JANUARY, 1804. Commissioner of Loans. H. OF R. Loans shall transfer the credits on his books in They were these-when the report of the Comsuch manner as shall be required by the creditor.mittee of Ways and Means came into the House, Mr. E. said he never entertained the idea that Congress could act with propriety in abolishing these offices without establishing a substitute in their room, by which transfers might be made in the several States. This idea appeared now to be abandoned by the friends of the measure, and it is now contended that the stock need only be transferable at the seat of Government. But the gentleman requires those not decidedly hostile to the measure, to suffer a bill to be brought in, whose details may perhaps be satisfactory. Mr. E. said, no bill could be introduced that would succeed in securing his vote, that did not provide for effecting transfers in the several States; and on mature reflection he perceived no way in which this important end could be accomplished. It was said that this measure would be conducive to public economy. Mr. E. declared himself as much attached to public economy as any member on the floor. But when he viewed the subject in all its aspects, he feared this measure, if adopted, would expose the Government to the imputation of being penny-wise and pound-foolish. For these reasons he should give the resolution his negative. it was attempted to be sustained on the ground that the existence of the loan offices formed part of the compact between the creditors and the public, and that any modification of them would involve a violation of public faith. For this reason, because he was unwilling to affirm a doctrine so untenable, and because he then believed that a modification might be made that would be rather beneficial than hurtful to the creditor, he was opposed to the resolution; and he was happy to find the doctrine that the existence of those offices made a part of the contract was not sustained by the House, and the report was therefore on that ground negatived. When the discussion was on a former occasion prosecuted, Mr. R. said he found gentlemen, without reference to political opinion, from all quarters of the Union, deprecating the subversion of this establishment. In particular, he perceived those gentlemen that represented the largest stockholding States, peculiarly averse to it; among them were several members from Massachusetts, and his learned friend from New York. Many members from North Carolina were also averse to the abolition of these offices. Under these circumstance, he should vote against the resolution. Not because he considered the Legislature as not possessed of the power to do away this establishment; not because he did not believe the plan suggested by the Secretary of the Treasury would not be ultimately beneficial to the public creditors, but because gentlemen, with whom it was his pride and pleasure to act, thought differently. In such a case, he was willing, out of deference to them, and to that which at present appeared to be the public opinion, to give up the saving which might result from the proposed measure. Mr. R. then read the report of the Committee of Ways and Means on the resolution submitted to them on the subject; and stated that the right of the Government to abolish the loan offices being affirmed by a former vote of that House he was willing for the present to waive the exercise of it. Mr. J. CLAY regretted that he was not in the House when the honorable gentleman from Virginia had offered his remarks on the resolution before the House. It was not his purpose in rising to detain the House. After the ample manner in which this measure had been discussed on a former occasion, he considered it unnecessary other than briefly to assign the reasons which would govern him in passing his negative on the present motion. From the terms of the act of 1790, he considered the facility of transfer secured to the public creditor by the establishment of the loan office as one part of the contract with the United States. Viewing the subject in this light he did not think that Congress had the power to take this facility away without a violation of the public faith. The facility of transfer certainly added something to the value of the stock. When necessity urged its possessor to part with it, any delay in making the transfer must decrease its value. This point had in a former debate been so fully discussed, and this effect been made so conspicuously to appear, that he deemed it unnecessary to say a single word more upon it. Without referring to the circumstances under which the public debt was created, or to the provisions of the law which formed a part of the funding YEAS-Willis Alston, jr., Isaac Anderson, John Archsystem, without saying that system was the offspring of folly or of fraud, or adverting to the in-er, David