INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE.
Adjournment, a motion to take up a resolution fixing the
a resolution in relation to adjournment submitted,
Brown Major General, his death announced, and arrange- ments made for his funeral, 369.
a bill for the relief of his widow, introduced, 372. taken up, 521.
ordered to be engrossed, 528. debate commences, 521.
Cahawba Navigation Company, the bill granting the as- assent of Congress to an act of the legislature of Alabama, incorporating said company, or dered to be engrossed, 65.
Capitol, a message from the President of the United States in relation to an assault in; a resolution in rela- lation to the police of the Capitol taken up, 668; ordered to lie on the table, 669; again taken up, 671; and again laid on the table, 672; a let- ter from Russell Jarvis in relation to the assault, was announced by the Vice President, which, after some objections, was read and laid upon the table, 674.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the bill from the House to authorize the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, to subscribe for stock in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the question on its being ordered to a second read. ing was negatived, 788; on a motion to recon- sider this decision, it was carried, and the bill received its second reading, and was referred to the Judiciary Committee; a motion was made to amend the bill by striking out the word "half' in the first section, making it necessary for the stockholders of the company to pay in the whole of their assessments before the government be required to advance its assessments, which was rejected; the bill was then ordered to be en. grossed, 803; and passed its third reading, 806. debate commences, 788.
the bill to confirm the act of the Legislature of Virginia, incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and an act of the Legis. lature of Maryland, taken up, 791; ordered to a third reading, 792; read a third time and pass. ed, 794. of South Carolina, a bill for the adjustment of, taken up, 417; a motion to strike out the allow. ance of interest lost, 421; ordered to be engross ed, 422.
for slaves, the bill supplementary to an act of 1827, for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification under the Treaty of Ghent, was taken up, 406; ordered to be engrossed, 411; bill returned from the House with an amendment, which was concurred with, 787. debate commences, 406.
Close of the session, messages sent to the President and to the House of Representatives, informing them that the Senate had concluded its business, and inquiring if they had any other communication to make to them, and both Houses adjourned,
Columbian College, a bill for the relief of, taken up, 72; postponed, 74; again taken up, 245; recommit. ted, 248; again taken up, 343; ordered to be engrossed, 344.
debate commences, 245. Cumberland road, a bill brought in for its continuation, 29; the bill taken up, 102; ordered to be engrossed, 125; passed, 127.
the bill to continue this road being sent from the House with amendments, they were taken up for consideration, 505; ordered to lie on the ta ble, 506; again taken up, 714; sundry resolu- tions relating to the jurisdiction of the ground over which the road runs, the keeping the road in repair, &c., bill postponed, 717; resolutions again taken up, 717; laid on the table, 728. debate commences, 102. resolution authorizing an inquiry into the expedi- ency of relinquishing the road to the States through which it passes, 125; agreed to, 127. Customs, the bill to authorize the collection of customs in Louisville, Pittsburg, and Cincinnati, taken up, 570; ordered to be engrossed, 571. Custom houses at Newport and Mobile, a bill to author- ize the purchase of sites, and the erection of custom houses, at Newport and Mobile, and for the repairs of the custom house at Newburyport, passed, 74.
Decatur, Susan, a bill for the relief of, taken up, 248; motion to recommit the bill negatived, 268; the blanks filled, and a proviso agreed to, 268; or. dered to be engrossed, 277; bill passed, 278. debate commences, 248.
Duty on wines, the bill to reduce the duty on imported wines was taken up, 804; and ordered to be en- grossed, 805:
Duties on imports, a memorial presented from a commit- tee of the citizens of Boston, remonstrating against any increase of duties on imports, pre- sented, 9; ordered to be printed and referred, 10. a bill in addition to an act concerning discriminat- ing duties on tonnage and impost, taken up, 237; ordered to be engrossed, 244.
Fortifications, the bill making appropriations for certain
fortifications for the year 1828, taken up, 394; and after filling the blank for appropriation with $50,000 for fortifications at the mouth of Barata- ria, agreed to, 406.
the debate commences, 394. Franking privilege, a resolution granting it to the Speak- Jarvis, er of the House of Representatives, taken up, 474; an amendment extending the franking pri vilege of members of Congress negatived, 475; an amendment confining the proposed privi- lege to the sessions of Congress was rejected, and the original resolution ordered to a third reading, 479.
the debate commences, 474. French colonial trade, the bill to regulate intercourse with the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, taken up, 553; ordered to be engrossed, 570 ; and read the third time the following day. the debate commences, 553.
the bill making further provision for the pay ment of, on money expended during the late War for the public defence by the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, taken up, 583. ordered to be engrossed, 590.
debate commences, 583.
