FEB. 13, 1833.] [Here the SPEAKER reminded the honorable gentleman that it was not in order to assail the acts of a committee.] of the United States, is one hundred and twenty-four million was due to the distinguished body before which he stood, five hundred thousand dollars, their circulation 68,332,556 and which had done him too much honor by the patient dollars; and that the whole amount of specie in their hearing they had bestowed on him; too well what was due vaults did not exceed 10,953,950 dollars. Compare with to his constituents as well as to himself. It was true, he had this, at the same period, and immediately after having ef- assailed the action of the Committee of Ways and Means, fected, without the least disturbance whatever, either to and confessed himself entirely at a loss to conceive upon the currency of the country, or its business in any branch what ground or public document that could possibly have whatever, fifteen millions of dollars of the public debt, the come before that cominittee, the bill then under considersituation of this insolvent institution, its capital thirty-five ation could have been based. millions of dollars, its circulation 17,667,444 dollars, while the specie in its vaults equalled the sum of 9,040,050 dollars. And yet, sir, we are told, in the face of facts so Mr. W. stated that he only intended to refer to the acts easily got at, and in defiance of all collateral evidence of the most unrivalled prosperity, that the bank is insolvent, of the committee, as they had been brought before the and not a fit place of deposite for the public funds! Sir, House. Beyond that he did not wish to go-that surely it is difficult to believe this. History will not credit that afforded him ample ground. He again repeated that if, any administration could be so regardless of public opinion, in the ardor of debate, any thing had dropped from him, or so reckless in the prosecution of its ends, as to give calculated to wound personally, he should regret it exutterance to charges so fatal in their character, not more tremely. In conclusion, he expressed the hope that the to the credit of the bank than to the character of the Go-House would at once meet this question with the firmness vernment and nation both at home and abroad, and unsup-and decision its importance demanded, and hoped that on his return home to his constituents, he might have it in his ported by even the shadow of proof. But, sir, I have not yet done. Every one knows what power to congratulate them and the country that a meafor some time past has been the condition of England: la sure so fraught with ruin to them and it, had been met at boring under a state of the highest political ferment, dis- once, and quashed in its very bud. He had done. Mr. WHITTLESEY, of Ohio, then demanded the pretracted in her councils, her ancient institutions tottering to their base, and on the eve of a vast moral as well as po-vious question; which motion being duly seconded, "the litical revolution, it became necessary to subject her great previous question was ordered: Yeas 94, nays 90. The main question was then put in the following form: moneyed institution to an investigation as rigorously as it "Shall this bill be rejected?" and decided as follows: was no doubt skilfully managed, and what was the result? YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Chilton Allan, Heman Allen, Why, it was found that the Bank of England, with a capital of 72,765,000 dollars, a circulation of 90,258,550 dol- Allison, Arnold, Ashley, Babcock, Banks, N. Barber, lars, had of specie in its vaults a sum amounting only to Barringer, Barstow, Isaac C. Bates, Branch, Briggs, 26,465,750 dollars; and yet this institution is sustained by Bucher, Bullard, Burd, Cahoon, Choate, Collier, L. Cona report of the committee of Parliament, and represented dict, S. Condit, Bates Cooke, Cooper, Corwin, Coulter, by the Government to be in a most flourishing condition, Craig, Crane, Crawford, Creighton, Daniel, John Davis, while the administration of our own Government brings W. R. Davis, Dearborn, Denny, Dewart, Dickson, Drayall its influence and patronage to bear against the great ton, Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Edward national bank of the Union, with the view to crush it, be- Everett, Horace Everett, Findlay, Grennell, H. Hall, cause, forsooth, its circulation does not equal half its ca- Hawes, Hiester, Hodges, Hughes, Huntington, Ihrie, pital, while the specie in its vaults nearly equals that con- Ingersoll, Irvin, Jenifer, Kendall, H. King, Kerr, Letchtained