Bard, George Michael Bedinger, Phanuel famous circumstances attending it, he considered it as the offspring of Congress, and that they were not at liberty to touch a hair of its head. Mr. J. RANDOLPH said if the question had been taken by a silent vote, he should not have risen; but as the yeas and nays were required, and the vote he was about to give might appear to be inconsistent with that which he had given on a former occasion, he would concisely state the reasons why he should vote against the resolution. Mr. SMILIE declared his opinion on this subject unaltered. He never had considered the existence of the Commissioners as a part of the contract, and he had no idea that the public faith would be violated by doing them away. and the resolution rejected-yeas 52, nays 58, as The question was then taken by yeas and nays, follows: Bishop, John Boyle, Robert Brown, Levi Casey, ThomEppes, William Findley, John Fowler, James Gillespie, as Claiborne, Matthew Clay, John B. Earle, John W. Peterson Goodwyn, Wade Hampton, William Hoge, James Holland, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, Nehemiah Knight, Michael Leib, Matthew Lyon, Alexander McCord, David Meriwether, Jeremiah Morrow, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jr., Joseph H. Nicholson, Gideon Olin, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee, Jacob Richards, Cæsar A. Rodney, Erastus Root, Thomas Sammons, Thomas Sandford, James H. OF R. Salaries of certain Officers. JANUARY, 1804. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law against the appointment of judges of the courts of the United States to other offices under the Government. Sloan, John Smilie, Henry Southard, Richard Stanford, Mr. LEIB said, we had heard much lately about Joseph Stanton, John Stewart, Abram Trigg, John the independence of the judges; that it had been Trigg, Isaac Van Horne, John Whitehill, Marmaduke a theme within the walls of this House, and the Williams, Richard Winn, and Joseph Winston. subject of animated discussion without them. To NAYS-Nathaniel Alexander, Simeon Baldwin, Wil- the rational independence of the Judiciary, he liam Blackledge, Adam Boyd, Joseph Bryan, Martin professed himself a friend, and to evince his sincerChittenden, Clifton Claggett, Jos. Clay, Jacob Crownin-ity. he begged leave to submit to the consideration shield, Richard Cutts, Samuel W. Dana, John Daven- of the House the following resolution: port, John Dawson, John Dennis, Thomas Dwight, Peter Early, James Elliot, Ebenezer Elmer, William Eustis, Edwin Gray, Thomas Griffin, Gaylord Griswold, Roger Griswold, Samuel Hammond, Seth Hastings, William Helms, David Hough, Benjamin Huger, Samuel Hunt, William Kennedy, Joseph Lewis, jr., Henry W. Livingston, John B. C. Lucas, William McCreery, Nahum Mitchell, James Mott, Beriah Palmer, John Patterson, Samuel D. Purviance, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, Joshua Sands, Ebenezer Seaver, John Smith of New York, John Smith of Virginia, William Stedman, James Stephenson, Samuel Taggart, Samuel Tenney, Samuel Thatcher, David Thomas Philip Van Cortlandt, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Joseph B. Varnum, Daniel C. Verplanck, Peleg Wadsworth, Lemuel Williams, and Thomas Wynns. And so the said motion was lost. CITY OF WASHINGTON. The House went into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill supplementary to the act to incorporate the inhabitants of the City of Washington. The first section of the bill made the incorporation perpetual. Mr. J. RANDOLPH moved to limit its duration to five years from the end of the next session of Congress. Mr. RODNEY supported, and Messrs. NICHOLSON, J. CLAY, and DENNIS, opposed the motion, which was agreed to-ayes 48, noes 32. On motion of Mr. DENNIS, a section was introduced, declaring citizens competent witnesses in suits to which the corporation may be a partywhen the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow. JUDGE CHASE. Mr. J. RANDOLPH, in the name of the committee appointed to inquire into the conduct of Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, stated that documents had been received by them which occupied a considerable bulk, the printing of which would considerably assist their investigation, by rendering them more convenient for perusal. He added, that it would probably be necessary to print these papers for the information of the House, when the report of the committee was made. He therefore moved the vesting in them authority to cause to be printed such papers as they might conceive proper. Mr. EUSTIS suggested a doubt of the propriety of printing detached papers, which might produce an improper impression upon the public mind. Mr. NICHOLSON observed, that it would rest with the committee to preclude, if they saw fit, a publication of the papers, though printed, until the