Mr. Tyler's speech was very animated, and exceedingly severe on the secretary of state. "He had moved February 23. Several more petitions against the re-heaven and earth to seek to put down the last adminis moval of the Indians, were presented:-as well as a large number of other petitions. (As many, perhaps, have been presented this session, as are generally acted upon in ten sessions.]

Mr. Chambers, from the committee on the district of Columbia, reported the bill from the other house relative to a lateral branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road within the District of Columbia, with certain amendments; which were read.

The chair laid before the senate a message from the president of the United States, in reply to a resolution of the senate on the subject of the execution of the law of 1802, to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes; which was read, and 3,000 copies thereof ordered to be printed by a vote of-yeas 20-nays 19.

[The message is of considerable length, gives a full statement of the views of the president on the subject of the provisions of the law referred to, and details the course that has been pursued, by him in the execution of the law.]

Many bills from the other house were disposed of chiefly of a private nature.

The senate then again resumed the consideration of the amendments proposed to the general appropriation bill; particularly that submitted by Mr. Tazewell as proposed to be further amended by Mr. Kane.

Mr. Livingston took the floor, and spoke for two hours in support of the appropriation, and in reply to the remarks of Mr. Tazewell. He referred to the treaties heretofore concluded with the Barbary powers, and proved that not only the agents were not nominated to the senate, but that the senate had no information of the conclusion of the treaties until sent to it for ratification-even farther; in two or three of the cases to which he had referred, the commissioners had received their full powers through American ministers at foreign

dollars-while at sea, three thousand two hundred and | Mass. Williams, Tucker, Taylor, Chilton, Craig, Burfifty dollars.

A captain of five years standing and under ten, while on shore, two thousand five hundred dollars-while at sea, three thousand dollars.

A captain under five years standing, while on shore, two thousand dollars-while at sea, two thousand five hundred dollars.

ges, Bates, Richardson, Huntington, Spencer, of N. Y. McDuffie, A. H. Shepperd, Strong, Wilde, Campbell, Ellsworth, Speight, Barringer, Polk, and Swift.

On the motion of Mr. Huntington, in the course of the discussion, a provision was adopted (see end of 4th section), to allow to the widow or children of a deceased pensioner the balance of the semi-annual pension folhun-lowing his decease.

A master commandant, while on shore, fifteen dred dollars-while at sea, two thousand dollars. The committee of the whole having risen and reportA captain commanding a squadron, fifteen per cent.ed the amendments, and they having been agreed to by upon his sea pay, according to his rank as aforesaid. the house, Captains, comtaanding navy yards, shall be entitled to the same pay as is allowed to officers of the same rank while at sea.

Mr. McCreery moved further to amend the bill, by adding the following section, and made some remarks in explanation and support of his proposition, viz: Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provicers and soldiers of the revolution, passed the 15th day of May, 1828, shall not hereafter be extended to officers who were commissioned after the 1st day of DeSec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all officers of cember, 1781, unless they were in the service prior to the navy travelling on the public service, shall be allow-the date of their commissions; and all such officers who ed in lieu of all travelling expenses, twelve cents per are now receiving pensions, shall be stricken from the anile, and for every day's detention at any place, not roll, from and after the passage of this act. their residence, and not on board the ship to which they may be attached, two dollars per diem.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the accounting officers of the navy depart-sions of the act for the relief of certain surviving offiment to allow to captains commanding at navy yards, an adequate credit for quarters whenever the same are not provided by the government.

Mr. Cambreleng, from the committee of commerce, reported the following bill; which was twice read, and ordered to a third reading on Monday next, the 21st in

stant.

A bill for the relief of certain importers of foreign merchandise.

Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorised to extend relief to any importer of foreign merchandise who may have been charged under the provisions of the third section of the act, entitled, "an act for the more effectual collection of the duties ou imports," passed 28th day of May, 1830, with any duty in addition to the duties existing on such merchandise previous to the passage of said act, to the amount of such additional duty: Provided, said merchandise shall have been imported previous to the 1st day of January last.

