INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE. Appropriation Bills, Senate recedes from its amend- Ennis and Maddox, bill for the relief of; ordered to a ments to, except that relative to the Florida debate on this amendment; Senate insists there- Appropriations for Military Service, motion to amend by debate thereon, 548 to 554; 555 to 558. bill amended and ordered to a third reading, 633 Boyle and M'Girth's mounted rangers, bill for the relief of; ordered to a third reading, 625. third reading, 144, 145. Fortifications, amendments to bill making appropriation bill ordered to a third reading, 633. Hemp, debate on bill for allowing a drawback on cord- Imprisonment for Debt, bill to abolish, 74. bill ordered to a third reading, 126. read a third time, 162. motion to recommit; debate thereon; adopted, 163 debate on the principle of the bill, 224 to 230. Indiana, resolution of the General Assembly of 671. number of, 136. laid on the table, 137. Calhoun, J. C., resolution requesting the President to Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, bill authorizing a sub- two additional sections proposed, 672. Choctaws, letter from J. L. M'Donald relative to, laid on Circuit Courts. See Judiciary. Claimants to lands in Missouri, &c., bill supplementary to 98; 230 and civilization of, 639 to 645. Infantry Tactics, resolution for printing, 683. Journals of the Congress of the Confederation, resolution amendment providing for the transfer of suits, 533 motion to recommit, 534; negatived, 605. 589 debate thereon, 582 to 589. motion to postpone indefinitely; negatived, 691. bill recommitted, 620. bill reported with amendments, 630. 623, 624 Lafayette, General, resolution of the House concurred in report of the joint committee on the mode for report of the Senate on the same subject, 2. bill making provision for, twice read, 12. 515 bill passed and sent to House of Representatives, 33 bill from the House of Representatives, making Senate proceeds to the H. of R. to count the VOL. I.-17 Lafayette bill, a Joint Committee appointed to announce Piracy bill, motion to recommit with instructions, 41, withdrawn, 412, renewed, 462, negatived, 441. motion to assist merchant vessels to arm, and to motion to strike out the fourth section, 435; motion to strike out several sections; negative, 461 motion to strike out the second section; nep bill reported as amended, 462. new sections offered; negatived, 462, 463. Post Office, bill to reduce into one the acts relative to; report of the committee, 735. motion to refer it to a Select Committee, 162.! Public Lands, resolution pledging them as a fund for ed to authorize banks indebted for, to pay in lands, 4 New England Mississippi Land Company, debate on the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the com Ogden, Thomas L. and others, bill for the relief of, laid Oregon, bill for the occupation of the, amended and laid debate resumed, 687 to 695-698 to 713. Peale's Portrait of Washington, debate on bill for the bill amended and ordered to third reading, 638, merce and navigation of the U. S. 620, 621. referred to the committee on pensions, 12. Storrs, Mr.; his account of the trade between Missouri Supreme Court, resolution for regulating the jurisdic 639 Topographical Surveys. See Appropriations for military passed and sent to the House of Representatives, 646 Pensacola, bill for establishing a Navy Yard at, amended Pensioners, report from the Secretary of War relative Piracy, call for information on, 34. report of the committee on, 158, 159. bill read a third time, 275. debate on the principle of the bill, 275 to 284. third section stricken out, 407. debate thereon, 412 to 419; negatived, 419; re- for occupying the Oregon, 713. for the punishment of crimes against the United INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. debate on the Senate's amendments to the General for Fortifications, debate on the Senate's amend- debate on Senate's amendments to the additional Appropriation for the Military Service, bill amended and motion to establish a school of practice for Light motion to establish a Fort at Beaufort, N. C.; motion to reduce the appropriation for the Indian bill read a third time, and laid on the table, 521, Chesapeake and Delaware. See Chesapeake and Illinois. See Illinois Canal. enumeration of former treaties with the, 7. subscribing to the stock of the, 216. history and importance of the, 216 to 223. read a third time, 274. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, motion to refer the bill to debate resumed, 516. motion to commit negatived, 516; renewed, 517; debate on the bill declaring the assent of Con. bill ordered to a third reading, 683. Claims, Georgia. See Georgia Militia Claims. 683 Massachusetts. See Massachusetts Militia Claims. Columbia (or Oregon) river, debate on the bill for occu- motion to refer the bill to the committee on that bill amended and reported to the House, 36. fifth section, relative to a Territorial Government motion to strike out the third section, offering land debate thereon, 39 to 42. third section stricken out; another amendment read a third time and passed; title altered, 59. Columbian College, bill exempting the Students, &c. of, Committee to make Provision for General Lafayette to of invitation, twenty-four, 3. Committees on President's Message, seven, 2. on the President's Accounts, seven, 186. Congress, opening of the second session of the 18th, 1. bill rejected, 737. Courts of the United States for the Southern District of Creeks and Cherokees. See Cherokees. See also In- Crimes against the United States, committee on the bill bill amended, 150. abstract of the original bill, 152. amendments proposed, 154 to 158, 188, 338 to proposed modification of the bill, 165. debate thereon, 165 to 168. bill reported as amended, 168. resumed, 335. motion to recommit to the Judiciary Committee, 335; withdrawn, 348. debate thereon, 335 to 341. |