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SATURDAY, ORober 24, 1789.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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Proceedings of congress .
In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of
the UNITED STATES.
(Ca-itinuedfrom our laji.j
' Wtednejda , July 29.
IN committee of the whole—the discussion
o f the bill for registering and clearing
veifeis, and to regulate the coasting trade was
resumed —farther progress was made—many
alterations and amendments introduced—but
the business was not completed when the com
mittee rose.
Mr. lit zfimons moved, that leave might
be given to b ing in a bill to suspend the ope
ration of the import aud tonnage bills—but this
anot.on was not adopted. ,
Adjourned.
Thurjday , July 30. »
Mr. Livermore introduced a resolution that
each Member ihould be furnirtied at the pifb
lic expence with two newspapers of this city,
such as he should choose, and no more. This
was laid on the table.
In committee of the whole—the difeuflion
of the bill before them yesterday wasfinifhed,
the committee then rose, aud.the Chairman
reported the fame,to the House, with various
amendments proposed.
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Friday, July 31 •
-Mr. Scotty of the committee appointed for
the purpose, brought in a bill for ertablirtiing
a laud-office for- the wertcru territory, which
was read and laid on the table.
Upon motion it was voted, that a standing
committee be appointed to examine, the eu-\
rolled bills, and to present the fame to the
Pieudent for his approbation' and rtgnature,
and Mr. White and Mr. Partridge were ac
cordingly appointed.
Mr. White, of the committee appointed to
examine into the measures taken by Congress,
and the state of Virginia, refpefting the lands
reserved for the usu of the officers and soldiers
of said state, &c. brought in a report, which
was read and laid cn the table.
The HoOfe then proceeded in the conside
ration of the amendments agteed upon in
committee, to the bill for registering and clear
ing veifeis, &c. which being finifhed, it was
voted that the bill rtiould be eugroifed for a
third reading on Monday next.
A meifage was received from tl*-e Senate
Vy their Secretary, informing, that they had
passed the bill for eftabliihing the Treasury de
partment, with amendments. : \- J
Also, that the Senate had appointed Mr.
Wingate as a (landing committee, to join the
committee appointed by the Hon. House, to
examine the enrolled bills, &c.
Mr. Sedgwick, of the committee for the
purpose, brought in a bill to provide for the
fafe keeping of the .aids, records and great
seal of the United States, for the publication,
preservation, and authentication of the afts
of Congress, iic. which was read, and laid
on the table.
Mr. Huntington, of the committee on the
memorial of Nathaniel Gorham, hi ought m
# report, which was ttfo read, aud laid on
the table.
Adjourned till Monday morning,
1 Monday, Angujl J.
The till foe regulating CM
GEORGIA.
&c. was brought in, engrofled, and read a
third time.
*• Mr. Fitzfmons moved to re-commit it in
order to correft certain errors which had
escaped the Houses ; the bill was accordingly
re-committed, and the Houle agreed to take
it up this day.' ■’
Mr. Fuzjimons then moved for leave to
bring in a bill to supply the defect in the im
port law. By that aft, he said, a drawback
had been allowed on all (alt used on filh, and
other salted provirtons exported. As thv law
flood, exporters (liquid receive a drawback on
fait which had been imported previously to the
operation of the import, and consequently had
paid no duties at all. He wished therefore to
have it provided, that the drawback rtiould
not take effeft for a limited time.
This motion w~s opposed on the ground
that it was improper to pass an aft to correft
an error in a law which the Congress had so
lately parted.—lt was proposed to add a claule
to the bill which had heen lad read and re
committed, providing for this defeft. To
this Mr. Fitzfimons consented.
The bill for ertablirtiing a land-office was
read a fecund time, and made the order of
the day for Thursday.
The bill providing for the cuflody of the
great fcal and papers of the iaie Lougrcfs,
and for (he publication, &c. <»{ the afts of
Congress, was read a second time, and made
the order of the day for Triday.
The amendments of the Senate to the bill
to ertablilli the department of Treasury wete
taken up, aud postponed till this day.
Ttiefiay, Augujl 4.
Mr. Heifer preferred a petition from the
inhabitants of Cumberland county, (bte of
Pennsylvania, praying that the Seflions of the
.Federal Courts may not be rest rifted to the
city of Philadelphia—laid on the table.