Mr. Doddridge moved the previous question, which being sustained, cut off Mr. McCreery's motion. Mr. Speight, called for the yeas and nays on the previous question; but the house refused them.

Mr. Lewis, of Ala. moved a call of the house, but this also was negatived; and then

The question being put ou ordering the bill to be engrossed and read a third time, it was carried by the following vote:

The house resumed the consideration of the resolu-Mitchell, Muhlenburg, Overton, Pearce, Pettis, Pierson, Randolph, tion proposing to print 6,000 additional copies of the reports of the majority and minority of the judiciary com

YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Angel, Arnold, Bailey, Noyes Barber, Barringer, Bartley, Bates, Baylor, Beekman, Boon, Broadhead, Brown, Buchanan, Burges, Butman, Cahoon, Cambreleng, Camp bell, Chandler, Childs, Chilton, Clark, Coleman, Condict, Conner, Cowles, Crane, Crawford, Crockett, Creighton, Crowninshield, John Davis, Deberry, Denny, De Witt, Dickinson, Doddridge, Dorsey, Dudley, Duncan, Earll, Ellsworth, Geo. Evans, Joshua Evans, Horace Everett, Findlay, Finch, Ford, Forward, Gaither, Gilmore, Grennell, Halsey, Harvey, Hawkins, Hinds, Holland, Hoffman, Hubbard, Hughes, Hunt, Huntington, Ibrie, William W. Irvin, Jarvis, Johns, Richard M. Johnson, Kendall, Kincaid, Perkins King, Adam King, Leavitt, Lecompte, Leiper, Lyon, Magee, Marr, Martindale, T. Maxwell, McCreery. Melntire, Mercer, Reed, Rencher, Richardson, Russel, Sanford, Scott, Wm. B. She pard, Aug. H. Shepperd, Shields, Semmes, Sill, Smith, Richard Spencer, Sterigere, Wm. L. Storrs, Strong, Sutherland, Swann, Verplanck, Washington, Weeks, Whittlesey, Camp. P. White, Swift, Taylor, Test, John Thomson, Tracy, Tucker, Varnum, Edward D. White, Wilde, Williams, Wilson, Yancey, Young-126. NAYS--Messrs. Alexander, Alston, Armstrong, Barnwell. Jas. Blair, Jno. Blair, Bockee, Claiborne, Clay, Coke, Craig, Crocheron, Davenport, W. R. Davis, Desha, Draper, Drayton, Foster, Fry, Gordon, Haynes, Howard, Cave Johnson, Lamar, Lea, Letcher, Lewis, Loyall, Lumpkin, McDuffie, Nuckolls, Polk, Potter, Roane, Speight, Sprigg, Standefer, Wiley Thompson, Trezvant, Vance, Vinton, Wayne, Wickliffe-43.

mittee.

Mr. Daniel resumed the floor, and consumed the remainder of the allotted hour in the continuation of his speech on the judiciary-having used the occasion for presenting his views generally, on the questions embraced in the reports-arguing against the competency of the supreme court to decide on the validity of state laws, illustrated by a reference to the decisions of the eourt on the complex land laws of Kentucky, &c. and concluding by some remarks on the subject of nullification. When he had taken his seat,

The following is the bill as it was passed to a third reading.

Mr. Barringer gave notice that when this subject Be it enacted, &c, That each of the surviving officers, came up to-morrow, he should make a question of or-non-commissioned officers, musicians, and soldiers, of der, whether it was competent for members, on a simple the army of the revolution, who shall have served in the motion to print the reports, to go into a general discus- continental line, state troops, volunteers or militia, at sion of the reports themselves, and the whole subject of one or more terms a period of two years during the the judiciary. war of the revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, passed the fitteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be authorised to receive, out of any money in the trea

Mr. Mercer moved to suspend the rule of the house in regard to motions, for the purpose of enabling himself to submit a resolution requesting the executive to enter into negotiations with the maritime powers of Europe, to induce them to enact laws declaring the Afri-sury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full can slave trade piracy, and punishing it as such; but the motion, (requiring two-thirds) was lost-63 to 54.

