Daily Richmond Whig

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1830.

CONGRESS—IN SENATE.

On Wednesday, Mr. Naudain presented resolutions of the Legislature of Delaware, affirming the constitutionality of the Tariff. A report was received from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to the resolution asking for information as to the expediency of dispensing with marines in the Naval service. The Secretary seems doubtful of the expediency of doing so. The Senate then shut their doors.

On Thursday, Mr. Dickerson presented a memorial from N. Jersey in favor of, and Mr. Ruggles one from Ohio, against Sunday mails. Some private bills were considered, when the Senate shut the doors at an early hour.

On Friday, the bill authorizing the President to mount and equip ten companies to protect the frontiers and inland trade to Mexico, was passed. The bill reported by the Judiciary committee to reorganize the Attorney General's Department, and make it an Executive Office, was advocated by Mr. Rowan, and opposed by Mr. Webster, who expressed his preference for a Home Department to the one contemplated by the bill. It was made the order of the day for Monday, when after attending to private bills, the Senate again shut their doors.

On Saturday the Senate did not sit.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

On Wednesday, a long discussion took place on a resolution, offered by Mr. Swift of N. York, for fortifications on Lake Champlain. No question was taken before the hour for considering resolutions expired. The bill for the Buffalo and New Orleans road was again taken up, and supported at length on expediency and constitutionality, by Mr. Blair and Mr. Isaacs of Tennessee, and incidentally discussed by Mr. Carson of N. Carolina. No question was taken before the House adjourned.

On Thursday, Mr. Swift's resolution directing surveys to be made to ascertain the expediency of fortifying Lake Champlain, was passed. A resolution introduced by Mr. McDuffie, fixing the pay of members of Congress at $6 a day, after they shall have been in session 120 days during the long session, and 90 days in the short one, was then taken up, and advocated by Messrs. McDuffie, Tucker of S. Carolina, Whittlesey and Alexander of Va. Before there was a decision, the hour expired. (We congratulate the country on the introduction of this resolution, and by such authority, as Mr. McDuffie. We shall now see the sincerity of those loud and long professions of "Retrenchment" made by the Jackson party; and whether the Physician is willing to take one of the purgative doses which he is so ready to administer to others. If any thing can cure Congress of President making, and prevail with them to attend to business, Mr. McDuffie in our judgment, has hit upon the very expedient.)

The House then resumed the consideration of the Buffalo and New Orleans Road. Mr. Carson proposed an amendment, requiring the road to be made by the most practicable route, but opposed the bill. It was supported by Mr. Ramsey of Pa. and Messrs. Craig & Smyth of Va., in set speeches—no vote was taken. (We have met with nothing for a long time, which surprised us more, than the support of this magnificent road by Messrs. Craig and Smyth, both of the right Simon Pure, Virginia State Rights School. As to the road itself, it is on the most gigantic scale far, of any ever projected in this country, or any country, except perhaps one instance, under the Roman Emperors. Its cost is estimated at 21 millions of dollars, a most ridiculous under estimate. This road we presume, is to pass through the Montgomery and Wythe Districts. What will our learned contemporary say to this fresh defection?)

The House then took up the bill making appropriations for surveys for internal improvement. Mr. Wickliffe moved to restrict to such surveys as will be needed for works already commenced. Negatived—after which the blanks were filled, and the House adjourned.

On Friday, the House was chiefly occupied with private bills. Mr. De Witt presented a memorial from the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company of New York, praying Congress to subscribe $200,000 to their stock.

In the House of Representatives, the resolution offered by Mr. McDuffie, for reducing the pay of members of Congress, when the session exceeds a certain length, was further considered. The hour appropriated to the consideration of resolutions, was occupied by Mr. Coulter of Pa. in opposition to the proposed reduction. A debate followed on a bill to relinquish the reversionary interest of the U. States to Indian reservations in Alabama, in which Messrs. Storrs of Conn., Clay of Alabama, Huntington of Conn., Thompson of Ga., Shepperd of N. C., Bell of Tenn., Dwight of Mass., Drayton of S. C. and Hayne of S. C. took part, which was terminated by, an ineffectual call of Mr. Polk for the previous question. The rest of the day was appropriated to private bills, a number of which were passed.