Richmond Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1, Number 11, Richmond, Wayne County, 20 March 1822 — Page 1

Richmond Weekly Intelligencer.

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VOL. I. RICHMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1822. NO. n.

h.l ran t. vr .: - vri..;

V 7c "Dollars mo! '( C';nt.fr v2

jxrden: but zrhu-ii nviy Of ; rirpty ihc pajKfti! f Tzco D:llarsin

rriMtD and rurLisiiF.D bv "ELIJAH LACriV.

al of commerce that the revenue

I would ho adequate to the cxnendi-

ture, and ho a v iro necessity that

ca.r.'.vr

in!; rat ofUth ::r solicited

V crp'rctk r. t

O

su&ncrifor? t.-zV-

arrearage 7i ?' ,'Y..' 6 ;

V- Litters to t i( L uL-r

commerce, had heen found safe and

correct, would ip.vIt fokicious.

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l- concmucu ' - C " '- iv.rth ii we could not rely on calcu

lations made by c omparing the past with the future; but, in view of the present condition of commerce, he thought it lair to conclude that the income of the present vear would be

adequate to the expenditure.

Mr. halkiin did not wish to ex

amine the merits of the act of 1G1G, (to which the gentleman from Maryland had alluded:) and ho was

orrv the ca-e of the revolutionary

pensioners could not he .-.ttended to.

ippropna-' , . ,. ,

lions hv the Pressure of (i rm !.,n. ,m im 11 "ai l fclP"CU, witnout

Mr. Williams, of N. C. was not disposed to throw any cmbarrasmentin the wav of the commit f iuAh it h:.d

Cfhicc. , , . reperted'the bill. Vet he thought ; V . . rr . , .it the dictate of wisdom and pru--4 . . . y , delH C. to halt at this ilen. :intl re

t1 ct upon the situation of the reen-

ue. heion; tliese appropriations were i .

'made. r r.im hi :innniiif-irn ifl

t':r Procodini:s of the house, he had y"" ben K d to o!crvo that thev were;

t.o often driven to ma'cc

At

iiio-e session

, . . oia'.ymg after them other apnropnas toat are ter- ... . , . , .

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n.inated bv 1 nv on the .;th of Mar, !u ' ' mumcicim i -,11. i : i iniormatioii hatl not vet been ootaint.i" apoiop! t.ition biih hnv( lietMi u- , rPI , ... , , I .i . . . Oil. I Il' lull W.I-; riwrfpi vtfrif.'i v

i: v ore-:leO a lew i v u .in- . . w.. j.

?KVKXTEENTII C()Ni'lKi;S;

p. '. (i a lew uavs heion

itsc'w, a;.d seart4 c ompelletl to pa tann w it bout much examination

iiour or iitirriLs f . ;r. etch of ;r vt r 'ipridiion bit'.

The house n

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!?eo:nea law within iho constitution

al b

l t t;

If i:

. t..Mi ttee ot t!:e w:a:!'

on the tat

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rm. ana a i.lat ion o the l.iil i

e nation r -u!t as a cinseouence.

At ?!io-' e-Itn, o!i tin' othT hand.

we are

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uneic u;e lerui ! ernnnneu.

: ti.tMiiiion, (Mr. Little in t!ie chair; ,

t.ske into con-id; rati. a tf-, !ill fr .ui:.L" appropriation- fertile milita- . 4 . ! I"..! . 4

rvuvoi me i-i;u i ...nis im

vcar eighteen hundred ar.d two:.-

u:

w 1 1 s l a on! ir pa:

Uio: to

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t. ! i

oar: : in

ial appropri-

"pj!v tiie cxiireixieN of tin

year, and w hich

to f),- ilcdudii Iroin

ii was laid on our tanles tins morning, and i- not yet dry; and if he felt himvelf faulty in relation to this u:oet, it was in f.oeVing toe Jong, rather than in coming forward too o::, to epre. his unwillingness to commit tin nation to such an expenditure, without knowing on what foundation the public credit wa placed. He respected the opinions of the gentleman from Maryland as

lien h as anv other irentleman. but

a:c t. .1 is to f)e (halm t d Iroin - . - . . . . ... . ., , the individual opinion-ol a member tae c ''r ral appropriation bill, and 4 1 . , . , . i . , i -ii were not a ground on wluch it wn-

t'.en thi uonri.d appropriation bill

AT

ei .5:ar : iair

A the con::r.itte; cf ai a:.! ir.. v. lio reported the hiil.j m n -

- i'll the bl.i!.k 4,for the i;..v oi

ny and Fn!.-Nlenc' of the ef-

wim tt.e s am i t

t,

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o!' that

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; ai a o-'i io i ioo inie. oi . , ,