Improvements, the bill to grant certain unap- propriated lands to the State of Alabama for the purpose of improving the navigation of her Rivers, taken up, 453.
ordered to be engrossed, 458. debate commences, 453.
The bill from the House of Representatives mak- ing appropriations for, taken up, 603. an amendment for confining the proposed appro- priation to Surveys already commenced, was carried in Committee of the Whole by the cast- ing vote of the Speaker, 609.
bill again taken up, 629.
and the decision afterwards confirmed by a majori- ty of one vote, 631.
the bill ordered to a third reading, 653. bill returned from the House, with a refusal to con- cur in the Senate's amendments. The committee of the Senate recommend receding from their amendments. The 1st and 2d amendments, were receded from. A recession from the third was refused, 24 votes to 23, and it was insisted on, 725.
managers appointed to confer with managers of the House, on the disagreement of the two Houses, 734.
the committee reported to the Senate, and their report was concurred with, 787. debate commences, 603.
Russel, his letter to the Senate, in reference to an assault charged to have been committed by him in the Capitol, read and ordered to lie on the table, 673.
Indemnification to Foreigners, the petition of Robert Hall, a subject of Great Britain, praying for fur-Kenyon ther indemnification for the destruction of the ship Union, 5; laid on the table, 6.
Indiana, a bill introduced to authorize the Legislature of that State to sell lands appropriated for the
report of the Judiciary Committee adverse to a Resolution in favor of erecting proper build- ings for the United States Courts in the several States, considered and ordered to lie on the table, 127.
Process, the bill to regulate process in the States admitted into the Union since 1790, was read a 2d time, 90.
ordered to lie on the table, 204.
taken up, 327.
ordered to be engrossed, 328.
subject again taken up, 442. laid on the table, 343.
again taken up, 344.
motion to reconsider carried, 369.
the bill again taken up, 371; recommitted 372. again taken up and ordered to be engrossed, 583. debate commences, 201.
College, the bill granting to it a township of land, taken up, 532.
motion to recommit the bill negatived, and the order to engross it, carried, 550. debate commences, 532.
Lands, public, a resolution submitted instructing the com. | Navy, Medical Department, the bill for the better organ-
mittee on public lands to inquire into the expe- diency of ceding the public lands within the limits of the new States to the several States in
ganization of, taken up and ordered to lie on the table, 449.
the bill for increasing the pay of Lieutenants (see Lieutenants.)
a bill introduced for graduating the prices of pub. Navy Yard between cape Hatteras and Florida, a resolu-
lic lands, 23.
taken up, 151.
and the discussion continued for a considerable part of the session; the proposition offering a
tion submitted, directing the Secretary of the Navy to report to Congress, at their next session, whether the establishment of a navy yard on some point between the above places, &c. to- gether with the expense of the work, 790. the resolution agreed to, 792.
substitute for the original bill was negatived, Ogden Abraham, a bill for the relief of A. Ogden and
and the original bill was finally rejected, 678.
debate commences, 23.
Lands, school, the bill to authorize the relinquishment
of the 16th section of lands for the use of
The question on engrossing the bill negatived,
schools in the State of Alabama, where found Order, points of, decided, 166, 228, 234, 235, 236, 316, barren and unproductive, taken up, 479; reject- ed, 480.
Land, the bill granting to Kenyon College a township of land, taken up, 532; motion to recommit the bill, negatived; and an order to engross it, car- ried, 550.
the bill to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend the act to enable claimants to lands within the State of Missouri, and Territory of Arkansas, was taken up, the question on order- ing the bill to be engrossed, was negatived, 789. Land Claims, the bill to provide for the final settlement of private land claims in the several States and Territories, was taken up, 458.
laid on the table, 483.
again taken up, 506.
ordered to be engrossed, 507. debate cominences, 458.
Larche Francis, a bill for his relief, read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed, 35. debate commences, 23.
Lieutenants of the Navy, the bill for increasing the pay of such as have served ten years and upwards, was taken up for consideration, 80.
order of the day, 96.
passed, 102.
debate commences, 80.
340, 341, 544, 561, 631, 632, 633, 657, 559, 670, 678, 691, 692, 695, 711, 715, 717, 734, 787.
Outrages in the Capitol, two resolutions laid on the table in relation to the assault made by Russell Jarvis on the President's Private Secretary, and that of Duff Green on E. V. Sparhawk, one of the Reporters, 810.
Pensioners, a bill making appropriations for the pay- ment of, taken up, 111.
bill laid on the table, 114; taken up and ordered to be engrossed, 237. debate commences, 111.
