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74 •nrv/culnn tucoll>iou w; U -'ho Linton Status, nml with iho provisions ol‘lro:itiw, they must bo answerable for the consequences; Ami, Sir, is thcro no [icril but on 0110 side oftiiis question; The Government. «f the U- ni.r.l S ates in '.ttrs the same liability that a State incurs—;hc liability oV having acted im properly, and ind ited the Constitution ol the country. Sir, until I lose my own sense of self respect, 1 bclicvo that I shall be incapable of usin<», towards-any State, any language imnni- patilde witlrihc respect which I owe to tuyself, n nil the deep respect which I very sincerely feel towards all ilio Suites. Mr. \V. conclud ed by saying, that if ibis communication should not go to omi of the Standing Committees of the House, lie should then move that it go to a Select Committee, but most certainly with tin wish that he should be one of .hut Comniitice. GEORGIA MILITIA CLAIMS. Saturday, February 10. Mr. Vance, from the Cnniinitteo on Milita ry Adairs, to which the subject bad been re feree.), made the following Report: The Coin ri nee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of the Legislature of Georgia, relative to the claims of llip citi zens of that state for Military Services, per formed in the years 1792, .1703 and 179-1, have performed the duty to them assigned, uud submit die following report: c, * Your committee are aware that the longtli of time since die performance of those service*, togodier with -lie relations that have existed between tlio Unit."! States and Georgia, rela tive to tho cessiou of certain territory by that State to tin: United States, and the payment of certain money by the United States to the Staio of Georgia, lor die Terri.ory thus ceded, has -ended much to embarrass the settlement of ihuio claims. On the part of the United States, it has been coiiieuded by the former reports made on this subject, that die payments for those services veto merged in, ami apart of the $1,250,000 paid by the Uuited Slates to die state of Geor gia, ,igreoibio io iho Convention, be tring die Ittjc ,1802, and in the follow'iig words: l a console.utmii for the expenses incurred " the said state m relation to die s i,d Territo ry.” This die state of Georgia contends was not die fact; uud that the obligation of the U- utteil S ates to her citizens for military services, in me m inner before sttuod, has never been cancelloJ. In the examination of this subject, tho first inqu.i'v w.U be: Wore those sortuses perforin- oo Oy iiio citizens of Georgia? The second: We.-c they authorized by tlio United States? And thirdly: If authorized, has the U. States ruiici-Iled tlioir oblig .non to die citizens of that st - e by paying for the services thus per- foi iticu? , Tile evidences of tlio performance of those services are so ahumlant througlloui die whole of die documents and correspondence, 'official and otherwise, that u particular reference is deemed oiiiiecess iiy. The odier I:ranchos of The inqu.ry an: entitled to more consideration; and wo will firsi commence by asking, were those services authorized? in tile examination of this subject, it is not the purpose of your committee to acknowledge the power of the governor of a state unreasona bly to commit the. National Government, by cailiiig into its service a mditiiry force dispro portionate to the evidence of danger; nor ure they prepared to say this was tho case in this instance. On the contrary,' quite the reverse appears to have boen tho true situation of tiiis lronacr at the tnuo those services were per formed; mid notwithstanding tlio groat solici tude of the executive of.ho United States to preserve peace on the borders of Georgia, and tho dilleieut communications made to tho Ex ecutive of that state,' enforcin'* thoso views, and tlioir importance to the Federal Govcrn- men , yet wo find that so strongly was ho im pressed wait the danger that threatened tho- frontier settlements of Georgia, in Juno 1793, . ho culled on the Governor of Soudi Carolina ■ j support,by military force, the State of Goor- <;m n defending herself against tho thtcatonod invasions of the enemy in that quartor. Gut at the same tinto that your committco would sustain the doctrine laid down relative to the powers of the Governor of a state, yet they can see many reasons why a liberal indulgence should he extended in favor of, janitor than w gainst the exctcisu. of a trust so responsible in its character, and so important in its results.