Mr. Coulter presented a petition of officers of the army in the late war with Great Britain, praying for grants of land; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Kinnard presented a memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, concerning the Wabash and Erie canal lands, a copy of the memorial from the said General Assembly, presented this day by Mr. McCarty; which memorial was referred to the committee appointed on the 24th December, on the motion of Mr. Kinnard, upon the subject of said lands. And then the House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1834. Mr. Gorham, one of the members of the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was referred the message of the President of the United States upon the refusal of the Bank of the United States to transfer the fund for paying pensions, and the books and papers connected therewith, to banks designated by the War Department, submitted, by leave, a report of the minority of that committee upon the subject of the said reference; which report was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. A motion was made to print 10,000 copies extra of said paper; which motion was laid on the table till to-morrow. Mr. John Quincy Adams, by leave, submitted the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to this House a statement of the facts relating to the disallowance, by the accounting officers of the Treasury, of a payment made by the Bank of the United States, under instructions from the Commissioner of Pensions, referred to in the letter from the President of the Bank of the United States to the Secretary of War, of the 23d of January last; and copies of all the correspondence between the War and Treasury Departments and the Bank of the United States, relating thereto. On motion of Mr. Clay, Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from memorials of inhabitants of the States of Alabama and Missouri, and the Territory of Florida, relative to pre-emption rights; and that the said memorials be committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (No. 104) to give to actual settlers on the public lands a right of pre-emption in the purchase of one quarter section at one dollar and a quarter per acre. On motion of Mr. Reed, Ordered, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the case of Edmund Fanning and Benjamin Pendleton; and that it lie on the table. Mr. Cage, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of Farish Carter, and on the petition of Seaton Grantland, administrator of Charles Williamson, accompanied by a bill (No. 307) for their 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. Leavitt, Ordered, That the Committee on the Public Lands be discharged from the further consideration of the case of Zachariah Dixon, and that it lie on the table. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported a bill (No. 308) for the final adjustment of claims to land in the State of Louisiana, and in the Territories of Arkansas and Florida; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the case of Eugene Senet, accompanied by a bill (No. 309) for his relief; 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 an unfavorable report on the memorial of Woodson Wren; which report was laid on the table. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the case of Louis Tesson, alias Honoré; which report was read, and laid on the table. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of inhabitants of Monroe county, in the State of Indiana, residing on the reserved township, accompanied by a bill (No. 310) for their relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Schley, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Levi M. Roberts; which was read, and laid on the table. Mr. Bell, of Ohio, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made unfavorable reports on the cases of Meshach Pearson, Elisha Berry, Samuel Hubbard, and Timothy Fisher; which reports were ordered to lie on the table. On motion of Mr. Deming, Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the further consideration of the cases of George Baskin, Benjamin Thompson, and Benjamin Hall, and that they lie on the table. On motion of Mr. Bockee, Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged from the consideration of the case of John Woodin, and that it lie on the table. The House again proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Gilmer on the 14th of January; which said resolution is as follows: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to communicate to this House all correspondence which he may have had, or other information in his possession, in relation to the death of Hardiman Owens, a citizen of Alabama, who was lately put to death by a party of regular soldiers; whether said Owens was put to death in the execution of orders from the War Department, or any officer of the United States; and that he also communicate to this House any correspondence which he may have had, or other information in his possession, in relation to any obstructions thrown in the way of the execution of the process of the courts of Alabama, issued for the purpose of bringing to trial those by whom said Owens was killed, and any correspondence or order in rela tion to the removal of said prosecutions to the district court of the United States. And on the question that the House do agree to said resolution, The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Sevier on the 14th of January, relative to suspended patents for lands in Arkansas; and the said resolution being again read, was agreed to by the House. The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Foot on the 14th of January, in relation to the organization of the Treasury Department; and the said resolution being again read, was agreed to by the House. The House proceeded to the consideration of the proposition reported from the Committee on Roads and Canals, to amend the rules of the House; when it was Ordered, That the further consideration of the said proposition be postponed until the 25th day of the present month. The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Mardis on the 14th of January; and, after debate, the hour elapsed, and the debate thereon was suspended. The House then resumed the consideration of the motion made by Mr. Polk on the 17th of December, that the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the removal of the deposite of the public funds from the Bank of the United States and its branches to certain State banks, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. The question recurred on the instructions moved by Mr. McDuffie on the same day, and on the amendment to said instructions, moved by Mr. Jones, of Georgia, on the 14th of January. And, after further debate, The previous question was moved by Mr. Muhlenberg. And before it was ascertained that the previous question was, or was not, demanded by a majority of the members present, A call of the House was moved by Mr. Chilton. The Speaker decided that, after the previous question was moved, and before it was ascertained whether there was a second to the motion, (which, by the rules of the House, required a majority of the members present,) it was not in order to entertain a motion for a call of the House. From this decision Mr. Chilton took an appeal to the House; and, after debate, Mr. Chilton withdrew his appeal. Mr. Adams renewed the appeal, and, after further debate, withdrew it. The appeal was then renewed by Mr. Foster. And the question was put, Shall the decision of the Speaker stand as the judgment of the House? And passed in the affirmative, Yeas, Nays, . The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Mr. Abraham Bockee Charles Bodle Ratliff Boon Mr. Samuel Bunch Robert Burns Churchill C. Cambreleng Zadok Casey John Chaney Philemon Dickerson Mr. Joseph Henderson Henry Hubbard Gerrit Y. Lansing Cornelius W. Lawrence Humphrey H. Leavitt Robert Mitchell Henry A. Muhlenberg Those who voted in the negative, are, Mr. John Quincy Adams Heman Allen John J. Allen Chilton Allan Charles A. Barnitz George N. Briggs Tristam Burges George Chambers Mr. Edward Darlington Warren R. Davis Mr. Gayton P. Osgood Gorham Parks James Parker William Patterson Ferdinand S. Schenck Augustine H. Shepperd Jesse Speight Mr. Gideon Hard Jabez W. Huntington William Cost Johnson George L. Kinnard Henry C. Martindale- Thomas M. T. McKennan Jesse Miller John J. Milligan Samuel McDowell Moore: John M. Patton Henry L. Pinckney David Potts, jr. John Reed Abraham Rencher Mr. Dudley Selden David Spangler Joel B. Sutherland William P. Taylor Francis Thomas It was then ascertained by a count, by tellers, that the previous question was demanded by a majority of the members present. And a motion was then made by Mr. Chilton that there be a call of the House; which motion was disagreed to. A motion was then made by Mr. Burges that the House do adjourn. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative, {Nays, 84, 142. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Mr. Thomas Davenport Jabez W. Huntington |