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Apportionment Bill.

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single object in view: their commission was merely to upon his duties here. Exceptions there are, and, from revise the articles of confederation--to prepare a plan of the nature of human society, there must be, of worthless Government to be submitted to the subsequent consider-men who find their way into this House, even through the ation and action of the people. For this a smaller num- avenue of popular election. But so long as there is virtue ber even might have been equally competent. But what and knowledge in the people, and on no other foundation analogy is there between the duties and the labors of that can republican Government subsist, so long must the assembly, limited to the construction of a single political chosen man of forty thousand be, in the general result, a frame of Government, and those of a body to whose charge man of worth and power beyond the common average of are committed in continual succession, and subject to his peers. Of such a man, thus selected, there is not a periodical returns of elections, the feelings, wishes, and day passed in deliberation here but supplies him with interests of multiplying millions of people for all time? means of improvement, of better qualifying himself for future and for other service to his countrymen. Sure I am that no man, thus well and virtuously predisposed, ever served a tour of duty in this House, without returning a wiser and a better man to his constituents.

There is one other consideration, not, I believe, yet presented to the House, but which operates forcibly with me to wish for a numerous representation of the people in this assembly. The public benefits derivable from this National Legislature are not limited to the business offi How often do we see the people of every State of the cially transacted by them in the public service. There Union select for their magistrates, their judges, and their are others, collateral and incident to them, but in their governors, persons who are serving, or who have served consequences perhaps not less important. It is an admir- them as members of this or the other House of Congress? ed saying of an eloquent orator of the other hemisphere, And how often, on the other hand, do they take from their that in these times "the schoolmaster is abroad." Yes, immediate and domestic functionaries, other individuals sir, happily the schoolmaster is abroad: and with equal to serve and represent them in these councils of the propriety may it be said, that within these walls the school- Union? Can there be a doubt that in every such case the master is at home. Human life itself is a school of disci- previous service has been a probationary school of impline, from the cradle to the grave. And what more in- provement for the performance of that to which the indistructive school can be found for the cultivation of the vidual is transferred? The knowledge of the general understanding and the improvement of the heart, than in affairs of the Union, and their connexion with the differthe deliberations of this and the other House of Congress? ent predominating interests of its several parts, the conThey ought to be, and, after all the deductions to be made stantly growing fund of experience in the forms and subfor the perturbations of passion, and the collisions of con- stance of transacting the public business, the personal flicting interests incidental to them, I firmly believe they acquaintances and friendships contracted between eminent are schools-inestimable schools of wisdom and virtue- and influential citizens from opposite quarters of the counschools in which, according to the monitorial system of try, and the links of social relations thus multiplied among modern invention, every member is at once the teacher them, have the double tendency of elevating the sentiand the pupil of all the rest. What are our debates but ments and increasing the faculties of the citizens for afterpractical discussions of moral philosophy applied to public service among their constituents at home, and of soothing affairs--but mutual exhortations to high and honorable the dissensions and of harmonizing the discordant proaction--but stimulants to diffusive philanthropy--to lofty pensities of the several parts of the Union. Every addipatriotism? The more numerous is the composition of tion to the number composing the House of Representathis House, the more widely is the benefit of this national tives adds also to the catalogue of these distinguished and academy extended throughout the Union. The numbers enlightened citizens. I wish to multiply them in every of the Senate are limited, and are the same, for the teem- part of the country. The States to which they belong ing millions of New York, and for the stationary thousands ultimately derive the principal advantages of their acquireof Rhode Island or Delaware. In this House only can ments; and the more they possess of them, the fairer will they increase with the increasing numbers of the people. be the prospects of their future welfare. We come here and meet from the extremest borders of I will no longer obtrude upon the patience of the this extensive land, to consult and to act for the advance- House; nor should I have detained them at this time, had ment of the common good, for the protection of individual it not been for the introduction of new principles into the rights, for the conciliation of clashing interests. Every apportionment prescribed by this bill-principles incomman who enters this House as the representative of the patible, as I believe, with the spirit of the constitution, people of his vicinage, meets here from two to three hun-and irreconcilable with its letter. An apportionment dred others, charged with a like trust, from every other which gives to Pennsylvania one representative for every similar portion of the whole people. He speaks and feels, forty-eight thousand and less than two hundred of her specially for his own constituents; he hears others plead inhabitants, while it grants to Vermont only one represen with not less earnestness the cause of theirs; he is one day tative for every fifty-six thousand and upwards of hers, the suitor, and the next day the judge or chancellor of the is not a representation as the constitution requires, apporcommon tribunal. He comes, perhaps, from home with tioned among the several States "according to their reprejudices which men before they leave their homes are spective numbers." It fulfils neither the letter nor the apt to entertain, that there is a Benjamin's portion of in- spirit of the constitution. Nor is the manner in which it tellect and of moral worth diffused among his immediate is carried through this House less exceptionable than the neighbors, beyond that of the other inhabitants of the partiality and oppression which it exercises over the country, if not of the whole earth. He meets here whole Eastern section of the Union, and especially over associates from other regions, perhaps harboring pre- the State a portion of whose people have entrusted the judices similar to his own, but inconsistent with them, charge of their interests here to my hands. Nor has it because favoring another portion of the family. He soon been possible to overlook the part borne by the almost finds that there is genius, talent, and principle, in other unanimous delegation from Pennsylvania, throughout the neighborhoods than his own. Not perhaps equal in progress of this bill, from its origin, through this House-all; but, most probably, in superior degree from some the inexorable sway of twenty-four votes, dispensing alquarter, and in degree very little inferior from all. He ternately life and death at their pleasure to the weaker finds his level, and ascertains that of others. He comes members of the Union, selecting their favorites, yielding to witness and to share in deeds of wisdom and virtue. and withdrawing the preponderant weight of the balance, And were the incitements to these even wanting in his as they have seen fit, from day to day, and, finally, by a mind before, he would find them in the daily attendance bare and dubious majority, fixing the double aggravation