— It is for the Governor to look to the security and interest of thoso ovor whom he has been called to preside, and for whose protection and defence ho is bound to provide, by tlio most sa cred obligations. Is it thon reasonable to suppose that in the execution of this trust, ho would.be prodigal uftho national resources, for tho purpose of carrying on an unuccossary and unprofitable war, ut die expense of the quiet, comfott, end blood of ins owu People? Gut, n tho absence of all other proof, rda tive to those services beng'authorized by the United Saras, the /act that the Government, through her agents, did furnish military equip ments and subsistence to the very troops that hero cluim, and have boon refused, remunera tion for tlioir services, would ho, of itself, a* . bundantly sufficient to establish thoir legality. Your committee think it would bo a strange anomaly in tho military history of our country, to find the Government, through hor agents, giving every facility to military operations by arming and subsisting mi army, and subso- quen ly refusing to pay the very troops of which it was composed, on the grounds that tho Gov ernor of the state had pushed his discrotiona ry powers to an unwarrantable extent. Gut again; your committee find, on refer- cnco to tho reports of committees made at the second session of tho Fourth Congross, that payment lias boon mado for similar services, performed under like circumstances, to tho troops of tho Southwestern Territory, undor the command of Brigadier General Sevier.— Thoso troops have not only been paid for de fensive, but offensive war, and that against tho fame enemy; while we have hitherto refused to pay the citizens of Georgia who fought in-tho same conimon cause, and against the same common enemy; and your committco can SCO no good reason wliy tlio citizens of Georgiil should not be placed on a footing at least e- qtial to tho citizens of the Southwestern Terri tory. The next and most material question tint presents itself to your conuAlttrc is, did this U- ultod States, in good faith, pay to the State ol Georgia; in behalf of her citizens, a remunera tion for their services; and was tlio amount thus paid merged in the $1,250,000, as lias been alleged by former reports made by differ ent committees on this subject? For tlio establishment of ibis fact, your com mittee have cui eftilly examined the documbnts and reports |o them referred; and it is but jus- tico to the citizens and state of Georgia to say that they have examined them in vain; as nei ther the wording of die Convention, nor a fair constructioti of the letter of the Attorney Gon- eral—die principal grounds of evidence relied on in the former reports on this subject—go to show that those claims have over been cancel led and paid. To say that those claims wore covcrd by the convention, and not more specially named, so as to put the matter forever at rest, would tend to convict tlio distinguished individuals who were the negotiators in this business, of a negli gence towards tlio interest of tho United Stales, which is disproved by their long and faithful course of public service. It is a fact w 11 as certained, that at the very time of this negotia tion, Georgia th ough hor Representatives, was urging on tho National Government tho payment of those cl liras to her citizens; and in a letter, dated the 5th of April, 1802, written by Mr. Jackson, one of the Commissioners of Georgia, and directed to tho Governor of that state, lie mentions the progress of this negotia tion, an i that Mr. Mlllodge had obtained the passage of a resolution' referring those claims to the Secretary of War, which ho thought ve ry favorable, as that'officer was to collect eve ry document lie could, oven from tho files of die executive of Georgia, and submit a report to the next Congress. And, notwithstanding tiiis letter was written at tho time of tho nego tiation, mid but nineteen days before its close, it.does not contain one syllable relative to the moigmg of the claims of tho militia, in tlio a- niomit to be received under this Convention; but on iho contrary it goes to prove that those -claims wore turned over.to the Secretary of War for subsequent investigation and report. It further appears tjiat, on the 3d of Febru ary 1803, the Secretary of War did submit to Congress a favorable report on these claims a- groeablo