LIST OF THE MEMBERS. From MAINE--John Anderson, James Bates, George Evans, Cornelius Holland, Leonard Jarvis, Edward Kavanagh, Rufus McIntire. NEW HAMPSHIRE-John Brodhead, Thomas Chandler, Joseph Hammons, Henry Hubbard, Joseph M. Har per, John W. Weeks. niel, Nathan Ga'ther, Albert G. Hawes, R. M. Johnsor, Joseph Lecompte, Chittenden Lyon, Robert P. Letcher, Thomas A. Marshall, Christopher Tompkins, Charles A. Wickliffe. TENNESSEE--Thomas D. Arnold, John Bell, John Blair, William Fitzgerald, William Hall, Jacob C. Isacks, Cave Johnson, James K. Polk, James Standifer. OHIO--Joseph H. Crane, Eleutheros Cooke, William MASSACHUSETTS--John Quincy Adams, Nathan Creighton, jun., Thomas Corwin, James Findlay, William Appleton, Isaac C: Bates, George N. Briggs, Rufus Choate, W. Irvin, William Kennon, Humphrey H. Leavitt, WilHenry A. S. Dearborn, John Davis, Edward Everett, liam Russel, William Stanberry, John Thomson, Joseph Gcorge Grennell, jun., James L. Hodges, Joseph G. Ken-Vance, Samuel F. Vinton, Elisha Whittlesey. dall, John Reed, (one vacancy.) RHODE ISLAND--Tristam Burges, Dutee J. Pearce. CONNECTICUT--Noyes Barber, William W. Ellsworth, Jabez W. Huntington, Ralph I. Ingersoll, William L. Storrs, Ebenezer Young. VERMONT-Heman Allen, William Cahoon, Horace Everett, Jonathan Hunt, William Slade. NEW YORK-William G. Angel, Gideon H. Barstow, Joseph Bouck, William Babcock, John T. Bergen, John C. Brodhead, Samuel Beardsley, John A. Collier, Bates Cooke, C. C. Cambreleng, John Dickson, Charles Dayan, Ulysses F. Doubleday, William Hogan, Michael Hoffman, Freeborn G. Jewett, John King, Gerrit Y. Lansing, James Lent, Job Pierson, Nathaniel Pitcher, Edmund H, Pendleton, Edward C. Reed, Erastus Root, Nathan Soule, John W. Taylor, Phineas L. Tracy, Gulian C. Verplanck, Frederick Whittlesey, Samuel J. Wilkin, Grattan II. Wheeler, Campbell P. White, Aaron Ward, Daniel Wardwell. NEW JERSEY--Lewis Condict, Silas Condict, Richard M. Cooper, Thomas H. Hughes, James Fitz Randolph, Isaac Southard. ! PENNSYLVANIA--Robert Allison, JohnBanks, George Burd, John C. Bucher, Thomas H. Crawford, Richard Coulter, Harmar Denny, Lewis Dewart, Joshua Evans, James Ford, John Gilmore, William Heister, Henry Horn, Peter Ihrie, jun., Adam King, Henry King, Joel K. Mann, Robert McCoy, Henry A. Muhlenberg, T. M. McKennan, David Potts, jun., Andrew Stewart, Samuel A. Smith, Philander Stephens, Joel B. Sutherland, John G. Watthough. DELAWARE--John J. Milligan. MARYLAND--Benjamin C. Howard, Daniel Jenifer, John L. Kerr, George E. Mitchell, Benedict I. Semmes, John S. Spence, Francis Thomas, George C. Washington, J. T. H. Worthington. LOUISIANA--II. A. Bullard, Philemon Thomas, Edward D. White. INDIANA-Ratliff Boon, John Carr, Jonathan McCarty. ALABAMA-Clement C. Clay, Dixon H. Lewis, Samuel W. Mardis. MISSOURI-William H. Ashley. DELEGATES. MICHIGAN-Austin E. Wing. ARKANSAS-- Ambrose II. Sevier. FLORIDA-Joseph M. White. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1831. This being the day appointed by the constitution for the meeting of Congress, at 12 o'clock the Clerk called the House to order, and having called the roll of the members by States, to ascertain if a quorum was present, two hundred and two members answered to their names. quorum being present, The House proceeded to the election of a Speaker, a.. on counting the ballots, the following result was announc ed, viz. The whole number of votes given in, 195; necessary to a choice, 98. For ANDREW STEVENSON, of Virginia, 98. [Mr. COOKE, of Ohio, offered his ballot to the tellers, after they had commenced counting the votes, (he having been accidentally without the Hall while the ballot boxes were handed round;) but some hesitation being manifested by the tellers as to the regularity of receiving the vote of Mr. C. at that period of the proceeding, he waived press VIRGINIA--Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, William The Hon. ANDREW STEVENSON, of Virginia, having received 98 votes, (the exact number necessary for a choice,) was declared to be duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives: whereupon, being conducted to the chair by the Hon. THOMAS NEWTON, of Virginia, the SPEAKER addressed the House as follows: NORTH CAROLINA-Daniel L. Barringer, Laughlin "GENTLEMEN: In accepting, a third time, this exalted Bethune, John Branch, Samuel P. Carson, Henry W. Conner, Thomas H. Hall, Micajah T. Hawkins, James J. station, I cannot adequately express the deep sense I enMcKay, Abraham Rencher, William B. Shepard, Augus-tertain of the honor you have been pleased again to contine II. Shepperd, Jesse Speight, Lewis Williams. SOUTH CAROLINA--Robert W. Barnwell, James Blair, Warren R. Davis, William Drayton John M. Felder, J. R. Griffin, Thomas R. Mitchell, George McDuffie, William T. Nuckolls. fer upon me, or my warm feelings of gratitude for this distinguished proof of your continued confidence and unchanging kindness. "It is an honor, too, gentlemen, which has been con ferred in a manner, and under circumstances peculiarly calculated to gratify and flatter me; and I shall ever cherish it as the most valuable reward for my past services. The office of Speaker of this House has, at tno period in our KENTUCKY--John Adair, Chilton Allan, Henry Da-history, been without its embarrassments and trials; and GEORGIA-Thomas F. Foster, Henry G. Lamar, Daniel Newman, Wiley Thompson, Richard H. Wilde, James M. Wayne, (one vacancy.) DEC. 12, 1831.] Slavery in the District of Columbia.-Appropriations for 1832. [H. OF R. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.-Messrs. which he did not know but that it might be a proper sub- ject of legislation by Congress, and he, therefore, moved that the petitions he had had the honor of presenting, Committee on Private Land Claims.