. ' . , A 1 nev mvoiyed no re-ponsihilitv. 1 e:n-ta!.ve- too urgent to - ,

, , . a iormer report mm me irea-urv (leTsitmv whit h it, . . , nMrlliiitlit I tin rm'tiiin a -1 i'i. I -

wa-fe rr.;ht and tne dutv ot this ' , ... . i , , ,t- 4k , . ,, ito exceed the expenditure bv Xo,-h-ej-o to make. ..Ir. . tr.ought thel ,,,w. , . ., . r , . . . . n i200a)(H). and where ii. this curnliKf

'ir-: r.'ut hi j.-t ohvtous muuirv was. . t 1 .

A, r,M .'i lie would consent to tins appropna-

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lUrtd anu sevc Liven e-i i: a: -. yir. Buliicin v J. f vc an rr-.r-riation li!:e this v mado, to

i

ad hi j.-t o.

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a qUi

t . . f 1 u t4T iti flit Ai rt m 7 I

. . . . 'no no i iiiviit'itv; jl &4i e :

ciLri!r. c.u) iins-vi'.d nn.c .

apun statenunt t tae iee!itn

I,

v'.);h our fn.r.ncial f one on:- ie::!- : -.d. lie wm . '.::z t cut t!a

l:: .. d j n ..(ai. d :a.t ho.v

. i. i.or how d o :i ca

.;. .i to m et t'. r

. .v: now caii'-a nju:i :o pav1 T I -r the ajpn p-.4a':on of a 1 ii:.. l!orc he cani l :o ! t

rt'.e.r-ot-tact stat'-meet of tin- r. .

country, lie v.;

until he ki.o.v

un'. iliin::

d.

tint, if it 4.x 1.. I :a .. 4. V-!

t:on to i put at the thrcs! , . , , . , .

a i, an.', ho in nv:!it l!;e inquiry ol n. 1 , . rr . ,- J. the prophecies oflour vear having tne ev U-man In in I cnnsvlvai'ia.!. , 1 . . . . . , x, , . . - turned out to be incorrect, he was ir. I il l w i'i.) nad not been answer-:. 4., , . r . ,

it tne (!:a.i:nan ot the coin:mt-r!i . Vi 4. . .a

, ... ine pasi. lie leu 11 unsafe to sianu

!' 'I Hill' IIKII ll ll.P IIIHJI'J wl'UllllLl 1 - . 1 11 1 m i .the appropriations upon anv calcua -aia.ae that no bill s,a,l )C re- , .. 1 1 1 - , .. , , , ... ., , ilations ot average: nor was he di?porteil. to author!.' tie ourrowini: ,. , , , . ... . 1 posed to j-rorc down the treasury re

- .11 7 1 1 jport-. like the forecasts of an alman-

, i.n.i. oimiuii iii1:? i i.ihi -ii 111 ' lii. .t . l- . .1 . 1 4 .1 t !... . - 11. "if nn.ilirl 41. -.4 'iliAHf (Iiim

. L... w :i ;iMir toue el al the demand- up- . 1 ' ? . . r vc:t'c:" 1 h i . i 1 ,d:iy ou m av expect to meet tan v 1 it t- r the c-xp.-mutun'so! the cur-' . t ,, .

, ... .. , nc,nm'i ,u iih: ooiioiij. in: oiiiii

! nt ear. lie snouni r.'e disu sed to

OI:M'!'r

aeouiesc

i

in the pas-aire of the bill.

and tlsc hou-.'

a ,

c ":hl

s accoruinua v.

He iv. i3 not p: p ir d t" ir g money, nor w i.'-vl ta apnropiiaV lar.

i.iriv", without I. n. i:.-

v w ere to ! " :.v '

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.4 e.

moved that tha

proceed with any gentlemen and cut

iliuvii r. v 'lid i f ll if !riL'o vll4T4' it

- hichtlMt e-,n:!i::ttee had reporte d. u onUl wul lt mcl ti:fJ revenue. .Mr. Smith, in r.qd . obsen ed that He w i-hed to see w here the revenue

shape its . j. n- a-t!ie It - on the statute bookjreally was. It had been the pracreinained unrepeah d, tin expendi- ttce, year after year, to talk of balv,,;r for tare n-.itho: ied bv it mu-t be pro- lances. But where were they? In

. i led for ai d met, or the t ilth of the air and it balances in tne air the -oen:!ia nt mu-t be violated, would meet the solid appropriation-

hat A' d. j,, nn-ucr l the g. nth inen ot the house, there would tie less ollic. iV -in lV:a:- i'.ai-ia at:d North Caro-jiectioii to the passage of tin bill.