in all the other banks of the country taken toge-er, Marshall, Maxwell, Robert McCoy, McDuffie, Mcther, and falls short only by one-half its own amount of Kennan, Mercer, Milligan, Newton, Pearce, Pendleton, circulation. I blush, sir, while I state the fact. I wish Pitcher, Potts, Randolph, John Reed, Rencher, Root, my constituents, however, to know it, and ardently de- Russel, Semmes, Wm. B. Shepard, Slade, Smith, Southsire that all possible information on this deeply important ard, Spence, Stanbery, Stewart, Storrs, Taylor, Philemon Thomas, Tompkins, Tracy, Vance, Vinton, Washsubject may be laid before the whole body of the people. The honorable gentleman from Tennessee had, how-ington, Watmough, Wilkin, Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, ever, assured the House, the Government had not willed Frederick Whittlesey, Edward D. White, Wickliffe, the destruction of the bank. The honorable gentleman Wilde, Williams, Young-102. has stated what he no doubt believes; his opportunities NAYS-Messrs. Adair, Alexander, R. Allen, Anderson, have, perhaps, enabled him to receive assurances which Angel, Archer, Barnwell, James Bates, Beardsley, Bell, have satisfied his mind on that point; but, as I do not live Bergen, Bethune, James Blair, John Blair, Boon, Bouck, under the same favorable auspices with the honorable Bouldin, John Brodhead, John C. Brodhead, Cambregentleman, I only form my opinions from the great public leng, Chandler, Chinn, Claiborne, Clay, Clayton, Coke, acts of the Executive, and his advocates both here and Connor, Davenport, Dayan, Doubleday, Draper, Felder, out of doors. I am led to a different conclusion, quite, Ford, Foster, Gaither, Gilmore, Gordon, Griffin, Thomas and to me it is a fact as evident as the sun at noon-day, H. Hall, William Hall, Harper, Hawkins, Hoffman, Holthat the destruction of the bank has long since been de- land, Horn, Howard, Hubbard, Isacks, Jarvis, Jewett, termined on, and will be consummated, unless, amid the Richard M. Johnson, Cave Johnson, Kavanagh, Kennon, political convulsions of the day, a new light should sud- Adam King, John King, Lamar, Lansing, Leavitt, Ledenly spring up, a new conviction arise of the sound moral compte, Lewis, Lyon, Mann, Mardis, Mason McCarty, as well as political expediency of renewing its charter, Wm. McCoy, McIntire, McKay, Mitchell, Newnan, Nuckand of receiving it within the pale of those constitutional olls, Patton, Pierson, Plummer, Polk, Edward C. Reed, powers of the Government as essential in its sphere as the Roane, Soule, Speight, Standifer, John Thomson, Verjudiciary has, of late, been found to be important and pa- planck, Ward, Wardwell, Wayne, Weeks, Campbell P. ramount in the more grave and important orbit in which it White, Worthington-91. So the bill was rejected. is called upon to act. Mr. W. hoped that, in any remarks he had felt himself called upon to make, he should not be considered as intending any thing personally disrespectful to any honora ble member on this floor. Such, he assured the House, was not his intention. He hoped he knew too well what PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The hour of one having arrived, the Senate attended in the hall of the House of Representatives--the President of the Senate taking the chair of the House-and H. OF R. Geological Surveys. [FEB. 14, 1833. in the presence of the two Houses proceeded to open President of the United States to employ a suitable person, the votes of the Electors in the several States for Presi- in aid of the Topographical Bureau, for the purpose of dent and Vice President of the United States. Messrs. ascertaining the geology and mineralogy of each of the GRUNDY, of the Senate, and Drayton and HUBBARD, several States of the Union, with a view to the construcof the House of Representatives, acted as a committee tion of a mineralogical and geological map of the whole to read and enumerate the votes; and the whole having territory of the United States. been gone through, the result was ascertained to be as follows: Statement of the votes for President and Vice President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th of March, 1833. No. of Electors appointed by each State. 