Daily National Intelligencer

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1818.

Among the petitions presented to-day was one by Mr. Butler, from Maj. Gen. John Stark, representing his necessitous circumstances and praying that the bounty of the national government may be extended to him in the decline of his days, in consideration of his faithful services in the defence of his country: which was referred to a select committee.

Mr. Rhea, from the committee on pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Thomas Barr and others; which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Hugh Nelson, from the judiciary committee, reported a bill to alter the time of holding the Circuit Court in the Southern District of New York, and for other purposes; which was twice read and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, as also was a bill from the same committee, altering the time for holding a Session of the District Court in the District of Maine.

Mr. Williams of North Carolina made unfavorable reports on the petitions of John King and Joseph Shankland, on the petition of Phebe Moore, and on the petition of William Henderson; the first of which was rejected and the other two referred to committees of the whole.

On motion of Mr. Tucker, it was Resolved, That the committee on military affairs be instructed to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the proper accounting officers of the War Department to audit and settle the accounts of Harold Smith, late a Captain by brevet in the Army of the United States and quarter master at Fort M'Henry, in such manner and upon such terms as shall be equitable and just.

On motion of Mr. Smith, of North-Carolina, it was Resolved, That the committee on the Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to enquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Raleigh in North-Carolina, by Delks to Hillsborough.

On motion of Mr. Harrison, it was Resolved, That the committee on the Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to enquire into the expediency of establishing in some convenient situation in one of the Western States, a Branch of the General Post Office for the purpose of making contracts for the conveyance of the Mail, and to correct abuses in that Department.

On motion of Mr. Baldwin Resolved, That the committee on the Public Lands be instructed to enquire into the expediency of providing by law for allowing to any person or persons, who will purchase any portion of the Public Lands, not less than one entire township, at two dollars an acre, bearing interest from the date of the purchase, an extended credit beyond the time allowed to purchasers under the existing laws.

On motion of Mr. Anderson, of Kentucky, the committee on Post Offices and Post Roads were instructed to enquire into the expediency of establishing a post road between Elizabethtown and Bowling Green in Kentucky.

On motion of Mr. Marr, the same committee were instructed to enquire into the expediency of causing the public mail which passes through Columbia in Tennessee, to Natchez in Mississippi to be carried on the new military road crossing the Tennessee River near the mouth of Cypress.

Mr. Reed moved the consideration of a Resolution, offered by him relative to carrying into execution a Resolve of Congress for erecting a monument to Baron De Kalb: and the House refused to consider the same.

Mr. Claiborne offered the following resolution, which, after some debate, was ordered to lie on the table Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to lay before this House a statement of the expences incurred under the 4th, 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent, specifying the items of expenditure in relation to each

The House then, on motion of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Pitkin in the chair on the report of the select committee on the 15th December, on the subject of

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.

The report of the committee concludes with the following resolution:

"Resolved, That in order to promote and give security to the internal commerce among the several states; to facilitate the safe and expeditious transportation of the mails by the improvement of post roads, with the assent of the respective states; to render more easy and less expensive the means and provisions necessary for the common defence, by the construction of military roads, with the like assent of the respective states; and for such other internal improvements as may be within the constitutional powers of the general government, it is expedient that the sum to be paid to the United States, by the 20th section of the act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States and the dividend which shall arise from their shares in its capital stock, be constituted as a fund for internal improvement."

The resolution being read, and the question propounded on its adoption, some discussion took place on a motion that the committee rise, (made with a view to prevent a discussion of the principle of the resolution) which was decided in the negative; after which, several gentlemen delivered their sentiments on the main subject, and a good deal of discussion took place on incidental questions which arose, a view of which will be given in our next, not having room in this paper for the details.

The committee rose without taking any question, obtained leave to sit again; and

The House adjourned.