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Steam Carriages on Roads.

[FEB. 9, 1832.

Mr. BRIGGS moved an adjournment. Lost: yeas 89, nays 102.

of a crippled delegation, and of an enormous fraction, upon opportunity for taking the sense of the House on a ratio the unfortunate State of Massachusetts. Should the ratio larger than that reported in the bill, and, to get at that reported by the committee ultimately prevail, that State, object, he moved to recommit the bill to a select commitin losing one of her representatives, will lose a part of her tee, with instructions to strike out the ratio of 44,400, and existence; and with the first principle of popular repre- insert 53,000. This ratio, he said, would give the least sentation reversed, the whole existence of the smaller possible increase to the present number of representaStates must remain at the mercy of the State holding the tives, namely, one member. largest number of votes upon this floor. We are told that by the reduction of our representation we shall be left with the same relative proportion to the whole; but it is not so. The relative proportion is not the same, and, if it were, the level to which we should be reduced would be effected, like that of the bed of Procrustes, only by lopping off our limbs. If, in deprecating the fate with which we are threatened, I have, on witnessing its ap-mitment, and decided in the negative-yeas 66, nays 129. proach, returned to the task of addressing the House till it is wearied with importunities, I can only plead my apo logy in the language of the poet:

"For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
"This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,
"Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
"Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind."

Mr. COULTER replied at some length, and submitted his reasons for resisting the appeal of Mr. ADAMS, and for opposing the amendment.

Mr. TAYLOR demanded the yeas and nays on his motion, and they were ordered.

Mr. MITCHELL, of South Carolina, renewed the mo-
tion to adjourn; which was also negatived.
The question was then put on the motion for recom-
The House adjourned.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9.

STEAM CARRIAGES ON ROADS.

The motion of Mr. MERCER, from the Committee on Internal improvements, to print the report of the British House of Commons on the subject of the operation of steam carriages on roads, coming up,

Mr. CAMBRELENG thought that if it were proper to

Mr. CLAY and Mr. POLK also opposed the amend-appropriate five thousand dollars annually for the purment, and Mr. WAYNE, Mr. LETCHER, Mr. CARSON, and Mr. SLADE advocated it.