pay in the said line, according to his rank, but not exceeding, in any case, the pay of a captain in the said line; The house went into committee of the whole on the such pay to commence from January 1, 1850, and shall bill supplementary to the act of 1828, for the relief of continue during his natural life; and that any such offi. certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.cer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, as This bill, as usual on all bills making general provi-aforesaid, who shall have served in the continental line, sion on the subject of pensions, gave rise to much de- state troops, volunteers or militia, a term or terms, in bate; especially on the often discussed question of in- the whole less than the above period, but not less than cluding the militia in the relief extended to the regular six months, shall be authorised to receive out of any unsoldiers. The debate on this question arose on a mo-appropriated money in the treasury, during his natural tion by Mr. Tucker, of S. C. to include the militia vo-lite, each, according to his term of service, an amount Junteers and state troops in the present bill, which was bearing such proportion to the annuity granted to the ultimately adopted, almost by general consent. The same rank, for the service of two years, as his term of gentlemen who entered into the discussion (some of service did to the term aforesaid, to commence from Jathem repeatedly), were Messrs. Verplanck, Davis, of 'nuary 1, 1830.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person, receiving any annuity or pension under any law of the United States providing for revolutionary officers and soldiers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless he shall first relinquish his further claim to such pension; and in all paynients under this act, the amount which may have been received under any other act as aforesaid, since the date at which the payments under this act shall commence, shall first be deducted from such payment.

which would have to be appointed-and if the principle were adopted, every large town in the union situated on a river would be entitled to the same privilege. He moved the reference of the bill to the committee of ways and means.

Mr. Wickliffe and Mr. Pettis defended the bill against the objections urged, and argued to show its necessity to the convenience of the large and thriving commercial places comprised in the bill. Before the question was taken, the hour elapsed.

The several appropriation bills which yesterday passed through the committee of the whole, were taken up, and the several amendments agreed to by the house.

Mr. Drayton then renewed the motion made by him in committee of the whole, to increase the appropriation of the year for arming fortifications from one to two hundred thousand dollars; and he insisted on the expediency of greater dispatch in arming our fortifications, from the probability of a war in Europe, and the possibility of our being drawn into it.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, be paid to the officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, entitled thereto, or his or their authorised attorney, at such places and times as the secretary of the treasury may direct: and that no foreign officer shall be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, receive the same until he furnish the said secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay hereby allowed Mr. McDuffie thought there was not the remotest shall not be in any way transferable, or liable to attach-danger of our being involved in any war of the kind. ment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, His opinion was that the contests now going on in Eebut shall enure wholly to the personal benefit of the of- rope in the name of liberty, were not such as to render ficer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or soldier, en- our interference probable. titled to the same.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said pay, as accrued before the approval of this act, shall be paid to the person entitled to the same as soon as may be, in the manner and under the provisions above mentioned; and the pay which shall accrue thereafter shall be paid semi-annually, in the manner above directed. And in case of the death of any person embraced by the provisions of this act, or of the act to which it is supplementary, during the period intervening between the semi-annual payments directed to be made by said acts, the proportionate amount of pay which shall accrue between the last preceding semi-annual payment, and the death of such person shall be paid to the widow, or if he leave no widow, to his chil

dren.

Thursday, Feb. 17. On a division, soon after the commencement of business this day, it appeared that a quorum was not present-but a call of the house being ordered, 108 members answered to their names.

The house resumed the consideration of the motion to print 6,000 copies of the reports of the judiciary committees.

An attempt was made by Mr. Barringer to arrest the debate in a question of order as to the latitude of the debate, but the effort was not successful.

Mr. Foster then took the floor, and spoke at length on the subject, not having concluded when the expiration of the hour arrested his remarks.

The various bills ordered to be engrossed were read a third time and passed.

On the passage of the bill supplementary to an act entitled an act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.

After an attempt to recommit the bill-it was passed130 to 62.

Messrs. Hoffman, Yancey, Wilde and Burges, also opposed the amendment, and Mr. Carson supported it; and after much debate, The amendment was lost by yeas and nays-yeas 69, nays 90.

