It was determined in the affirmative, {Nays On motion by Mr. Hubbard, 27, 17. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Brown, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Cuthbert, Davis, Foster, Hubbard, King, Lumpkin, Mouton, Nicholas, Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Preutiss, Preston, Rives, Roane, Ruggles, Smith, of Connecticut, Strange, Swift, Walker, Wall, White, Williams, of Maine, Williams, of Mississippi. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Allen, Benton, Clay, of Kentucky, Fulton, Linn, Merrick, Morris, Robbins, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, Spence, Tallmadge, Tipton, Webster, Young. The bill having been amended, was reported to the Senate, and the amendments were concurred in. On motion by Mr. King, further to amend the bill by striking out the enacting clause: The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Brown, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Foster, Hubbard, King, Lumpkin, Mouton, Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Prentiss, Preston, Rives, Roane, Ruggles, Smith, of Connecticut, Strange, Walker, Wall, White, Williams, of Maine, Williams, of Mississippi. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Allen, Benton, Clay, of Kentucky, Cuthbert, Fulton, Knight, Linn, Merrick, Morris, Nicholas, Robbins, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, Tipton, Webster, Wright, Young. On motion by Mr. Wall, To reconsider the vote on striking out the enacting clause, A motion was made by Mr. King, that the motion to reconsider lie on the table; and It was determined in the negative, Yeas On motion by Mr. Smith, of Indiana, The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Brown, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Foster, Hubbard, King, Lumpkin, Mouton, Nicholas, Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Prentiss, Preston, Roane, Ruggles, Smith, of Connecticut, Strange, Walker, Wall, White, Williams, of Maine, Williams, of Mississippi. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benton, Buchanan, Clay, of Kentucky, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Davis, Fulton, Knight, Linn, Merrick, Morris, Rives, Robbins, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, Tipton, Webster, Wright, Young. The motion to reconsider the vote on striking out the enacting clause was then agreed to. "The question recurring on the motion by Mr. King, to strike out the enacting clause : It was determined in the negative, On motion by Mr. King, Yeas Nays 23, The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Brown, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Foster, Hubbard, King, Lumpkin, Mouton, Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Prentiss, Preston, Rives, Roane, Ruggles, Smith, of Connecticut, Strange, Walker, Wall, White, Williams, of Maine, Williams, of Mississippi. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benton, Buchanan, Clay, of Kentucky, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Davis, Fulton, Knight, Linn, Merrick, Morris, Nicholas, Robbins, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, Tipton, Webster, Wright, Young. So the motion to strike out the enacting clause was not agreed to. To amend the bill, by inserting at the end thereof the following: " Except so much thereof as requires the money hereby appropriated to be re imbursed out of any alleged two per cent. fund:" Yeas It was determined in the negative, Nays On motion by Mr. Walker, 22, 24. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Bayard, Brown, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Clay, of Kentucky, Davis, Foster, Hubbard, King, Knight, Lumpkin, Mouton, Norvell, Pierce, Prentiss, Preston, Ruggles, Swift, Walker, White, Williams, of Maine, Williams, of Mississippi. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Allen, Benton, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Fulton, Linn, Merrick, Morris, Nicholas, Niles, Roane, Robbins, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Connec ticut, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, Spence, Strange, Tipton, Wall, Webster, Wright, Young. So the proposed amendment was not agreed to. On the question, "Shall this bill be engrossed, and read a third time?" On motion by Mr. Walker, 25 23. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benton, Buchanan, Clay, of Kentucky, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Davis, Fulton, Linn, Merrick, Morris, Nicholas, Robbins, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, Tipton, Webster, Wright, Young. Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Brown, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Foster, Hubbard, King, Lumpkin, Lyon, Mouton, Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Prentiss, Preston, Roane, Ruggles, Smith, of Connecticut, Strange, Walker, Wall, White, Williams, of Maine, Williams, of Mississippi. So, The bill was ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time. On motion by Mr. Preston, It was agreed that when the Senate adjourn, it be to Monday next. The Senate adjourned. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1839. The Vice President laid before the Senate a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d instant, showing the number of existing land offices, and the quantity of land unsold and subject to entry in each land district; which was referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Webster presented the memorial of the heirs of Robert Fulton, deceased, praying to be indemnified for losses sustained by their father, in consequence of the impressment into the public service of the steamboat Vesuvius, during the late war with Great Britain; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Webster presented two memorials of a number of citizens of Wabash county, Illinois, severally praying a grant of public land, to aid in the construction of the Mount Carmel and New Albany railroad. Ordered, That they lie on the table. Mr. Sevier presented a memorial of a number of citizens of the State of Arkansas, in favor of the claim of Samuel Mackey to be relieved from the obligations of a contract entered into by him for subsisting the emigrating Creek Indians; which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Sevier presented the memorial of a number of officers of the line of the army, praying that officers of the line of the army may be placed on the same footing, as to pay and promotion, as officers of the