to tho resolution beforo alluded to, and on tlio Kith of Dccomber, 1303, tho Com mittee of Claims, to whom this report had been referred, made a report adverse to those claims: which report appears to have been founded oa the assumption tint the claims were merged in .bo $1,200,000, "agreeable to thoir construc tion of the letter of tho Attorney General. In this construction of tho letter.of tho ^.t- tornoy General, your committco does not ac cord, the evidence contained in that paper is wholly-negative, whilst that of tho commission ers of Georg’m'nf-'affiffnatircVlttrtl of Iho rtiast positive character. Lot us, for a moment, examine this matter. The Attorney GonerM, to 1 bo sure, recollects that, in the progress of this upgociation, con versations were hold rolativo to the military services of tho citizeus of Goorgia; but lie does not say whedibr they roforred to sorvicos per forated beforo or after the adoption of tho fed eral Constitution ; nnd ho further recollects, dint it was said, in thoso conversations, that the Unitod' States had refused to pnv for-those ser vices; but ho docs not stnto at what stage of the negotiation thoso conversations wore hold, nor tho aniount that ut that time was demanded by thoCommissioners of Goorgia. It might have boon that tho Commissioners of that Stato, <n certain stages of the negotiation, asked n suffi cient'sum, over and ubovo that received to Imvo covered those claims, for tho benefit of hor citizons, und subsequently, for the purpose ofbringing the business to u closo abandoned that ground; nnd acceded to tho propositions of the United States’' Commissioners. ' All this might have taken‘place and probably did ; but to take this testimony vague und uncertain as it is, against the positive declarations of two indi viduals, equally rospcctablo with the Attorney General himself, und made within nine days af ter the date of his loiter, is, in the opinion o( your Committeo, wholly inidmissablc. But again: Doos it not appear that the citi zens of Georgia did, in good faith, perform thoso services ? Does it not further appear lint, whilst performing them, they wore armed and subsisted by tho agents of the General Govorument? And is it not n matter ofliisto- ty, that to this hour, they remainod unpaid ? Is it then reasonable to-suppose, if. thoir pay had heen-jrofitted in.the 1^0,000^dojlurs^as ah ledgod by tbrmor reports, that men of the stand- lug-and reputation of Baldwin and Jackson, would have so far disregarded privnto right, tis to misinform their State in this mntter; or cun we, for a moment, suppose, that any Stato in this Union would, for the purpose of falling her coders or enriching her treasury, commit nu act that would ruin even to bonkrupty, that por tion of her citizons that had come forward in tho hour oialanger to defend hor soil from the inroads of an invading euemy ? In ovory view that your Committco has been ablo 10 take of this business, they aro de cidedly of opinion, that justice to the citizens of Goorgia, who performed those sorvi ccs, ns well as to tho State, which, it has beon alleged, has received and withheld tho amount paid for them, domands of tho Nation a speedy adjust ment of these claims; and, in accordance with this opinion, they submit tho following resolu tion : * House of llejjresenlatioer, February 13. THE VICE PRESIDENT. Tlio Select Committee to whom was referred the communication of tho Vico President of tin: 29th December lust, respectfully report: That, immediately after they assembled, they informed the Vice President of their be ing organized, aud of their reudiuess to re ceive any communication which lie might see fit to make. On the receipt of his-reply, da ted the 3d of January, mid which accompanies .liis report, Mr. M'Duffie, as the friend and representative of the Vice President, was ad mitted before- the committee, and attended throughout tho‘'examination which followed. The first object of inquiry, ill proceeding to business, was to ascertain whether any charges against the Vice President Had boen placed a- moug the public records of the War Depart ment. After an examination on this , (joint, tho committee became satisfied that no such charges were, or had been,- among the records or papers of that Department. But, as the let ter from Elijah Mix, addressed to Major Satcr- lee Clark, under tho name of “ Hancock,” had been published in tho Alexandria Phoenix Gazette, Htf thozH li December, which