Mr. McDuffie moved to insert an appropriation of $3,000 for the purchase of medals to be distributed amongst Indian chiefs.

Mr. Vance said the object was a proper one, as it was well known that such presents to the Indians were very useful and had been always customary. He could not forbear, however, from reminding those gentlemen who now saw the expediency of the measure so clearly, that an expenditure under the late administration of one-third of the sum now proposed, filled about a page of the famous report of the committee of retrenchment, in setting forth its enormity.

The appropriation was agreed to-ayes 85, noes not counted.

The bill making appropriations for improving the navigation of rivers, removing obstructions from the mouths of rivers and harbors, &c. next came up

Mr. Lea wished to know the sense of the house on this measure; he wished to know what was meant by this sort of external internal improvement; he wished to know how high up a river it was considered constitutional to go without coming in conflict with the objectionable principle, and how far the house could carry a distinction which he himself could not see or approve. He could see no difference between appropriations for harbors and the mouths of rivers, and appropriations for the improvement of the interior of the country. He, therefore, asked for the yeas and nays on the engrossment of

this bill.

Mr. Carson said he felt that on the subject of internal improvement it was perfectly useless to say a word. The appropriation bills were then taken up, in com- The bill proposed various objects of expenditure for harmittee of the whole, amended, &c. They were for the bors, &c. What evidence was there of their necessitynaval and military service, for the improvement of bar- not to speak of their constitutionality-that he would not bors-fortifications-the Indian department-improve-mention-it is scoffed at-we have no constitution-it is ment of roads and rivers-the engineer, ordnance and dead and gone. But he knew of no evidence that the quarter master department, being such bills as usually improvements were needed, admitting their legality. He come up. In the bill for roads and rivers, however, an went through all the items, to show that many of them amendment appropriating 150,000 dollars for the im- were unworthy of legislation, and some of them contempprovement of the Ohio river, was adopted-ayes 79, tible. He protested against them, and said that the noes 52. items for his own state should not seduce him to vote for the bill. Nothing, however, which he could say, he was aware, would have any influence on the house; he, therefore, called on his friend from Kentucky, (Mr. Yancey), to make a speech against it. Accordingly

Friday, Feb. 18. After other business

Mr. Cambreleng, from the committee of commerce, reported a bill allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pitsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places; which was twice read, and Mr. C. moved that it be ordered to a third reading. Mr. Mc Duffie opposed the motion because it was a subject which belonged to the revenue, and ought to have been before the committee of ways and means. It, moreover, was a novel principle-one involving a great expenditure in the number of custom-house officers

Mr. Yancey rose and in a short speech inveighed in vehement terms against this course of extravagant expenditure, and urged the house to return to the good old system of Jeffersonian economy.

Messrs. Irvin and Whittlesey defended the appropriation in reference to the waters of lake Erie, showing their importance to the commerce of the west, the great extent of the commerce of the lake, the deficiency o.

natural harbors on it, and the necessity of forming them, in no way different from the objects in this bill. North Carolina &c. had petitioned congress for the improvement of Ocracock and Mr. Sill also defended at some length the appropria-plication. It had been frequently before the house, and none of the Cape Fear, and all her delegation had supported the ap tion for the harbor of Erie.

Mr. Mc Duffie begged the friends of the bill not to consume the time of the house in making speeches against an opposition so untenable that it could not certainly gain thirty votes. The bill embraced no new objects; it embraced such only as former appropriations authorised, or standing laws required, and every item had been examined and approved by a committee. He hoped, therefore, that the debate would be left entirely to the enemies of the bill.

Mr. Carson replied, and reiterated his objections to the bill, on the score of expediency and principle. Mr. Drayton said that most of the items were proper, but there was some which he deemed unconstitutional. He could not vote for the bill.

The question was taken on the third reading of the bill and carried-113 to 45.

On motion of Mr. Whittlesey, it was

Resolved, That the secretary of the navy be directed to transmit to this house all the papers in his department in any manner relating to the capture and detention of several negroes on board of the vessels Constitution, Louisa and Marion.

Adjourned.

