Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-06-04
TWENTY-NlNTH COyGRESS.
Correspondence gf the Baltimore Anerican.
WAsniSoros, May %.
The Senate not i'm session to-day.
A0llSE on REPR ESENTArINES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A Resolution TO close the debate upon the
Psyinaster's Bill in two hours after the House
went into Committee of the Whole, was a
greed to after on attempt made TO end the de-
bate in 30 minutes.
MIR. Boyd OF Ky. offered a Resolution provi-
ding that the daily hour of the meeting of the
House shall hereafter be ten o'clock, and that
a recess shall b. taken from 2 o'clock to -.
The Resolution was objected to. and the
yeas and nays called upon suspending the
Rules.
The vote was: yeas 70, nays 6O.-not two
thirds, and the Rule not suspended.
The House then went into consideration of
the private calender. Two OF three Bills up
on the Speakers table had been passed. when
MIR. HARRISON, Of Ga. moved that the House
go into Committee of the Whole upon the
PAYMASrER'S BILL.
The debate was resumed upon the merits Ct
the question, and Mr.. Burt OF s. c. led of in
the discussion, and defended the increased
number of Paymasters which had been propo-
sed. There were three Assistants and one
Paymaster General. In the last war il was
said that there were 100 Psymasters while
now there are but Ave and not enough to at
tend to the duties assigned them.
Nd. Atkinson Of Va. spoke in opposition TO
the selection OF persons permanently. He
preferred that the law Of 1921 should contin-
lie In force which required that the Paymas-
tiers should be appointed every four years.
Mr.. Davis Of Miss. was for an increase OF
the number Of Paymasters, and he thought the
public interests would be better subseryed BY
having their Offices permanent. In the course
Of his speech he alluded to an assault made
upon him yesterday By Mr.. Johnson, of Tenn.
MIR. ID. charged Mr.. J. with having made an
audacious Misrepresentation Of his remarks,
and with being a ~demagogue.
Mr.. Johnson glorifed in the appellation OF
being a demagogue and said that he wished
there were more Of them in the House and in
the country. This was honest at least, AMI
the members laughed aloud of such an appeal.
but MIR. J. said he regarded demagogues as
friends oil the people, and again he said he
could not endure those a~ristocratic democrats
who got here by deceiving the People. MIR.
J. talked about bloated pride. swelled heads,
assumed Learning and all that, and afforded
great amusement 10 those who heard him.
The second section was then struck from
the Bill, which proposed the repeal of the
law OF 1921. The officers. therefore, b. the
Bill are not permanent. A great many a
m~endments were proposed and several in re-
laiion TO the increase OF the pay oil volunteers
TO $40 a month were among them. All these
were rejected.
Mr.. Mckay of n. C. proposed that the Bill
should be amended BY Inserting an entirely
new bill authorizing three additional Paymas-
tiers, 10 serve during the increase Of the rack
and file OF the Army, and no longer. The
Committee rose and reported the Bill, and it
was passed as amended. Mr.. Haralson NOV
ed between 3 and 4 o'clock that the House 90
into Committee Of the Whole on the State of
the Union.
A motion was made 10 adjourn and the yeas
md nays called. Several members voted no,
left the Hall. The vote was taken twice
BY yeas and nays aud once without them, and
alter an hour OF play and folly the children
home for the day.