publi cation the Vice President had’ particularly re ferred to, m his no'o to the committeo, they felt bound to examine fully and freely into the truth or falsity of the blatters contained itf that letter. From the nature of the dutios imposed upon a committee of inquiry, especially connected w.tli the distinct w.sjt, as expressed by the Vice F resident in tho .presein instance, for the “freest mvbstigatitfu,” it has been impossible hie the committee fo give to their proceedings the connexion aitd Conciseness incident to trials, wnt-ii Uic .testimony is ascertained and nrrang- on butore it is prdsenicd. • They have, howe ver, diligently applied themselves to tho subject lefcrred to them,' aud after a long and labori ous examination, they are unanimously of tho op.uinn, that .licit' ore nd facts which vill au thorize die belief or even suspicion, ilia*, the Vice President wps ever interested, or that he participated, uirectly or indirectly, in the pro- tits ot any contract formed with the Govern ment through did Department of War, while iio wUs entrusted! With the discharge of its du ties, or at any otlker time. They are also! of opinion, that tlio conduct of Mr. Barbour, the present Secretary of War, tnrogard to tholktci of E. Mix, is nothin the slightest degree,l deserving of censure. The' accusation contained tu the letter was regarded by lnm as a- bastj calumny.upon the Vice Pre sident, penned by a man wholly unworthy of notice; and the’ committee have no reason to behove that the Supposed truth of that accusa tion was at any Line the basis of any act of the War Department. This publication of the lottcr appears to have been produced as fol lows: In the mcntli of December last, Howes Resolccd, That an appropriation, sufficient tq cover the claims of the citizens of Georgia, for military services, performed as before stat ed, ought to ho made, and placed at the dispo sal of tho Secretary of War for tlio accomplish ment of that cud. Martin Van Buron lias been rc-elected by a concurrent voto of the two Houses, U. S. Senator from Now-York for sixyears from tho 4th day of March next. F. Thornton, tlio junior Editor of tho Phoenix Gazottc, on the 27th December, which he pub' lished the noxt morning in that paper, acconv panted by his editorial remarks. In this pub- Iicr- " " ’ ■ * .... ication Mr. Barbour had no agency, either dh rect or indirect. Whenjio heard that the let. ter had beeu mltdc public, he requested Colon, el IL M. Johnson, of the Senate, to call upou .the Vice President as a mutual friend; and in form him of the manner in which the letter hud come to his (Mr. Barbour’s) hands, and that the sumo li.ul been subsequently transmitted ‘.hrough the post-office in un envelope to Majoi Clark, to whom it belonged. This informa, non was given by Col. Johnson to the V'co Prcs.dent, in the morning of the 29ih of De cember, just bolero he transmitted his commu nication .0 the House. Tho letter to “Hancock,” us published, and io which die Vice President had referred, con tained, among, jjiher (brags, the following ns. scriion: “And I have written letters of Vande- ventor’s, which most positively mention that he, (meaning Mr. Calhoun) was engaged, nnd received some1 pot tiou of tho contract." As such letters, if they existed, might lead to fur ther evidence, and be important to aid the com mittce in {heir inquiries, they thought proper in the curly stage of their proceedings, to issue a subpoena both for Mix and V.indevonter, with a clause'therein contained, commanding them to produce any papers in their possession, tending to prove the accusation which Mix had made in his letter to Hancock. In obedience to this summons, the witnesses uppearod, and 7-Mu kraviog-been first culled upon to testify, produced, during his examination, the letters from Major Vandeventer, dated August 7th, 1818, September I0ih, 1818, July 8th, 1820, March 24th, 1821, and tho letter from Col. K. W. Atmisicad, dated March 24th, 1821. On his second examination, ho produced tho let ters from Major Vandevemer, dated August 3d, 1818, September 19th, 1818, nnd Octobci 17th, 1820. When it was perceived that,' in' one of the letters of Mr. Vandeventer, to wit the one dated tho 7th of August, 1818, and to which they hero particularly refer, allusion was made to a partner in tho contract, whose name wus to have been kept secret, they felt it to ho their duty to discovor, if they could, who this secret