Saturday, Feb. 19. After the speaker had taken the chair, it appeared that a quorum was not present-a call of the house was made, and soon after there was a quorum, and the business proceeded.

Mr. Buchanan moved that the committee of the whole house to which was committed the bill declaratory of the law concerning contempts of court, be discharged from the consideration of that bill, and that it be laid on the table. Carried.

them had discovered that it was unconstitutional; and now because these objects are embraced in this bill, are we who vote for it to be charged with being bought up? He had voted for such a bill have voted for it now, if they had been excluded. Was he to every year, when these objects were not included, and he should vote against what was right, because he could not obtain what he conceived just, or vote against the bill because the objects which his own state had at heart were included, lest he might be charged with being bought up? He protested against such injuri ous imputations.

Mr. Carson said that he was very glad that his colleague had let off some matter which he had been pregnant with for some time-[The speaker here interposed, and said that the gentle man's colleague had disclaimed any reflection upon the gentle man's motives.] I understood him to do so, said Mr. C., and I too disclaim any intention to reflect upon the motives of other gen tlemen. My colleague says that I charge him with being bought that was the purport of his speech. Sir, I made no such charge. believes that he is right. But I believe that they are wrong, and I am willing to say that every member who votes for this bill that those who do vote for it, whatever is their motive, are selling the liberties of their country. In ancient times the Roman leaders bought up the liberties of the people with the spoils of the conquered provinces, and this policy of internal improvement and our high

of this people are tariff are the means with which the libertica

be bought up. My evil gue says he will not defend the constitutionality of the appropriations proposed by this bill: and weil he may say so, for he cannot defend it. The constitution has been placed in the hands of empirics-of political quacks, who have given it a construction whereby it is swallowing up the liberties of the country; and, when they are gone, where are we to look for liberty! Where, sir, I repeat, are we to look for it? Almighty God may have ordained that liberty shall exist have taken her flight rom among us-she may have followed only in one hemisphere at a time. Il so the genius of liberty may Lafayette across the waters-and whilst they have liberty in France, we may have tyranny here. I must believe, sir, if our liberties are saved, that it can be only by the interposition of the individual states; and, sir, I look to old Virginia, as the nucleus

The bills making appropriations for the navy for around which the states are to rally to resist the usurpations of 1831;

Making appropriations for the military for 1831; Making appropriations for fortifications for 1831; To adjust the books of the fourth auditor; were severally read a third time, passed and sent to the senate for concurrence.

The engrossed bill making additional appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors, and removing obstructions at the mouths of certain rivers, was read the third time.

Mr. Carson, of N. C. rose and said the liberties of my country are by this bill put up for sale. I, for one, will not be bribed to vote for it.

Mr. Barringer said he was very sorry to hear such language from his colleague. The liberties of the country put up to sale? How put up to sale? asked Mr. B. It is an imputation on the house-not only on this house, but on every congress from the foundation of the government, and every executive from the commencement to the present. This bill Mr. B. said, presented no question of internal improvement, as that question is understood by southern gentlemen generally.

He had voted with bis colleague on these appropriations hereto fore; they were for objects annually provided for by congress, his colleague had voted for them, and this was the first time that he bad found out that they put up to sale the liberties of his country. This was a strange declaration-that in a bill of the most usual and customary character-to promote the commerce and revenue of the country-which had been regularly provided for every year, without any body dreaming that it was a violation of the constitution-to hear it proclaimed now that it was selling the liberties of the country! If that is the case, where, he asked. was the vigilance of his colleague on former occasions, when si milar appropriations had received his vote? The principle, Mr. B. said, had never been denied, that where the commerce of the country could be facilitated or increased, and the revenue derived therefrom was received exclusively by the general government, that it was within the province of the government to make the improvement; and this was strictly and peculiarly the case with barbours, and the mouths of rivers, where obstructions impeded or endangered the navigation. This was a species of improve ment which it had never been contended devolved on the states themselves-they had been executed by the general government from the beginning of the government; at least such had been the action of congress ever since he had been here, and the action, he believed, of those who had gone before us. It was for his colleague to exercise his own judgment for himself on this subject and all others; but in mercy. Mr. B. said, he hoped his colleague would permit him to exercise the same right without the imputation of selling the lib rties of his country.

