Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-02-18

Their the speca order OVERRIDE all other business the
morning hour included.
The SPEAKER said it did. o1n
AZ tho ,eonest Of several gentlemen, Mr.. ARNoLD
Welded the floor with view to The reception Oh ie
ports from committees. e. ,ho c,a,e
ny MASON presented petition rom Tue s' So
or N,rv,aah numerously s;gaed, asking 10! lAe rev!
o. 80 I, ,'au s-on The fine imposed on him by Inc
circuit cour, OF the District OF Columbia.
NJ MALLORY, from the select committee on u'e
coast survey made report. 49,, a.,
&c No York. numerously signed, praying reduc''oh
IF nosoges, aud the passage Of bill No. o4o. lLaos"
ter ,,, n,srp,cv RANKS
NJ UNDERWOOD, from the Committee 'or Tux
IT., of Columbia said he instructed 10 report
rssoln;on 10 discharge the Committee oi the "hoie
r Tho further consideration OF the oil lot Tue ie
&c the District banks lie wished the vote on
the resolution to be made ties. vo'e'
TITO r.solution was read IS follows
n..o,..I Tho, the Committee OF the Whole House
h ,arred fror. The further consideration OF the bill
~ ev,era The charters Of the banks OF The District OF
C.lmr,h;a being House bill No o1o.
Mr. WELLER demanded The yeas and nays on ~. ~.
| ,aon,;on of the resolution. He said TO extend the
ch,.ir If six banks in this District Tor ten years,
,bn,, one moments consideration or debate, was all
outrese upon all proprie!y in legislation
The resolution was then adopted-yeas ia, nays
ys.' ne 'S' . ,,o,,
|
Mr. BARNARD, from the Committee on 'he ~.
ec;.rv 10 which the memorial Of Jesse Hoyt hao oeeh
referred. moved that it be printed.
| M BOARDMAN enid that he had been mace ''ie
subject of abuse BY Hoy in letter published u,
New York paper, consequence o! resolution "hch
he had thought proper 10 introduce IN relation 10 Tue
defaleation He had apprehension from q man VINO
was well known rs rogue, VINO coua nut VI en nv ~
even by the Lnco Foco Sub Treasurers, attachea as
they were to spoil aud plumber II appeared ny .he
| r ba tlry
Poindexlcr that Hoyt, according to ms own
received S20l $50 on little S2O00Oooo as COM
pensa,on for accepting and paying drafts upon n,''
He did not know the man; he believed, however, t'a'
he was introduced TO him, when he (iioyt had the re-
pua,ion of an honest man This was long Tune ago,
Hoyt talked of Justice He was now in the hands oi
the ministers of justice, and he Oar. Boardman,)
hoped that it would, in its full measure, be meed
out 20 him.
M BARNARD remarked that the letter to which
the gentleman had alluded was such one rs no decent
man could coun,enance As it might be thought lha'
the memorial Of similar import he thought II que
TO Mr. Hoyt to say that il was not, although u ulo
plain of the treatment which he iiaa receiVeu from
the Solicitor of the Treasury.
| Mr. BOARDMAN said that he believed that me
ordinary practice of the House vas 10 refuse the PRINT
iny of memorials from individuals. After The treatment
which member of this House had received, 1t the
motion 10 print should prevail il would demonstrate
the existence of high spirit OF lberalty
The question then taken on the motoh 10 Pfih''
! and ii was decided in the negative
| A personal explanation took place between messrs
GWIN, j. THOMPSON, and GRANGER, with re-
gard to former debate the subject OF the hlisss-
| s'pp bonds.
| On motion of Mr. ARNOLD, it was
Resoiced, That the debate should cease, at 5 CLOCK
on bill as for the reduction of the poy of members oil
Concess-SG per diem and the same amount tor every
twenty miles OF travel and for the reduction OF the pay
and einoluments of certain officers OF the Federal TO-
vernnent in the civil departments of the same
The House then resolved itself into Committee oil
the Whole on the state of the Union, for the purpose
OF proceeding to the consideration of the subject Sc
veral substitutes for the bill were submitted one oy
sir. Gwin TO reduce the salaries of certain officers Of
the Federal Government twenty per cent, prohibiting
extra compensation, and providing that the pay OF mem
beers shall be four dollars day for the remainder OF
lcnr session beyond five months; and another by Mr.
Hunt, substituting annual compensation OF fifteen
hundred dollars for The members, three ihnuslnd
dollars for the presiding officers OF the two Houses
AND four dollars Tor every twenty mics oil travel Al
Ter mach conversation, and the absence OF quiet The
committee rose without coming TO any de finite concu
SION the subject; when
Mr. CUSHING moved 10 reconsider the vote by
which The debate the bill ordered to cease n
three o'clock; but the motion did not prevail-yees e.
nays ITO.
for the yeas and nays.
Nj. ARNOLD was understood TO say that he hoped
that the gentleman would thus undertake TO dodge
the question.
MIR MALLORY replied that he never lodged, but
always sailed under open flag.
hlr. ARNOLD told him TO meet the question now
Mr.. MALLORY said that he would meet it here
and elsewhere.
The yeas aad nays were taken on the question whe.
Their there should he call of lie House and it was
decided in the negaive-yees 90. nays 100.
On motion Of Mr. ARNOLD, tie House again went
into committee and resumed the consideration of the
bill.
Mr. HOLMES moved to amend it as 10 allow
members, instead of mileage, the actual expenses in
cured and IS day for the time necessarily occupied
in travelling to ard from the seat of Government, in.
stead of the proposed Sc for every twenty miles,
He argued that the scale set down in the bill would
operate unequay. To illustrate this, he referred to
the fact tina, from some sections of the country mem.
bers can travel by railroads al the rate OF two hundred
and forty miles per day. while, in other sections, the
conveyance is much slower, and consequently more
expensive
Mr.. CUSHING opposed the bill; and in the course
Of his remarks ne SAID that they were about TO leave
these halls perhaps foreYerto bid adeu to one ano'
t,er-they ought 10 be the last men of whom it should
be said hereafter that their final act to degrade and
hua.ilate the legislative power of The country by
Reduction of the pay of the Congress OF tue u s.
He argued that should the principles OF the bill prevail
the effect would be to exclude thousands of poor and
mertorlous individuals and give place TO persons IN
afiiuent circumstances.
MIR. BEESON said it had been alleged that there was
party in this country whose policy would reduce 1t to
iron money and black broth. He would, in order to
show who that party advert to the yeas and nays
given at the last session of the present Congress- from
which it would appear that the Wing party, on the
question Of fixing time for the redemption OF specie
payments by tie banks of the District had voted, in
principle, to make resumption here depend on redemp-
zion nowhere. The was this. The banks of the
District finding that the BANKS at Baltimore had re.
sumed Chat being ofthe conditions on which their
resumption depended, by law then exstingD APP
piled Congress TO be tnhered so that their resump-
ton should be made 10 depend on Richmond alone 1t
was the policy of that party, which by expanding the
currency the greater part Of the Union about FIVE
hundred per cent, the space OF ten years. and then
contracting it 10 the amount in four years. had
produced the present OF distress-of iron money
aud black broth. He was then about proceeding to
show what the remedy for the evil, which gen.
to remedy but the hour of three having arrived, he
was constrained take his without concluding his
remarks
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