10 STATES OF 14 Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 77448 New Jersey, Mr. WICKLIFFE said that he should vote against the resolution, because he understood that the act of 1824, referred to in the resolution, had been practically nullified, inasmuch as the money intended to cover all the expense of surveying the routes of roads and canals had been withheld, and the surveys forbidden to proceed, unFor President. For Vice President made, would consent to bear the expense out of their less the respective States where the surveys were to be Andrew Jackson, of Henry Clay,of Ken- John Floyd, of Vir ginia. Wm.Wirt, of Mary land. Martin Van Buren, John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania. Henry Lee, of Massachusetts. ON 10 7 Connecticut, 7 Vermont, 42 New York, 8 30 Pennsylvania, 3 Delaware, 10 Maryland, 23 Virginia, 15 North Carolina, 15 11 South Carolina, 11 30 30 30 219 49 11 7 189 49 30 7 11 7 11 own funds: of this, however, a gentleman behind him knew more than he. Now, if such was indeed the case, Mr. W. was against continuing a law, the only use of which would be to provide a good fat place for some man that wanted employment. Mr. ANDERSON said that the resolution went to commit no one, to create no office, to take no money out of the treasury. If it were true that the law of 1824 had been annulled, then this resolution would be without effect. Mr. WHITTLESEY said that as the gentleman from Kentucky had very unexpectedly called upon him for an explanation of the subject referred to, it might be proper for him to state, that a very important route for a railroad in the northeastern part of the State of Ohio, intended to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio river, having been proposed, an application had been made to the Secretary of War, signed by all the members of the Ohio delegation, by many members from the western part of Pennsylvania, and others, soliciting an examination of the route in question. The Legislature of Ohio had considered the object of so much importance that they had granted an act of incorporation to a company for the construction of the road, and it had been in contemplation to make an application to the General Government for aid to carry it into execution. The Secretary of War had taken up the subject, and, with the promptitude, which usually characterized the movements of that officer, had 11 promptly informed them that the application would be granted, provided an appropriation for surveys under the act of 1824 should be made. It had been made; and the expectation of all had been, that the surveys would be made at the expense of the United States. A corps of engineers had been detailed, and part of them had arrived on the ground, when it was found that the bill had been so far countermanded as to throw the whole expense of the survey on the company, save the personal services of the engineer employed; the company had consequently been called together, and they had voted to refuse the offer. In consequence, the route had not been surveyed. The engineer had remained upon the line till near the fall, and had then asked and received leave of absence on furlough, on condition of reporting himself to the department once in every two weeks, that they might know where to direct orders. Vote for Vice President of the United States. For Martin Van Buren, of New York, For John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, For William Wilkins, of Pennsylvania, For Amos Ellmaker, of Pennsylvania, For Henry Lee, of Massachusetts, Whereupon, the President of the Senate proclaimed that ANDREW JACKSON, of Tennessee, having a majority of the whole number of votes, was elected President of A similar application had been made for the survey of the United States for four years, from the 4th day of a railroad from the Hudson river to Portage Summit, in March next; and that MARTIN VAN BUREN, of New York, Ohio. Great interest had been felt in this work in New having a majority of votes therefor, was elected Vice Pre- York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, where it was universally sident of the United States for the same term. considered as a work of great national importance. applicants had been told that the survey would be made, but on the same conditions as those he had mentioned, respecting the other case. Engineers had been despatched, but an order from the President had suspended their operations. FEB. 15, 16, 1833.] Election of Printer.-Land Reports. 1824, the individual referred to in the resolution would, of course, not be appointed. Mr. WHITTLESEY said he was not to be understood as opposing the resolution. [H. of R. At the close of the 10th ballot, it being after 4 o'clock, an adjournment was moved, which succeeded, and The House adjourned. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15. Mr. BURD advocated the resolution in a short speech, in which he expressed his wish that the resolution could be so extended as to include all the relative resources of the different States, so that strangers and emi- The House resumed the unfinished business of yesgrants might have some guide in selecting where to locate terday, being the election of a printer to the House themselves. for the next Congress; the same tellers as yesterday actMr. MERCER said he had not risen to oppose the re-ing. The following was the result of the several balsolution, being friendly to all inquiries of this character. lotings: He sustained the assertion of Mr. WICKLIFFE, as to the nullification of the law for surveys, and stated a corre-For Gales & Seaton, spondence between himself and the War Department, on the subject of assuming the reports of the Committee on Roads and Canals, when not contradicted by any legislation of the House, as the rule which was to guide the operations of the department in conducting the surveys. Mr. VINTON moved to amend the resolution by striking out the words "under the act of 1824," as he was not willing that the money which that law had destined to be employed in surveys, should be diverted to a differ ent use. Mr. MERCER further explained as to the history of a survey ordered in the neighborhood of Pittsburg. Mr. HALL, of North Carolina, thinking this a dangerous initiation of a new system for expending the public money, moved to lay the resolution on the table. The motion was negatived without a count. Mr. VINTON's amendment was then agreed to. F. P. Blair, After the third ballot, First. Second. Third. Fourth. 91 94 93 99 90 91 90 94 1 TTTT Mr. HALL, of North Carolina, moved a resolution postponing the election until the first Thursday in the next session of Congress. Mr. VINTON inquired of the Speaker if such a resolution was in order, under the law. The SPEAKER replied that it was in order. Mr. WILLIAMS moved to lay the resolution on the table, stating that the postponement was inadmissible, inasmuch as the House was acting under a law which required the election to be made at the present_session. He, however, waived his motion at the request of Mr. WAYNE, who said that the House was now exe Mr. ARNOLD moved to change the direction of the cuting a law, and must proceed with the election unless resolution to the Committee on Roads and Canals. This motion was negatived; and The resolution was then agreed to. ELECTION OF PRINTER. The hour having arrived at which the House had resolved to proceed to the election of a public printer, Mr. SPEIGHT moved a call of the House. The motion prevailed, and the House was thereupon called. Eight members were absent—when the call was suspended. Mr. McCOY, of Virginia, then nominated Francis P. Mr. NEWTON, of Virginia, nominated Gales & Seaton. Mr. COOKE, of New York, nominated Thurlowe The SPEAKER read a communication from William Greer & Son, proposing to do the work cheaper than any body else. Mr. BURD, of Pennsylvania, thereupon nominated William Greer & Son. Messrs. McCoy, NEWTON, WICKLIFFE, COOKE, and BURD, were appointed a committee to count the votes. When the balloting commenced, and resulted as follows: the law be repealed. To postpone the election until the next session would violate the law, and could not be done without the interposition of the joint action of the two Houses. He read the act which enjoined the election of a printer at the close of every Congress; and hoped the gentleman from North Carolina would withdraw his resolution. Mr. HALL then withdrew his resolution. Mr. BOON, of Indiana, moved to postpone the election to the 3d day of March, (the last day of the session,) but being informed that the 3d was Sunday, he varied his motion to the 2d day of March, and demanded the yeas and nays on the motion. Mr. WILLIAMS moved to lay the motion on the table. The SPEAKER said the motion to lay the motion on the table was not in order. Mr. WICKLIFFE doubted the correctness of the decision of the Chair, and made some remarks to show that Mr. WILLIAMS's motion was in order. The SPEAKER explained; and Mr. WICKLIFFE not persisting in his opposition to the decision, The question was taken on the motion to postpone the election to the 2d of March, and was decided in the negative, as follows: Yeas 92, nays 101. Mr. HAWES then moved that the House adjourn. Mr. E. WHITTLESEY demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken, and stood: Yeas 14, nays 173. The fourth balloting then took place, which resulting as as above stated, Gales & Seaton were declared by the Speaker to be duly elected printers to the House of Representatives for the ensuing Congress. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16. LAND REPORTS. Mr. WICKLIFFE, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following resolution, viz. Resolved, That the Clerk of this House cause to be collected, arranged, and printed, for the use of the House of 6 9 4 4 5 Representatives, such of the reports of the several boards 1 4 3 4 H. OF R.] Defence of the Frontiers.-Land Reports.-The Tariff Bill. The amendment was negatived. [FEB. 18, 1833. of commissioners, and the registers and receivers when consume the time of the committee with any further reacting as boards, for the adjudication and determination marks, but would renew his motion when the bill comes of land claims in the several States and Territories, which into the House. reports were adverse to claimants, and which have not been printed heretofore by order of this House; and that the said Clerk cause to be made to the same a suitable index. Mr. WILDE moved to postpone the resolution till Monday. This motion gave rise to conversation and explanations, in which Messrs. WILDE, WICKLIFFE, CLAY, BULLARD, and VINTON took part. Mr. VINTON condemned the motion as likely to occasion the printing of a vast mass of matter amounting to a number of volumes, without any useful result. Mr. WICKLIFFE replied, and referred to the great facilities which would be enjoyed by the Land Committee, in consequence of having the record to refer to. Mr. WHITE, of Florida, supported the motion, as did Mr. BULLARD, Mr. MASON, and Mr. WHITTLESEY. Mr. CAMBRELENG thought more deliberation was necessary before passing a resolution giving to an individual one of the heaviest printing jobs the House had ever offered. Mr. WHITTLESEY warmly supported the motion as likely to save immense trouble to the Committee of Claims, a large part of whose labors were occasioned by cases from the Committees on the Public Lands and on Private Land Claims. Mr. LEAVITT opposed the resolution, not having data as to the extent and expense of its consequences. Mr. CLAY, of Alabama, explained, and urged the necessity of having such a record; the expense of improperly allowing one of those large land claims would cost the nation far more than the whole of this printing. Mr. WAYNE suggested that an index might be prepared which would answer the whole purpose. He inquired of Mr. WICKLIFFE as to the number of volumes which would have to be printed. Mr. ASHLEY moved several small amendments in reference to sergeants, buglers, forage, &c., which were agreed to. The committee then rose, and reported the bills to the House. Mr. CONNOR moved to go into Committee of the Whole, and take up the Post Office bill. No quorum having voted, Mr. HOFFMAN moved a call of the House. The motion prevailed, and the House was called. The call having been gone through, an adjournment was moved. Mr. E. WHITTLESEY demanded the yeas and nays. Mr. CRAIG moved an adjournment: Yeas 58, nays 62. Mr. CONNOR renewed his motion to suspend the rule, to move to go into committee on the Post Office bill: Yeas 71, nays 39-not two-thirds, the required number to suspend a rule. Mr. EVANS moved an adjournment. Mr. CLAYTON demanded the yeas and nays; they were taken, and stood as follows: Yeas 78, nays 83. Mr. CONNOR gave notice that he would move to go into committee on the Post Office bill on Monday. Various motions to take up particular bills having failed, another motion was made for an adjournment—which carried. And the House adjourned. [During nearly the whole of this day's sitting the mem. bers were attracted in numbers to the Senate chamber by the debate going on there; which accounts for the diffiMr. WICKLIFFE could not exactly state, but suppos-culty experienced in keeping a House together.] ed the whole expense would not exceed $2,000. He adverted to a claim which had been allowed by the Land Committee, but which would have been promptly rejected had the committee seen the records he now wished printed. Mr. WAYNE said, if Mr. WICKLIFFE would examine and produce an estimate, he would vote in favor of the measure. Mr. ASHLEY supported the resolution, and stated the erroneous grounds on which many decisions of boards of commissioners had proceeded. The further prosecution of the debate was cut off by the expiration of the hour. The House then passed to the orders of the day, and went into Committee of the Whole on sundry bills. Having come to the bill for the DEFENCE OF THE FRONTIERS, Mr. DUNCAN moved to strike out the word "dragoons," and to increase the force of the proposed mounted battalion into a regiment of ten companies. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. LAND REPORTS. The resolution offered by Mr. WICKLIFFE, for printing certain reports of the board of commissioners on land claims, coming up, Mr. WHITE, of Florida, moved to amend the resolution so as to include as well the reports in favor, as those adverse to the claimants. He explained the present dilapidated state of the records to be printed, and stated that the whole might be comprised in a single volume. Mr. CAMBRELENG said that he had heard a very different opinion as to the extent of the printing, expressed by a gentleman formerly chairman of the Committee on the Public Lands. This brought up Mr. ISACKS, of Tennessee, who made statements as to the result of inquiries formerly made in the Committee on the Public Lands, as to the expediency of printing these reports, the result of which had been that it would cost more than it was worth. The debate was here cut short (the hour of 12 having arrived) by a motion to proceed to the orders of the day, and the House took up THE TARIFF BILL. Mr. D. made a brief statement of his object in making this motion. He objected to the bill as reported, because it contemplated a change in the character of the corps, and a diminution of from six to four hundred. He was anxious for a more perfect organization of the corps, but was opposed to diminishing the number of men. He had giv- The question before the House was the motion of Mr. en notice when the bill passed at the last session, that he DRAYTON, of South Carolina, to recommit the bill, and would avail himself of the first opportunity to propose an the amendment of Mr. WAYNE, of Georgia, to recommit increase of the corps so as to form the battalion into a re-with instructions to reduce the revenue gradually to twengiment, but he was unwilling to change it into dragoons, ty per cent. in the year 1841, and to provide for the inbecause he did not believe they would be as efficient in termediate fluctuation by increasing or diminishing, as service, or as acceptable to the settlers on the frontier, might be necessary, the duties on unprotected articles. whom this troop was intended to defend. He would not Mr. WAYNE said that the question had assumed a different aspect from that which it possessed last week. The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. DRAYTON] was confined to his apartment by severe indisposition; and it was doubtful whether he would be able to resume his seat during the present session. Under these circumstances, he [Mr. W.] would not press the amendment which he had submitted, but would, with the consent of the House, withdraw it, together with that offered by the member from South Carolina. He had that gentleman's authority for the withdrawal. The consent was given, and the motions were withdrawn. Mr. DICKSON said that the bill, considering the course taken in relation to it last week, had come upon the House rather by surprise. He should, therefore, before they proceeded, further with the amendments, move a call of the House. The motion was agreed to, and the call was ordered and taken, when 190 members having answered to their names, the call was suspended on the motion of Mr. POLK. Mr. CRAWFORD said it must be manifest that, in the present temper of the House, and the late period of the session, no effectual legislation could be had upon this bill; and he would therefore move to lay it on the table. He called for the yeas and nays upon the question. Mr. BOULDIN rose, and requested that the motion for laying the bill upon the table might be withdrawn for a moment, in order to allow him an opportunity of explaining the course which he and some of his friends intended to pursue in relation to this great question. [H. OF R. permanent at 25 per cent., was concurred in by yeas and nays: Yeas 104, nays 72. A proviso, keeping the duty on ready-made clothing as under the law of 1828, was next concurred in without a count. The amendment striking out the 8th and 9th sections of the bill, including the duties on cottons, and substituting other provisions fixing the duty at 30 per cent. and down to 20, was concurred in. The question was then on concurring in a duty of two cents per pound on raw cotton. Adopted in Committee of the Whole, on the motion of Mr. BARRINGER. This was decided in the affirmative by yeas and nays: Yeas 93, nays 77, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. John Q. Adams, Chilton Allan, Heman Allen, Allison, Arnold, Ashley, Babcock, Banks, Barringer, Bates, Beardsley, Bethune, James Blair, Briggs, John