The speaker checked Mr. B. He did not understand Mr. C. as imputing such a decision to members, but only as speaking

of the effect of the bill.

Mr. Carson hoped the speaker would permit his colleague to proceed, and cast every thing on him that he desired. He knew his motive.

Mr. Barringer resumed. He wished only to vindicate himself, Hot to cast any thing on his colleague.-North Carolina had petitioned for the improvement of Roanoke inlet. This object was

the general government. I look to her sons-to her Patrick
Henry's (such men as he, who dared to declare that resistance of
oppression was not treason)-I look to her Madison, to her Mon.
look to such men-not to men bought up by appropriations and
roe, to you, sir, (the speaker)-gentlemen may laugh, sir, but I
by the hope of office, but to men of high and elevated feelings
and stern integrity to save my country. If such men do not rouse
saying, that perhaps he had spoken with too much warmth on
themselves to action, our liberty is gone. Mr. C. concluded with
this occasion; that he was sick, and had no intention to come bere
to-day; but that he had been sent for, and brought from his bed
by a call of the house. He knew it was in vain to oppose the
passage of this bill, and perhaps there was no use in a man's
throwing himself into the breach, and receiving in his breast the
daggers of all who were in favor of it. He attacked the system,
not the motives of gentlemen: but he solemnly believed, if this
that nothing but the action of the states could save them.
sort of legislation was persisted in, our liberties were gone; and

past, he had voted in favor of measures of internal improvement,
Mr. Blair, of Tennessee, said that, although, for several years
and had seen no reason to change his opinion or his course in that
guments by which it had been supported by the gentleman from
particular, yet he should vote against this bill, because of the ar
North Carolina, [Mr. Barringer.] For his part Mr. B. said, he
could not see why the mouth of a river should be improved by ap
propriations of the public money more than its bed; nor why a
measure of this description. coming from the committee of com
if it had come from the committee of roads and canals. Suppose
merce, was not as much a measure of internal improvement, as
the appropriations proposed by this bill had been for the improve
ment of the Ohio river, or for removing obstructions in other
streams; would not the gentleman from North Carolina have
gone against that measure? Has he not invariably gone against
such appropriations? What, then, shall we see, if we act upon
the principles which govern his vote in favor of this bill? Why
sir, that there is to be a system of appropriations for bays and
rivers, for expenditures on tide water, and no appropriations are
to be made for the improvement of the interior. It is, there
fore, sir, that I am obliged to turn my back against this bill, after
voting for similar measures for the last eight years. Sir, look at
the details of this bill; the state of Ohio is the only one of the
in it. Suppose I were to call for an appropriation for the im
western states for which the smallest appropriation is proposed
provement of the Coosa river; would the gentleman from North
Carolina come out and say that that appropriation is constitution-
al? No, sir, he would not admit its constitutionality, because it
is above the mouth of the river, and not immediately connected
with foreign commerce. Yes, sir, I might exhaust my strength
here, in vain, in showing the importance of the connexion of the
Coosa and Tennessee rivers; I should not get the vote of the
gentleman from North Carolina. If the proposition for such an
appropriation came from the committee of commerce, indeed,
then I might, perhaps, get his vote, but not if it came from
the committee on internal improvements. Mr. B. repeated that
he felt himself called upon to vote against the bill, because of
its exclusive nature, going to establish a system of providing for
the improvement of the mouths of rivers, bays, &c. and neglect
ing the whole interior interests of the country. He was for im
proving the means of domestic as well as foreign intercourse

terms stated in the agreement, for which purpose an
appropriation will be necessary. Very respectfully,
JOHN H. EATON.