report should be made, and remarked that this was the course pursued by the committee of investigation. The motion was then carried-ayes 59. TUESDAY, January 31. An engrossed bill supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia," was read the third time, and passed. Á message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have passed a bill, entitled "Au act in relation to the Navy Pension Fund;" to which they desire the concurrence of this House. The Senate have reconsidered their first, thirteenth, and seventeenth amendments, disagreed to by this House, to the bill, entitled "An act giving effect to the laws of the United States within the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty of the 30th of April, 1803, between the United States and the French Republic, and for other purposes;" and desire a conference with this House on the subject-matter of the said amendments; to which conference the Senate have appointed managers on their part. The House proceeded to consider so much of the foregoing message of the Senate as desires a conference with this House on the subject-matter of the amendments depending between the two Houses to the bill therein mentioned: Whereupon, Resolved, That this House do agree to the said conference; and that Messrs. NICHOLSON, JOSEPH CLAY, SANDS, HASTINGS, and NEWTON, be appointed managers at the said conference, on the part of this House. SALARIES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS. Mr, J. RANDOLPH moved to fix the salary of the The salary of the Secretary of the Treasury was fixed at $5,000 by a like division. Mr. J. RANDOLPH moved to fix the salary of the Mr. ELMER moved to fix it at $4,000. The salaries of other officers were fixed in the same manner as by the act of 1799. On fixing the salary of the Postmaster General, Mr. HOGE moved to fill the blank with $4,000. Mr. VARNUM moved $3,500. JANUARY, 1804. Salaries of certain Officers. H. of R. Mr. J. RANDOLPH moved $3,000, the sum fixed ezer Seaver, Tompson J. Skinner, John Smilie, John by the act of 1799. Mr. LEIB moved $2,000. The motion to fill the blank with $4,000 was lost-ayes 17. Messrs. VARNUM, GREGG, CLAIBORNE, and SOUTHARD, Supported the motion to fill the blank with $3,500, on the ground that the duties of the Postmaster General had greatly increased within these few years. Mr. ALSTON Opposed the motion; which was agreed to-ayes 59, noes 46. Mr. J. RANDOLPH moved to fix the salary of the Assistant Postmaster General at $1,700. Mr. VARNUM moved $2,000. The last motion having failed-ayes 35, noes 47-that of Mr. RANDOLPH prevailed. The Committee rose, and reported the bill with the above-stated amendments. On agreeing to the report of the Committee, so far as it went to fix the salary of the Secretary of State at $5,000, a desultory debate ensued, not so much on the proposed compensation, as on the mode in which the bill had progressed. By Messrs. CONRAD, GREGG, ELMER, and RODNEY, it was remarked that a bill similar in substance with this having failed, owing to the disagreeing votes of the two Houses, it was contrary to parliamentary usage to permit a similar bill to be introduced during the same session. They further expressed their opinion, that it would be most proper to postpone the subject until the next session, when the consideration of compensations generally might be more advantageously entered upon. Smith of New York, John Smith of Virginia, Joseph Chamberlin, Martin Chittenden, Joseph Clay, Matthew The remaining salaries were affirmed by the ance. Messrs. VARNUM, ELLIOT, LYON, and HOLLAND, On agreeing to this sum, a debate ensuedadvocated, and Messrs. HUGER, LUCAS, NICHOL SON, and EUSTIS, opposed its adoption. question being taken, it passed in the negativeyeas 53, nays 66, as follows: The YEAS-John Archer, David Bard, Walter Bowie, Adam Boyd, Joseph Bryan, William Butler, George W. Campbell, Levi Casey, Clifton Claggett, Thomas Claiborne, Jacob Crowninshield, Richard Cutts, John B. Earle, Peter Early, James Elliot, Ebenezer Elmer, William Findley, John Fowler, Andrew Gregg, Samuel Messrs. EUSTIS and SMILIE advocated the cor- Hammond, Wade Hampton, William Helms, James rectness of the form as well as principle of the Holland, Thomas Lowndes, Matthew Lyon, Andrew bill, and asked if there was not an absolute neces-McCord, David Meriwether, James Mott, Anthony sity imposed upon the Legislature, in case bills New, Gideon Olin, Beriah Palmer, Oliver Phelps, Sammaking appropriations for the civil list or mili- uel D. Purviance, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rea of tary establishment should be rejected, to re-origi- Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee, Erastus Root, nate bills having the same object? Thomas Sandford, Ebenezer Seaver, Tompson J. Skinner, James Sloan, John Smith of New York, John Smith of