The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-26
,nnAr. R,ssrl1. Hall. GREEs.

SHALL, BuRr, GoRMAg, BissELL, HALL, GREEN,
Mason, TAYLOR, CALDWELL OF kentuky, JOHN
SON OF Arkansas, and others, participated
+ The amendment, and all the amendments pro-
| posed to IL were disagreed to by the committee.
! The debate having ceased in Committee in ae-
! cordance with the order OF the House. excepting
/ the closing speech which the rules allow 10 the
chairman Of the Committee who reported the bill
Mr. BAYLY rose and made some remarks in
which he summed up the amount appropriated in
the several leading bills, as they came from the
! Committee of Ways and Means, TO be something
rising Sal ,000, 900. This amount he said had
/ been increased some millions more by the Senate
and the House. He wished to call the attention
of the House to the state of the Federal Treasury
and to say that there was probability that the
revenue would continue TO yield an amount ade-
quate to such an enormous expenditure. The
only additional revenue that could be raised by a
tariff would be by duty upon tea ard coffee.
/ Unless we tax these, resort 10 other modes
of taxation, or retrencb, the Government must go
| further in debt.
were proposed, and five minutes speeches made
thereon, pro and con, in the course Of which re-
gular engagement of charges and counter-charges,
ordinations and recrmnatons and explanations
took place between several members of the old
"a line" WING and democratic parties as to which
WAS responsible for the extent that federal ex-
penditures had reached. The wings charged the
democrats with the responsibility of the proposed
! appropriations, inasmuch as 1t was alleged that
they had the majority in both Houses. The de-
mocrats reioned that their maj ority IN the House
was merely nominal-that the wings VIGOROUSLY
voted in body for all the appropriations, and for
every motion to enlarge or increase them, while
the majority ofthe democrats always voted against
all extraordinary appropriations. The charge of
squandering the public lands made by each.
The following amendments were adopted by the
co mmtee:
Mr.. BAYLY moved the following
To supply deficiency in the appropriation foI
the expenditures of the visitors to West Poin
academy-S600 Agreed to-
Mr.. CALDWELL of KY, moved to appropr
ate $4,000 for purchasing walling and ditching
piece of land the city of Mexico for cemetry
or burial place for such of the officers and soldiers
of the army as were slain or died in service neal
that city. Agreed to.
Mr.. ASHE moved that $4,000 of the appro-
priation for arsenas be applied to the completion
of the arsenal at Fayetteville, N, c., according to
the law authorizing its construction. Agreed to.
/ Mr.. NELSON moved to strike out of the BILL
an appropriations 500 900, for a national armory
at " Fort Massac," the confluence of the
Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi
! rivers.
Pending the question, the committee found it.
| self frequently without quorum, far as the
votes by tellers indicated, and often rose and
reported the fact to the House when a quorum
appearing, the House returned to committee again
This operation consumed some three hours, wher
the committee agreed to rise and report progress
Another hour was then consumed in ineaectua
attempts to ad journ, when, at quarter to clock
the House ad journed.