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> House Journal--THURSDAY, May 26, 1842.
>
> Mr. Lowell presented a memorial of Samuel M. Pond, John N. Swazey,
> Sewall Lake, and Henry Darling, a committee appointed by citizens of
> Bucksport, in the State of Maine, praying that such provision may be
> made by Congress, in the revenue bill now pending, as will cheek the
> introduction of wood, spars, &c., from the provinces of New Brunswick
> and Nova Scotia, and secure an additional revenue to Government;
> which memorial was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
> On motion of Mr. Levy, (the rule deing dispensed with,) it was
> Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to report to this
> House all correspondence since the first of January last between the
> present commanding officer of the United States army in Florida and
> the Department of War, and all orders which have been recently issued
> from said Department in relation to the Indian hostilities in said
> Territory.
> Mr. Charles A. Floyd, from the Committee on the Territories, made a
> report upon the memorial of the mayor and council of St. Augustine,
> for an appropriation to fill up the grounds along the sea wall in
> front of said city, accompanied by a bill (No. 444) making an
> appropriation for filling up the ground in rear of the sea wall at
> St. Augustine; which bill was read a first and second time, and
> committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
> Mr. Garrett Davis, from the Committee on the Territories, made a
> report upon the memorials relating to the disputed boundary between
> the State of Missouri and the Territory of Iowa, accompanied by a
> bill (No. 445) fixing the boundary line between Missouri and Iowa;
> which bill was read a first and second time, and committed to the
> Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
> Mr. Hays, from the Committee on the Territories, made a report upon
> the memorial for an appropriation to finish the penitentiary in Iowa,
> accompanied by a bill (No. 446) to provide for the completion of the
> penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa.
> On motion of Mr. Babcock,
> Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged
> from the consideration of the petition of inhabitants of Livingston
> county, in the State of New York, praying an alteration of the law of
> the 7th July, 1838, granting pensions to widows of revolutionary
> soldiers, and that it be committed to the Committee of the Whole
> House to-morrow.
> On motion of Mr. Mathiot,
> Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged
> Page 864 |
> from the petition of Walter McCoy, the petition of Silas Lilly, the
> memorial of the Legislature of Indiana, in favor of granting pensions
> to those persons who served as soldiers in Wayne's army against the
> Indians, and the petition of citizens of Augusta county, in the State
> of Virginia, in favor of granting pensions to the same class of
> persons; and that the said petitions be referred to the Committee of
> the Whole House on the state of the Union.
> Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions,
> reported sundry bills, viz:
> · No. 447. A bill for the relief of Elizabeth Harris;
> · No. 448. A bill in the case of Captain Robert Layton's children;
> accompanied by a report in each case; which bills were severally read
> a first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole
> House to-morrow.
> On motion of Mr. Taliaferro,
> Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be discharged
> from the consideration of the petitions of Christiana McCune and Mary
> Eve Carney, and that they do lie on the table.
> Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported
> sundry bills, viz:
> · No. 449. A bill for the relief of Mary Elder;
> · No. 450. A bill for the relief of the widow of Captain William
> Royall, deceased;
> · No. 451. A bill for the relief of Prudence Couch;
> · No. 452. A bill for the relief of Anna Jones;
> · No. 453. A bill for the relief of Maria M. Brook;
> accompanied by a report in each case; which bills were severally read
> a first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole
> House to-morrow.
> Mr. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report
> upon the petition of Asa Davis, accompanied by a bill (No. 454) for
> his relief; which bill was read a first and second time, and
> committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
> On motion of Mr. Morris,
> Ordered, That the Committee on Invalid Pensions be discharged from
> the consideration of the petitions of John McNair, Jane Edster, and
> Jane Moore; and that said petitions do lie on the table.
> Mr. Baker, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made reports
> adverse to the petitions, of Luther Gregory and Francis Griffith;
> which reports were ordered to lie on table.
> Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported sundry
> bills, viz:
> · No. 455. A bill for the relief of David Akerson;
> · No. 456. A bill for the relief of Samuel Neely;
> · No. 457. A bill for the relief of James Sweetman;
> · No. 458. A bill for the relief of Solomon Emerson;
> accompanied by a report in each case; which bills were severally read
> a first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole
> House to-morrow.
> Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made unfavorable
> reports upon the petitions of George Callahan, Allen Ferguson,
> Pethuel
> Page 865 |
> Foster, and Margaret Reynolds; which reports were ordered to lie on
> the Mr. Sanford, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a
> report upon the petition of Lyman N. Cook, accompanied by, a bill
> (No. 459) for his relief; which bill was read a first and second
> time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
> Mr. Sanford, from the committee on Invalid Pensions, made an adverse
> report, upon the petition of Silas Fuller; which report was ordered
> to lie on the table.
> Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported sundry
> bills, viz:
> · No. 460. A bill for the relief of Gideon A. Perry;
> · No. 461. A bill for the relief of Thomas F. Wiley;
> · No. 469. A bill for the relief of John Hicks;
> · No. 463. A bill for the relief of Jonathan P. Horton
> accompanied by a report in each case; which bills were severally read
> a first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole
> House to-morrow.
> Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made reports
> adverse to the petitions of Eleanor Catkins, widow of David Starks,
> Thomas Carpenter, Robert Milligan, Hopestill Bigelow, James Ivory,
> Eliakim W. Hutchings, William G. Waller, Gardner Herron, Jacob
> Winter, and John Newland; which reports were ordered to lie on the
> table.
> Mr. Stratton, from the Committee on Invalid Pension, made a report in
> the case of George Waddle, accompanied by a bill (No. 464) for his
> relief; which bill was read a first and second time, and committed to
> a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
> Mr. Gilmer, from the Select Committee on Retrenchment appointed on
> the 17th June, 1841, to which was referred sundry memorials praying a
> reduction of the pay and mileage of members of Congress, the
> abolition of the franking privilege, the adoption of the one-hour
> rule in debate, the close of every session of Congress at an early
> day in each year, the reduction of the pay of all officers of
> Government, a reduction of the fees of courts, including jurors and
> witnesses, with other propositions of reform and retrenchment in the
> Federal Government made a report referring the House to the views
> heretofore submitted by the committee, in reports on the subjects of
> mileage, franking privilege, the use of newspapers at the public
> expense, the abuses as to pay, rations, &c., of the army, and to a
> general report on the Executive Departments, as imbodying the views
> of the committee on the topics adverted rein the memorials, and
> asking to be discharged from the further consideration thereof.
> Ordered, That the report do lie on the table.
> Mr. Halsted, from the Committee on Elections, in obedience to the
> directions of the committee, reported back to the House the testimony
> in relation to the contested election of David Levy, as the Delegate
> from the Territory of Florida, which had been referred to the
> committee subsequent to its report on the said contested election, on
> the ground that the committee, having made a full report on the Case,
> have now no jurisdiction over the same.
> Ordered, That the said testimony do tie on the table.
> Mr. James Irvin, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that
> Page 866 |
> the committee had examined a bill (No. 113) entitled "An act to amend
> the act of 10th March, 1838, entitled 'An act to change the time of
> holding the circuit and district courts of the district of Ohio,'"
> and found the same truly enrolled; when
> The Speaker Signed the said bill.
> A motion was made by Mr. Hall, that the rules in relation to the
> order of business be suspended, and, that the House do proceed to the
> consideration of the report in part of the Select Committee of the
> 9th of May instant, on the memorial of William Wright, of Boston,
> complaining that, in the settlement of the accounts between the
> United States and the Commonwealth Bank of Massachusetts, the public
> interests have been sacrificed.
> And on the question, Shall the rules be suspended
> · There appeared,
> · Yeas, ... 128,
> · Nays, ... 43.
> The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,
> Those who voted in the affirmative, are,
> · Mr. John Quincy Adams
> · Landaff W. Andrews
> · Thomas D. Arnold
> · John B. Aycrigg
> · Alfred Babcock
> · Osmyn Baker
> · Daniel D. Barnard
> · Richard W. Barton
> · Benjamin A. Bidlack
> · Victory Birdseye
> · Bernard Blair
> · William W. Boardman
> · John M. Botts
> · Linn Boyd
> · John H. Brockway
> · David Bronson
> · Charles Brown
> · Jeremiah Brown
> · William Butler
> · Green W. Caldwell
> · Patrick C. Caldwell
> · William B. Calhoun
> · William B. Campbell
> · Thomas J. Campbell
> · Robert L. Caruthers
> · Reuben Chapman
> · Timothy Childs
> · Thomas C. Chittenden
> · Staley N. Clarke
> · Benjamin S. Cowen
> · Robert B. Cranston
