The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-21
CONGRESS.

resolution, that the debate on the Navy Ap-
preparation bill shall cease on Monday next, at
one O'Clock, and that the Committee shall then
proceed 10 vote on the amendments pending or
which may be offered The yeas and nays
were ordered, and, on the question being taken,
il was decided in the Acknowledgements 81, nays
rs.
The House then went into Committee OF
the Whole, and took up the bill making appro-
pfation for the naval service for the year 1912.
The question pending was on the amendment
of Mr.. Meriwether 10 insert 81, 1886, 900, instead
of SO, 1885, 32 %, for the pay of commissioned,
warrant and petty officers, and seamen. After
some remarks by Mr. MCKAY in favor of the
amendment the question was taken, and ii
was agreed to-
Mr.. TRPLETr then submitted proviso, that
no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be
applied to the pay and emoluments of any Off
Ger who has been, or may hereafter be, sus-
pended from service during the term OF such
suspension, or who shall have rendered no SER
vice for the period of five years, unless such
absence from service shall have been caused by
sickness, or wounds received in the service OF
the United States. The Committee rose with
out coming TO any resolution on the proviso, and
the House adjourned.
Mr.. ALLEN, in the Senate, arose for the puI pose
of correcting error in report of the debate on
the Rhode Island matter, contained IN the Madiso-
Man of Wednesday morning. He must say, however,
in Justice to the Reporters that he did not rise with
view of censuring them. He had understood that
the position which they occupied rendered it impos-
slble for them to hear distinctly what said on
the floor of the Senate owing to the peculiar
structure of the Hall and, under these circum-
stances, it not to be supposed that all that
was said could be reported with perfect accu-
racy. With regard TO himself, he had not been ac-
customed to correct any reports OF his own remarks,
except such were to be published IN pamphlet form.
He, like other Senators, liable, ordinarily, TO ex-
perience injustice simply in consequence OF the in
convenience under which The Reporters labored His
purpose this morning merely correct that part
OF the report published IN newspaper published IN
this city, entitled the Madisonan, which reported
him TO have said that branch of the Govern
had acted in this matter he thought that was
! high time for another body to act" That was cor
rect But the report continued: He (Mr Allen
| was willing to bear the consequences OF civil war.
Now he had uttered such words but had said that
he was wiling to bear all the consequences which his
! course would incur. There was another brief pas
sage in which the Senator from South Carolina Mr.
! Pieston) was made TO say in his seat You would
make civil war, addressing himself Mr. Preston)
! TO him, Mt Allen of course. lie was not aware
at the time that the Senator had said any such thing
| He had il was true heard indistinct observa-
on but had heard no such language as this. If he
| had it would have been impossible for him to have
passed it by unno,iced He did not believe that the
Senator from South Carolina correctly reported
in this, because he could not believe that one Senator
would attribute to fellow Senator, any American
citizen an intention or desire to get up civil
| The Senator was in his seat, and he no doubt would,
with great pleasure, state precisely what he did say.
Mr. PRES TON requested the Senator from Ohio
to send to him the paper The request having been
complied with, he read as follows
Mr. Allen remarked that as one branch of the
Government had acted in tins matter he thought that
it was high time for another body to act. be was
willing to bear The consequences OF a evil war.
| Mr. Preston You would make civil war.
! Mr.. p. said, whatever expression he might have
used--and he certainly did use some expression--it
was not addressed to the Senator from Ohio; and he
certainly had not supposed that it would have attract
ed any attention. He believed that both sentences
had been misrepor ed, and that atrit ued to him
evidently predcated upon the expression attributed TO
the Senator from Ohio.' lie believed that the ex-
preston he had used to the effect that course pur-
sued by the Senator calculated to produce civil
! war. The honorable Senator did him no more than
justice in saying that he had no disposition to mpute
any Senator Improper motives, TO exceed the rules
| of parliamentary courtesy and decorum
/ Mr. ALLEN replied that what the honorable Sen.
ator had said was no more than he had right to ex-
pect from hin, and of course the explanation wa en-
! trely satisfactory With respect TO any thing he
had done in the Senate or elsewhere, in relation u
the Rhode Island affair and whether good or i'll was
likely 10 result from it, was matter OF which The
country would Judge; and any expression of opinion
with regard to it the part of any honorable Sena
tor was of course strictly parliamentary.
| Mr. KING called the attention of the chairman OF
| the Committee on the Judiciary 10 memorial which
referred to that Committee several months ago
asking for arrangement OF the Circuit Courts OF the
United States. Ii was well known that there was a
great cause of complaint in the Southwestern States
in consequence of the present arrangement. Judge
| Mckinley was now at Jackson Mss, where there
We're upwards of eleven hundred Cases upon the docket
The day fixed for The meeting of the Court in aba
ma was the second Monday in March, and that for
Arkansas on the fourth Monday while the Supreme
Court did not dourn its session in the city until the
10th or 18th of that month"; which demon,t rated the
utter incapablity of any man to give bis attend
ance at all these places. He would inquire of the
chairman of The committee whether any report upon
the subject might be expected.
Mr. BERRlEN said that the matter referred to had
been subject of anxious deiberaon in the commit
tee convinced they of the great necessity for
Encouragement of the circuits and Of the utter i'm
possibility for any man to perform the duties now as
signed to Judge Mckinley. The subject however,
was so full of difficulties that the committee could not
agree upon bill, but it had been determined that one
should be reported to the Senate, to the support of
which the committee would not pledge themseve+,
but submit it for the action of the Senate. Such a
bill would be reported in a day or two
The bills from the House to constitute the port o.
Stoningon, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, col
lection district and the bill concerning tonnage du
ties on Spanish vessels were read first and second
time, and appropriately referred
Mr.. MERRICK'S resolution relating to confden !
tia communications from the Executive Depart ment,
was taken up for con sderaton; and after
Mr.. McROBERTS had submitted some remarks
in favor Of conducting Executive business with open
doors the subject was passed over.
The bill to refund the fine, with costs, imposed up
General Jackson by the district court Of Louisiana
in 1918, came up the unfinished business. The
question pending was on the following provlso sub.
tned yesterday by Mr.. Henderson, VIZ
Prorded Arrays, That nothing in this act shall