The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-12
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr.. c. j. INGERSOLL made slight correc-
ton in the journal of yesterday
Mr.. DEAN, of Ohio, was anxious to go into
Committee of the Whole on the bill to reduce the
pay of the navy, but
Mr.. TIBBATTS, of KY, moved q suspension
Of the rules to go into Committee. and take up
the bill making appropriations for harbors and
rivers, and submitted resolution that all debate
on the same should cease at 2 o'clock.
Mr.. WHITE suggested modification of the
resolution, extending the time one hour, but it
was not received.
The rules were suspended by!a vote of yeas
lis to nays 49, The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. c. ]. INGERSOLL then offered resolu-
ton for the printing Of 10000 extra copies of his
report in the case Of the schooner Amistad.
Mr.. WHITE moved to amend by adding
10000 copies Of the report (by Mr.. Hudson) Of
the Committee on Manufactures, on the tariff.
Mr.. G. JOHNSON moved to lay this resolu-
ton on the table. ~
Mr.. HUDSON said that 10000 extra copies
Of the majority report of the Committee on
Ways and Means, and 10000 of the minority,
had been printed. His report was from ma
jorty of the Committee on Manufactures, and in
answer to large number Of memorials, and the
resolutions Of one sovereign State. If printed,
il would only make the numbers equal on each
have an opportunity to show their liberality.
The yeas and nays were called, and the resolu-
ton was rejected, by 8S 10 So.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the bill making appropriations for
eastern harbors and rivers.
Mr.. DAVIS, of Ia, was called TO the Chair.
Mr.. ROGERS'S amendment, giving $4,000
for the Whitehall harbor, on Lake Champlain,
was discussed until the debate was exhausted.
uo do{ondod II from Spvoral cRS From a
local and sectional discussion it became general.
Mr.. McCLELLAND had some passages with
Mr.. Rogers for opposing, by an amendment,
what he had promised not to oppose.
Mr.. STETSON, of N. Y, run foul of the
west, and made some reflections which called
out retort from Mr.. Weller, who talked about
the magnificent humbugs of northern New York
yankees. A New York yankee in the west
would be regarded as fit candidate for the lu-
natic asylum. He advised the New York gentle
man to take horse, and 60 beyond New York,
and see something Of the west and the valley Of
the Mississippi If western people had not 50
much grace and polish as New Workers, they
had as much virtue and manlness of character.
Mr. WHITE, Of KY, endeavored to heal these
sectional squabbles, and declared his purpose to
go for any bill before the House upon its own
proper merits, without regard to any other bill.
Mr.. STEENROD exhorted pause, in the
name of economy and called upon the Demo-
cratic party to abandon these schemes for inter-
nal Improvement.
Mr. HAMMETT, Of Miss, talked about the
expenditure of million and half dollars on
the Boston custom house mot but about half that
sum said Mr.. Winthrop in his seat, (which brought
Mr.. c. ]. Ingersol up, who said that the Demo-
cratic party had voted against this. Yes, said
Mr.. Winthrop, after giving birth to the project,
and approprating, under the auspices of Levi
Woodbury., 100000 for the ground upon which
the edi6ce was to be built.
Mr.. HAMMETT, who had yielded the floor
tor this interruption, went on with an exhorta-
tion to the party not to make these appropria-
TONS Pay day would come, and the Govern
ment would get in the same fix with the Mis-
sissippi banks.
Mr. BRENGLE, of Nd, made an able de-
fence of the power of the Government, and the