 o'clock, adlourned.
Extract Of a Letter from 7. JcGersOn 10 Jarsd