Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-04-12

A conventional Geb.,3 ensasd "a Ia tho adjourn.
mens in which Msasrr E2ANS, LINZ, CRIT
lTEkDEN. WRIGHT, MOREHGAD, ALLEN
PRESTON, and Others participated. A,ienslh, it vas
agreed the Senate should go into Executive session
and tie Senate accordingly went into Executive ses
session, and shortly after adjourned.
House of Representatirss.-M WISE called up the
bill authorizing the construction OF an IRON steamer,
which he warmly advocated.
The question was then taken on the passage of the
BILL and carried in The afrmative-yeas 1885, nays 81
MIR. DIXON H. LEWIS, from the Committee of
Ways and Means reported the following resolution:
| Rtsoired, That tie Committee on Commerce be in.
structed to inquire the expedency OF providing By
law for retrenchment ofhe expenditures and the better
regulation Of the light house department. aud also,
whe Their the same ought not TO be placed under the
charge of the Typographical Bureau
The House resumed the consideration OF the civil
and appropriation bill. A motion was made to strike
out the appropriation of 100000 for survey of the
coast of The United States. Lost. section was &C.
ded TO appropriate $4,000 for The survey OF the North
Eastern Boundary. section for sppropratlng So.
| 600 to complete the Custom House at Boston. Mr.
Winthrop moved TO amend the item by adding $780,,
600 This gave rise to debate, when the Goa.
miitee rose without taking question upon It,
Saturday. .4pril Q.
SrxArE-The Loan Bill under consideration. Mr.
Woodbury. addressed the Senate, in behalf Of NJ
Walkers amendment. He said, if they followed lie
lead of the President, who had placed himself at tie
helm, like a skiliul pilot, and took back the public
lands what would be the aspect! All were agreed to
rerench but Senators differed as 10 the amount; but
suppose the retrenchmeut should be made to bring
the expenditures down TO twenty Millions in addition
To one million for contingencies, and two for the lnie-
rest on the debt and The payment of a part Of The
prncipal-how was this TO be met: why, they would
get sixteen millions and half under the present tariff;
add to this the lands three and half Millions and they
would have twenty millions toward paying the twenty.
three millions. Then tax tea and coffee, (he was will.
na to do so provided the lands taken back, and
rather than violate the Compromise aci,) and they
would get enough to make up the entire amount Of
twenty three millions.
Mr. Preston said with regard to the lands, he would
90 step further than the President of the u s. or The
Senator from Virginia, (NIr Rives and say that they
ght only TO be brought back but that they ought
never to have been put where they were, for 1t was
fatal and disastrous policy.
On taking the question on MIR. Walker . amendment,
il was lost-yeas 10, nays 25, viz:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Bag by, Eenton, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Fulton, King, Linn, McRober's R,ves,
Smith of Conn, Sturgeon, Tsppan, Walker, Wilcox,
Williams, Woodbury., Wright, Young-19
.Aays-Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates, Bayard Der
ren, Choale, Clayton, Evans, Graham, Henderson,
Huntington, Mangnm, Aerrick, Miller, Morehead,
Phelps, Porter Preston, Simmons, Smith CT Ind i,
Southland, Sprague, Tamudge, White, Woodbridge
25.
Mr. Benton said, lie had amendment TO offer-but
on motion, the Senate adjourned
House Of Reprcsenfatires-h appropriation bill un.
der consderaon-Mr. Winthrop's amendment about
the Custom. House in Boston was rejected-and the
$4,000 retained.
lt !, said tina, the Custom House has already cost
100000! II is 10 be erected with 20 columns, each
of which cost more than So,000!l
Mr.. Profit moved 10 strike out the section about
lighthouses to enable him 20 move thorough reform
in the whole system-but before he concluded, tie
Committee rose and the House adjourned.