Virginia, Henry Southard, Richard Stanford, Rensselaer, Joseph B. Varnum, Daniel C. Verplanck, David Thomas, Philip Van Cortlandt, Killian K. Van Jobn Whitehill, Richard Winn, and Thomas Wynns. The yeas and nays were taken on agreeing with the Committee in fixing the salary of the Secretary of State at $5,000, and carried—yeas 80, nays 31, as follows: YEAS-Willis Alston, jun., Nathaniel Alexander, NAYS-Willis Alston, jun., Nathaniel Alexander, John Archer, Simeon Baldwin, David Bard, George Isaac Anderson, Simeon Baldwin, George Michael Michael Bedinger, Silas Betton, William Blackledge, Bedinger, Silas Betton, William Blackledge, John Boyle, Adam Boyd, John Boyle, Robert Brown, Joseph Bry- Robert Brown, William Chamberlin, Martin Chittenan, William Butler, Levi Casey, Clifton Claggett, Thom- den, Joseph Clay, Matthew Clay, Frederick Conrad, as Claiborne, Jacob Crowninshield, Richard Cutts, John John Davenport, John Dawson, John Dennis, William Dawson, Thomas Dwight, John B. Earle, Peter Early, Dickson, Thomas Dwight, John W. Eppes, William James Elliot, John W. Eppes, William Eustis, Wil- Eustis, James Gillespie, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin liam Findley, James Gillespie, Peterson Goodwyn, Gray, Thomas Griffin, John A. Hanna, Joseph HeisThomas Griffin, Samuel Hammond, Wade Hampton, ter, William Hoge, David Holmes, David Hough, BenJohn A. Hanna, William Helms, James Holland, Da jamin Huger, Samuel Hunt, Walter Jones, William vid Holmes, Benjamin Huger, Samuel Hunt, Walter Kennedy, Nehemiah Knight, Michael Leib, Joseph Jones, William Kennedy, Nehemiah Knight, Henry Lewis, jun., Henry W. Livingston, John B. C. Lucas, W. Livingston, Thomas Lowndes, John B. C. Lucas, William McCreery, Nahum Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Andrew McCord, William McCreery, Nahum Mitchell, Jeremiah Morrow, Thomas Newton, jun., Joseph H. Jeremiah Morrow, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, Nicholson, Thomas Plater, John Randolph, Jacob Richjun., Joseph H. Nicholson, Beriah Palmer, Thomas ards, Cæsar A. Rodney, Thomas Sammons, Joshua Plater, Samuel D. Purviance, John Randolph, Thomas Sands, John Smilie, John Cotton Smith, Joseph M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Stanton, William Stedman, James Stephenson, John Tennessee, Thomas Sandford, Joshua Sands, Eben-Stewart, Samuel Tenney, Samuel Thatcher, Abram Sth CON.-31 Trigg, John Trigg, Isaac Van Horne, Matthew Walton, Lemuel Williams, Marmaduke Williams, and Joseph Winston. The blank was then filled with $3,000. Mr. J. RANDOLPH offered a new section, limiting the duration of the bill to three years, and to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter. Carried-ayes 51, noes 45. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow-ayes 51, noes 47. Mr. J. RANDOLPH, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to whom was recommitted, on the twentieth instant, the amendment proposed by the Senate to the bill, entitled "An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha," made a report thereon: Whereupon the amendment of the Senate, together with the bill, were committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. WEDNESDAY, February 1. FEBRUARY, 1804. venient and dangerous, to permit a measure, similar in substance to one previously rejected the same session, to be brought again before the House. To show that it was unparliamentary, sundry precedents were appealed to in the proceedings of the British Parliament, and the invariable practice of Congress was likewise urged; it was said to be inconvenient, from the great waste of time it produced, after a full discussion of any subject ; and it was declared to be highly dangerous from the power which it gave a minority at the close of a session to avail themselves of the accidental absence of members, to carry a favorite measure, though opposed by the express sense of the majority at an early period of the session. It was contended that the present bill was substantially the same with that lately before the House, and lost, owing to the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. This was evident from the salaries allowed being precisely similar in both bills; and it was insisted that the limitation of the last bill to three years did not discriminate it from the preceding bill, inasmuch as its effects would be as permanent as those of the former, should it be re Mr. NICHOLSON remarked that, from information received from the Navy Department, it appeared to him that a modification of the subsisting arrangements for the distribution of the offi.newed from time to time. cers and seamen on board of national vessels laid lowed the Postmaster General was strenuously The insufficient and disproportionate salary alup in ordinary, would be advantageous to the pub-insisted upon as an argument for postponing the