The Arkansas banner., 1846-04-08
IV THE IiousE. March IS.
MILEAGE OF MEMBERS.


 Mr. J. P Martin, from the Committee on Mileage, offered resolution discharging the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union from the bill heretofore reported by him, in relation to the mileage of members. Mr. Bowlin said that, as this subject had been brought up. he desired to offer an amendment; which was read for in(orma- ton.
 And the question recurring on the amend me1t of Mr. Bowlin,
 Mr. YELL offered the following as an amendment to the amendment:
 Strike cut p8 and insert 95 per diem, and insert &6 fot every twenty miles of travel 10 and from the seat of government
 .lad be t further eaacteJ, That from the year eighteen hundred and fifty the seat ol government of the United States shall be. and is hereby, located and established near the city of St. Louis, in the State of MisSou- ri, upon the township of land granted by the State of Missouri to the federal government foy that purpose, whenever Congress shall signify it's acceptance.
 Mr. BoWln accepted the amendment, and after several other motions to amend were offered, and objections made, the Speaker suggested that gentlemen would have an op- poFiunity hereafter to reply, so the matter was postponed.
 RIVERS AND HARBoRS
 Whereupon the House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, (Alr T. Smith, of Indiana, in the chair and resumed the consideration of the bill making appropriations for the improve ment of certain harbors and rivers.
 Amendments were still in order, and lhey were offered as follows:
 The following item being under consider alton: "For the improvement of the Ohio river below the falls, al Louisville, and of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas riv- CTS, S240,000,''
 Mr. Tibbatts moved to amend 1t by adding, "5,000 thereof 10 be expended in the i'm proyementof the Mississippi above the mouth of the Missouri
 Some conversation followed between Mr. Jacob Thompson, and Mr. Tibbatts
 Mir. Price moved to amend the amendment by adding, land one hundred thousand dol lars for the improvement of the Missouri river" Rejected.
 NIT. ELL moved to amend the amendment by adding, ''that the residue of the amount be applied to the improvement of the Arkan- sas river" Rejected
 By Hr. Chipman: To strike out ''the Ar kansas river" from the item appropgialing S240,000 for the improvement or the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. Rejected.
 By Nr. YELL: At the end of the l00th line insert, ''proyided that S25,000 of said appropriation be appropriated to the improve ment of the Washla, White, and Black riv- CTS, in the State of Arkansas. Rejected.
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 So the bill was passed in the following form, to-wit:
 A BILL MAKING appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers. We condense the bill, so as to present to onr readers such portions of it as they are more immediately interested in, it being too long to publish entire.
 For improving the harbor at St. Louis, seventy-ive thousand dollars.
 For the improvement of the Ohio river above the falls, at Louisville, eighty thousand dollars
 For the improvement of the Ohio river below the falls, at Louisville, and of the Mis-