At length, after loud calls for the question, the question was taken by yeas and nays, as follows:

pose of a library for the use of Congress, it was equally proper to vote for an appropriation which would diffuse information, universally useful, not only amongst the members of that House, but throughout the nation. He would NAYS.-Messrs. Adams, Angel, Appleton, Babcock, go as far as the gentleman from South Carolina, who Noyes Barber, Barringer, Isaac C. Bates, Beardsley, Ber-spoke upon this subject on a preceding day, as to the gen, Bouck, Bouldin, Briggs, John Brodhead, John C. constitutional question, but he did not consider the preBrodhead, Cahoon, Cambreleng, Carson, Chandler, sent would be an infringement on the principles of the Choate, Clayton, Coke, Collier, Lewis Condict, Silas Con- constitution, if the annual vote of five thousand dollars dit, Eleutheros Cooke, Bates Cooke, Corwin, Crane, for the Library of Congress was not so considered. Creighton, John Davis, Dayan, Dearborn, Dickson, Dod- Mr. MITCHELL, of South Carolina, said he had been dridge, Doubleday, Ellsworth, Edward Everett, Horace misunderstood. He had not objected to the constitutionEverett, Grennell, Hammons, Harper, Hawes, Hodges, ality of the proposition, but to its expediency. He was as Hoffman, Hogan, Howard, Hubbard, Hughes, Hunt, great an advocate for free trade as the gentleman from Huntington, Ingersoll, Jewett, Richard M. Johnson, New York was for internal improvements; but he should Charles C. Johnston, Kendall, Kerr, Lansing, Lecompte, not feel himself justified in calling on that House to apLetcher, Lyon, Marshall, Mercer, Newnan, Newton, propriate money for the printing of a work, containing Pearce, Pendleton, Pierson, Pitcher, Randolph, John an exposition of the advantages of free trade. And what Reed, Edward C. Reed, Root, Slade, Soule, Southard, was the work before them but a work on mechanics? Spence, Stanberry, Storrs, Wiley Thompson, Tompkins, Mr. DRAYTON was willing that the same course should Vance, Ward, Wardwell, Washington, Watmough, be pursued as to the present work, which was adopted as Wayne, Weeks, Wilkin, Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, to others imported from the other side of the water. He Campbell P. White, Edward D. White, Wickliffe, Wilde, would vote to put it in the Library. Williams, Worthington, Young.-97.

Mr. MERCER said he hoped that if he could show NAYS.--Messrs. Adair, Alexander, Chilton Allan, Ro- that gentlemen had wholly misconceived the merits of the bert Allen, Allison, Anderson, Archer, Ashley, Banks, proposition, they would assent to the motion to print the Barnwell, Barstow, James Bates, Bell, Bethune, James document before them. That House was frequently Blair, John Blair, Boon, Branch, Bucher, Bullard, Burd, called upon to decide betwixt the propriety of constructCarr, Claiborne, Clay, Conner, Cooper, Coulter, Craig, ing a road or cutting a canal; the report in question would Crawford, Davenport, Warren R. Davis, Denny, Dewart, aid them in such decision. He would further state that Drayton, Duncan, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Felder, there was not another copy of the document in the United Fitzgerald, Ford, Gilmore, Gordon, Griffin, Thomas H. States; nor could another be obtained before the concluHall, William Hall, Hawkins, Heister, Holland, Horn,sion of the present session. He hoped this would be a Ihrie, Irvin, Isacks, Jarvis, Cave Johnson, Kavanagh, sufficient answer for all the objections which had been Kennon, Adam King, John King, Henry King, Leavitt, proposed. Lewis, Mann, Mardis, Mason, Maxwell, McCarty, William McCoy, Robert McCoy, McDuffie, McIntire, McKennan, Milligan, Mitchell, Muhlenberg, Nuckolls, Patton, Plummer, Polk, Potts, Rencher, Roane, Russel, William B. Shepard, Aug. H. Shepperd, Smith, Speight, Standifer, Stephens, Stewart, Sutherland, Taylor, Francis Thomas, Philemon Thomas, John Thomson, Tracy, Verplanck, Vinton, Frederick Whittlesey.--97.