lic service, while a retrenchment of about $30.000 a year could be probably made. With this view he moved the appointment of a committee to inquire into the expediency of amending the act providing for a Naval Peace Establishment.Agreed to, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. NICHOLSON, SANDS, CUTTS, LOWNDES, and STANTON, appointed. SALARIES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS. An engrossed bill fixing the salaries of those officers of Government whose salaries were increased by the act of the 2d of March, 1799, was read the third time. Mr. LEIB moved to postpone the bill to the first Monday in December next. This motion was supported by Messrs. GREGG, LEIB, J. CLAY, ELLIOT, THATCHER, ELMER, and SLOAN; and opposed by Messrs. RODNEY, J. RANDOLPH, DAWSON, SMILIE, EUSTIS, FINDLEY, NICHOLSON, and HUGER. bill. The office, it was alleged, required eminent talents, which the present officer, by the discharge of its duties, had shown himself fully to possess. Since the year 1799, the duties of the Post Office Department had greatly increased, and called for a remuneration, in some degree, correspondent to them. The opponents of the postponment avowed their impression-an impression sanctioned on a late occasion by a great majority of the House-that the salaries allowed by the bill were moderate, and in no instance more than an equitable compensation for services performed. They contended that great inconvenience would flow from postponing the making compensations to the Executive officers until the ensuing year, and that the effect of such omission would be the necessity of then passing laws retroactive in their operation, which would be to create a precedent of an alarming nature, that might lead a Legislature, which had lost the confidence of their constituents, to empty the public Treasury into the hands of their favorites as a remuneration for services, compensated at the time they were rendered, by a smaller and what was then considered a competent allowance. The advocates of the motion assigned different reasons for the votes they contemplated giving. Some declared themselves hostile to the quantum of allowance, as too high; others considered the apportionment of compensation partial and unequal, and were of opinion that it would be best to defer the entire subject of compensations to the They contended that this bill was not the same ensuing session, when it might be gone into gene- with the one previously before the House, as the rally, and a permanent salary given to each officer one was limited to three years duration, and the correspondent to the services rendered by him. other was permanent; and that this variation But the principal grounds of opposition to the constituted a characteristic and marked differpassage of the bill, and in favor of its postpone-ence. That, as to precedents, those referred to, in ment, were, 1st. The rejection of a bill that very the proceedings of the British Parliament, were session alleged to be substantially the same with opposed by others, afforded by the same body, that under consideration; and, 20. The insufficient and disproportionate salary allowed by it to the Postmaster General. It was declared to be unparliamentary, incon which justified not only the passage of the present bill, but which went farther, and would justify the passage of a bill the same with one previously rejected. That this bill had not, in point of fact, been rejected; the principle of it had been affirmed by large majorities of both Houses, and the only difference arose on the amendment of the Senate for making an addition to the salary of the Postmaster General. It was further contended that the precedents of the British Parliament did not apply to the proceedings of Congress, who were free to act for themselves, who, as they had adopted no written rule applicable to this case, were under no other restraints than those which flowed from their own convictions of the good or ill effects of particular modes of procedure. In reply to the alleged incompetency of the compensation allowed the Postmaster General, it was admitted that the present officer had ably and faithfully discharged the duties of the department, but it was denied that his official duties were of the grade asserted. While they required respectable talents, they did not call for those great and rare qualifications essential to the able administration and superintendence of the other great departments of the Government. H. OF R. the said bill do pass, it was resolved in the affirmative-yeas 57, nays 52, as follows: YEAS-Willis Alston, junior, John Archer, William Blackledge, Walter Bowie, Adam Boyd, John Boyle, Robert Brown, Joseph Bryan, George W. Campbell, John Campbell, Levi Casey, Thomas Claiborne, John Clopton, Jacob Crowninshield, Richard Cutts, John Dawson, John Dennis, William