> · James H. Cravens
> · Edward Cross
> · Caleb Cushing
> · John R. J. Daniel
> · Garrett Davis
> · Edmund Deberry
> · John Edwards
> · Horace Everett
> · William P. Fessenden
> · Millard Fillmore
> · Joseph Fornance
> · A. Lawrence Foster
> · Mr. Thomas F. Foster
> · Roger L. Gamble
> · James Gerry
> · Joshua R. Giddings
> · Thomas W. Gilmer
> · William L. Goggin
> · Patrick G. Goode
> · James Graham
> · Francis Granger
> · Willis Green
> · Richard W. Habersham
> · Hiland Hall
> · William Halsted
> · William S. Hastings
> · George S. Houston
> · Jacob M. Howard
> · Edmund W. Hubard
> · Charles Hudson
> · Robert M. T. Hunter
> · Hiram P. Hunt
> · Joseph R. Ingersoll
> · William W. Irwin
> · Francis James
> · Cave Johnson
> · George M. Keim
> · Thomas Butler King
> · Henry S. Lane
> · Joshua A. Lowell
> · Abraham McClellan
> · James J. McKay
> · Alfred Marshall
> · Samson Mason
> · Joshua Mathiot
> · James Mathews
> · John Mattocks
> · John P. B. Maxwell
> · James A. Meriwether
> · John Moore
> · Christopher Morgan
> · Calvary Morris
> · Jeremiah Morrow
> · William M. Oliver
> · Bryan Y. Owsley
> · Mr. William Parmenter
> · Samuel Patridge
> · William W. Payne
> · James A. Pearce
> · Nathaniel G. Pendleton
> · John Pope
> · Cuthbert Powell
> · George H. Profit
> · Benjamin Randall
> · John Reynolds
> · Joseph Ridgway
> · Lewis Riggs
> · James I. Roosevelt
> · William Russell
> · James M. Russell
> · Augustine H. Shepperd
> · Truman Smith
> · Lewis Steenrod
> · Samuel Stokely
> · Charles C. Stratton
> · John T. Stuart
> · George Sweney
> · John Taliaferro
> · John B. Thompson
> · Richard W. Thompson
> · Joseph L. Tillinghast
> · George W. Toland
> · Thomas A. Tomlinson
> · Philip Triplett
> · Hopkins L. Turney
> · Joseph R. Underwood
> · John Van Buren
> · Henry Van Rensselaer
> · David Wallace
> · Lott Warren
> · William H. Washington
> · John Westbrook
> · Edward D. White
> · Thomas W. Williams
> · Christopher H. Williams
> · Thomas Jones Yorke
> · John Young.
> Page 867 |
> Those who voted in the negative, are,
> · Mr. Edward J. Black
> · Samuel S. Bowne
> · David P. Brewster
> · Aaron V. Brown
> · Milton Brown
> · Edmund Burke
> · William O. Butler
> · George B. Cary
> · Zadok Casey
> · Nathan Clifford
> · James G. Clinton
> · Walter Coles
> · Richard D. Davis
> · Ezra Dean
> · William Doan
> · Mr. Andrew W. Doig
> · Ira A. Eastman
> · John C. Edwards
> · Joseph Egbert
> · John G. Floyd
> · William O. Goode
> · William A. Harris
> · Samuel L. Hays
> · George W. Hopkins
> · Jacob Houck, jr.
> · John W. Jones
> · Andrew Kennedy
> · Nathaniel S. Littlefield
> · John McKeon
> · Francis Mallory
> · Mr. John Miller
> · Peter Newhard
> · Arnold Plumer
> · Robert Ramsey
> · John R. Reding
> · John Sanford
> · Romulus M. Saunders
> · Tristram Shaw
> · Benjamin G. Shields
> · John Snyder
> · Harvey M. Watterson
> · James W. Williams
> · Fernando Wood.
> Two-thirds voting in the affirmative, the rules were suspended; and
> The House proceeded to the consideration of the said report. The
> resolution therein submitted is as follows:
> Resolved, That the Select Committee of five, appointed on the
> memorial of William Wright, have power to inquire into and report
> upon all matters relating to the collection and settlement of the
> claims of the United States against the late Commonwealth Bank; that
> the committee have power to send for persons and papers, to appoint a
> clerk, to proceed to Boston for the purpose of prosecuting its
> inquiries, and that the members thereof be excused from attendance on
> the House until it shall have made its report.
> A motion was made by Mr. Proffit, to amend the resolution by Striking
> out the words "to proceed to Boston for the purpose of prosecuting
> its inquiries."
> A motion was made by Mr. Saunders, to amend the resolution by
> Striking out all thereof after the word "papers," and inserting in
> lieu thereof the following: "or to take the depositions of witnesses,
> as to them shall seem most expedient."
> And after debate, the question was put, under the operation of the
> previous question, that the House do agree to the amendment of Mr.
> Saunders,
> · And passes in the affirmative,
> · Yeas, ... 98,
> · Nays, ... 79.
> The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,


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