And, after debate, it was, Ordered, That the said resolution be recommitted to the Committee on the Public Buildings. Mr. Dickson, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined an enrolled bill (No. 36) entitled "An act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year 1834," and found the same truly enrolled; when The Speaker signed the said bill. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill (No. 56) to render permanent the present mode of supplying the army of the United States, and fixing the salary of certain clerks therein named; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Thomson, of Ohio, reported the said bill without amendment. It was then Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read a third time to morrow. And then the House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1834. Mr. Dickson, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did, yesterday, present to the President of the United States an enrolled bill (No. 36) entitled "An act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year 1834." Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee of Ways and Means, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Nathaniel Frye, junior; which was read, and laid on the table. Mr. Clay, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported a bill (No. 294) for the relief of George Davenport; which was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. Clay, from the Committee on the Public Lands, which was instructed on the 27th of January "to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for coercing those entitled to military bounty. land in Arkansas to draw their patents for the same," made an adverse report thereon; which was read, and laid on the table. On motion of Mr. Campbell P. White, Ordered, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be discharged from the consideration of the memorial of Brown and Haven, on behalf of the owners, officers, and crew of the privateer brig Warrior, and that the said memorial be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Williams, from the Committee on the Territories, made a report on the memorial of James M. Garnett and others, of Virginia, accompanied by a bill (No. 295) repealing certain acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mann, of New York, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made reports on the petitions of Jean Arnauld Agness and Joseph Derbanne; which reports were read, and laid on the table. On motion of Mr. Barringer, Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharg ed from the further consideration of the cases of John Tubb and Edward Sandford, and that they lie on the table. Mr. Barringer, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made a report on the case of John Carmack, accompanied by a bill (No. 296) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Inge, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported a bill (No. 297) for the relief of William Marcus; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. On motion of Mr. Inge, Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the memorial of the Legislature of the State of Alabama, referred on the 23d of December, on behalf of those persons who purchased public land in 1818 and 1819, and that the said memorial do lie on the table. On motion of Mr. Inge, Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the cases of David McGee and Wesley Tollett, and that the said cases do lie on the table. Mr. Richard M. Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill (No. 298) for the relief of the administratrix of Captain Paschal Hickman; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. On motion of Mr. Dickinson, Ordered, That the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the case of Jacob Moore, and that it lie on the table. A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. Donelson, his private Secretary, notifying that the President did, this day, approve and sign "An act (No. 36) making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year 1834." Mr. Polk, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was referred, on the 4th instant, the message of the President of the United States, with the accompanying documents, communicating to Congress the refusal of the Bank of the United States to deliver over, on the order of the Secretary of War, the books, papers, and funds, connected with the disbursements to be made under the act of June 7, 1832, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," made a report thereon, accompanied by a bill (No. 299) to prescribe the mode of paying pensions heretofore granted by the United States; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. On motion of Mr. Deming, Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petitions of Jacob Strayer and Edward Evans, and that they lie on the table. Mr. Deming, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made a report on the case of Elisha Lucas, accompanied by a bill (No. 300) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the, Whole House to-morrow. On motion of Mr. Schenck, Ordered, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Hannah C. Franklin, and that the said petition be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Mr. Schenck, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Elijah Blodget; which report was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Duncan, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to which was referred the memorial of the Legislature of the Territory of Arkansas upon the subject, reported a bill (No. 301) to establish an additional land office in the Territory of Arkansas; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (No. 95) to establish addition land offices in the State of Missouri. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee on Patents, made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Whitehead; which was read, and laid on the table. Mr. Young, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made a report on the petition of Peter Jacquett, accompanied by a bill (No. 302) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. On motion of Mr. Young, Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Francis Vigo, and that it be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. Mr. Jarvis, from the Committee on the Public Buildings, to which the subject was referred on the 24th January, reported the following joint resolution : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a joint committee be appointed to contract with four competent American artists for the execution of four historical paintings, on subjects relating to the history of our country, to be placed in the vacant panels of the rotundo of the Capitol; the subjects of the paintings to be selected by the artists, under the control of the committee. The said resolution was read the first time. The rule being suspended for the purpose, A motion was made by Mr. Blair, of South Carolina, that ten thousand copies extra be printed of the report made this day, from the Committee of Ways and Means, on the message of the President respecting the refusal of the Bank of the United States to deliver over the books, papers, and funds connected with the disbursements to be made under the act of June 7, 1832, for the relief of surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution. This motion, under the rules of the House, was laid on the table till to-morrow. A motion was made by Mr. John Quincy Adams that the House do reconsider the vote of yesterday, referring to the Committee of Ways and Means the memorial of merchants of the city of New York in favor of the warehousing system against the prompt cash payment of duties, and for the abolition of custom-house fees. The Speaker decided that this motion would not come up for consi deration until Monday next, the day fixed by the rule for the presentation of memorials and petitions. The House resumed the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Chilton on the 27th of December; which said resolution is as follows: Resolved, That a select committee be appointed, whose duty it shall 'be to inquire into the expediency of so extending the provisions of the act of Congress passed 7th June, 1832, granting pensions to certain classes of troops therein named, as to embrace in its provisions those who were engaged in the wars against the Indians subsequent to the close of the revolutionary war, and down to the treaty of Greenville, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. The question recurred on the amendment moved by Mr. Bouldin, which is as follows: Strike out all the resolution after the word " inquire,' and insert the following: "into the moral and political effects of the pension laws of the United States, and how far the same ought to be modified or repealed." The previous question was moved by Mr. Chilton Allan; and being demanded by a majority of the members present, The said previous question was put, viz. Shall the main question be now put? And passed in the affirmative, {eas, 136, 66. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Mr. Joseph H. Crane David Crockett Amos Davis Thomas L. Hamer Mr. Edward Kavanagh George L. Kinnard Gerrit Y. Lansing John Laporte Cornelius W. Lawrence George W. Lay Luke Lea Humphrey H. Leavitt Henry C. Martindale Jesse Miller Henry Mitchell Robert Mitchell · Samuel McDowell Moore Job Pierson The main question was then put, viz. that the House do agree to the resolution as moved by Mr. Chilton, And passed in the affirmative, {ays, . 120, 86. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Mr. John Quincy Adams John Adams John J. Allen Chilton Allan William Allen William H. Ashley John Blair Charles Bodle John W. Brown Mr. Churchill C. Cambreleng Mr. Philo C. Fuller John Carr Zadok Casey John Chaney Thomas Chilton Rufus Choate William K. Fuller Thomas L. Hamer James Harper Samuel S. Harrison Samuel G. Hathaway Albert G. Hawes Joseph Henderson Edward Howell William M. Inge Richard M. Johnson Noadiah Johnson Cave Johnson Benjamin Jones George L. Kinnard Amos Lane |