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sum- in

( oinmii

Iir:a. he could siv, that, bevond tin fAlr. 13. then adverted to the statisti

eeee .irv dis!)iir inents alreadv au- eal account of the condition of the

riband report pn jn on this raee-ary di-hurrcmenls already au-eal account ot the condition oi me . v.-irh a viou to j.J to.aiira: tho thoiiod" and dircctetl by law", tin-, treasury, to shew that, by the real !d. i. ion on i' to a laler period. bill did not a-k for the appropriation-ituaiion of available funds, the trea- ' . . .. i i . .....ii..:.... .. l ........ I .

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a -mL'le ( enu ll U'.'ii imi mi nim,-ur ia iu umim hi .im-.u u imn f ,wt. ill iho iii.iuM-ieslinore than a million ofdollars. The

that such was the fact, particularly in the city of New Vork. There was .v;encrp! revival nf industry and

trade W the Urd 'c d St tes ; una : i.i . m 1

w tietner the lunumg sy stem was conturned or not, he deemed somewhat immaterial nor did it increase the aggregate of national wealth, if one department was enabled to borrow money from another; but he would -take his reputation, as a prophet, upon the prediction, that the revenue of the next year would exceed the calculations of the treasury by more than two millions. Mr. lial'lwin was aware of the situation in which he M as placed, but wished to be allowed to be supposed

to be capable to think of one thing

at a time, lie did not, on the present occasion, rise to advance anv

loctrincs as radical, nor was it

fair to suppose that he could have

the revenue of another but thi hill did not affect the one or the other, nor was any gentleman commixed b his vttc upM it, to support r

to oppose -either of liiexa,ai! t'.ev should be brought forward. Mr. S. was rather disposed to think there would be a diminution, rather than an increase of the revenue, and tins from the circumstance that our exports had essentially decreased, and this could not take place certainly not for a series of years, without a diminution also of the imports. Vef he yvas in favor of the bill, because he thought the f lith of the government required its passage. The question yvas then taken on the motion to rise and report, and lost ayes 51, noes 78. The question was then taken on

filling the first blank with the sum

nothing but the tariff in his mind.ipriiuosod and carried.

With respect to the prediction of the

gentleman from New York, (Mr.

Camhreleng) he was disposed to give

it as much credit as to other fantasies

of the brain. If. however the gen

tleman would give bond, with good

urety, to the people ol the united

Mates, for the lultdmcnt of the visi-

r. it would then be time for the

house to receive it as a basis of aj-

probation. It yvas proper, in such . i 4 . a a i iii

oases, thai the House siiouiu Knoyvn on what basis the prediction yvas

founded. A calculation iiad been

made, relative to the city of New

i ork; but he should like to now how the Xaty of Philadelphi fared this w inter? He thaught that congress had

legislated long enough on dreams and

vi-sions, and it yvas now time to get rid of the air-castle building system,

and to sober themselves down to plain

matters of lact to distuingui-li between money in the mine, and money

in the pocket and it was with that v iew that he moved that the committee rise and report. Mr. Rnndotvh yv ished to carry the

enquiry one step further than the gentleman from Pensvlvania for he wanted to find, not only where the

money comes from, but yvhere it goes

After filling up other blanks Mr. Smith moved to till the 6th

blank for the purchasing department

(in addition to an unexpended balance of .Sou.033 40.) with the sum of

S'73,433, which was agreed to. Mr. S. al-o moved to fill the Gth blank, for the purchase of w oollens, for tiie

year 1G23, with the sum of S7o,000.

Mr. Trimble was disposed to limit this part of the purchasing department to American manufacture?, lie

thought there were just complaints

of great abuses, especially m tae In-

diati department; for it was s.uo. and

he believed truly, that shot were transported from Georgetown to Su Louis, within two miles of the very place where they are manufacture in such quantities and ofsucii quality as to be now in a fair way of pas-ing down the Mississippi and along the

coast, so as t. drive the Philadelphia

shot out oi their ow n market. 1 nc same complaint was made in respect to tomahawks and other articles furnished for the Indians. Arid, in relation to furs, it yvas remarkable that those received at the agencies, were transported to Georgetown and then sent back to Ohio and sold, to be

to! The committee of wavs nnd'm.ule h.fr. hac, and thereby

he an-

it the othrtTS of tin: gori rnm nt aa loan or to b vya tax, though he

:M make neisi- al advance-.'f h jught thev w o-ild probably report

o.

