The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-04-30
CONGRESS-.

Immediately after the reading Of the Journal
in the House OF Representatives on Friday, Mr..
Briggs submitted a resolution requesting the
President Of the United States 10 communicate
to the House all the information in his posses
sion relative to the proceedings of the commits
sion appointed to investigate the affairs of the
New York Custom House The resolution
was agreed TO.
Mr.. Roosevelt moved reconsideration of
the vote of yesterday, by which the report Of
the Committee on the Public Expenditures ac-
companying report of the Hon. George Poin-
dexter on the affairs Of the New York Custom
House, was ordered to be printed This mo-
ton gave rise to very interesting and animat-
ed debate, in which Messrs. Roosevelt, Cush-
ly, participated, and in which various matters
connected with the Custom House investiga-
ton were discussed. Ii was asserted that on
the 9th of December las the President request
ed report from the Commissioners in order
that il might be laid before Congress. That
two of the Observation-Disclosures. Stewart
and Kelly-proceeded TO Washington, and
early in January handed in their report. That
the other Commissioner, Mr.. Poindexter, re-
manned in New York and that the Presi-
dent, in expectation of receiving his report, re-
Trained from communicating that received from
Messrs Stewart and Kelly to the House
That, on the 18th Of the present month, Mr.
Poindexter handed in his report, but directly af-
forwards Withdrew il on prctence of correcting
it, and did not return il until the 2lst. That
while it was Withdrawn, copy of it was ia.
ken, which was furnished to the Committee on
Public Expenditures without the knowledge of
the Executive. That this report was presented
TO the House, and ordered to be printed, thus
forestalling the report of Messrs. Kelly and
Stewart, which had been in possession of the
Executive nearly four months, and which had
been retained until the reception of Mr.. Pom
dexter's report, that all the testimony in relation
10 the case might be submitted 10 Congress and
thrown out that Mr.. Pondexter's report pre-
scented 'prejudced and e.r pdrte view Of many
circumstances which was entirely unsupported
by the testimony taken before the Commissions
ers, which did not accompany it, but which was
given in full in the report of Messrs. Kelly and
Stewart. To prevent this prejudiced statement,
therefore, from being published to the world
unaccompanied by the other report the recon
sideraton of the vote by which it was ordered
to be printed was advocated
Ii was mentioned, on behalf of Mr. Poindex-
ter, that the Speaker of the House, by sub
ppna, summoned him TO attend before the Com
mittee on Public Expenditures, and by this
means the Committee had obtained the report
The motion TO reconsider was negatived, and
the House then went into the consideration of
private bills, only a few of which were acted on
when the House adjourned.
BURROUGHS IN THE NAVAL SERVICE.
In the Senate proceedings, IN another QUINN,
will be found the report of Mr.. Bayard, from
the Committee on Naval Affairs, setting forth
the principles on which the committee conceive
that the bill in relation to furloughs in the naval
service ought to become law.