Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

CONGRESS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Tuesday, January 6.

The bill for ascertaining the losses of the officers of the revenue, and other citizens, by the western insurgents, was read the third time. The blank in the bill was filled up with eight thousand five hundred dollars. The bill was then passed.

A bill, making further provision in cases of drawbacks, was read a third time, and passed.

A memorial from the sugar refiners in the city of Philadelphia was read. It was of considerable length, and stated, that the excise on refined sugar would terminate in the destruction of the manufacturers. People refused to buy the refined sugar with the additional excise duty. The commodity, therefore, lay on their own hands. The business had, in fact, been put an end to. This memorial was referred to the same committee as that of the snuff-makers.

Mr. Goodhue moved that the house should go into a committee of the whole, on the bill supplementary to the acts for imposing duties on goods, wares, and merchandize imported into the United States. The house accordingly went into a committee, Mr. Cobb in the chair. They went through the bill with amendments; and it was reported to the house.

The house then went into a committee on the bill to establish an uniform system of naturalization, and to repeal the law formerly made on that head. One of the clauses in the new bill proposed to make aliens becoming citizens of the United States abjure their allegiance to all other states forever.

Mr. Boudinot after expressing his disapprobation of the term forever, moved that it should be expunged; this motion was carried in the affirmative—The Committee then rose—the Chairman reported progress and the House adjourned.