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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
House Journal --WEDNESDAY, November 22, 1820.
Another member, to wit, from South Carolina, Charles Pinckney, appeared and took his seat.
Mr. Kinsley presented a petition of sundry persons interested in commerce, inhabitants of Belfast, in the state of Maine, praying that no alteration may be made in the state of Maine, praying that no alteration may be made in the existing tariff of duties on foreign goods imported into the United States, injurious to the commercial interest, for the purpose of extending further protection to the manufacturing interest of the country; which was referred to the Committee on Manufactures.
Mr. Morton presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Bristol, in the state of Massachusetts, praying for the establishment of a post route over the turnpike from the town of Taunton to Boston; which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
Mr. Tracy presented documents in support of the petition of Erastus Granger; when it was
Ordered, That the petition of the said Erastus Granger, with the report of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, thereon, made at the last session, together with the documents this day presented, be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
Mr. Morton also presented a petition of George Richmond, praying for a pension; which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
Mr. Robertson presented a petition of Thomas Buford, praying to be allowed additional compensation for his services as a Deputy Commissary of Purchases, in the late war with Great Britain; which was referred to the Committee of Claims.
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Mr. Sergeant, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to alter the terms ot the district court in Alabama," reported the same without amendment.
Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time to-day.
The said bill was accordingly read a third time and passed.
Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
Mr. Cooke, from the Committee on the Public Lands, made a report on the petition of William McIntosh, accompanied with a bill for his relief, which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
Mr. Cooke, from the same committee, also made a report on the petition of Nicholas Jarrott, accompanied by a bill for his relief, which was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Fuller,
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to inform this House what naval force has been stationed for the protection of the commerce of our citizens in the West India islands, and parts adjacent, during the present year, and whether any depredations by pirates, or others, upon the property of citizens of the United States engaged in such commerce, have been reported to our government.
Mr. Fuller and Mr. Wendover were appointed a committee to present the foregoing resolution to the President of the United States.
On motion of Mr. Scott,
Ordered, That the bill reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims, on the 19th of January last, supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of the land claims in the state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.
On motion of Mr. Hibshman,
Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route between the following points, to wit: between the post office established in Lambpeter Square, in Lambpeter township, Lancaster county, and the post office established in Cochransville, West-fallow-field township, Chester county.
The House proceeded to consider the unfavorable report made by the Committee of Ways and Means on the 27th of March, 1820, on the petition of Perley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks; and the said report being read, it was
Ordered, That the said petition and report be recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. Foot submitted the following resolution, viz.
Resolved, That the Committee on the Public Expenditures be instructed to prepare and report a system of retrenchment in the expenditures of the various departments of the government, (not inconsistent with the public interest) which will restore that rigid economy
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and simplicity becoming our republican institutions, and which the present stagnation of commerce, and the embarrassments attending every branch of domestic industry, imperiously demand.
The said resolution was read, and the question was put, Will the House now proceed to consider the same?
And determined in the negative.
Mr. Cobb submitted the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That it is expedient that the annual expenses of the government should be reduced; that, for the accomplishment of this object, it is further
2. Resolved, That all such offices as are not immediately necessary for the transaction of public business, and the abolition of which would not he detrimental to the public interests, shall be abolished.
3. Resolved, That the salaries of all civil officers, whose compensation has been increased since the year 1809, shall be reduced to what they were at that period.
4. Resolved, That it is expedient to reduce the army to the number of six thousand non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, preserving such part of the corps of engineers, without regard to that number, as may be required by the public interest; and including such reduction of the general Staff as may be required by the state of the army, when reduced as herein proposed.
5. Resolved, That it is expedient that the appropriations for the erection of fortifications shall be so made as to require a less sum annually, by extending the time within which they shall be completed.
6. Resolved, That the act making an appropriation of one million of dollars per annum, for the increase of the navy, be so amended as so extend the term within which such increase shall be made, and to reduce the annual appropriation to the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.
7. Resolved, That it is expedient to recall, from active service, one ball of the naval force now employed, and to place the same in ordinary.
Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to prepare and report a bill conformably to the second and third resolutions; that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to report a bill conformably to the fourth and fifth resolutions; and that the Naval Committee be instructed to prepare and report a bill conformably to the sixth and seventh resolutions.
The said resolutions were read, and committed to a committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
And then the House adjourned.
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