Brodhead, John C. Brodhead, Bucher, Burd, Burges, Cahoon, Chandler, Clay, Collier, Condict, Condit, Bates Cooke, Cooper, Craig, Crane, Crawford, Creighton, Dearborn, Denny, Dewart, Ellsworth, Edward Everett, Findlay, Ford, Grennell, Hiland Hall, Harper, Hiester, Hodges, Howard, Hubbard, Hughes, Ingersoll, Irvin, Isacks, Jenifer, A. King, Leavitt, Letcher, Lyon, Mann, Marshall, Maxwell, McCarty, Robert McCoy, McDuffie, McKay, McKennan, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Newton, Pearce, Pendleton, Pierson, Pitcher, Potts, Reed, Root, Semmes, Smith, Southard, Spence, Stewart, Storrs, Sutherland, Taylor, Philemon Thomas, John Thomson, Tompkins, Tracy, Vance, Washington, Watmough, Weeks, Wilkin, Wheeler, Frederick Whittlesey, Edward D. White, WickNAYS--Messrs. Alexander, Robert Allen, Anderson, Mr. BOULDIN said he had, with all the care in his Angel, Archer, Barbour, Barnwell, Barstow, Bergen, power, drawn out a formal bill grounded upon the pro- John Blair, Boon, Bouck, Bouldin, Cambreleng, Carson, position which had been laid upon the table on a former Claiborne, Clayton, Coke, Connor, Coulter, Davenport, day, and upon some of the amendments which had been Dickson, Doubleday, Draper, Horace Everett, Felder, submitted. It was his wish to offer a complete bill as the Fitzgerald, Foster, Gaither, Gilmore, Gordon, Thomas H. tender of a fair and honorable compromise to those in- Hall, William Hall, Hawes, Hawkins, Hoffman, Hogan, terested in manufactures. He had nothing further to say. Horn, Ihrie, Richard M. Johnson, Cave Johnson, Joseph He should have offered it as soon as the subject was ta- Johnson, Kavanagh, Kerr, Lamar, Lansing, Lecompte, ken up, but he was aware that it would not be then in Lewis, Mardis, Mason, William McCoy, McIntire, Mitorder. He should, however, submit it as soon as it be- chell, Newnan, Nuckolls, Patton, Plummer, Polk, Rencame in order. cher, Sewall, Shepard, Shepperd, Soule, Speight, Standifer, Francis Thomas, Wiley Thompson, Verplanck, Vinton, Ward, Wardwell, Wayne, Elisha Whittlesey, Wilde, Williams, Worthington, Young--77. Mr. CRAWFORD consented on condition of the re- liffe--93. newal of the motion. Mr. ARCHER inquired whether it would not be in order to offer it before the other amendments of the present bill should be disposed of; and if so, he expressed a hope that the motion to lay on the table would be withdrawn for that purpose. The SPEAKER said it would not be in order until the amendments were disposed of. Mr. CRAWFORD regretted that he could not comply with the request, and that he felt himself compelled to renew the motion. The question was then taken, and the result was as follows: Yeas 84, nays 108. The amendments in relation to cordage, leaving the duty at two cents on tarred, and three cents on untarred cordage after March, 1834, were agreed to. The amendment which imposes on fossil salt a duty amounting to one-third of the duty on other salt, coming up, Mr. JARVIS opposed the amendment as inconsistent with the object of the bill, inasmuch as it goes to increase, instead of to reduce the tariff. It would, moreover, he contended, be of great injury to the manufacturers of So the House refused to lay the bill on the table. The House then returned to the amendments to the salt. bill reported from the Committee of the Whole. Mr. HOWARD supported the proposition, as the im The amendment on blankets, which had been propos-portation of the article without such a duty would be ated by Mr. WHITE, of New York, and which graduates tended with the worst consequences to the commercial the duty from thirty down to twenty per cent. (leaving it interests of the country. permanent at fifteen per cent.) was concurred in by yeas and nays: Yeas 114, nays 68. The amendment which went to except ready-made clothing from the operation of this bill was also concurred in: Yeas 100, nays 75. The question was then taken, and the amendment was concurred in: Yeas 89, nays 86. The House then adjourned. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. The question next came up on the amendment which retained carpets, flannels, bockings, and baizes, as under the law of 1832. This was concurred in without a count. The question coming up on Mr. WICKLIFFE's resoluThe amendment which made the reduction upon cloths tion, for printing the decisions of boards of commissioners more gradual, as originally reported, and fixed it at 35 per on land claims not hitherto printed, together with an cent, till March, 1835, and so down, leaving the duty amendment proposed by Mr. WHITE, of Florida, ex VOL. IX.-109 |