The House being equally divided, the SPEAKER voted in the affirmative, and decided the question in favor of the amendment.

Mr. TAYLOR then rose, and said there had been no

Mr. DAVIS, of Massachusetts, said he conceived the subject of land transportation by steam to be one of the greatest importance to the nation. They had seen the almost incredible effects which it had produced on water carriage, and there was reason to believe it would be found still more powerful by land. If the transmission of intelligence from one part of the country to the other could be facilitated, whether regarded as to its advantages in the state of war or of peace, it was the duty of the Government to lend its aid to such a purpose.

Mr. BARNWELL rose to point out a difference in the present case, and the one formerly referred to by a gentle

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APPORTIONMENT BILL.

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man from Massachusetts, [Mr. EVERETT,] that of a report printed at the request of the Committee on Foreign The House resumed the the consideration of the bill to Affairs, on the subject of the cholera morbus. That re-fix the ratio of representation. quest had arisen from a memorial referred to them on the [Three hours were spent in an arduous discussion of subject. He thought gentlemen could not avoid seeing various amendments, which were successively offered, the distinction between that case and the present. He had and in taking the yeas and nays on several of them. The always expressed his abhorrence that members of that following is a mere outline of the debate and course of House should, by their own vote, supply themselves with proceeding:] libraries. What was the effect of the present motion, but Mr. EVANS, of Maine, moved to strike out 44,400, to supply them with an additional volume? It might be (the ratio inserted in the bill yesterday, in lieu of 48,000,) that some members considered their constituents as amply and insert 44,300; [his precise motion was to strike out compensated by the additional wisdom they thus attained; the number 4,400, and insert 4,300;] and argued at some but having neither experienced it in his own case, nor no-length to show that justice to the State of Maine reticed it in the action of that House, he conceived it his quired the change, as 44,400 would leave that State a duty to vote against the proposition to print the report on fraction of 44,000, whereas a ratio of 44,300 would give her an additional member, without injuriously affecting any other State, and add but one member to the number which would be given by 44,400.

the table.

Mr. POLK here made an ineffectual motion that the House proceed to the orders of the day.

Mr. DEARBORN followed in support of the resolution to print, and enlarged on the importance to the whole community of the information contained in the report.

Mr. WICKLIFFE expressed a hope that the House would proceed at once to vote upon the proposition.

Mr. McDUFFIE said the only question appeared to be how the House should get the information. For his own part, he [Mr. McD.] thought that if they were to have it, they had better obtain it from their own printer, than import books from abroad to fill the Library of Congress.

Mr. MITCHELL, of South Carolina, moved an amendment, to add the words, "that at any such time as may be expedient" the printing might be ordered.

Mr. L. CONDICT moved the previous question, which being sustained, the amendment was cut off; and

Mr. VANCE, who yesterday moved the ratio of 44,400, expressed his acquiescence in the amendment of Mr. EVANS.

Mr. ANDERSON, of Maine, supported the amendment. He himself had been in favor of as high a ratio as 55,000; and the people generally, he believed, had not contemplated a lower ratio than 50,000; but, as the House had, after various propositions for a high ratio, decided on a low one, he hoped, in justice to the State of Maine, that the amendment of his colleague would prevail; and he argued at some length in its favor.

Mr. BARSTOW, of New York, stated the motive which influenced the committee in reporting 48,000. The committee was in favor of the ratio of 50,000, and he believed the people did not expect a lower one; but as that number would deprive one of the States (Rhode Island) of one-half of its representation in the House, 48,000 was adopted and reported. He made a number of remarks on the general subject, especially in reply to some former remarks of Mr. ADAMS, and scouted the idea that any great principle was involved in this whole matter of ratio.

Mr. WICKLIFFE stated briefly the reasons which induced him to go for the amendment.

