vorable report on the petition of Elizabeth Peirce; which report was com mitted to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Davis, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the case of Richard Hart; which report was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Barry Rogan; which report was ordered to lie on the table. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary: Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles: viz: No. 22. An act providing for the increase of the corps of Engineers, and for other purposes; No. 52. An act for the better organization of the corps of Topographical Engineers; In which bills I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House: and then he withdrew. The House resumed the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. John Quincy Adams, on the 22d instant, proposing that so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to the failure at the last session of Congress, of the bill containing the ordinary appropriations for fortifications, be referred to a select committee, with instructions to inquire into, and report to the House, the causes and circumstances of the failure of that bill. The question recurred on the amendment moved by Mr. Williams, of North Carolina, to add to the resolution these words, "and that said com mittee be authorized to send for persons and papers." And after further debate the hour elapsed: when A motion was made by Mr. Ashley, that the House do proceed to the orders of the day; and thereupon A motion was made by Mr. Wise, that the rule setting apart Friday, (this day) for the consideration of private bills and private business in preference to any other, be suspended, and that the House do proceed in the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Adams on the 22d instant. And on the question, Shall the rule be suspended for the purpose aforesaid? There appeared, Nays, 48, 160. Two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the question was lost. Mr. Chilton Allan John Bell William K. Bond John Calhoon Churchill C. Cambreleng Nathaniel H. Claiborne Jesse F. Cleveland Mr. William J. Grayson John K. Griffin James H. Hammond William McComas Thomas M. T. McKennan John McKeon Charles F. Mercer Mr.'Jesse Miller John J. Milligan David Spangler Bellamy Storer Waddy Thompson, jr. John White Lewis Williams Henry A. Wise Those who voted in the negative, are, Mr. Jonn Quincy Adams Heman Anen Joseph B. Anthony Wilham H. Ashley James M. H. Beale Na haniel B. Borden James Garland Ransom H. Gillet Thomas Glascock Mr. James Graham Thomas L. Hamer John Klingensmith, jr. Gerrit Y. Lansing Abbott Lawrence Luke Lea Stephen B. Leonard Engrossed bills of the following titles, viz: No. 1. A bill for the relief of James Tilford; Mr. Joshua L. Martin William S. Morgan George W. Owens Ferdinand S. Schenck Joseph R. Underwood Aaron Vanderpoel No. 2. A bill for the relief of John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis; No. 4. A bill for the relief of Thomas F. Townley; No. 5. A bill for the relief of the heirs of Guisseppe Franzoni, and the heirs of Francis Jardella; No. 6. A bill for the relief of the legal representatives of William Findley; No. 7. A bill for the relief of the heirs of Marinus W. Gilbert; No. 9. A bil' for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert; No. 10. A bill for the relief of Richard Hardesty; No. 11. A bill for the relief of David Bartlett; No. 12. A bill for the relief of William Baker, of the State of New-York: No. 14. A bill for the relief of Daniel Whitney; No. 20. A bill for the relief of Henry Knowles, sen; No. 22. A bill for the relief of Daniel Homans; No. 23. A bill for the relief of Owen Rice and others, representatives of Jacob Eyerly; No. 24. A bill for the relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell; No. 25. A bill for the relief of Joseph Russ and Stephen Roach; No. 26. A bill for the relief of Jane Taylor and her children, heirs of the late James Plunkett; No. 27. A bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Willie Blount ; No. 28. A bill for the relief of Laurentius M. Eiler; No. 29. A bill for the relief of Moses Bliss; No. 30. A bill for the relief of David S. Campbell; No. 31. A bill for the relief of John Saunders and Perley Putnam; No. 34. A bill for the relief of Stephen Crittenden; No. 35. A bill for the relief of Jacob B. Gilbert; No. 36. A bill for the relief of Joel Sartain; No. 37. A bill for the relief of the representatives of Thomas Beacham; were severally read the third time, and passed. Ordered, That the clerk request the concurrence of the Senate in the said bills. An engrossed bill (No. 8) for the relief of Jesse Smith and others, was read the third time; and the question was stated, Shall it pass? when it was, On motion of Mr. Hawes, Ordered, That the further consideration of said bill be postponed until Friday next, the 5th of February. An engrossed bill (No. 16) for the relief of George Bender, was read the third time; and the question was stated, Shall it pass? when it was On motion of Mr. Mann, of New-York, Ordered, That the further consideration of said bill be postponed until Friday next, the 5th of February. An engrossed bill (No. 17) for the relief of Nathaniel P. Tatum, was read the third time; and the question was put, that it do pass? And passed in the affirmative; when A motion was made by Mr. Underwood, that the vote by which said bill was passed be reconsidered; and it was Ordered, That the consideration of this motion be postponed until Friday next, the 5th of February. A motion was made by Mr. Hawes, that the rules be suspended, to enable him to move, that when the House shall adjourn this day, it will adjourn to meet again on Monday next. And the question being put, It was decided in the negative-two-thirds not voting therefor; and then The House adjourned until to-morrow, 12 o'clock meridian. SATURDAY JANUARY 30, 1836. The House being about to proceed to the consideration of the appeal from the decision of the Chair, and the matters therewith connected, arising out of a petition of citizens of Massachusetts, which Mr. John Quincy Adams was about to present on the 4th January, instant: when Mr. Adams withdrew the said appeal. Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill (No. 264) authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Dromgoole, from the Committee on Military Affairs, made a report on the petition of Henry Lee, accompanied by a bill (No. 265) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Miller, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on the petition of Samuel Cole, accompanied by a bill (No 266) for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Storer, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Conrad Kremer; which report was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Pinckney, from the Committee on Commerce, which was instructed on the 19th of January instant, "to inquire into the expediency of directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be constructed by the same establishment in which the standard weights and measures for the customhouses are now making, for each State and Territory of the Union, a complete set of standard weights and measures, equal to those now constructing for the custom-houses, and upon the same principles and modes of adjustment." made a favorable report thereon; which was read and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. William B. Shepard, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported a bill (No. 267) to amend "An act to incorporate the Medical Soiety of the District of Columbia;" which bill was read the first and second tune, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William B. Shepard, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, to which was referred the petition of Christopher Neale, judge of the orphans' court, reported a bill (No. 268) relating to the orphans' court of the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia;" which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Philo C. Fuller, from the Committee of Claims, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Joseph Shearer; which report was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Beale, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on he petition of John F. Wiley, accompanied by a bill (No. 269) granting a ension to said Wiley; which bill was read the first and second time, and ommitted to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Huntsman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made report on the petition of Thomas G. Newbold, on behalf of the heirs of Louis Durett, accompanied by a bill (No. 270) for the relief of the said heirs which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made a report on the petition of James Stevens, accompanied by a bill (No. 271) granting a pension to said Stevens; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. The rule being suspended for the purpose, Mr. White, of Florida, submitted the following joint resolution, viz: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to cause rations to be delivered from the public stores to the unfortunate sufferers who have been driven from their homes by Indian depredations in Florida, until they can be re-established in their possessions, or so long as the President shall consider it necessary. The said resolution was read the first time, and, by leave, the said resolution was read the second time. A motion was then made by Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, to amend the said resolution by inserting therein after the word "sufferers," these words. viz: "who are unable to provide for themselves," and this amendment was agreed to by the House: And the question was stated, that the resolution be engrossed and read a third time; when A motion was made by Mr. Hawes to amend the said resolution by striking out the word "sufferers" and inserting in place thereof "women, childdren and men unable to bear arms." And after debate, the previous question was moved by Mr. Reynolds, of Illinois; when Mr. Parks inquired of the Chair, whether the resolution did not involve an appropriation for money, and as such require to be committed to a Committee of the Whole House. The Speaker decided that the resolution did not require to be committed. as it directed the disbursement only of money that had been heretofore appropriated by law, and did not, of itself, contain an appropriation of money. From this decision, Mr. Parks took an appeal to the House, And the question was put, Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the House? And it passed in the affirmative. It was then ascertained that the previous question moved by Mr. Reynolds, of Illinois, was demanded by a majority of the members present: And the said previous question was then put, viz: Shall the main question be now put? And passed in the affirmative. The main question, viz: Shall the said resolution be engrossed and read a third time? was then put, And passed in the affirmative, (Yeas, 178. 14. The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Mr. John Quincy Adams Chilton Allan Heman Allen Joseph B. Anthony Mr. Michael W. Ash Mr. Benning M. Bean Andrew Beaumont |