The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-29

MIR. HALE offered rcs.lution requesting Ue
Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the
expediency of abolishing West Point
II was objected 10, and passed over.
MIR. RATHBUN moved suspei sion OF the rules
SO 10 entertain the resolution "h.eh was decidrd
IN The mega tive
Messrs DUNLAP, IiAMIIN, and others, sew
ersy offered resolutioi 5. calling for information
which were appropriately disposed Of
MIR CAI.DW ELL offered the following resolution;
Resolrsd, That the Committee the Post Office
and Post Roads be instructed 10 inquire into the ex-
pedieney Of establishing post route from Somerset
10 Paint Lick IN Kentucky, by way OF Crab Orchard,
and report by bill or otherwise.
Mr.. SLlDELL offered a resolution, iDquiring into
the expedieney of establishing Committee on Com
age, Currency Sc, to sit during the recess which
was laid over.
MIR. BOssiER offered resolution Of inquiry :
which was appropriately disposed Of
Mr. X. ID OWEN offered Il resolution, 10 inquire
for the sitting Of the House for hearing, sc. which
was laid over.
MIR. CARY, Of New York, presented private bill;
which was appropriately referred.
MIR, PRATT offered a resolution, which was APP
proprialey referred.
MIR LYON prescntd joint resolution OF the Lee
gslature OF Michigan, in relation to The hne OF Gen
Jackson which was laid upon the table, aud ordered
TO be printed
MIR. WISE made some remarks, which were inau-
dibe from ha talking going on in the vicinity Of the
Reporters
MIR. HOLMES, from the Committee on Com
merce, asked to be discharged from the considea
ton OF various subjects; among whrh was the reso-
luton in relation To the Louisville and Portland Ca
nal and moved that il be referred to the Committee
on Roads and Canals.
MIR. TIBBATTS hoped the Committee would not
be discharged from the consideration of that subject
because that was the committee to which it appro-
priately belonged.
Mr.. HOLMES said the Co nmittee of Commerce
were overburdcDed with business, while the Com
mlttec on Roads and Canals had little or no business
before it, and insisted upon being discharged from its
further conside grafton
Mr.. THOMASSON spoke against discharging the
committee, because the Committee on Commerce
was the appropriate committee to which II rightly
belonged
The question then required on discharging the
committee from its consideration, and il was decided
in The negative.
So the committee was discharged from the consid.
GRAFTON the other subjects.
motion was then made that the House adjourn.
And the House adjourned at half past four
o'clock
Mr.. NACLAY presented tbApetition OF Robert
Swartwout and other citizens Of the city OF New
York praying for reduction Of postage, and The alb
clifton Of the frankng privilege.
Also, the memorial Of citizens and payers oil post
age ia the State of New York, for the same object
! Mr. HENLY introduced the petition Of Samue
| c Guy and others, for the extension of post route
No 1854, from Slate Ford TO Rockford, in Jackson
county, Indiana.
Mr. BEL.SER, Of Alabama, presented the petition
Of sundry citizens Of Macon county, asking for thu
establishment of mail route from Tuskegee t
Enon, in Macon county, Alabama; and also TIVE
post Offices, one at Ilendersonve and the other q
PowelI's Steam Mill, the said route.
! MIR. BELsER also presented another petition iron
certain citizens OF The counties OF Macon and Bar
/ bour, in the State of Alabama, asking, II maj
route be established between Tuskegee and Enon
in Macon county, that the same may be extended t.
Spring Hill, in Barbour county. Referred to TIT
l Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
MIR CALDWELL presented the petition and pa
pers of Nancy Haggard, Of Cumberland county, Ken
lucky Referred 10 the Committee on Revolutions
~ Claims.