The question upon agreeing to the resolution was taken by yeas and nays, and decided in the affirmative, as follows: YEAS.--Messrs. Adams, Chilton Allan, Appleton, Armstrong, Babtock, Banks, Noyes Barber, Barringer, Barstow, Isaac C. Bates, Beardsley, Bethune, John Blair, Bouck, Briggs, Bucher, Bullard, Burd, Cahoon, Cambreleng, Choate, Collier, Lewis Condict, Silas Condit, Eleutheros Cooke, Bates Cooke, Cooper, Corwin, Craig, Crane, Crawford, Creighton, John Davis, Dayan, Dear- Mr. ASHLEY, of Missouri, moved to amend the amendborn, Denny, Dewart, Dickson, Doddridge, Doubleday, ment by striking out four and inserting three, so as to Duncan, Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Ed- make the number 43,300. His duty to his State impelled ward Everett, Horace Everett, Fitzgerald, Ford, Gren- him to move this amendment. He had been originally in nell, Harper, Hodges, Hogan, Howard, Hughes, Hunt, favor of a high ratio he would have gone as high as Huntington, Ihrie, Ingersoll, Irvin, Isacks, Jewett, R. M. 60,000, but the House had decided in favor of a low one; Johnson, Kendall, Kennon, Henry King, Lansing, Letcher, and as 44,300 would leave Missouri a large fraction, and Marshall, Maxwell, McCarty, Robert McCoy, McDuffie, give her but two members, and 43,300 give her three McKennan, Mercer, Milligan, Muhlenberg, Newnan, New-members, he contended that justice to that State deton, Pearce, Pendleton, Pitcher, Plummer, Potts, John manded the change; further to show which, he offered a Reed, E. C. Reed, Rencher, Root, Russel, Wm. B. She- number of arguments. pard, Augustine H. Shepperd, Slade, Smith, Soule, Southard, Spence, Stanberry, Stephens, Stewart, Storrs, Sutherland, Taylor, Francis Thomas, Philemon Thomas, John Thomson, Tompkins, Tracy, Vance, Vinton, Ward, Wardwell, Washington, Watmough, Wayne, Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, F. Whittlesey, Edward D. White, Williams, Worthington, Young.-120.

The SPEAKER having declared the motion of Mr. ASHLEY to be in order,

Mr. SUTHERLAND observed that this motion of Mr. A. showed the inexpediency of entertaining the motion of Mr. EVANS, which Mr. S. could not conceive to be regular, after the House had yesterday decided in favor of 44,400. It was obvious now that if the pending moNAYS.-Messrs. Alexander, R. Allen, Anderson, An- tions were not negatived, other numbers might be moved, gel, Archer, John S. Barbour, Barnwell, J. Bates, Ber- almost ad infinitum, and render it next to impossible to gen, James Blair, Bouldin, John C. Brodhead, John settle on any one, so long as members chose to move Brodhead, Carr, Claiborne, Clay, Clayton, Conner, others.

Coulter, Davenport, Drayton, Felder, Gilmore, Gordon, The SPEAKER replied that the motion was, notwith-
Griffin, Thomas H. Hall, Wm. Hall, Hammons, Hawes, standing, clearly in order. [Several observations passed
Hawkins, Heister, Hoffman, Holland, Hubbard, Jarvis, between the Chair and Mr. S. on the point; but Mr. S.
Cave Johnson, Charles C. Johnston, Kavanagh, Adam declined any appeal from the decision-not that he was
King, John King, Lamar, Leavitt, Lecompte, Lewis, convinced, but because he deemed an appeal would be
Mann, Mardis, Mason, Wm. McCoy, McIntire, Thomas useless on a subject where questions were decided by
R. Mitchell, Nuckolls, Patton, Polk, Randolph, Roane, 97 and 97.]
Speight, W. Thompson, Verplanck, Weeks, C. P. White,
Wickliffe.-61.

Mr. EVANS submitted briefly the reasons why he could not vote for Mr. ASHLEY's amendment.

VOL. VIII.--112

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Bank of the United States.

[FEB. 10, 1832.

The question was than put on Mr. ASHLEY's amend- H. Shepperd, Slade, Soule, Southard, Spence, Stanberment, and negatived without a count.

Mr. CLAY, of Alabama, now moved to amend the amendment by striking out 4 and inserting 7, so as to read 47,300. Mr. MERCER, went into a statement of the votes yesterday on the ratio of 44,400, and of the known sentiments of certain of the absentees, to show that a majority of the whole House was in favor of that ratio, and that it was not fair, therefore, to press the ratio of 47,300 to-day, when from various causes the House might be differently composed, and not express its true sense.

