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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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The U.S. House of Representatives debated amendments to a bill authorizing the President to raise a Provisional Army, including motions on volunteer companies and state service limits, before passing it 51-40 this morning.
Merged-components note: These are sequential reports on the debate and passage of the Provisional Army bill in the House of Representatives, forming a single domestic news item on current congressional action.
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Yesterday, the House of Representatives of the United States again went into a committee on the bill authorizing the President of the United States to raise a Provisional Army, when Mr. R. WILLIAMS moved to strike out the following words in the third section, viz. "company or companies of volunteers," for the purpose of inserting "military corps established by law in any state." This motion occasioned considerable debate, and was finally negatived 50 to 38. General SHEPARD next moved to strike out the following words at the end of the same section, "Provided, such volunteers shall not be liable to do duty in any place but in the state to which they respectively belong, or in an adjacent state," which was carried 60 votes being for it. Some other amendments of small importance were agreed to, and then the committee rose and the several motions which had been agitated in the committee of the whole were made in the house (on most of which the Yeas and Nays were taken) and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow: A call of the house was made by Mr. SITGREAVES at half past eleven o'clock, in order to insure a full attendance at the passage of this bill.
This morning, in the House of Representatives of the United States, the Bill for authorizing the President to raise a Provisional Army, was carried by a majority of eleven 51 to 40.
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bill passed by a majority of eleven, 51 to 40.
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The House went into committee on the bill authorizing the President to raise a Provisional Army. Mr. R. Williams moved to strike out 'company or companies of volunteers' and insert 'military corps established by law in any state,' which was negatived 50 to 38 after debate. General Shepard moved to strike out the proviso limiting volunteers' duty to their state or adjacent state, carried with 60 votes for it. Other minor amendments agreed to; bill ordered read third time tomorrow after house motions and yeas/nays. Call of the house made by Mr. Sitgreaves for full attendance. This morning, the bill was carried 51 to 40.