President of the United States, a communication from him in relation to the arrest and imprisonment, and a demand for the release of John Baker, 400.
a message stating that his Private Secretary, in passing from the House of Representatives to the Senate Chamber, had been way-laid and as- saulted in the Rotundo, 668.
President pro tem, the Senate proceeded to the election of this officer; Mr. Macon was declared duly elected; but declining to serve, Mr. Smith of Maryland was then elected, 788. Printer to the Senate, a preamble and resolution on the subject, 2.
Printing, the joint resolution from the House proposing to render more economical the printing of the two Houses, was taken up, and ordered to its third reading, 808.
Public debt, a resolution introduced, instructing the Committee of Finance to inquire whether any error had occurred in the construction of the fourth section of the act to provide for the re- demption of the public debt, as to the amount of surplus revenue to be retained in the Trea- sury, &c. 379. agreed to, 394.
Major General of the Army, was ordered to a Public Buildings, the bill making appropriations for,
second reading, 788.
ordered to lie on the table, 895. debate commences, 805.
Military road in Maine, the committee on Military Affairs instructed to inquire into the expediency of ma. king such a road, 31.
Militia, the bill to provide for the organization of the mi- litia of the United States, taken up, 244. laid on the table, 245.
again taken up, and again laid on the table, 341. again taken up and laid on the table, 474. debate commences, 244.
Miami Canal, the bill to aid the State of Ohio to make the
Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, taken up and ordered to a third reading, 809.
Military Establishment, (see appropriations.)
taken up and passed, 724.
Reporters to the Senate, a resolution agreed to directing the Secretary, under the direction of the Presi- dent of the Senate, to cause seats to be prepar- ed for them on the floor of the Senate Cham- ber, 8. Retrenchment Reports, a motion made to print 3000 co- pies of the reports of the Committee of the House of Representatives on Retrenchment, agreed to 794.
Revolution, a bill for the relief of the surviving officers of, taken up, 128.
a motion made to recommit the bill, 149.
rying from $1,000,000 to $500,000, and the rejection of a motion for an indefinite postpone. ment, the bill was ordered to lie on the table. debate commences, 128.
the bill from the House for the relief of sundry Revolutionary officers, and soldiers, and wi- dows, was read a second time, and referred to the Committee on Pensions, 790.
the Committee reported, that it was not possible to act upon the bill at so late a period of the session, and was discharged from its further con- sideration, 804.
Rules of the Senate, an amendment to proposed, 6.
Slaves, deported, a supplementary bill introduced for the adjustment of claims to indemnification, un- der the treaty of Ghent, 406. ordered to be engrossed, 411.
the bill returned from the House with an amend ment, laid on the table, 728.
amendment of the House concurred with, 787. debate commences, 406.
Slaves, captured, a bill passed, cancelling a bond in re- lation to them, 30.
South Carolina, Claims of (See Claims.) Sparhawk, Edward V. his memorial complaining of an assault from Duff Green, in a room devoted to the use of the Senate, presented, 186. laid on the table, 187. Surplus Revenue, a resolution respecting, introduced by Mr. Benton, and agreed to, (see Public Debt, 379.
dered, in a report of the committee appointed to revise the rules of the Senate, 278; agreed to,
Western Armory, a resolution introduced, authorizing the Secretary of War to instruct an officer of the Corps of Engineers to examine the Horse Shoe Bend, on Licking river, in Kentucky, and report the practicability of establishing an armory there, 4; resolution withdrawn, 7.
debate commences, 4.
Wines, duty on reduced, (See Duties.)
Yeas and Nays on an amendment to the bill for the abo lishment of imprisonment for debt, to strike out the 9th section, which provides, that in all cases where the body shall be subject to imprison- ment, such person shall be deprived of prison bounds, and kept in close custody until dis charged by due course of law, 70.
on another amendment to the same bill, striking out a part of one section, and adding several others, 84.
on the passage of the bill, 90.
on the passage of the bill to increase the pay of lieutenants in the Navy, 102.
on engrossing the bill making appropriations for the completion of the Cumberland Road from Bridgeport to Zanesville, 125.
on a motion to recommit the bill for the relief of Susan Decatur, 268.
on engrossing the bill for the relief of Abraham Ogden, 276.
on engrossing the bill for the relief of Susan De- catur, 277.
on an amendment to a proposed amendment of the
Rules of the Senate, in relation to the powers of the Vice President, 327.
on three other amendments to said proposed amendment, 340.
on an amendment to the bill to regulate process in the Courts of the U. States, to strike out the original bill, 327.
