The Hillsborough Recorder

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

From the National Journal,
Saturday, April 26.

In the Senate and House of Representatives,
the house resumed the consideration
of private bills. Some time was taken
in the discussion of a bill to authorize
the cancelling of a certain bond, which
was before the house in an earlier stage
of the session. The bill was ordered to
be engrossed and read a third time on
Monday.

Monday, April 28.

In the Senate, a committee was appointed
on the part of the senate, to recommend
a proper time for the adjournment of
congress. The bill making provision
for certain revolutionary soldiers, was
ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading. Some time was spent in the
consideration of executive business.

In the House of Representatives,
Mr. Martindale made an unsuccessful
effort to call up his resolution on the
subject of a duty on auction sales.
The various bills ordered to a third
reading on Saturday were severally
passed. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the state of
the Union, and took up the bill making
appropriations for the public buildings.
Some amendments were made to the
bill, which was then reported, and
ordered to a third reading to-morrow.
Among the amendments adopted was
one offered by Mr. Everett providing
an appropriation for the purpose of
purchasing an entrance to the Capitol
on the west side of the building. By
her amendments, the office of
commissioner of the public buildings is
ordered to be retained. Present salary.
The office is to cease on the 4th of
March, 1829.

Tuesday, April 29.

In the Senate, the bill to provide for
certain surviving revolutionary soldiers
and officers was passed. The bill for
the relief of Thomas L. Winthrop and
others, directors of an association called
the New England Mississippi Land
Company, was taken up and discussed.

In the House of Representatives.
Considerable time was spent on the
subject of the Brazilian relations,
between Mr. Everett and Mr. Cobb on
a resolution offered by the former,
calling for information on that subject.
The house resumed the consideration
of the bill authorizing the secretary of
the treasury to issue grants of land.
Some discussion took place on the
bill, but before any question was taken
upon it, the committee rose and
reported progress.

Wednesday, April 30,

In the Senate, the committee appointed
on the part of the senate to fix a day
for the adjournment of congress,
reported in part, and recommended the
26th day of May as the day for the
adjournment. The bill to provide for
the relief of the purchasers of public
lands was, after some discussion, laid
on the table. The committee on
manufactures reported the tariff bill
with amendments, which were ordered
to be printed. The bill for the relief of
Thomas L. Winthrop and others,
directors of an association called the
New England Mississippi Land
Company, was taken up, and discussed
for some time.

In the House of Representatives.
The resolution offered by Mr. Conner
relative to our affairs with Brazil was
agreed to. Mr. Everett having stated
his acquiescence in it. The committee
on the subject of adjournment reported
a resolution fixing the day for the 25th
of May. An amendment was moved to
make it the 19th, but before the
question was taken, the discussion was
arrested by the expiration of the hour.
The house resumed, in committee of
the whole, the bill in relation to the
Tennessee grants, but, after some
discussion, the committee rose and
reported progress. The house then
refused the committee leave to sit
again; so that the bill is now before
the house.

Thursday, May 1.

In the Senate, the resolution respecting
the adjournment of congress was
postponed to Wednesday next. Mr.
Benton's resolutions relative to the
public lands were considered and laid
on the table. Some discussion took
place on the bill making appropriations
for the public buildings; after which
the bill was passed.

In the House of Representatives,
the resolution relating to adjournment
was laid on the table by a vote of 81 to
28. The bill on the subject of the
Tennessee grants was also laid on the
table without debate -- ayes 112, noes
64. The house then resolved itself into
committee of the whole on the state of
the Union, and took up in succession
the bill for ascertaining the latitude of
the southern bend, or extreme of Lake
Michigan, and of certain other points,
for the purpose of fixing the true
northern boundary line of the states of
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois -- the bill
making appropriations for the Indian
department, as amended by the senate
to a bill to authorize the building of
light houses, &c. -- a bill to purchase
and distribute the seventh volume of
the laws of the United States -- a bill
regulating the commercial intercourse
with the islands of Martinique and
Guadeloupe -- a bill to amend the acts
concerning naturalization -- a bill to
authorize the improving of certain
harbors, the building of piers, &c.; all
which were passed through committee,
and reported, some with amendments,
and the others without amendment. The
house was then occupied in the
discussion of the two amendments made
by the senate in the bill making
appropriations for the Indian
department: in both of which the house
refused to concur.

Friday, May 2.

In the Senate, the committee of Finance
reported in favor of receding from the
amendment of the senate to the internal
improvement bill, excluding the
appropriation of 30,000 dollars for
surveys, to such surveys as have been
commenced. After a debate of six
hours, the senate refused to recede by
a vote of 23 to 24. The senate insisted
on their second and third amendments.

The proceedings in the House of
Representatives were chiefly confined
to private bills. There was a brief
discussion on a bill reported from the
judiciary committee to punish offences
committed by any of our citizens, by
selling spirits, fire arms, &c. to the
Indians across the Russian boundary,
but the bill was finally ordered to be
engrossed and read a third time
to-morrow. An attempt was made to
postpone the orders of the day for the
purpose of reconsidering the vote by
which they refused, on the previous
day, to concur in the second amendment
made by the senate to the bill making
appropriations for internal improvement,
but the motion did not prevail. Several
private bills, and the public bills which
passed through committee on Thursday,
were ordered to be engrossed and read
a third time to-morrow.