Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-22

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/ HoUsI o. REPRESENTATIVES,, JuIr 20. Is4s.
The civil and diplomatic appropriation bill having been or
dered 70 be engrossed and read third time. so
MI. vlNIoN moved TO reconsider the ordering the
bill to be engrosed and also 10 ay that motion on br
table which latter motion sgeed 10.
The question then stated the passage of the Bill
MrVlNTON moved the previous question which was Sc
conded and under the operation thereof the biz ras rejected
/ by yeas and nays, as follows;
YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Barringer, Belcher, blanchard
cng%sn, Cooke cri.ssd, croasr, Dsisy Bsoa,p Doa
Hss Isaac 1'i aonss. Ssss hsssss5s hsSsss.
Mssand ma Mann Ma.S nssi Marvin s,n ssis. Se:Sn.
Julius Rockwell, John A. Rockwell ST. John, shspperd'
sheriff. Sylvester Truman Smith, Stanton Stephens Charles
s sTsSss a%as To%pa S, sss Is%s.
sessss sssssa Bs. s.,a s s..asss sss s
Brown Albert G. Brown, Burt, Cathcart Chase Franklin
c CLARK, Beverly L Clark Howell Cobb Williamson R W.
Cobb Coins, Crowell, Cummins, Daniel Darling Dickn-
.hsrs.on, Fieku, Fries Gentry Gddngs Green, Willard
Harris H Ella: giei aomss george s. Hous.
ton lngs Irwin Iverson Jameson jenkins. Johnson
Lha La ssr Sidney Lawrence sxon Ior
MscIsrnsnd Mcdowell Meiivans. Mckay, JOB JOB Mann,
phsads Miller Morris. Mulli4 Nes Pea:ee Psgie Pettt
Richey Root Sawyer Schenk, Simpson, Smart Starkwea-
ther Sohm Thomas, Jacob Thompson, Robert A. Thomp-
son, William Thompson, Turner Venabc, Wallace, Went
worth, Wick, Wiley, Williams Wmot-lOO.
So the general appropriation bill was rejected
Mr. FlCKLN moved to reconsider the above vote, and to
lay that motion the table.
Much confusion and great sensation in the House
Mr. COBB, and several other gentlemen on the Democratic
side earnestly demonstrating with Mr. FIcKLIs and urging
him TO withdraw this motion
Mr. FiCkLIN, after pause said that his own mind was
IN avor OF adherng to the motion he had mad but as many
o. ms political friends around him thought differently he would
withdraw it.
The motion having been withdrawn-
Mr. COBB moved reconsider the vote by which the biIl
had been rejected He said that he made this motion il good
faith, and if it carried he should follow it up by another
to reconsider the by which the bill had been ordered to
be engossed, in order that might be ecommited to the
Committee OF Ways and Means and put such shape ag
would meet the views Of majority Of the House.
Mr. FEIIiT moved that the motion to reconsider be laid
upon the table.
On this motion the yeas and nays were ordered and being
taken, resulted Yeas 90 nays l5l.
SO the House refused to lay the motion reconsider on the
table.
Mr.. VINTON said the bill upon which the House had
just voted, with the exception of very few items, viz those
providing for the District Of Columbia for customhouse at
Caaneston and for the removal Of distractions in the Savan
nah nver with these exceptions he thought this bill
composed OF those appropriations which had been recommend
ed by the Executive carry the Government
Mr. fiCkL!N said in addition to the items the gentle
man nad named there were the appropriations for this city,
Mr. VNTON replied he had spoken of the appropriations
for the District which Of included those the city,
He did not know why this had been given especially by
gentlemen on the other side of the House.
Mr.. GENTRY desired to say to the gentleman from
Georgia (Mr CoBB, who had intmated that his Mr. G.'s
side OF the House had made such bill that they un
Wiling TO take the responsibility of voting for it, that the gen.
ieman be presumed misapprehended the motives OF those
ON his side OF the House who had voted against it. He M
had voted against 1t because he perceived the friends
OF the Administration the other side manifested very
strong Discrimination for the Administration to have these a
propnaon and he thought the duty gentlemen
on his side OF the House TO force them upon theni
MI COBB understood that the majority Of this House
with the gentleman from Tennessee, and upon that majority
rested the responsibility Of passing the necessary aPpropa
tions TO carry the Government He (M C.) had voted
against the bill because Of the Objectionable features placed
1t by the gentleman from Tennessee and his friends
Mn VINTON resumed the floor. He going on tos say
that with the exception the items which he had enumerated
ne believed every thing this bill had been recommended by
the Executive as necessary to carry the Government
there Objectionable items in the bill if there were
none which gentlemen felt themselves compelled TO vote
against upon constitutional grounds why then the only excuse
for gentlemen the other side of the House voting against
the bill must be that they satisfied that the Government
did not want the meanshat the Government had means
enough TO carry on its operations without the BILL Andn
gentlemen the other side of the House thought they could
get along without the appropriations proposed, he did not
know as they this side bound force them upon
them The Government in their hands, and If thew
thought the recommendations Of the Executive of sppspa-
ons necessary TO carry the Government should be reject
ed, ne did know any why those who stood oppo
sion to the Administration should not reject them aso
IL on the contrary, this bill voted against upon the
ground that there item in for the improvement Of
the Savannah rive which involved constitutional question:
then respect that he had say the recorded
this Houseof gentlemen the other side of the House
showed that there very large number Of those who had
no constitutional scrupes difficulties This, then, would
account for their Those who had constitutions
scrupes in legang for the improvement Of harbors and
rivers could not protect themselves against this under this
pretext Now, that being the position Of things, the gentle
man from Georgia proposed TO recommit this b indeed,
1t would be in the power Of the House the committee
amend it in recommitted The gentleman pro-
posed to recomm il for the purpose Of enabling the Commit
tee Of Ways and Means get rid Of this item. He would
only say that the Commtee Of Ways and Means had ogi
naly put that item the bills whether il right
wrong he did not propose to discuss That which had
been done had been the subject Of than this
House the action Of that committee had been affirmed by the
action Of this House than and II the bill should
be recommited without instructions strike this item,
under these crcumsiance member Of that committee,
or he spoke for else, he not disposed to strike
out He only regretted that the motion Of his friend from
Kentucky to put into the bill the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
had not prevailed.
Mr. McCLELLAND remarked that the gentleman had spo-
ken Of This provision for the Savannah having voted
several times and Of the Committee of Ways and Means
being sustained by the House. Now he wished ask this
question In Committee Of the Whole had the Wings
voted against the appropriation contained in this item, and
then recorded their votes for 1t in the House 2
Mr. VINTON. don't know how il was
Mr.. McCLELLAND. Can the gentlemen account fort ?
Mr. VINT0N had no recollection about il he did not
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