The president of the United States.
The message and documents were referred to the
committee on military affairs.

and commerce. If the exclusive system proposed by this bill was persevered in, the people whom he represented would derive no benefit whatever from the expenditure of public money. He believed this to be as much an internal improvement bill as any bill of that nature introduced at the present session: of its constitutionality be had no doubt: but he denied the expediency of thus limiting and partially carrying the principle into effect. Whenever measures should come before the house which do look to the great interests of the country-to those of the country The speaker laid before the house a letter from the beyond the Alleghany, as well as that on this side of it, his first comptroller of the treasury, communicating lists of opinion on the subject would be found to be the same now as balances due from collectors of the customs, receivers it always had been. In self defence, said he, we of the west of land offices and collectors of direct taxes and internal must vote against such partial appropriations of the public moduties, more than three years prior to the 30th Septemney as are embraced in this bill, or else we shall become but hewers of wood and drawers of water; we shall feel the blessings of government in the burthens which it imposes, and not in the benefits which it confers.

ber, 1830, which were laid on the table.

Many bills, affecting private claims, were then attended to-which, with the other business transacted, will sufficiently appear hereafter.

Monday, Feb. 21. About 70 petitions this dayamong then many on behalf of the Indians. Among the petitions

Mr. Barringer again rose. It had been his practice, he said, to vote for what he deemed just and expedient, no matter by what committee the measure was reported. In regard to the question before the house, he said, his rule was this: that, if he found the object connected with the commerce of the nation, and calculated to benefit that commerce, he deemed the object legitimate, and he gave it his support. For instance: the mouth By Mr. Sutherland-of ship owners and others enof the Mississippi, one of the items of this bill, was important gaged in mercantile concerns in Philadelphia, for the to the commerce of all the great rivers which flow into it, and erection of a light house on either of the trumcul be could not hesitate to support the appropriation: and if gen-ately at the entrance of north-west branch of the tlemen would point out any objects not leading to some port, Patapsco rivar. and that all vessels navigating the waters and calculated to facilitate the commerns of the we of the Chesapeake and Delaware bays may be required would agree to strike it out. On the lakes he knew there were ports, and these were necessary to the great and growing comto carry lights after sunset. merce of those waters, and he was as ready to support legiti mate objects in the west as the east. He would not condescend to inquire what part of the country the object was to benefit, so it was proper. If it came from the gentleman's (Mr. Blair's) committee (the committee on internal improvement) he would support it just as soon as if it came from any other. He would leave it to that gentleman to say how he could now oppose measures which he had formerly supported, because he thought the conduct of others improper or inconsistent. For himself, Mr. B. said, seeing nothing in this bill variant from what he had always supported, he should give it his vote.

Mr. Whittlesey, believing that further debate would not change a single vote, moved the previous question.

By Mr. Sutherland, and also by Mr. Miller-of inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, engaged in the manufacture of iron, and of persons friendly to the production of it in this country, remonstrating against the reduction of the duty on iron.

By. Mr. Duncan-of the general assembly of the state of Illinois for an additional section of land in each township for the purpose of education.

By Mr. Burges-of merchants of Providence, in the state of Rhode Island, setting forth that the duties imposed in the island of Cuba upon American ships and cargoes, are so disproportionate to those which are levied upon Spanish ships and cargoes entering the ports of the United States, that, if continued, they will give the carrying trade between Cuba and the United States, exclusively to Spanish vessels; and that the duties upon American rice in Portugal and her dependencies are so high as to amount to a prohibition, notwithstanding a recent reduction of the duties upon Madeira and other Portuguese wines, imported into the United States; and praying congress to adopt such measures as may be deemed most expedient to remedy the evils complained of.

