Alexandria Gazette

ALEXANDRIA:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1834.

CONGRESS.

In the Senate on Monday, the principal business was the Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, on the Message of the President concerning the United States Bank and the Pension Books. After debate, in which Mr. Kane, Mr. Bibb, Mr. Wright, Mr. Clayton, and Mr. Forsyth took part, the resolutions reported by the Committee, as amended, were agreed to.

The question was taken on the following resolution, offered as an amendment to the resolution reported by the Committee:

Resolved, That the act of Congress for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Revolution, passed on the 15th May, 1828, and the act supplementary to that act, passed on the 7th June, 1832, are properly acts providing for the payment of military pensions.

And decided by the following vote:

Yeas--Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Forsyth, Frelinghuysen, Kent, King, of Georgia, Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Preston, Robbins, Shepley, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, Waggaman, Webster--28.

Nays--Messrs. Benton, Brown, Grundy, Hill, Kane, King, of Alabama, Linn, McKean, Morris, Robinson, Tallmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins, Wright--15.

The question was then taken on the following resolution, as a further amendment to the resolution reported:

Resolved, That no power is conferred by any law upon the Department or Secretary of War to remove the agency for the payment of pensions, under the said act of 7th June, 1832, and the funds, books, and papers, connected with that agency, from the Bank of the United States and to appoint other agents to supersede that Bank in the payment of such pensioners.

By the following vote:

Yeas--Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, Kent, King, of Georgia, Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, Waggaman, Webster--26.

Nays--Messrs. Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Hill, Grundy, Kane, King, of Alabama, Linn, McKean, Morris, Robinson, Shepley, Tallmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins, Wright--17.

The question recurring on the following resolution, as amended by the foregoing:

Resolved, That the Department of War is not warranted in appointing Pension Agents in any State or Territory where the Bank of the United States, or one of its branches, have been established, except when specially authorized by act of Congress.

It was decided in the affirmative.

In the House of Representatives, Monday being petition-day, the whole day was consumed in the reception and reference of petitions, with remarks upon them, &c.

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Wright read his report on the case of the contested election of Senator from Rhode Island--which was a very long and elaborate argument.

After the reading of the Report, the vote was taken on the question, and Mr. Robbins was retained in his seat, by a vote of 26 to 16.

In the House of Representatives, a debate arose on the motion for printing the Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Bank Committee. The debate was very animated, and was conducted by Mr. Thomas of Md., Mr. Burges, Mr. Mann, Mr. Pinckney, Mr. Everett, Mr. Ellsworth, &c. &c. 30,000 copies of the reports were ordered to be printed, and connected together.

The House then spent some time in the consideration of a motion to reconsider the vote on the Pension Commutation Bill.