-Messrs. Johnson, should be referred to the Committee on the Affairs of the of Tennessee, Coke, Stanberry, Mardis, Marshall, Carr, District of Columbia, who would dispose of them as they, upon examination of their purport, should deem proper, of Indiana, and Bullard. Committee on Public Lands.--Messrs. Wickliffe, Dun-and might report on the expediency of granting so much of the prayer of the petitioners as referred to the abolition can, Hunt, Irvin, Clay, Boon, and Plummer. of the slave trade in the District. Committee on Revolutionary Claims.-Messrs. Muhlenberg, Nuckolls, Bouldin, Crane, Bates, of Massachusetts, Hammons, and Standifer. Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.-Messrs. bard, Isacks, Mitchell, of South Carolina, Denny, Pendleton, Doubleday, and Kavanagh. Committee on Invalid Pensions.-Messrs. Burges, Ford, Evans, of Maine, Reed, of New York, Appleton, Lansing, and Southard. As to the other prayer of the petitions, the abolition by Congress of slavery in the District of Columbia, it had ocHub-curred to him that the petitions might have been committed to his charge under an expectation that it would receive his countenance and support. He deemed it, therefore, his duty to declare that it would not. Whatever might be his opinion of slavery in the abstract, or of slavery in the District of Columbia, it was a subject which he hoped would not be discussed in that House; if it should be, he might perhaps assign the reasons why he could give it no countenance or support. At present, he would only say to the House, and to the worthy citizens who had committed their petitions to his charge, that the most salutary medicines, unduly administered, were the most deadly of poisons. He concluded by moving to refer the petitions to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Committee on Public Expenditures.-Messrs. Hall, of North Carolina, Davenport, Lyon, Thomson, of Ohio, Coulter, Pierson, and Henry King. Committee on the Territories.--Messrs. Kerr, of Maryland, Creighton, W. B. Shepard, Williams, of North Carolina, Huntington, Allan, of Kentucky, and Roane. Committee of Accounts.-Messrs. Allen, of Virginia, Burd, and Bergen. Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.—Messrs. Reed, of Massachusetts, Kennon, and Soule. Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department.-Messrs. Stephens, Wardwell, and Fitzgerald. Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.-Messrs. A. H. Shepperd, Mann, and Felder. Committee on Expenditures in the State Department.Messrs. Lent, Evans, of Pennsylvania, and McKay. Committee on Expenditures of Public Buildings.--Messrs. Young, Spence, and Tracy. APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1832. The SPEAKER laid before the House the following communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, December 8, 1831. Sir: I have the honor to transmit, for the information of the House of Representatives, an estimate of the appropriations proposed to be made for the service of the year 1832, amounting to $11,551,154 38 Viz. Civil list, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office.-Messrs. Military service, including fortifications, the United States,) presented fifteen petitions, all nume- Naval service, including the marine rously subscribed, from sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania, corps, all of the same purport, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and moved To the estimates are added statements, 1. The appropriations for the service Mr. A. then observed that it had doubtless been remark-of the year 1832, made by former acts, ed that these petitions came not from Massachusetts, a including public debt, gradual improveportion of whose people he had the honor to represent, ment of the navy arming and equipping but from citizens of the State of Pennsylvania. He had the militia, subscription to canal stocks, received the petitions many months ago, with a request revolutionary claims, and Indian affairs, that they should be presented by him, and, although the amounting to 2,407,065 65 5,736,470 02 3,407,618 71 11,312,945 00 501,102 78 petitioners were not of his immediate constituents, he had 2. The existing appropriations, which not deemed himself at liberty to decline presenting their will not be required for the service of the petitions, their transmission of which to him manifested a year 1831, and which it is proposed to confidence in him for which he was bound to be grateful. apply in aid of the service of the year From a letter which had accompanied those petitions, he 1832, amounting to inferred that they came from members of the Society of 3. The existing appropriations, which Friends; a body of men than whom there was no more will be required to complete the service respectable and worthy class of citizens, none who more of 1831, and former years, but which will strictly made their lives a commentary on their professions; be expended in 1831, amounting to a body of men comprising, in his firm opinion, as much of These three last mentioned amounts, together with as human virtue, and as little of human infirmity, as any other much as may remain unexpended of the sum stated in the reequal number of men of any denomination upon the face port on the finances, presented by this department on the of the globe. 7th instant as the estimated expenditure in the fourth quarThe petitions, Mr. A. continued, asked for two things: ter of the present year, and with such sums as may be apthe first was the abolition of slavery; the second, the propriated by Congress for the year 1832, will complete the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. whole amount subject to the disposition of the Executive There was a traffic in slaves carried on in the District, of Government in that year. 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