The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-01-13
TWENTY EIGHTH CONGRESS-,
FIRST SESSION.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Mr. j. r. INGERSOLL called up his resolu-
ton submitted yesterday evening, but not acted
upon, to grant the use of the Hall to the Cooni-
cation Society on the 10th instant.
The resolution was agreed to-
Mr.. PHOENIX, of N. Y, submitted resolution
that the Secretary of State furnish such nforma-
ton as is in possession Of the Department relative
10 any efforts of American authorities to suppress
the contraband traffic in opium upon the coast OF
China also, whether any of the United States
consular agents have participated in this Illegal
trade.
The resolution was objected to-
A bill to establish permanent, prospective
pre-empton law was twice read, and referred
A bill to exempt from duty cotton imported into
the United States from Texas was read, and re-
ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to abolish Imprisonment for debt in the
District of Columbia was read, and referred to
the Committee on the District Of Columbia.
Mr.. MCKAY, from the Committee of Ways and
Means, reported bill for supplying the deficiency
in the appropriation for the year ending June 30,
1874, for the relief and protection of American
seamen.
MIR. MCKAY moved that the House resolve itself
into Committee of the Whole to take up this bill,
and stated that the appropriation was within
5000 of being expended--that bills from consular
agents were now lying unsettled, but had not
been protested, in the hope that by speedy action
the honor of the Government might be preserved.
The rules were suspended, and the House went
into Committee of the Whole, Mr. WILKINS,
of Penn, in the Chair.
The bill proposed to be passed was further
briefly explained by Mr.. MCKAY, and communi-
subject. H
The Committee then rose, the bill was reported
to the House, and at once passed.
THE RULES AND ORDERS
Mr.. BIDLACK resumed his remarks upon this
subject, which were cut off yesterday by the ex-
piration of the morning hour. In allusion to the
feeling in his own district upon the subject Of
slavery, he stated that respectable citizen there
was ridden on rail for his abolitionism. There
was time, he said, when the negroes in his
district exercised the highest right Of freemen,
that Of suffrage, and they always voted against
him, for doubling their right to vote at all that
this time was passsd-the abolition excitement
had produced a reaction in Pennsylvania, and
the constitution Of his State was now SO amend
ed that negroes were debarred OF the right OF
suffrage. The burden Of Mr.. Bidlack's remarks
was complaint that the Southern men them
selves were not united upon the subject of the
2lst rule, and could no longer expect that their
Northern allies would be SO.
Mr.. BELSER Of Ala, followed, and spoke un-
til the morning hour expired.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Mr.. G. JOHNSON moved that this subject be
taken out of Committee Of the Whole, and final
w acted upon tomorrow at 2 o'clock. The
yeas and nays were called on this motion, and it
was rejected by 90 to IS, that is, not two-thirds
voting for il, the motion was lost
The House then resolved itself into Commit
tee of the Whole.
Mr.. WINTHROP, of Mass, in the Chair.
Mr.. TIlDEN, of Ohio, was entitled to the
floor, and spoke briefly and sensibly upon the
question of reference alone He opposed the
amendment which provides for select commit
tee Of nine instead Of the Committee on Com
merce, to consider that portion Of the Presidents
message having reference to the western waters,
because, although western man, he did not
wish to recognise the principle that the improve
ments were to be regarded as sectional, and not
national in their character.
Mr. HUNT, of N. Y, followed at considerable
length, in review of the speeches of gentlemen
who had preceded him. His remarks called up
II Mr.. HOLMES in explanation of his PROPOSE
ton to the West to help the South to repeal the
tariff and in turn the South would help them in
the improvement of their rivers
Mr. HIS explanation did not much alter the
matter t9#
Mr.. HUNT declared it as his opinion that no
portion of the people of this country were more
interested in maintaining the present tariff than
the West
Mr.. GIDDINGS next went into a statistical
account of Western interests and Western ad-
vancements in population and wealth. His speech
exhibited much laborious research, and he was
earnest in the advocacy of The rights of the West.
Mr.. G. having finished, the committee rose, and
The House adjourned.
thrown into high state of excitement yesterday