Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-07-18
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
TUESDAY. July IA, 1916.

bill provide for the Improvement Of the rivers Ohio
Missouri, Mississippi, and Arkansas
Mr. HAMLIN objected to this bill, and said that, to
trouble he would move that it be laid the table,
The SPEAKER said that, if the gentleman opposed the
BILL the question under the rue-whh provides that the first
reading bill shall be for information, and, if opposition
be made it, the question shall be- "Sha this bill be
iected "-would be shall the bin be rejected
Mr.. RATHBUN moved the previous question, which was
seconded
And the question put Shall the bill be rejected It
YEAs-Aiesssrs Abbott, John @ Adams Stephen Adams,
Arnold Ashman Barringsr, Bell Benton Bigss, James
Black James A. Black Blanchard, Brockenbrough, Brod-
head William G. Brown, William W. Campbell, John III.
Campbell Cathcart, John G. Chapman, Augustus A. Chap
Reub Chapman Chapman Clarke Cobb Collin, Grams
ton Cullom, Culver Darragh DeMou, Dillingham;, Dixon,
Dobbin Dockery Dromgooe, Dunlap Edsall, Ellsworth,
Erdman Foot Garvn Giddngs, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon,
Grinnell Grover Hamlin Hampton, HARRISON, Elias Is.
Holmes, Hopkins Hough John w Houston G. s. Houston,
f. W. HUBBARD Samuel ID. Hubbard Hudson Hunter Joseph
r. ngerso jenkins, James H. johnson, Joseph johnson,
Andrew Johnson George W. jones' Daniel r. King Preston
King Thomas Butler King Leake Leb Lewis Levin Lyon
James Mcdowell Mcyane, Mckay, Marsh John r. Martin,
Barclay Martin Miller Moseey Moulton Niyen Norris,
Payne Rahbun Reid J. Rockwell John A. Rockwell Root,
Saweie Sawyer Scammon Seaman, Severance, Alexander
d. Sims Truman Smith, Albert Smith, strohm Strong,
worth Wheaton, White, Williams, Wflmo Winthrop,
Woodruff, Wright, Yost-i2O.
NAYS-Messrs. Bown, Boyd Milf. Brown, Burt, Cooke,
Crozier Cunningham, Garrett Davis Douglass John H. Ew
ing, Edwin H. Ewing faan Fekiin Foster Fries Gentry,
trider, Henley, Hoge, Holmes Charles lngersol
Kaufman La Sere, McClernand, J. Mcdowell, McHenry,
Morris Owen Parish, Phelps Psbury, Relic, Roberts, l.
H. Sims, Thomas Smith, Robert Smith, Stanton, Stark
Thurman, Tibbatts, Trumbo, Vinon, Wick, Young-4s.
And the bill rejected outright without having been
passed to a second reading
THE TREASURY NOTE AND LOAN BILL.
The House resolved itself into Committee Of The Whole
the state of the Union, (Mr GoRDos in the chair and
proceeded the consideration Of the bill authorizing issue
Of Treasury notes and loan not exceeding ten millions in
the aggregate
Mr.. GARRETT DAVIS sent to the Clerks table to be
read amendment which he proposed when in order to offer
to the bill reported from the Committee OF Ways and Means
Mr. d. said that after the bill should have been gone
through with by sections for amendment il his purpose
TO offer his amendment the object Of which TO convert the
bill into simple loan BILL doing away entirely with all those
provisions 81 which had respect TO the issue Of Treasury
notes
Al this late stage Of the session the Committee Of Ways
and Means could Of be expected report any fur
Their bills for increasing the sources of and Mr. D.
had no doubt that the hill they had reported for the modfca
ton Of the tariff would have the operation Of reducing the
venue at present received II could fail Of reducing
amount derived from the customs below twenty millions; that
Mr. d. undoubted conviction but whether this proved
TO be correct or not he presumed would
that the present demands on the Treasury would greatly
exceed Its means " meeting hem whether the tariff bill
should pass not if that measure should pass the other
House and become law the deficit would become still greater
With war upon our hands AMI other large demands upon
the Government should need all the revenue we could OBJ
tain without direct Gentlemen might arrange their
tariff bill so as TO derive from the greatest practicable amount
Of revenue and they might graduate their land bin 80 as to
get they possibly could from the sales the public
domain but with all their efforts they could derive suf
fcient discharge the expenses The present
financial Of the Administration inefficient and
unwse they neither did justice TO the industry Of
citizens, they shaped to attain sufficient
TO meet the ordinary wants Of the Government but, in
both points Of view, vicious and exceptionable,
In this state Of things il the duty OF the Committee Of
Ways aud Means 70 devise system Of revenue that should
be commensurate with the public necessities this ought
have been their business But in place Of such system