The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-29

lac character, belonged properly TO the Committee OF
the Whole on the state of the Union.
Mr.. INGERSoLL enieayored, Intellectually, 10
put the bill IN train towards It's passage
THE PRIVATE CALENDAR.
The motion of Mr.. DANIEL having been agreed
TO by ayes "a, noes a.
The House passed to the consideration of the pri-
yate calendar.
The business first in order was the motion to re-
consider the vote by which the bill for the relief Of
Charles g. Page had been laid on the table.
After few words of explanation by Mr.. HOP
KINS-
The question was taken and the vote was not re.
considered.
THE SCHOONER FL0RILLA.
The next business in order was the motion to
reconsider the vote by which the bill for the relief
Of the owner and crew Of the schooner "Forilla,"
had been rejected.
Mr. WOODW0RTH asked the yeas and nays
which were ordered and, being taken, were yeas
IS, nays s5
So Che Speaker said) the vote was not reconsid-
cred
THE JOURNAL.
Mr. BOWLIN said he rose for the first time dur
ing his service in this hall to question Of priV-
lese, for the purpose Of correcting the journal. He
discovered, by the papers this morning, that he was
represented voting in the affirmative on the ques-
uon OF striking out so much Of the civil and diplO-
matte appropriation BILL related to marine hosp-
tails, and by reference to the Journal he found that
he was so represented there. And he would here
further state that the journal presented this singu-
lar fact that while his name upon the roll was
stricken out being absent, yet he recorded as
voting And this is the only role he was represent
ed as having given on the amendments or the bill
although the ayes asd noes several times taken
during the morning!
The fact was, that he was absent during the
.h,l. IL.
his constituents, who had arrived the evening pre-
ylous-that he did not arrive in the hall until after
that bill was disposed Of He recollected well that
when he arrived the resolution in relation to Gene
raj Taylor was under debate, which was taken up
after the bill was finally passed. How this hap
Pened, was TO HIM Inexplicable, particularly when
II is the only vote he Is represented giving dur
Jog the many votes on that bill.
IL was also due TO himself to state that the vote
as registered, entirely falslhed his position on the
question lie IN favor of retaining the clause,
and had he been present, should undoubtedly have
voted against striking 1t out On the day before, in
Committee Of the Whole on the state Of the Union
he had voted against striking it out, and had GER
tainy seen no reason to change his opinion, and
had not. Had he been present he should have voted
against striking it out, as he had done the day be-
fore.
The journal was accordingly ordered to be cor
rected.
Mr.. HARRISON moved to set aside the private
calendar, and that the House resolve itself into Com
mtlee Of the Whole on the state Of the Union, and
asked the yeas and nays; which were ordered, and
being taken, resulted as follows:
YEAs-Messrs stephen Adams Arnold Atkinson, Bell
Benton. Biggs, James A. Black Bowlin Boyd Brod.
head. Burt William W Campbell. CathcST, Reuben
Chapman Chase, Clarke, Cobb, Collin Constable Crozie
Cullom cunningham, De Mott Dobbin DromVoole Erd
man Fickn Foster, Fines Garyn. GENTRY, G2oyer, Har
Alison, billiard, Hoge. Elias Holmes, Hopkins, q. s
Houston Edmund W HubarI Hunter Charles J. Ing.r,olI
JOEEDh II
Andrew Johnson George W. Jones' Kennedy, Preston
King Thomas Butler King Leake, Leib La seTe, Long
Lumpkin Met LELAND McClernand, McCrate, Joseph j.
Mcdowell, James Mcdowell, Mckay, Barclay Martin
Miller Moulton, NEen, Norris, owen Parish, Phep,
Price, Reid, Rheu Ritter, Roberts Savtelle Sawyer
seaman, sedion, Alexander d. Sims. simpson, Thomas
smith, Robert Smith, Stanton, starkwesther St John,
Jacob Thompson. Treadway Wick woodward Wood.
worth, Yell and ioung-0l
NAYs-Nlessrs. Abbott. John Quincy Adams Anderson,
lamer, Crsnson, Cummins, Daniel, Bargan Dillingham;,
Dixon, Doekery, Dunlap John H. Ewing, Faran, Foot,
ly, Herrick, John w Houston samuel D Hubbard Hud.
son, Washington Hunt James b. Hunt, Lewis, Mclean
Psndeton, Perrill Rathhun, julius Rockwell John 4.
Rockwell, Root Russell Scammon Truman smith, Caleb
B, smith, Stewart, strohm, sykes, ThOmasson, James
Williams, Winthrop, and Wrght-63,
So the private calandar was set aside.
And the House resolved itself into Committee Of
the Whole on the state Of the Union, (Mr. HAaLN,
of Maine, in the char.)
THE SUPPLEMENTAL BILL.
The committee, on motion OF Mr.. HARRISON,
took up the bill supplemental TO act entitled can
act providing for the prosecution Of the existing
between the United States and the republic of Mex
leo, ;" and for other purposes.
The bill and amendment read
Mr. RATHBUN said he had no desire to retard
the action Of the House on any of those measures.
But it seemed to him, from the mode in which BUSH
ness was undertaken on this floor that il was inn
pooaihle 70 rnpmber In updprsfnnd yuh he
doing. No private copy of this bill, or of the amend
ment had yet been furnished The bill was an i'm
portant one, and he moved that il be laid aside with
a view to its being printed and examined
The motion having been agreed to, the bill was
laid aside for the present
PAY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
The committee, on motion of Mr.. HARRISON,
took up the bill making certain alterations in the
pay department of the army; which was read
Mr. HUNGERFORD moved an amendment to
the lst section providing that all the Offices hereby
created shall cease TO be abolished after the eXpra
ton o(sIx months from the close of the subssting
war between the United States and Mexico.
Mr.. HARALSON said this bill, as reported to
the House, was substantially the same as that
which had been recommended from the Department
of War for the last two or three years, and had
been considered necessary by the department even
in a state Of peace, and much more therefore now
when we have increased the number Of our military
posts, and probably must have still further to in
crease them account of tho extension of our ter
rtory by the annexation of Texas and the existence
of the war with Mexico. The posts at which pay
ments are to be made are widely scattered. More
than 100000 miles are said to be annually travelled
by these officers The expense of travelling from
post to post would in all probability pay the sala-
res ofthe additional number of pay masters proposed
He would reserve any further remarks he might
make upon the bill until the amendment should be
disposed of. For the present. he would send up to
be read by the clerk an extract from the report of
the Paymaster General accompanying the Pres-
dents message at the commencement of the present
session of Congress, showing the necessity for this
increase, with the single statement that his views
had been concurred in by successive administrations
of the War Department.
The extract was read by the clerk as follows:
The duties OF have greaty by
the extension frontier and the addition of military posts
consequent the annexation OF Texas The great diff
Guilty in wing the army is caused so much by the
number Of troops by the number of posts the want
of public conveyances in unsettled frontier country
This will be better understood when II R known that on an
average onefourh Of the funds required pay frontier
posts must be in specie amounting to from four
wagon loads The travelling to enable the officers of this