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INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE.

Appropriation Bills, Senate recedes from its amend | Ennis and Maddox, bill for the reljef of; ordered to a

ments to, except that relative to the Florida Land Commissioners, 620.

debate on this amendment; Senate insists thereon, 620.

Appropriations for Military Service, motion to amend by striking out additional allowance for surveys, &c. 548; negatived, 558.

debate thereon, 548 to 554; 555 to 558.
motion to postpone; debate thereon; negatived,
554, 555.

bill amended and ordered to a third reading,

633

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Boyle and M'Girth's mounted rangers, bill for the relief of; ordered to a third reading, 625. bill passed and sent to H. of R. 633.

third reading, 144, 145.

Fortifications, amendments to bill making appropriation for, 630, 631, 632.

bill ordered to a third reading, 633.

Hemp, debate on bill for allowing a drawback on cordage of foreign, 169, 334, 341. bill rejected, 341.

Imprisonment for Debt, bill to abolish, 74.
amendments offered, 74, 126.

bill ordered to a third reading, 126.
read a third time, 162.

motion to recommit; debate thereon; adopted, 163
bill again read, 224.

debate on the principle of the bill, 224 to 230. bill rejected, 230.

Indiana, resolution of the General Assembly of 671. Cadets at West Point, debate on resolution to limit the Indian tribes, remarks on the bill for the preservation

number of, 136.

laid on the table, 137.

Calhoun, J. C., resolution requesting the President to notify him of his being elected Vice President,

548

and civilization of, 639 to 645. bill ordered to a third reading, 645. passed and sent to H. R. 646. Infantry Tactics, resolution for printing, 683.

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, bill authorizing a sub-Journals of the Congress of the Confederation, resolution scription to the, 671.

two additional sections proposed, 672.

debate thereon, 672 to 678, negatived, 678.

on the principle of the bill, 679 to 681.
bill ordered to a third reading, 681.
passed as amended, and returned, 686.

Choctaws, letter from J. L. M'Donald relative to, laid on the table, 630.

Circuit Courts. See Judiciary.

Claimants to lands in Missouri, &c., bill supplementary to an act relative to; rejected, 637. Columbian College, debate on bill for the relief of, 90 to 98; 230

bill postponed, 230. Columbia River. See Oregon. Commerce and Navigation of the U. S., report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the, 620, 621. Congress, opening of the 2d session of the 18th, 1. Copper mines, debate on bill for treating with the Chippewa Indians relative to, 684 to 686.

bill ordered to a third reading, 686.

Cordage. See Hemp.

Crimes against the United States, bill concerning, ordered to a third reading, 713.

Cumberland Road, debate on bill for the extension of, 646 to 667, 671. bill ordered to a third reading, 671. read a third time and passed,686.

Delaware and Chesapeake Canal. See Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Election of President, &c., resolution reported by joint committee on the mode of examining the votes,

amendment offered; negatived, 516. report concurred in, 516.

for subscribing to; negatived, 624.

Judiciary of the U. States, debate on bill for the amendment of the, 527 to 534.

amendment providing for the transfer of suits,

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515

bill passed and sent to House of Representatives,

33

Senate proceeds to the H. of R. to count the Yotes, 521.

bill from the House of Representatives, making. provision for, passed, 56,

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Lafayette bill, a Joint Committee appointed to announce Piracy bill, motion to recommit with instructions, 408, its passage to, 90.

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withdrawn, 412, renewed, 462, negatived, 463, other amendments, 412, 413, 417.

motion to assist merchant vessels to arm, and to employ an armed steam boat, &c. 419. debate thereon, 419 to 420, 434 to 435, nega. tived, 435.

motion to strike out the fourth section, 435; withdrawn, 461.

motion to strike out several sections; negatived,

461

motion to strike out the second section; nega. tived, 462.

bill reported as amended, 462.

new sections offered; negatived, 462, 463. amendments of the House of Representatives concurred in, 734.

Post Office, bill to reduce into one the acts relative to; amended and ordered to a third reading, 698 President, committee appointed for the reception of the new, 713.

report of the committee, 735. President's Accounts, message relative to the, 162.

motion to refer it to a Select Committee, 162. debate thereon; laid on the table, 162. President of the Senate, vote of thanks to the, 738. his reply, 738, 739.

Public Lands, resolution pledging them as a fund fored ucation and internal improvement; laid on the table, 42.

to authorize banks indebted for, to pay in lands, 40 debate thereon, 42, 43; laid on the table, 43. resolution appropriating them as a fund for the emancipation of slaves; laid on the table, 620 counter resolution, 696, 697.

New England Mississippi Land Company, debate on the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the com petition of the, 262, 487.

Ogden, Thomas L. and others, bill for the relief of, laid

on the table, 111.

Oregon, bill for the occupation of the, amended and laid on the table, 684.

debate resumed, 687 to 695-698 to 713.
bill laid on the table, 713.

Peale's Portrait of Washington, debate on bill for the purchase of, 624, 625, 638, 639.

bill amended and ordered to third reading, 638,

639 passed and sent to the House of Representatives,

646

Pensacola, bill for establishing a Navy Yard at, amended and ordered to a third reading, 686. Pensioners, report from the Secretary of War relative to, 11.

Piracy, call for information on, 34.

report of the committee on, 158, 159.
bill for the suppression of, 159 to 162.
message relative to, 198 199.

bill read a third time, 275.

debate on the principle of the bill, 275 to 284.
bill taken up by sections, 277 to 283.
motion to strike out the third section, 303.
debate thereon, 303 to 318, 375 to 394, 395 to 407
additional sections proposed, 318, 319
instances of enormity, 381, 382, 386, 387, 399,
721
conduct of the Inhabitants and Governor of Cuba,
386, 399

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merce and navigation of the U. S. 620, 621. of the Secretary of War, on pensioners, 11. debate thereon, 11, 12.

referred to the committee on pensions, 12. Roads and Canals, resolution for appointing a commit tee on, 7.

Storrs, Mr.; his account of the trade between Missouri and Mexico, 109, 110.

Supreme Court, resolution for regulating the jurisdic tion of the; read a first time, 9.

Topographical Surveys. See Appropriations for military

service.

Yazoo Claims. See N. Eng. Mississippi Land Company Yeas and Nays, on the bill making provision for Gene ral Lafayette 33.

on abolishing imprisonment for debt, 112, 12

230

for a drawback on cordage, 341. for marking out a road to Mexico, 361. for the Suppression of Piracy, 407, 434, 461, 45.

respecting Topographical Surveys, 558. on the Judiciary, 589, 605, 619, 620. for purchasing Journals of the Confederation, 62% for purchasing Peale's Portrait of Washington, 625, 639, 646

for fortifications, 631. relative to land claimants in Missouri and Arkansas, 607 for extending the Cumberland Road, 666, 677 for subscribing to the Delaware and Che peake Canal, 678, 681.

for occupying the Oregon, 713.

for the punishment of crimes against the United States, 713.

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