The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-21

III the Seuate, MT. w HIoHT PtCscH'eu -
mortal from merchants and ship-owners OF the
city of New York, stating that the Tariff bill
which has lately passed the House is SO highly
protective in It's character that the whole foreign
commerce of the country would be para'yzed
and Frustrated by its operation, and praying Tor
modification of the same; which was referred
10 the Committee on Finance.
Mr.. CHoATE, presented memorial from citl-
| zens of Cambridge, Massachusetts, opposed 10
| drawbacks on domestic spirits.
Mr.. MILLER presented a memorial from Sus-
sex county, New Jersey, praying for an impo-
sition OF duty on foreign bar iron.
Mr.. CRAFTS presented the proceedings OF a
convention of wool growers, in Washington
county, Vermont, asking for the imposition of
duty on foreign WOOL
Mr. PORTER, on leave, introduced two bills,
viz:
A bill relative TO the office OF Surveyor
General of the State of Ohio, Indiana, and
Michigan, and
A bill to amend an act entitled an act estab-
fishing the northern boundary line of the State
of Ohio, and providing for the admission OF
Michigan into the Union; which were read
twice and referred.
A large number OF bills were passed, among
which were
The bill to extend the provisions of an act
entitled an act to regulate processes in the
courts of the United Statess. passed the 10Th
May, 1928;
Tho hill aptifoH In ct m effect
two resolutions of the Continental Congress,
directing monuments to be erected in memory
of Generals Francis Nash and William David
son'
An act to incorporate the German Benevo-
lent Society of the city of Washington;
An act in relation to marriages in the District
of Columbia, (Which authorizes ministers hav-
ing license 10 join persons in wedlock In the
counties of Alexander and Washington; TO
perform this Office any where in the District
of Columbia;)
An act to extend the jurisdiction of the cor
poration of Georgetown and
The ntresolution directing the transfer of
the stock held by the United States in the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to the
State Of Maryland, and the cities of Washing
ton, Georgetown and Alexandria, on certain
conditions
The bill to amend the laws relating to the
penitentiary in the District OF Columbia having
been read
Mr.. MoREHEAD desired that it might be laid
over for the present, as he wished to examine
its provisions.
Mr. BAYARD said that the bill simply propos-
ed that the keepers and other inferior officers
and servants, except the clerk, that may be
hereafter appointed for the service of the pen-
tertiary shall be nominated to the board Of in
spectors by the warden, and that The board of
inspectors, or majority Of them, shall ra4y
andconfrm such nominations, or reject the same,
as to them may seem right and proper.
Mr. MoREHEAD replied that as the warden
was the responsible officer, and was obliged to
give bonds, he thought that he should have the
appointment of his subordinates, and at his in
stance the bill was passed over.
The bill providing for erecting and lighting
lamps between the Capitol and Presidents
square, and appropriating $4,000 for that pur
pose, was read third time and passed.
And the Senate then went into an Executive
session, and subsequently, adjourned.