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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on the contract for supplying stone to build fortifications at the Rip Raps in the Chesapeake; after review of evidence, Mr. Colden moved the previous question, leading to the bill's passage by a large majority, dissipating much suspicion.
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THE RIP-RAPS.
The contract for supplying stone for the foundation of a position at the mouth of the Chesapeake, namely called the Rip Raps, has been the subject of a good deal of discussion in the House of Representatives of the United States, and also in the newspapers. When the subject was last debated in the House of Representatives, a number of papers were read, which had been put in possession of the committee appointed to investigate the subject; after the reading of which the previous question was moved by Mr. Colden, who declared his objections to the continuation of the work to be removed by the evidence which had been produced, and, the previous question being sustained by the House, the bill on that subject was ordered to a third reading, and subsequently passed by a great majority.
We do not mean to say that all difference of opinion as to this contract was quelled; but it is certain that the discussion had a tendency to dissipate much of the suspicion which had been thrown over it by the representations in the newspapers and elsewhere.
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Mouth Of The Chesapeake
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the bill on that subject was ordered to a third reading, and subsequently passed by a great majority
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The contract for supplying stone for the foundation of a position at the mouth of the Chesapeake, namely called the Rip Raps, has been the subject of a good deal of discussion in the House of Representatives of the United States, and also in the newspapers. When the subject was last debated in the House of Representatives, a number of papers were read, which had been put in possession of the committee appointed to investigate the subject; after the reading of which the previous question was moved by Mr. Colden, who declared his objections to the continuation of the work to be removed by the evidence which had been produced, and, the previous question being sustained by the House, the bill on that subject was ordered to a third reading, and subsequently passed by a great majority. We do not mean to say that all difference of opinion as to this contract was quelled; but it is certain that the discussion had a tendency to dissipate much of the suspicion which had been thrown over it by the representations in the newspapers and elsewhere.