The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-04-29
CWemtp= Seoenth Congress.
SECOND SESSION
IN SENATE,
THURSDAY, April %, 1912.

Mr.. TALLMADGE presented memorial from
inhabitants of jefferson county New York, asking
Congress 10 increase the duty foreign mporatons,
with a view to create home market for domestic |
manufactures.
Mr.. CRlTTENDEN presented the memorial Of
Jacob Gideon, jr, proposing to sell to Congress
tain sells Of laws of the United States such as have
already been published under the sanction and for
| the use, of Congress also, petition from Green
county, Ohio, praying for protection 10 American
manufactures.
Mr. SMITH, of Indiana, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported bill granting a tract Of land
| in Illinois to John A. Rockwell
| Mr. CHOATE, from the Committee on Naval
Affairs reported bill authorizing the Secretary of
War to purchase the right 10 use Rabbits anartr
| ton metal
Mr.. GRAHAM, from the Committed on Claims, 10
| ported, without amendment the House bill FIR the
! relief of Nathaniel Mitchell
| Mr. MERRlCK, from the Committee on the Post
lOice and Post Roads, made adverse report the
| memorial of Johnson and Strader.
THE RHODE ISLAND CONTROVERSY
Mr.. ALLEN renewed his motion to take up the
| following resolution, submittedby him on the 18th in
slant, VIZ;
Resolved, That the President Of the United States
| be requested to communicate to the Senate all IN
formation in his possession, or which has been com
! municated TO him, either printed or IN writing,
whether from the Governor of the State Of Rhode
| Island or from persons purporng to act under his
appointment or by his authority or request, under
the authority request OF any or either OF the pres
| ent authorities Of that State, civil military, or
purporting under the authority or by the APP
pointment, at the request of a convention of del
egates Of the people of that State, of committee
of any such conventions or purportng 10 act the
| immediate agent or representative of any meeting or
assemblage of citizens of that State relative pro
| ceedings which have taken place or are in cor tenn
pation in that State, with view to the establishment
of constitutional republican form of Government
| for the people thereof, in the place of the Land
/ Company charter granted by King Charles II Of Eng
| land and under which that State has hitherto been
governed and that he also communicate to the SEN
ate with that information all correspondence, pro-
camatons, orders and proceedings of any character
and description whatsoever which have been taken
| on the part Of the Executive Government of the
| United States touching that matter
Mr. PRESTON called for the yeas and nays which
| were ordered
| Mr.. CALHOUN said that, as he had understood
that there some prospect OF pacific arrangement
between the two parties in Rhode Island, be would
vote against aking up the resolution.
/ Mr. PRES TON remarked that he also had heard
of the probability of an amlcabe adjustment
Mr. CALHOUN asked whether the Senators fiom
Rhode Island knew such To be he fact.
Mr.. SPRAGUE observed that he had this morn,
i ing, received information TO that effect.
Mr. KING would be glad if the Senator from
Rhode Island would state the nature of the arrange
meet
Mr.. PRESTON hoped that the Senator would not
do so.
The question was then taken on the motion of Mr.
ALLEN. and it was decided in the negative-yeas 8,
NAYS %, as follows:
! YEAS-Messrs. Allen, Archer, Benton, Bucha-
man, McRoberts, Sewer, Tappan, Woodbury.,
| Wright-9.
NAYS-Messrs Bagby Barrow Bates, Bayard,
Calhoun, Choae, Clayton, Conrad, Crttenden, Cuth-
bert, Evans, Fulton, Graham, Huntington, King
| ~. -.
Simmons, Smith, of Ind Southland, Sprague, Stur-
geon, Tallmadge, Woodbridge-2S.
The following bills, engrossed yesterday for third
reading, were read a third time and passed, VIZ:
! Th1 bill for the relief Of Reyne Coates and Wal
ter X, Johnson
| The bill for the relief of Richard Higgins il
| The bill for the relief of Juhal b. Hancock and
| The bill oi the relief Of Thomas and Ralph Has |
| kins.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Senate proceeded 10 the consideration OF the
bill making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic
expenses Of Government for the year 1912
The first amendment Of the Committee on FL |
nance was then read IL proposed to strike out the
following Provso, in the clause appropfiang S250 |
or the Incidental and contingent expenses OF the De
partment Of State, including publishing and dsiribut
ing the laws, viz
Prorided That the Job printing, stationery, and
binding Of each OF the Executive Departments shall |
until otherwise directed by law be furnished by con-
tract-proposas for which shall regularly be adyer-
tised in the public prints The classes, character
and description of the printing being specified in each
advertisement far that be done and it being
made condition in all cases, unless otherwise speci-
fcally stated in the advertisement, that the work
shall be done in the City of Washington; and the
contract shall, in each case, so far as the proposals
and acceptance shall enable the contract to be made
be given to the lowest bidder, whose bid shall be ac.
companlcd with proper testimonials of the ability of
the bidder to fulfil the contract and provided also
that no part OF the sums appropriated for the contn-
gent expenses Of the several Executive Departments
shall be applied to any other than the ordinary ex-
pendtures of said departments, nor as extra allow
ance to any clerk, messenger, or other at
tendant of the said departments, or either of them,
nor as payment or compensation to any clerk,
messenger, other attendant Of SAID departments or
either of them, unless the employment OF such clerk
messenger or attendant be authorized by law"
Mr. KING said that he could see no propriey in
striking out Il proviso il in conformity with
law already in existence requiring the printing of the
Executive Departments TO be given out by contract.
Mr. EVANS said that there was not such law in
existence and therefore the committee proposed to
strike out the proviso. The State Department did en-
Ter into contract pr year for the execu ion of is
prnling5 but al the termination Of that time, the
pertinent was so unsatisfactory that il wasno renewed
But the printing for that Department was not 81 ex-
tenslve as many Supposed and he believed that the
whole amount of printing great variety Of papers
circulars and matters of that description exclusive of
publishing the law, was only about $500 per annum,
a um TOO small for any veiy great depreciation To
he committed saved TO the Government The
printing for the Departments he had found was done at
lower rate than that performed for Congress As to the
publication of the laws, the number ofpapers in which
they lnserted-three in each Sate-and the
price for the same, 10y the page, were prescribed
by law. This expense was from eleven to twelve
thousand dollars per annum. The printing of the
laws in pamphlet form cost from two thousand five
hundred to three thousand five hundred dollars and |
although this was not done by contract it was other
wise regulated, and was perfrmed for less than Con.
gress prices Under the contract persons put in bids
so law, hat others had to be called in to finish Il
work which the contractors were unable to perform
The Committee on Finance, therefore saw no reason Q