Dickson, John B. Earle, Peter Early, John W. Eppes, William Eustis, William Findley, James Gillespie, Peterson Goodwyn, Samuel Hammond, Wade Hampton, James Holland, David Holmes, Benjamin Huger, Walter Jones, Nehemiah Knight, John B. C. Lucas, Andrew McCord, William McCreery, Jeremiah Morrow, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jun., Joseph H. Nicholson, Samuel D. Purviance, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee, Thomas Sandford, John Smilie, John Smith of New York, John Smith of Virginia, Joseph Stanton, Samuel Tenney, Philip R. Thompson, Philip Van Cortlandt, Daniel C. Verplanck, Matthew Walton, John Whitehill, Richard Winn, and Thomas Wynns. NAYS-Isaac Anderson, Simeon Baldwin, George Michael Bedinger, Silas Betton, Phanuel Bishop, WilMatthew Clay, Frederick Conrad, John Davenport, liam Chamberlin, Martin Chittenden, Joseph Clay, The question was then taken by yeas and nays on the postponement, and passed in the negative-Thomas Dwight, James Elliot, Ebenezer Elmer, John yeas 45, nays 72, as follows: YEAS-Isaac Anderson, Simeon Baldwin, George Michael Bedinger, Silas Betton, Phanuel Bishop, William Chamberlin, Martin Chittenden, Clifton Claggett, Joseph Clay, Frederick Conrad, John Davenport, Thomas Dwight, James Elliot, Ebenezer Elmer, John Fowler, Andrew Gregg, Gaylord Griswold, Joseph Heister, William Helms, William Hoge, William Kennedy, Michael Leib, Joseph Lewis, junior, Thomas Lewis, Matthew Lyon, David Meriwether, Nahum Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Gideon Oli, Beriah Palmer, Jacob Richards, Erastus Root, Thomas Sammons, Ebenezer Seaver, James Sloan, Richard Stanford, William Stedman, John Stewart, Samuel Thatcher, David Thomas, Abram Trigg, John Trigg, Isaac Van Horne, Marmaduke Williams, and Thomas Wynns. Fowler, Andrew Gregg, Thomas Griffin, Gaylord Griswold, Joseph Heister, William Helms, William Hoge, Samuel Hunt, William Kennedy, Michael Leib, Joseph Lewis, jun., Thomas Lewis, Thomas Lowndes, Matthew Lyon, David Meriwether, Nahum Mitchell, Thomas Moore, James Mott, Gideon Olin, Beriah Palmer, Oliver Phelps, Jacob Richards, Cæsar A. Rodney, Erastus Root, Thomas Sammons, Ebenezer Seaver, James Sloan, Henry Southard, Richard Stanford, William Stedman, James Stephenson, John Stewart. Samuel Taggart, Samuel Thatcher, David Thomas, Abram Trigg, Isaac Van Horne, and Joseph Winston, Resolved, That the title be, "An act continuing, for a limited time, the salaries of the officers of Government therein mentioned." Mr. EARLY moved the following resolution: Resolved, That to witnesses summoned to attend any committee of this House, during the present session of Congress, there shall be paid, out of the contingent fund of the House, the sum of per day for their attendance, and the further sum of for every twenty miles' travelling. And that to any messenger, sent under an order of the House for the person of a witness, there be paid, from the same fund, the sum of for every twenty miles' travelling. tion at the Clerk's table; when, an adjournment The House proceeded to consider the said mobeing called for, the House adjourned. NAYS-Willis Alston, junior, John Archer, William Blackledge, Walter Bowie, Adam Boyd, John Boyle, Robert Brown, Joseph Bryan, George W. Campbell, John Campbell, Levi Casey, Thomas Claiborne, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, Jacob Crowninshield, R. Cutts, John Dawson, John Dennis, William Dickson, John B. Earle, Peter Early, John W. Eppes, William Eustis, William Findley, James Gillespie, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Thomas Griffin, Samuel Hammond, Wade Hampton, James Holland, David Holmes, David Hough, Benjamin Huger, Samuel Hunt, Walter Jones, Nehemiah Knight, Thomas Lowndes, John B. C. Lucas, Andrew McCord, William McCreery, Jeremiah Morrow, James Mott, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jun., Joseph H. Nicholson, John Patterson, Oliver Phelps, Thomas Plater, Samuel D. Purviance, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee, Cæsar A. Rodney, Thomas Sandford, Joshua Sands, John Smilie, John Smith of New York, John Smith of Virginia, "Resolved, That, to witnesses summoned to attend Henry Southard, Joseph Stanton, James Stephenson, any committee of this House, during the present sesSamuel Taggart, Samuel Tenney, Philip R. Thomp- sion of Congress, there shall be paid, out of the continson, Philip Van Cortlandt, Daniel C. Verplanck, Mat-gent fund of the House, the sum of two dollars and thew Walton, John Whitehill, Richard Winn, and fifty cents per day for their attendance, and at the rate Thomas Wynns. of twelve and an half cents for every mile's travelling. And then the main question being taken that | And that, to any messenger sent under an order of the THURSDAY, February 2. The House took up the following resolution, moved by Mr. EARLY: |