partner was, or, at any rote, to push tho inquiry as far os to leave no room for suspicion that the Vice President was the one alluded to. This branch of die subject has been tho prin cipal cause of their consuming so much timo in the investigation; they found that* they were here led into a wider field than could havo been at first anticipated, and that it was ne- «n order to got a full view of the whole ground, to go thoroughly into the origin and histoty of what is comnjouly called tho Mix Contract. The letters of Major Vundovcuter, above referred to, appear to relate principally to the private and confidential transactions be tween him and Mix, in regard to the contract; . and there.is-mo reason to believo or presume j that the Vice President was ever made ac- 1 mu tiled with their contents. The letter from quai — ... , Col. Armistead, written .while he was at the head of the Engineer Department, although it wears the appearance of an official paper, and was improperly intended, as the committee be lieve, to bring the weight ol the official influ ence to bear upou the private transactions be tween Vandovontcr and Mix, was not written with the sanction or knowledge of the Vice President, and no copy of it was ever entered in the letter book of the Department. The pommitteo will here remark, that they pl.tco no reliance whatever on the testimony of Elijah Mix. From .the self-conlradictioife, ap parent on tho face of - his testimony, and winch it is unnecessary -here to recapitulate, aside fropi tlie infamy attached to liis character, the committee were satisfied that ho ought not to be ’believed, on liis oath. The letters, howevor, just referred to, and produced by him during his examination, do not rest for their authenti city on his testimony. Thoso from Major Vandeventer, excepting such parts as had been defaced or obliterated, were acknowledged by .himself :o be genuine; and he was. requested, 111 every instance, to state, with tho letters, be foro him, what names or wordsOccupied the obliterated places, when the letters were writ ten. The letter from Col. Armistead was al so acknowledged by that officer to be genuine. But the three papers purporting to he copies or the substance of a loiter 1'ioni Major Van- dcvetitcr to Mr. Calhoun, rest for their authen ticity on the unsupported testimony of E. Mix, and are regarded by the committee us having been fabricated by him.. They are. also of o- pitiion that the words or names defaced from the letters of Major Vandeventer were so de faced by E. Mix: and the committee havo been unable to ascertain with certainty, either from Vundeventer, the admitted author of.the letters, or from any other source, what the words or names were, which have been thus obliterated. The offer for the contract appears to have been made by E. Mix, on tho 23d of July, 1818, and proposes to deliver at Old Point Comfort, “from ono to one hundred and fifty thousand perches of stone, at three dollars per porch.” The coutract, as furnished from tho War Department, boars date tho 25th of Ju ly, 1818. It stipulates for the delivery of one hundred und fifty thousand perches of stone, at three dollurs a perch—is drawn up in the hand writing of Major Vandeventer, and by him a- lono witnessed, and is signed by General Jo- 113 co,ucnis * soph Swift, then chief Engineer, and by Elijah Mix. Although Mix here appears to have been the only contractor, yet, from tho evi dence, there is reason to behove, that at the tunc tiie contract was made, or soon after, ami before the execution of any valid bond for the performance thereof, it was divided into shares, and that one-fourth belonged to Major Vande vemer, one-fourth to Elijah Mix, one-fourth to It. C. Jennings, and the remaining fourth Qoldsborough r and~EliUh"M\"x were comnetill 11 P^ott whose uanic wo* notto havo boon 1 tors in « contract with We WaTPepartmeHt? mcrnmncW. -rTO vnte-t*f rmigev e nTei ■ urfc1ishB^f a NaVM P Ac^mv* K1,| Uoldsborougy soon after hi* arrival in Wash- *>««*» nt ‘K time above icferrod to, appears South Car i lin ” mnv „^®^; ingtoii, obtained fi0111 Major S. Clark'a'copy of the letter, with a view to uso tho same a- gutnst Mix, should he find it necessary. From tiiis copy a transcript was obtained by William . 1? ti.«—.