Mr. POLK argued to show the fallacy of endeavoring to satisfy every State, as it was now plain that as fast as one State after another was yielded to, it held out inducements to others to attempt still further changes to accommodate them, and thus removed each successive decision as far as ever from satisfying all.

ry, Storrs, Francis Thomas, John Thomson, Tompkins, Vance, Ward, Wardwell, Washington, Watmough, Wayne, Weeks, Wilkin, Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, Campbell P. White, Wickliffe, Williams, Worthington, Young.--111. Mr. PATTON now moved to amend the amendment by striking all the letters of the word forty after the letter f, and insert ifty--so as to make it read fifty thousand.

The CHAIR pronounced this amendment out of order. Mr. PATTON, to get at its object, varied his motion by moving to strike out forty-four thousand three hundred, and insert forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninetynine; but, subsequently, at the instance of some friends around him, withdrew the motion, he said, for the present. Mr. BOON, of Indiana, moved forty-nine thousand; but it was declared out of order.

Mr. MITCHELL, of South Carolina, now moved an

Mr. CLAYTON, of Georgia, stated his desire to offer adjournment; but the motion was negatived. an amendment, the substance of which was that each Mr. ADAMS submitted briefly the reasons why, although State which, under the ratio adopted, should have a frac- he had voted against Mr. ASHLEY's motion for forty-three tion equal to half the number of the ratio, should, for thousand three hundred, he should vote for the amendsuch fraction, be entitled to an additional member. He ment of Mr. EVANS. He himself was originally in favor was confident he could show to the House that such a of a ratio of forty-two thousand; but, as he found, from provision was not forbidden by the constitution; and he the whole proceeding on the subject, that any hope of gothought it would reconcile all the existing difficulties in ing below forty-four thousand was, after repeated attempts, fixing the ratio; but utterly desperate, he considered it useless to persist.

The SPEAKER decided the proposition to be not now in order.

Mr. WICKLIFFE admitted that the ratio moved by Mr. CLAY would suit his State, and he should have gladly taken it at first; yet he would not now desert those who had joined Kentucky in rejecting 48,000, and he would stick to them who had stuck to her.

Mr. PATTON, of Virginia, wished to know of the Chair if it would be in order, after the decision of the present motion, to move another number.

The SPEAKER said he could not tell till the number should be stated.

Mr. CLAY moved to amend the amendment by making the number forty-two thousand three hundred.

Mr. CARR, of Indiana, supported this motion. He also had been in favor of a high ratio; but, as the House had decided in favor of a low one, he preferred this to any other. Mr. BOON said it was now half after three o'clock, and he moved that the House adjourn. Negatived.

Mr. THOMAS, of Louisiana, went at considerable length into an argument in favor of Mr. CLAY's motion, not because he was in favor of a low ratio-he was friendly to a high one; but because, if a low one were adopted, the one now moved was preferable to him, as being more just

The question was then put on Mr. CLAY's amendment to his State. for 47,500, and was decided in the negative, as follows: The question was then put on Mr. CLAY's amendment YEAS.-Messrs. Alexander, Chilton Allan, Robert for forty-two thousand three hundred, and negatived--Allen, Archer, Ashley, Banks, John S. Barbour, Barnwell, yeas 48, nays 129.

Mr. POLK moved a call of the House. Refused.

