The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-30
TWHOLE NO. 837.

To the clause allowing three additional clerks III
the 81 Auditors Office, amendment was carried
which limits the period of their employment 70 The
Isl Of July next
The bill allows clerk on the Navy pension
fund, at a salary Of 81 CO..
Mr. GILMER said that request ad been made
to give perminence to these clerkships, nor was II
pretended that their permanence IS required. ne
was therefore of opinion that limit should be hxed
to them, either applied to each clause or generally
Mr. INGERSOLL read communication from
the Treasury Department, declaring the necessity OF
additional clerks.
The clauses relating to the office of Auditor of the
fost Ofhce were struck out. bill providing Tor
those cerk,hips having been already passed, as wa
also the clause appointing opographer in the Office
OF the Postmaster General.
The sixth section, which declares the Offices pre-
viousy mentioned to be duly legalzed and continues
them until Otherwise provided by law, Mr.. GIL
MEX offered an amendment limiting the duration oil
the offices To the first of July, lo43.
He advocated this amendment on the ground that
it is easier to create than destr office. Ii it
should be found necessary to continue these Offices
longer it could easily be done. He not for giving
permanence to offices, the duties of which are tenn
purary. This motion was negatlved.
MIR. GILMER modified the motion by extending
the limit to July LIST, 1874, and in this form it was
carried.
To the section egaizing the salaries of the drago-
man at Constantinople and the consul at London Mr.
ADAM objected, considering positive law unne-
cessary to author re the appointment OF these officers
MIR. lNGERSOLL amended the section, so that IT
reads 1t shall not be lawful for the President to
appoint dragoman at Constantinop!e consul at
London at higher salaries than those mentioned IN
the law-whch salaries are hereby provided for
Mr.. JOHNSON, Of Tennessee, objected to the ex-
cepton made in favor Of the consul at London, and
one or two others of granting them salaries, while
consuls at more important ports are dependent on
their fees.
Mr. ADAMS explained the onerous duties i'm
posed on the consul at London without any COM
pensation from fees.
sThe amendment of Mr.. INGERSOLL was car
ried.
To the 10th section relating the stationery of the
Departments, Mr.. CAMPBELL, of South Carolina,
moved proviso that no gullt-edge paper should be
bought The motion was lost.
In the 2lst section Mr.. INGERSOLL moved to
insert appropriation of $500 for distributing
| census returns. The motion prevailed.
| On the motion of Mr.. WHITE, of Louisiana, an
appropriation of $4,000 introduced, to defray
expenses of surveys in Louisiana
At the end of section 81, Mr. WHITE, of Louis-
ana, offered an amendment to pay the arrearages due
to the clerks in the custOmhouse at New Orleans on
the same principle that arrearages we're acknow-
lodged and paid the custom house clerks of Phila-
delphia, New York, and Boston.
After some debate, the amendment was rejected
On motion of Mr. lNGERSOLL, the appropria-
ton for purchasing lot in the vic NIFTY Of the mint
in Philadelphia was struck out, the lot having been
already sold and building erected IN it.
While this bill was waiting for consideration,
Mr. INGERSOLL also offered amendment pro-
vi ing f,r keeping the public grounds in order.
Mr. STANLY moved to reduce the salary of the
gardener from $1,000 to $lOOh He thought in
addition to the perquses en Eyed by the gardener,
the hire of his carts to the Government the accumu-
lation Of hay, &c. 3d. OO sufficient for the gardener
Mr.. BOARDMAN supposed that if the gardener
performed his duties, tweive hundred dollars wou
not be exorbitant salary. That he was competent
to discharge his Duty and did perform it, is evident
from the state the grounds. Much hay cannot b.
obtained the grass must be frequently cut to pre-
serve the beauty of close shaven lawn The ap-
pr ,priation had already been sufficiently reduced
The sum required for compost, even, had not been
allowed.
Nj; STANLY said the gardener might use the hay
for compost, instead of applying it to purposes of
his own.
Mir. lNGERSOLL opposed the reduction in the
salary of the gardener. The beauty of the grounds
sufficiently attested his merits.
The motion of Mr.. SrANLy, however, prevailed.
The twenty third section struck out.
Mr.. JOHNSON, of Tennessee, after the section
apprupriating additional pay and mileage to mem
bers OF Congress- offered AL nendment reducing the
sum.
To this amendment Mr.. ROOSEVELT offered a
modification, providing that member of Congress
should ailowel any pay after the fifteenth of Au-
gust and regulating gen raj, hereafter, the pay of
members.
Amid cries of order and estion, so loud as to
render the remarks of the Speaker inauIibe,
Mr. ROOSEVELT was supposed to explain the
merits of hi, proposition. When the question was
taken the amendment was lost.
MIR MCCLELLAN, Of New York, offered, at the
end Of the bill, amendment to appropriate 81 900
for the contugen, expenses of the Patent Office The
motto prevailed.
After var JUS Intellectual motions,
Mr.. JOHNSON, of Tennessee, moved that the
committee should rise. The vote being taken by
telers, Al voted in the affirmative, and 81 in the ne
galive. There ing no quorum, the committee rose
and reported the fact to the House
motion was made to adjourn, and on this motion
the yeas and nays ordered. Before the roll was
called through, by general consent the House again
went into COMMITTEE of the Whole.
Mr.. GENTRY moved to strike out the enacting
clause to enable him to deliver speech This was
ruled to be of order. He then declared his in
tenton Of speaking the question to rise, bat yield
ed to the motion of rising.
When the Speaker resumed the chair, the motion
to adjourn was again put and carried without count