— — o".. <• - n ' • - the whole contract. Howes Goldsborough & to have rested on a verbal and confidential a- gi cement between him und Mix, and so re mained till the 24lh of April, 1819, w)icn he received a written bill of sale of ono half of. The attention of Gcit. Swift was partial ly directed, before the cotumiyeo, to the f' crcpancies in the bonds, aud also; to the w letters from tlio Engineer Department * which the contract is alludpd to. Tho oi D u nation which he gives will oe'folmd in.hijw tnony, to whiclf the committee refer. ' During an investigation relative to th'u coa. tract, by a committee of the .'house of rejw sentatives,in 182$, a-copjr dCil}e-Bpnd \nsdi quested by that coininitlqe." In ai)s\v Cr | which the Engineer -Department, furnished copy of tlio. second bond; which has been sak s itmed-for. the One first grvtm—but as the rc no certificate of the. Recorder of..New Yo approving the sju£tics .on the second, bond copy of the certificate annexed to the cincdi bond, was made, and attached to the coiSyl the bond furnished: - Copt- Smith of the JA gincer Department,.who ajtosted these copi C! has explained thorcauso bf his certifying to ^ inaccuracy, and to his t'ostimoby, in that cnlar, (Ik; < 01 unlitteeTheM 'J . The question still remains, who was the cret punier? But the ccxrpmftteo being entirtii ;vP L ;— — 7—vfM—"— -.t—e vmi vut satisfied that the s&lret’toardter '?Qs. not £ Vice President, which was tho main questjp, to be decided, will leave the conflicting testimol ny on the oilier point with the house, withoj attempting to decide bpdri its relative weight. On the 27th January, 1827, the comaiiticj closed tho examination of witnesses 011 thy part, except as to one or two, who had been summoned, but had not attended. On that d» tho friend uud representative of the Vice Pt^ sident was advised that the committee had » closed iheir examination; and he was also in. formed by a member of the committee, in fo presence, that tho committee were unanimous; ly of opinion that the Vice President wai in, nocent of the charge of having participated fo any manner in any confract mado with the War Department while ho- wiB Secretary War. Tho same day, at tho instanco of Mr. M'Duffie, subpoenas Were issued for witnesses to appear and testify on behalf of tho VicePns sidenr. On the 29th of January, tho commit, tee received from the friend and represent* tive of the Vice President, a paper protestinr against the previous proceedings of the com’ tnittce. Considering this papor as preps,•ed nnd presented under tho sanction of the high ulficer, in whose behalf it protests, the commit co have doomed it their duty to transmit it ta the House, but they forboar all comment 01 IN SENATE, Friday, February 16. The bill to amend “an act to establish tin Judicial Courts of the United States, passd the 24th of September, 1789,” was read a second time, considered, and aftor some debate, laid 011 the table. The senate resumed the bill lor the gradual improvement of the Nav; of the United States—contemplating the csial> hshment of two Dry Docks, the collection ani Co. subsequently bocaino the Ownors of one- fourth, by purchase from Samuel Copper,.who had previously purchased from Major Vande vemer; and they (Goldsborough & Co.) were .recognized at the War Department, by tho consent of E. Mix, expressed in a letter scut by- h:m to the Secretary of War, and dated the 13tli of April, 1821. Tho first bond, received by tlio Engineer Department, on the contract, is datod 5th Au gust, 1818, and describes the contract as hav> ing been made by Elijah Mix and George Cornier, for tho delivery of one hundred thou sand |>orches of stone, being fifty thousand loss than Mix was entitled to deliver. This bond is signed by E. Mix and George Cooper, as contractors; and by Samuel Cooper and James Oakley, as sureties: the sureties wore regularly approved by R. Rikcr, Recorder of the City of Now York, as appears by his certificate fol lowing immediately after the signatures, and dated the same as tho bond. It will be perceived, at once, that thero is an obvi ous and fatal variance between this bond and the contract. In an official letter written from tho Engineer Depart mem, on tho 11th day of August, 1818, to Lioutenant George Blaney, and copied into the letter-book of that depart ment, the contract is described as for oqo hun dred thousand porches of stone. Tho language of the letter is as follows: “You will inform tho Agent that a contract has been mado with Cap tain E. Mix, to deliver, as soon as practicable, a *. Rjp jUfig*jjt£ Jiundjed thousand perch In a subsequent - letter, written to James Maurice, also copied into the same letter-book, and dated tho -21st day of August, 1818, the contract is described as being for two hundred thousand perches. Tlio languogo of this lotter is os follows: “Mr. E. Mix will spon-com mence to deliver stono at the Rip Raps, under contract with tiiis Department, for two hun dred thousand porch." Some time after the delivery at the Engineer Department bflhe first bond, but at what pre- ciso time docs not appear, a now bond was .. signed by E. Mix ns contractor, and Samuel Cooper and James Oakley, ns sureties—and it is ante dated to the Stl* of August, 1818—but no cer tificate, in regard to the sufficiency of the sure ties, was attached to this instrument. The com mittee havo bcca uuablo to ascertain when this second bond was received at the Engineer De partment; though tho impression bf General Swift is, that it was received before ho left {he office, which “-was on the 11th bf November, 1818. Major Vandeventer also expresses his belief, that it was delivered during the Fall of 1818. How far his testimony conflicts, if at air, with his letter to Mix, dated 17th of Octo ber, 1820, in which he urges upon the lattor to attend to “the bond," tho committee will not undertake to determine. South Carolina moved to strike out that portiot of the bill which provides for a $<aval.Acatfci my; which was negatived, yeas .22, nays 24, and the bill was ordered to a third Leading. Saturday, February ,17. The bill authorizing a subscription of stock, on the part of tho United States in the Colum bus and Sandusky Turnpike Company, wai considered, and, as amended, ordered to a third reading. The bill to establish certain post of* fices and post roads, was read tho third tin and passed. The bill for the gradual improve ment of the Navy of tho United States was read the third time and passed—Ayes 28, Niw 18. On motion of Mr. Smith, .of South Caro*, linn, “the bill to provide for the trial of claims to lands in tho States of Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, and in tho Tcrrito* rics of Arkansas and Florida, in the cases there*, in specified,” was taken up and considered.— Some discussion aroso in coscquonco-of the mo tion of Mr. Dickenson to lay tlio bill ou the table, with a view to take up the woollen bill, The motion being negatived, the provisions ol tlio bill wero discussed by Messrs. Smith, d Soutli Carolina, Read, and Kane. Monday, February. 19. On motion of Mr. Dickerson, {he Woollen bill was taken up. Mr. Berrien moved to re fer it# to tho. Committco on (finance. After somo discussion, this motion was rejected, aye* 23, noes '24.' Mr. Benton moved to tccoo* mit the bill to tlio Committeo 011 Manufactures,' with instructions to amend it so as'to make the duty on raw wool equal to the highest duty Im posed op woollen cloth. This motion wasdis- cussed and rejected, ayes 23, ttocs 24. 3h' Benton moved to recommit jthe bill with in structions to amend it so as tb prohihjt the io; portation of forbigufovool, after tile 1st January, 1828; lost, ayes 22, noes 25. Mr. Reed mov ed to recommit the bill for an inquiry and re port, whether tho duties imposod bo prohibito ry; lost, ayes 22, noos 25. Other molioM wero raadc.and rejected, when tho bill was 00 motion of Mr. Dtckorson postponed to, aw made tho special order of tho day for tomorro ,f ' Mr. Rowan presented resolutions of tho Log's* ltlturo of Kentucky*, approbatory of tho objects of the Colonization Society. ■ Tlio Senate re sumed tlte bill providing for the trial of law claims in tlio several states and territories. Johnson, of La. moved an amendment, whidt was discussed at great length. ' . .» . Tuesday, February 20. Tho Consideration of tho bill providing t° r tlio trial of land claims in the states of ri, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, nw the territories of Arkansas aud Florida, in t" 0 cases_therein specified, was resumed, then 10 * tion of Mr. Johnson of Kontucky still pciidit'i' After considerable debate the motion was ca r ‘ fWd, The bill, after further discussion mw mendment, was reported to the Sonatc, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Friday, February lb Mr. F. Johnson spokoqu tho subject of resolution of Mr. Saundors, until tho hour nM expired. Tho general appropriation bill passed. The IIouso thon took up the JU making appropriations for the Military servio; when somo discussion took place on the cla® 9 si