Barstow, Bell, James Blair, John Blair, Boon, Bucher, Mr. CLAYTON then moved a reconsideration of the
Bullard, Burd, Carr, Claiborne, Clay, Clayton, Con- vote of yesterday, by which forty-eight thousand was strick-
ner, Eleutheros Cooke, Coulter, Craig, Davenport, en out, and forty-four thousand four hundred inserted.
Drayton, Duncan, Joshua Evans, Felder, Fitzgerald, Ford, Mr. VINTON moved an adjournment. Negatived-
Gaither, Gilmore, Gordon, Griffin, T. H. Hall, Wm. Hall, yeas 74, nays 97.
Hawes, Heister, Horn, Ihrie, Isacks, Cave Johnson,
Adam King, John King, Henry King, Lamar, Lansing,
Lewis, Mann, Mardis, Mason, Maxwell, McCarty, Wm.
McCoy, R. McCoy, McDuffie, McKennan, Milligan, T. R.
Mitchell, Muhlenberg, Newnan, Patton, Plummer, Polk,
Potts, Roane, Root, William B. Shepard, Smith, Speight,
Standifer, Stephens, Stewart, Sutherland, Taylor, Phile-
mon Thomas, Wiley Thompson, Tracy, Vinton, Frederick
Whittlesey, Wilde. -82.

Mr. CLAY supported the motion to reconsider, and concluded with a motion to adjourn. Carried--yeas 101; and The House adjourned.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10.

Mr. McDUFFIE, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was referred the memorial of the Presi

dent, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States; also, sundry memorials from other sources, relative to the renewal of the charter of the said bank, made a report thereon, accompanied by the following bill to renew and modify the charter of the Bank of the United

States:

United States.

NAYS.--Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Angel, Appleton, Armstrong, Babcock, Noyes Barber, Barringer, Isaac C. Bates, James Bates, Beardsley, Bergen, Bethune, Bouck, Bouldin, Branch, Briggs, John Brodhead, John C. Brod head, Cahoon, Cambreleng, Carson, Chandler, Choate, Coke, Collier, Lewis Condict, Silas Condit, Bates Cooke, Cooper, Corwin, Crane, Crawford, Creighton, John Da- A bill to renew and modify the charter of the Bank of the vis, Warren R. Davis, Dayan, Dearborn, Denny, Dewart, Dickson, Doddridge, Doubleday, Ellsworth, George Evans, Be it enacted, &c. That the act entitled "An act to in Edward Everett, Horace Everett, Grennell, Hammons, corporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States," Harper, Hawkins, Hodges, Hoffman, Hogan, Holland, approved the 10th day of April, 1816, shall be continued Howard, Hubbard, Hughes, Hunt, Huntington, Ingersoll, in force for the period of twenty years from the 3d of Irvin, Jarvis, Jewett, Richard M. Johnson, Charles C. March, 1836, and that the power shall be reserved to ConJohnston, Kavanagh, Kendall, Kennon, Kerr, Leavitt, Le-gress to repeal this act at any time after ten years from compte, Letcher, Marshall, McIntire, Mercer, Newton, the 3d of March, 1836, upon giving three years' notice of Nuckolls, Pearce, Pendleton, Pitcher, Randolph, John such intended repeal to the president and directors of the Reed, Edward C. Reed, Rencher, Russel, Augustine said bank.

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Chickasaw Treaty.-Washington's Remains.

And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, after the 3d day of March, 1836, shall appoint one of the directors of each of the branches of said bank, in the same manner as he now appoints a portion of the directors of the mother bank, and with the same Jimitations as to their eligibility and term of service.

And be it further enacted, That any officers of the mother bank who may be selected by the board of directors, and designated to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, shall be authorized to sign and countersign notes, which shall be binding and obligatory on the said corporation, in like manner as if the same were signed and countersigned by the president and principal cashier or

treasurer.

And be it further enacted, That the said bank is hereby prohibited from issuing any notes which are not upon the face of them declared to be payable at the office from which they may be issued; and, also, from drawing any drafts or checks for twenty dollars, or any smaller sum.

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Mr. FITZGERALD said there was no unimproved land in the district where the reservation was located worth more than one dollar per acre.

Mr. HOGAN then argued at considerable length against the resolution.

Mr. WILDE said that as it seemed to be conceded that the subject was proper to be investigated, he would move that it should be referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, to which the whole mass of subjects relating to Indian affairs had been referred, and where there would be a fair field and space enough for every one who chose to break a lance. The continued discussion of the question in the House, as at present, defeated or obstructed much public business which required the attention of the House.

The yeas and nays were ordered on Mr. WILDE'S Motion; but, before they were taken,

Mr. CARSON moved the orders of the day; which motion prevailed.