staff; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Buchanan presented the memorial of Susan Bainbridge, widow of the late Commodore Bainbridge, praying that the provisions of the act of 3d March, 1837, for the more equitable administration of the navy pension fund, may be extended to her; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Young presented the petition of a number of citizens of Schuyler county, Illinois, praying the establishment of a post route; which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. McKean presented the petition of a number of the inhabitants of the county of Philadelphia, praying the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and the Territory of Florida, and the suppression of the slave trade between the States. A motion being made that the petition be received, and the same being objected to, On motion by Mr. Clay, of Alabama, Ordered, That the motion to receive the petition lie on the table. Mr. Tipton submitted a document in relation to the expediency of reviving the act of 3d March, 1837, directing the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims to reservations of land under the 14th article of the treaty of 1830 with the Choctaw Indians; which was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Tallmadge presented the petition of a numer of citizens Poughkeep sie, New York, engaged in the manufacture of pins, praying that a duty may be imposed on imported pins, equal to the duty on imported brass wire; which was referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Mr. Davis presented the memorial of Lysander Spooner, praying to be allowed the privilege, in conjunction with others, of improving the navigation of the Maumee river, by means of slackwater; which was referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed. Mr. King presented the memorial of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, praying Congress to authorize the survey of the Cherokee lands within the limits of said State; which was refer red to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Hubbard submitted a document in relation to the claim of James Williams to remuneration for the destruction of property by the hostile Indians in Florida; which, with his petition on file, was referred to the Committee of Claims. Mr. Davis presented the petition of C. C. Little and Co., of Boston, asking a subscription on the part of Congress to a proposed stereotype edition of the laws of the United States; which was referred to the Committee on the Library. Mr. Preston presented resolutions passed by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, requesting their Delegate in Congress to endeavor to obtain a grant of a township of land, for the purpose of founding an institution of learning, together with memorials from a number of the inhabitants of Florida, relating to the subject; which were severally referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. On motion by Mr. Prentiss, Ordered, That the petition of Azariah Webb, on the files of the last session, be referred to the Committee on Pensions. Mr. Strange presented the petition of the heirs of Francis Cazeau, late of Montreal, deceased, praying remuneration for losses sustained and services rendered by their ancestor in behalf of the American cause, during the revolutionary war; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heir of Frederick Seigle, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 217) for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to the secoud reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the heirs of Doctor John Ramsay, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 218) for their relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of James McCrory, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 219) for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the documents relating to the claim of the represen tatives of John Jordan, deceased, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 220) for the relief of the legal representatives of John Jordan, deceased, late a captain in the continental line of artillery artificers. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of Samuel Y. Keene, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 221) for their relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal heirs of Moses Elmer, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 222) for their relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred the petition of the legal representatives of Doctor Thomas Powell, deceased, submitted a report, accompanied by a bill (S. 223) for their relief. The bill was read, and passed to the second reading. Ordered, That the report be printed. Mr. Lumpkin, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred a petition of William Smith, submitted an adverse report. Ordered, That it be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to whom the memorial of the Alabama, Florida, and Georgia Railroad Company was referred, reported a bill (S. 224) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the time for the payment of the duties upon certain bonds given by the Alabama, Florida, and Georgia Railroad Company, for the duties upon a quantity of railroad iron imported by said company, and for the laying of the said iron upon railroads; which was read, and passed to the second reading. On motion by Mr. Wright, Ordered, That the Committee on Finance be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Frederick Gebhard. On motion by Mr. Wright, Ordered, That the Committee on Finance be discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Alfred Vail and others; and that it be referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 7th instant, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information respecting the collection, keeping, and disbursement of public moneys in foreign countries, submitted a report, accompanied by the following resolution: Resolved, That the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 7th instant, respecting the collection, keeping, and disbursement of public moneys in foreign countries, and the documents accompanying the same, together with the report of the committee, be printed; and that 10,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution, by unanimous consent; and agreed thereto. Mr. Norvell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom was referred a bill (S. 92) for the relief of the heirs at law of Edward Wade, reported it without amendment. Ordered, That the accompanying report be printed. |