The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-23
CONGRESS.

, should be required TO resign, and if he did no
comply with the request, thai he should be i'm
peached.
MIR. COOPER again asked leave to offer the fol
lowing resolution:
fesoiped, That the Secretary of the Treasury be
CURED TO INFORM the House why the document fur
hishns the returns OF the several Banks in the Uni
tea states mas not been reported to Congress also
that he state whether it is in progress of preparation
and II so, when it may be expected
Mr.. STANLY objected, on the ground, il was
understood, because it is disrespectfu to the Sc
crelary
| Mr.. COOPER said It was document demand
ed by the House and placed on the calendar
among those 10 be regularly furnished. His
constituents had desired TO know why it was
Kept back, and he, therefore, wished to obtain
an answer to the inquiry
| The SPEAKER announced the business of the
morning hour to be the vote on the report from
the Committee on the Judiciary
| Mr.. CAVE JOHNSON moved to go into Com
mttee of the Whole.
| After some conversational discussion, and a
variety OF motions the motion to go into com
mittee prevailed
| Mr.. CARUTHERs, of Tennessee, who was en-
titled TO the floor inveighed againstthe extrava-
giant propositions OF the Navy. He condemned
| the large increase in the number Of officers of
| every grade, which involved the country in the
useless expense of paying an army of officers
| for doing nothing. He accused the Secretary of
favoritism in making so many appointments
| from Virginia and Maryland The increase in
| the number of officers he maintained to be lille
gal, and insisted that the appropriations should
| be withheld, if that were the only method to
control the acts of the Executive.
Mr. KING Of Georgia, said that the new fash
| ion OF invelghing against the officers of the Ma
Wy and wrangllng about appointments was un-
worthy of statesmen legisatng for the great in
| terests OF the nation, and on the momentous
question Of providing for war in time of peace
Similar debates took place just previous to the
last war;
AT the last session the gentleman from Mas
| sachusetts had declared that not half enough
had been asked: but since that change had
come over him, and he pronounced the Navy
humbug. And yet that gentleman had given
his opinion of the probability of war in more
than one quarer-in some or all of which the
United States would be involved To prepare
for the emergency is part of wisdom part
OF that preparation consists in obtaining officers
supernumerary in peace, but whose services
would inevitably be required in time of war
If defects exist in the Navy let them b. correct
ed-but let not blow be struck al this great
| arm of national defence.
The hour of II having arrived, the Commit
tee proceeded to vote on concurring with the
Various amendments made by the Senate.
On the first, which strikes out So 1856 900 and
insert So, 500, 900, the vote was taken by teIlers
and the House refused to concur with the Sen
ate by a vote of &c to 49,
The next amendment on which vote was
to be taken, was the provso insert, by the
Senate in lieu of that made by the House. The
House proviso requires that no part Of this or any
existing appropriation shall be applied TO the pay
ment of officers appointed after this date be-
yomd the nuaa5er in each grade on the first day
OF January, 1871, &c. The proviso inserted by
the Senate reads as follows:
Prorided, That till otherwise ordered by Congress
the officers OF the Navy sna 400 - ;-o-aAd heyond
the number in the respective grades that may exist at
the end of the present session OF Congress, nor Oh
mdshipmen beyond the number now in service And
all vacancies of mdshipmen, when filed shall be
supplied from States Territories and the District OF
Columbia which, at the time, shall not have their
due proportion of mdshpmen, having regard to iede-
raj numbers in the services provided suitable applca-
tions made for the same
After various attempts to insert partial amend
ments, the vote was taken on concurring with
the proviso of the Senate, and the concurrence
was negatved.
To the clause appropratng Sl20,O0O for the
dry dock at Brooklyn-the Senate added to the
proviso, that nothing of this or former appro-
priations shall be applied for constructing dry
dock at Brooklyn, the following words seq
ceptin payment far materials previously con-
tracted for and yet TO be delivered" This
amendment was concurred in.
The proviso from the Senate, authorizing the
Secretary TO apply 100000 TO the construction
of hoating-dock, &c, was concurred in, with
an amendment sc if in his opinion the floating
dock would supersede the necessity of dry
dock
The Senate amendment substituting $780,,
900 for $4,000 in the appropriation for Pensa-
cola was lost
| The Senate amendment appropriating $4,000
for the charter of the steamboats, Splendid and
Clarion 81, 1865 for the suppression OF the slave
trade. &c, and $4,000 for arranging and pre-
serving the articles brought by the Exploring
Expedition, were next considered
| The sum for suppressing the slave trade was,
on motion of Mr. FILLMORE increased TO Slo,-
| SAB.
Mr.. KENNEDY offered an amendment provld-
| inc that no new contracts should be made till
the revenue bill should be passed. The amend