And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of Mr. POLK moved the House to suspend the rule apthe bank to furnish annually, on the 1st day of January, pointing Fridays and Saturdays for private business, with to the chief officer of the treasury of each State, a list of a view to take up the apportionment bill; but the motion the holders of stock in said bank who are residents in such was not sustained by two-thirds, and was negatived. State, with the amount of the stock held by each stock- The bill for the relief of J. R. Knight was then taken holder; and nothing contained in the charter of the said up, and, after being debated for the greater part of the bank, or in this act, shall be deemed to restrain the seve-day, was ordered to a third reading; and ral States from taxing the real estate of the said bank situ ated therein, respectively, or the proprietary interest of their respective citizens in the stock of the said bank, to the same extent that they may tax other real estate within their jurisdiction, and like interests in the stock of other corporations, or money lent at interest.

The House adjourned to Monday.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13.
WASHINGTON'S REMAINS.

Mr. THOMAS, of Louisiana, from the joint committee of And be it further enacted, That, in consideration of the the two Houses, appointed to report on the subject of the exclusive privileges and benefits conferred by this act centennial anniversary of the birthday of George Washingupon the said bank, the president, directors, and company ton, made a report, (the same as that made to the Senate on thereof shall pay to the United States, out of the corpo- the same day,) accompanied by the following resolutions: rate funds thereof, on the 3d day of March, 1837, and on Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the same day of each year thereafter, during the continu- the United States of America in Congress assembled, That ance of the charter, an interest at the rate of per the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of centum upon the deposites, from time to time, to the cre- Representatives be hereby authorized to make application dit of the Treasurer of the United States in the said bank, to John A. Washington, of Mount Vernon, for the body and its branches, during the preceding year.

And be it further enacted, That, after the 3d day of March, 1836, the said bank shall not establish any additional branch thereof, without the consent of Congress.

Mr. WAYNE said he understood that there was a counter report to be presented by the members in the minority on the committee. He wished the second reading of the bill to be postponed until Monday next, that both reports might be printed together.

After some explanation,

Mr. McDUFFIE moved that the bill be referred to a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and that the bill and report be printed. Ordered. And,

On motion of Mr. INGERSOLL, an additional number, viz. five thousand copies, was ordered to be printed.

of George Washington, to be removed and deposited in the capitol, at Washington city, in conformity with the resolution of Congress of the 24th December, 1799; and that, if they obtain the requisite consent to the removal thereof, they be further authorized to cause it to be removed and deposited in the capitol, on the 22d day of February, 1832.

Resolved, That the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives be also authorized to prescribe the order of such ceremonies as they may deem suitable to the occasion, of the interment of the body of George Washington, in the capitol, on the day above mentioned; and that the two Houses of Congress will attend and assist in the performance of those ceremonies.

Mr. THOMAS observed that, according to the ordinary Mr. ALEXANDER, from the minority of the Commit- rules of the House, the resolution was required to lie for tee of Ways and Means, on the question, in that commit- one day upon the table; but as the time remaining for its tee, of a renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United execution was short, it would be proper, if the House States, then made a counter report containing the views acted upon it at all, to do so immediately, and he thereof the said minority in relation to a renewal of the charter of fore hoped that, by unanimous consent, the resolution said bank. would now be taken up, and acted upon.

Ordered, That five thousand copies of said report of the minority be printed for the use of this House.

CHICKASAW TREATY.

Mr. EVERETT's resolution for the production of the fourth article of this treaty, came up for the consideration of the House.

Mr. HOGAN inquired of the member from Tennessee [Mr. FITZGERALD] the value of the reservation leased to Mr. Lewis under the sanction of the commissioners who made the treaty.

The suggestion of Mr. THOMAS being agreed to by the House, the resolution was thereupon read; and the question being on the House concurring therewith,

Mr. McCOY, of Virginia, addressed the House in some remarks, which, owing to his remote situation, and the feebleness of his voice, were very imperfectly heard. It had been his misfortune to be placed upon the committee who had made this report, and to disagree with the majority as to its propriety, and the more he reflected upon the subject, the more he was confirmed in his dissent. For what purpose but that of a vain show were the re

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