Mr. Ames presented a petition from Dudly
Tyler, an officer in the late Continental army,
praying for an allowance for fer . ices, which
Ltl yot been compeu laid 011 the table.
Mr. Huntington presented a memorial from
Christopher - Collins, dating that he had in
vented a perambulator upon more linijde and
adequate principles; than has hitherto been
dtfeovered ; and praying for an extlulive right
to use aud improve the fame —lard on the
table.
The House then refuraed the consideration
of the amendments to the Treasury hill pro
posed by the Senate, on which a decifinn was
portpohed yeft&rday .—a lengthy debate enftied
upon the fubjeft, in which the fubtlance ol the
arguments upon the Prefrdent’s power of re
movability was repeated, and which termi
nated in not acceding to the amendments of
the Senate.
The tloufc adjourned at half after three.
IFednejlay, Auguf
The House-met purfuaut to adjournment,
and pofled the bill for eftabliihing the depart
ment of war, with the amendment proposed
by the Senate.
Also, parted the bill, with amendments, as
returned by the Senate, lor regulating the
government of the wertetn ten not y.
The bill for regulating the coasting trade
was read the third time, parted the llo"(#,
aud ordered tube iriofniitecl to h« beuatv fur
their cwcuritutt,
The report of the committee refpe&ingtho
donation lands in the weftern territories,
granted by Virginia, to the Virginia troops
late in the fetvice of the United States, was
read a second time : ordered, that a hundred
copies thereof be printed for the use of the
Members.
Mr. White laid a motion on the table for
refunding a refolnnon of the late Congress,
refpefting the location of lands for the Virgi
nia troops.
The House went into a committee of the
whole, on the bill for compensating the fer*
vice of the Members of the Senate and House
of Representatives, and their officers.
A motion was made to strike out fiftdollars
per diem as a compensation for each Member.
Mr. Carrol called in question the propriety
of the motion, supposing the committee not
at liberty to alter principles fettled in tho
House.
Mr. Page went Into an argument to (hew
that the sum ought not to be dimiflied j ho
thought fix dollars a day not more than fuffi
cient to compeufate gentlemen for their trou*
ble and expences ; he was afraid of the con
feqtience which would result from a parti*
amnions provision for the legiflarure of the ge
neral government. ,
Mr. Sedgwick advocated a reduflion of the
allowance, becaijfe he thought the tempei of
the people wpuld be difobltged by the latge- 1
nefs of the sum : He did not think~ it mote
than a compensation for the facriiices which
gentlemen made, in dedicating their une and
abilities to the public fervite ; but be judged
it to Le more than the abilities of the people
were able to iupport.
Mr. Pining joined the gentleman from
Maryland (Mr. Carrol) in fuppolhtg the mo*
tion out of order ; aod called upon the Chair
man, Mr. Boudiirot, to decide upon the point
of order, which Mr. Boudinot did, by fay.*
ing, that when a bill was committed to a cotii*
mittee of the whole, every part of it was
open to debate and alteiation. Mr. Vining
then preceded to cppofe a teduffion of the
compenfation:' He thought that gentlemen
could not live, and tcciptocaie those civilities '
which common politeness and their tituation
required, for a less sum than that propwfed in
the bill. He prefutned it was not the inten
tion of the Honfe to embarrals the tituation of
gentlemen, who were at considerable expence
in temoving their faniilies to the feat of go
vernment, in order to be n\ore at liberty to
employ their attention to public butinef6, and
not have their minds divided between their
dometiic and public affairs. He thought that
Cougteft might contemplate a reduction of the
compensation, when they tlionld be removed
to a place less expensive than the capital of one
of the moll considerable tiates in the Union.
When that event took place—and he would
join the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr,
White) who had dropped a fentiinent yefler*
day of the kind, in giving his content that it
fijmjld eatly take place -he thought tha» the
ck| L'ii<c*of the civil lid might then he pin*
peily reduced; but at piefcut he ton'd not
think a less fun, than that propnfed in the •
hill, w.ts moie than was ahfolotely uectliaty *
for the iupport of the Members of Congtefai t
It wnt the averaged fun of wh «t was given
14 the Mcmbfiiof the la n Cougrefl. •
Mr. I jt/f, Minus tfum.'lit e*c.y
Ww in fvtiH an opiniviii i’ l v*#
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