The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-12-15


The previous question being demanded it was car
red yeas 81 nays 40.
Mr.. GlLMER moved that the resolution amend
ed be read.
| II was read by the Clerk.
so the resolution, as amended was adopted.
MIR. GlDDlNGS gave notice that, on Tomorrow,
| or some subsequent day, he would move an amend
| ment of the 23d rule.
| Mr. LEVY offered the following resolution which
was adopted
| Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be re,
quIed TO report to this House, what buildings ana
other structures there at the Pensacola Navy
Yard and the cost thereof what further improve
ments required to complete it as yard lot con
struction and repair of vessels of war, win esu-
mates the efor what plans Tor the improvement OF
said yard have been reported TO his Department Dy
engineers employed Tor the purpose; whether the
said navy yard is in condition to furnish repairs OF
supplies to vessels of any class requiring the same
what amount of appropriations, under Their respec-
tive heads have been made IN each year Tor The I'M
provement of said yard since its establishment what
number and description of vessels employed as
naval force in the Gulf of Mexico and its neighbor
ing waters what amount of appropriation has been
made for the naval service in each year since the
adoption OF the Constitution
Mr. J. r. INGERSOLL offered the following re-
solutions, which were adopted
Resolved That the President be requested to cause
to be iurDisf ed 10 this House such information as
may be on file in any of the Departments relative to
the formation of Juncture between the Atlantic and
Pac fc oceans.
Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means
be instructed to inquire into the expediency OF intro
ducing bill to levy duties upon the importation OF
teas and coffee.
Mr.. JAMESON, Of Mo. gave notice that on to-mor-
row, or as soon thereafter practicable he would
ask leave 10 introduce bill to repeal so much of the
act approved the Odd day of August l842 requires
the second regiment Outrageous to be converted into
| a regiment of rhemen, after the 4h day Of March,
l843. Also, bill making appropriation for the
pay of horses lost by the Missouri volunteers in the
Mr.. MCKAY moved that 10, 900 copies of the an
nual Report of the Secretary Of the Treasury be
| printed.
Mr.. THOMPSON, of Mississippi, moved to amend
by inserting Is 00o-which was lost.
So the orr ,ina motion of Mr. Mckay was adopt
ed, and 10 900 copies Of the report ordered to
be pr printed s%pw of p.oo.v,v.n;, cave notice
that tomorrow he would introduce bill, direct
ing the conditional 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
Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, so as to
secure the early completion Of the canal to Cumber
| land"
| floor, which was yielded to
Mr.. STYLES, Of Georgia, who addressed the
House follows:
Mr.. SPEAKER
| AT the request CT my colleagues on this floor,
rise to add another shade to the gloom which already
| pervades this House. Day after day have we here
been admonished from the tomb warning after warn
ing have for three days successfully received and
yet it hath pleased Him Z" in whose hand are the is
sues Of life" that fourth shall not set until it
| eltainty of human existence.
ic | -honhr IF
House, that the announcement ola death is fol-
lowed by a cessation from the duties of life Whe-
Their the practice to strike colors" at each
peated triumph of the ell destroyer be designed
emblemalic of that day when 'the wicked shall
from troubling and the weary be at rest or whether
intended opportunity TO listen to the solemn ad
montion of our own frail and transitory being, the
object is commendable, and the OCCASION if i'm
proved will instruct in the value of life, its pur
poses its duties, and its destination and enable to
return again to the world the purer, the better, and
the wiser, from this silent and uninterrupted commu
MON with the dead 1t is not my purpose, nor in
deed would it be my wish, to pronounce studied Gu
ogium, or to bestow unmerited applause upon the
subject ofthe present resolutions. Euloges upon the
departed have become but equvocal evidences of
merit, and ndiscrimnate panegyric no honor TO the
dead and no benefit TO the living.
Col JOINS MmLEN, born in Savannah, elected by
the citizens of Georgia to the present Congress,
died in his native city on the 18th of October last
aged about forty years.
Finding himself in early life cast upon the world
without parents and without patrimony, Col Nllllcn
with an energy which ever characterized him, and
which could alone supply the place Of the former
and dispense with the necessity Of the latter devoted
himself, with farther preparation than defective
early education to the laborious profession of the
law. After the shortest term Of preparatory study,
he was admit ed to the Bar, and became at an
efficient member Of the legal profession. He was
soon distinguished among his associates by persever
ance, acuteness and eloquence, and by extensive
and lucrative practice, which almost Immediately
companed his efforts, he succeeded Gas it is sad) in
accommodating property abundantly sufficient TO
satisfy any reasonable man"
Like the sun of his own native South, he was
warm and ardent in his feelings, true and unwaver-
ing in his course His and nfrmitics if any
he had (and none spotless) were but the result
of his generous nature; his faults were such only as
were found 10 have grown out of virtues, and his
heaviest offences TO have been grated by human i'm
projections upon the best and kiadest affections
He never married. The warmest and tender.
est ties not severed in his death. He left pa
rents to deplore, widow TO mourn, no orphans to
weep his untimcy end, but there does survive
him one, and one alone, of whom it is not too much TO
say that in her all these dear relations ton
DERBY and beautifully blended He left a lone and
single sister, who to him these call in one and
one in all y and who, the grave closed the
mortal remains of a fond and duatIng brother must
have pronounced an agonizing farewell to all her
earthly kindred happiness and hopes. "May that Be
ing tbatempers the Wild to the shorn lamb" comfort
her in this the hour of her urn st need, and sustain
her now shorn Of her protection against the "winty
blasts of a cold and hcartlcss worll. Col MiIlen
served for many years in the Legislature of his native
| nd Inv his IN nhoto oil