The motion was sustained, and the question being put on the passage of the bill, it was carried, by the following vote. YEAS-Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Arnold, Bailey. Noyes Barber, Barringer, Bartley, Bates, Baylor, Beekman, Bockee, Boon, Brown, Burges, Butinan, Cahoon, Cambreleng, Chandler, Childs, Chilton, Clark. Coleman, Condict, Cooper, Coulter, Cowles, Crane, Crawford, Crockett, Creighton, Crowninshield, Daniel, John Davis, Deberry, Denny, Dickinson, Doddri-lge, Dorsey, Dudley, Duncan, Dwight, Eager, Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, E Everett, Findlay, Finch, Ford, Forward, Fry, Gilmore, Green, Grennell, Gurley, Halsey, Hammons, Harvey, Hawkins, Hemp hill, Hodges. Holland, Howard, Hubbard, Hughes, Huntington, Ihrie, Lugersoli, Thomas Irwin, W. W. Irvin, Jarvis, Johns, R. M Johnson, Kendall, Kennon, Kincaid, Perkins King, Leavitt, Lecompte, Leiper, Lent. Letcher, Mallary, Marr, Martindale, Thomas Maxwell, Lewis Maxwell, McCreery, McDuffie, McIntire, Mercer, Miller, Mitchell, Muhlenburg, Overton, Pearce, Pettis, the hon. Robert Monell, of New York, and the hon. The speaker communicated to the house letters from Pierson, Randolph, Reed, Rencher, Richardson, Russel, Sanford, Wm. B. Shepard, A H. Shepperd, Shields, Semmes, Sill, Smith, John Biddle, delegates from Michigan, each resigning Speight, Richard Spencer, Sprigg. Stanberry, Sterigere, Stephens, his seat in the 21st congress-the letters were read and W. L. Storrs, Sutherland, Swann, Swift, Taylor, Test, John Thom-laid on the table. son, Tracy, Vance, Varnum, Verplanck, Vinton, Washington,

Young-136.

Weeks, Whittlesey, E. D. White, Wickliffe, Wilson, Yancey,
NAYS-Messrs. Alexander, Alston, Angel, Archer, Barnwell,
James Blair, John Blair, Campbell, Carson, Claiborne, Clay, Coke,
Conner, Craig, Crocheron, Davenport, W. R. Davis, Desha, De
Witt, Draper, Drayton, Earll, Foster,Gaither,Gordon, Hail, Haynes,
Hoffman, Jennings, Cave Johnson, Lamar, Lea, Lewis, Loyall,
Lumpkin, Magee, McCoy, Nuckolls, Patton, Polk, Potter, Ramsay,
Roane, Scott, Standefer, Taliaferro, Wiley Thompson, Trezvant,
Tucker, Wayne, Camp. P. White, Wilde, Williams-53.

A message was received from the president of the United States, transmitting the following report from the secretary of war.

War department, Feb. 18, 1831. SIR: The island below New Castle, upon which fort Delaware is situated, is held by the United States, under a cession by the state of Delaware. A citizen of New York, Dr. Henry Gale, alleges the title to be in him, by virtue of a grant of New Jersey, and of subsequent purchases made under that grant.

The agent of Dr. Gale has proposed a surrender of title to the United States for the sum of $17,000, subject to an examination as to the strength and validity of

his title.

The United States having expended large sums in the construction of fort Delaware, it is not proper that the right of property should be at all questionable.

I present to you copies of an agreement entered into with the agent, and propose that authority be given by congress to have the title inquired into: and, if ascertained to be defective, then to be compromised upon the

foreign merchandise, which had been reported on Mon-
An engrossed bill for the relief of certain importers of
day last, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third
time to day, was read the third time accordingly.

And pending the question on the passage of the bill,
The resolution being put on its passage;

Mr. Huntington stated his objections to the resolution, and moved its indefinite postponement; and after some Buchanan and Chilton, a motion was made by Mr., debate on the part of Messrs. Huntington, Whittlesey Carson that the resolution be laid on the table; which motion prevailed.

Mr. Everett resumed the floor, and addressed the house nearly two hours-concluding his speech on Indian affairs. Mr. Haynes followed, and Mr. Bell addressed the house more than an hour, but in consequence of recent ill health, suspended his further remarks until the subject should come up again.

Many private bills were read a third time and passed. Adjourned.

Tuesday, Feb. 22. A great deal of preparatory business was attended to-the details of which will appear

hereafter.

Mr. White, of N. York, from the committee appointed on the 23d December, "to inquire into the expediency of providing that dollars of the New American goverments and five franc pieces, shall be a legal tender in the payment of all debts and demands: And also whether any additional regulations are necessary to the re-coinage of foreign silver coin at the mint" made a long and detailed