on adopting the first section of said bill, 328. on adopting the second section, ib. on engrossing the bill for adjusting claims for slaves under the treaty of Ghent, 411. on filling the blank in the bill for providing for surviving revolutionary officers with $ 800,000, 448.
on a motion indefinitely to postpone the bill, ib. on filling the blank with $500,000, ib. on engrossing the bill to grant certain relinquish ed and unappropriated lands to the State of Ala- bama, for the purpose of improving the naviga tion of her rivers, 458.
on engrossing the bill making appropriations for the construction of a breakwater at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, 470.
on engrossing the bill for the relief of the widow of Gen. Brown, 528.
on engrossing the bill making further provision for the payment of interest on moneys expended during the late war, for the public defence, by the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Dela ware, Maryland, and Virginia, 590.
on an amendment to the bill making appropria tions for internal improvements, inserting the words "until the surveys already commenced are completed," 608.
on an amendment to the bill to graduate the prices of public lands, to strike out the first section, in order to insert a substitute, 656.
on a motion to take up the bill repealing, in part, the duty on salt, 672.
on engrossing the bill for the continuation of the Cumberland Road through the State of Indiana, 675.
on engrossing the bill for the graduation of the price of Public Lands, 678.
on an amendment to the bill for the relief of cer- tain Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers, to strike out the original bill, and insert a substi tute. A division of the question being called for, the striking out was agreed to, and the Yeas and Nays were taken on inserting the sub- stitute, 713.
on engrossing the bill as amended, ib.
on the passage of the bill making appropriations for Public Buildings, 724.
on the question to recede from an amendment to the bill making appropriations for Internal Im provements, confining the appropriation of $30,000 to surveys already commenced, ib. on striking out the third section of the Tariff bill, 765.
on ordering the bill to a third reading, 785.
on a motion indefinitely to postpone the bill, 786. on the passage of the bill, ib.
on a Resolution of the Committee of Conference
on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill for Internal Improvements, 787. on the question of considering the bill to confirm an act of the Legislature of Virginia, incorporat- ing the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, &c. 792.
on an amendment to the bill to authorize the sub. scription to Stock in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, to strike out of the first section the word "half," 803.
on an amendment in the 8th line of the first sec- tion, ib.
on another amendment, to strike out the following words-"nor until one half of the aggregate amount of such assessment shall have been paid," ib.
on engrossing the amendments, and ordering the bill to a third reading, 804.
on the passage of the bill, 806.
on engrossing the bill to reduce the duty on im- ported Wines, 805.
on ordering the bill to abolish the office of Major- General to a third reading, 807.
On ordering to a third reading the bill to aid the State of Ohio to make the Miami Canal, 809.
INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
for Fortifications, on amendment of the Senate, 1920.
Accounting Officers of the Treasury, a Resolution re- specting, 1954.
resolution committed, 1998. Adjournment, a Resolution for appointing a joint Com- mittee to fix on a day of adjournment, 2480. the Committee reported the 26th of May, 2541. resolution agreed to, 2596.
Assault on the President's Secretary by Russel Jarvis, two Reports on the subject, 2715. ordered to lie on the table, 2723. subject noticed and remarked upon, 2754. Alabama Land, a bill to aid in a Canal round the Muscle Shoals, 2733, 2743.
Bank of the United States, a Resolution introduced in- structing the Committee of Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the sale of that portion of the Stock of this Bank held by the Government, and of applying the proceeds to the payment of the public debt, 815.
laid on the table, 818.
taken up, 827.
Barracks at Sackett's Harbor, a Resolution to authorize the President to loan them to a Military School, agreed to, 2540.
Boundary Lines of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, a bill tor ascertaining the true boundary, taken up, 2250. Breakwater in the Delaware, bill to commence the erec. tion of a, taken up, 2732.
ordered to a third reading, 2734.
Clerk and other Officers of the House appointed, 812. Committees, Standing, appointed, 813. Chaplain to Congress elected, 815. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Chairman of the Com. mittee on, reported a bill to amend and explain an act confirming an Act of the Legislature of Virginia incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and an Act of the State of Maryland for the same purpose, 890.
also, a bill authorizing a subscription to the Stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, ib.
a motion to lay the Resolution on the table nega- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Committee of the Whole tived, 850.
was discharged from the further consideration of the bills in relation to this subject, 2571. the bill taken up by the House, 2596. ordered to be engrossed, 2616.
the bill for enlarging the powers of the Corpora- tion of Washington was taken up, 2670. ordered to be engrossed, 2677. bill passed, 2695.
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