The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-25
CONGRESS-.

| CONGRESS.
On Tuesday, the House resolved itself into
| Committee of the Whole, with Mr.. Underwood
in the Chair, and took up the bill making appro-
prialions for the support of the Army and Of the
| Military Academy. The first item approprates
| 81 ,477,700 for the pay of the Army. Mr. Cave
Johnson offered an amendment providing that
no part OF this appropriation should be expended
for the pay OF any officers or soldiers hereafter
appointed or enlisted, and thar the army should
be reduced 10 the number of five thousand men
AT the suggestion OF Mr.. Adams, the number
of 5000 was substituted for 5000, so that the
Army might now accord with that established
by the law Of 1921. On this amendment
long and desultory debate arose. In the discus
sion Messrs Ward, Fillmore, Cave Johnson,
William Cost johnson, Black, Granger, &c.
participated.
| 1t wa4 conteBded ON one side, that the proper
course TO establish reduction in the numbers
OF the Army, would be TO introduce "a special
bill for that purpose, and that the reduction al the
present crisis Of our foreign relations would be
lmpoliuc. On the other side, that the necessity for
so large number of troops does not exist any
longer, that the state Of the Treasury, in max
ing appropriations, should be regarded that the
militia must be the main dependence in case Of
foreign war, &c. An animated war Of argu-
m nj between Messrs. Black and Granger, in
relation to the conduct Of some Of The United
States troops in Georgia, formed a portion of
ri al, ,th, oh eaf,a a..
Messrs. Thompson, Of Indiana, Campbell, of
Tennessee, Mckay, &c.
In the Senate the bill from the House of Re
personalities making appropriations for the ma
val service for the year 1912, was read first
and second time, and referred to the Commit
tee on Finance.
Mr. HUNTINGTON, from the Committee on
Commerce, 10 which had been referred the
House bill authorizing the collector Of the dis
trc' Of Fairfield TO reside either at the town Of
Fairfield or Bridgeport, reported the same with
out amendment; and il was read a third time
and passed
Mr. CRrTENDEN presented a memorial from
the State OF Pennsylvania praying for the i'm
position of such tariff of duties on foreign and
imported merchandise as will afford sufficient
revenue for the purposes of the Government,
and at the same time protect American indus
Try
Mr. PORTER presented memorial of similar
imp ut from Madison county, New York
Mr.. MERRlCk, from the Committee on the Post
Office and Post-roads reported bill TO provide for the
permanent employment of certain clerks who have
heretofore been temporarily employed in the Post
Office Department. He said that he had been in
duced TO report this BILL in consequence of commu.
nlcation which he had received from the Department
These clerks, It appeared, had been employed since
1897, and their salaries paid by annual appropra-
ton, andnot in pursuance Of permanent law. Their
services could not be dispensed with The
House had thought propert strike from the Appro-
pration bill the appropriation for objects provided
| for BY express law. Therefore as these clerks were
deprived of all benefit OF that act prov son should be
made to pay their salaries. The communication to
which he had referred stated these facts and it was
accompanied by list of the names of the clerks and
| the employment each. He moved that the commune
cation and statement be printed for the use Of the
Senate, and the motion agreed to-
| Mr.. BAYARD said that he would propose to re-
viye the committee appointed former session to re-
| port on the subject OF employing corps of Report
by the Senate. Ithad been suggested to him that
it desirable that the matter should be acted on.
1t might be recoected that he had made report
from that time to this, lie proposed if il should be
the pleasure of the Senate, to revive the committee
for the purpose of again taking into consideration
the expedency of carrying out the object desig-
mated.
The CHAIR suggested to the Senator that it would
be better to reduce his motion to writing
| Mr.. BAYARD was understood to acquesce in the
suggestion.
| The bill for the apportionment of Representatives
among the several States was taken-up for consider
alton, and it as follows. The portions of the bill
incosed in brackets thus are proposed to be
stricken out by the Committee on the Judiciary and
the parts in italics intended to be substituted for
those stricken out.
AN ACT for the superintendent of Representatives
among the several States, according to the sixth
census.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House Of Representa-
tires The United States Of .7nerica in Congress assem-
bled That from and after the third day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-threc the
House of Representatives shall be composed of mem
bers elected agreeably to ratio of one Representa-
tive for every fifty thousand lone hundred and seven
y-nine persons in each State of one additional Repre-
sentative for each State harng fraction greater than
noey Of ne said ratio, computed according the rule
prescribed by the Constitution of the United States ;
that Is to say Within the State of Maine ten; with
in the State Of New Hampshire, five sir within
the State Of Massachusetts, fourteen1 fifteen; with,
in the State of Rhode Island, two; within the State
of Connecticut, six within the State of Vermont,
| lfve,l slr within the State of New York, fort,
eight, fortynine within the State of New Jersey,
seven within the State Of Pennsylvania thirty flour
within the State OF Delaware, lone, t,ro within the
State OF Maryland, Eeight, nine within the State IF
Virginia, twenty-one within the State of North Ca