time had come when in his opinion.

it was necessary to make a seriou-

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means. aim earne-i can ioi me. nue omn

ia, ie -ion. " Mr. Saj'A, of Marylar d, aid. that h

e .IT":' iuto:. . "i!.o ht;t e.ir J.a 'h it had been. put; nor wa

Mppertof the.mili .rv cAublM - thot iz d o to do a chairman of the

. : 1 u ero ct!iv.v, UY n- 'oinmittee ot was and

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po n.onths on tr.f new ear. and I to-v had not heen consulted upon tion oi mai uejarimem. i eai ,mn

r: i, uothir." n!.rrew:th to pa tht in. Vet, as an individual mem-'year reports had been made, and the i!. !-. ,i.d, on tnat depai tm-rd. 1- r f the hoii-e. he would av, that jonly diflcrcncc between them seem- .... tbrr. ho : J:,,I tl... omr.i r in his ooinioii. n bill w ould be ore-ed to be in tiie magnitude of the er-

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to delay? as it expected .

aiteil by that eomniittee to author-

not-

rors they contained. There was one tiling at all hazards, which it wa the duty of this house to sustain

Let this bill then be postponed until

proper inquiry be made into that

-ar.d i.f ither th-.-m o,n a revenm- bill, which should be cal- and that was the credit of the nation.

tae revolutionary pen i e a r- ul at. d to ia rea-e the revenue. dJ be.- paid. The payment ofti e Ai d, a3an individual, he would fur-

J -t ha 1 been deterred la-t S p- t:n r give it as Mis opinion, tnat me sunp ti. ' r. and now an instalment b. - i venue w otild be adequate to the Mr. Cimbrclcng was opposed to I. die earh in Man h. 'IU expenditure of the current ear, ovei the motion to rise and report. He -alb ring for want of it. Th-and above the unaailabie fund. -aid that many of his constituents Pv-1 'e of thu t,;il l r. o .t .tl in.i'lMio .re.ol,M.eni from Pennsylvania were creditors of the government,

t rl.r ..;.! :.:.. r tl ...: I....I t'.. .. t ...... I.L. vtil'i.ent v ilh whom it WHS il Pile to allow HO

- i - nun uuj proposn ions t t..i ni;iu u mm i"' k"" i- i l (oiDuorrd r. f.,rr,. ).;, i o tr.;J.xt' f lw .ov.m.i.i. 4v-r. A i v to re nee to in tv rest. One individual had a claim

nfbt think proper to make. Jtwas the past experienee of the country of 60,000 dollars, which was unpaid; f-- iv intended to meet the demand- would convince the gentleman that and he thought an immediate a ppro--i-'t arise from laws now incxi-tenee -m h abatement wa- impracticableJpriation ought to be made, to meet M which the faith of iho povein- vve. It h.,,1 fi!mrrlv been the prac-jthc demands upon the government, iritis idedeed to. fulfill. Mr. S. ti e to m d.e th.: e-timates unon a!&c. Mr. C. said, he thought that,

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T'' disposed to elite rYuly into the hi-is cabulated upon an average of;

news ol gcntleiin, wjHl 1-anl to three pieee- ntng ears. Uut, ad I roper ret(tnchrrkfi wheWjt verting to the -oi.dition of the eoun

Q'i not involrf a denial oiVSr-UHeHtv ;, in relation to the rownue de-

ii 1 A i 1. il.x..wil i

on mis sunjeci, me g( uim.iikiu nom Pennsvlvania, (Mr. Baldwin,) bad brought to bear, a gloom that had haunted his mind tor four years past,

and had led him into error. He (,1

a'vi legal rigRL e,rir?6w.l d papin nt. fo. several years past, Mr.land had led him mtoerror. lie (,ir coimdeuce Iik Siorf3ir the sifahl that r.d. ul.ition-, bottoined;r.) wanted no almanac to convince secretary 4&SHrV&pT lip was pri-.cipb whi-.. till the recei.tjhim that the revenue was improy ing: Visaed that'fewc wsiaciciv-iF:araoidiuarv lluaualiuns in ourland he exhibited abatement to thew " v -n ' '

means did not seem to be a committee

of supply, to get money, but only to

get rid of it. It seemed, however,

that we had grown wiser than our fathers, and that it was now an object

as expressed by the gentleman from

.New York (3li. Cmbreleng,) oltoiiu

indilFerence whether the sinking

fund was retained or not. 31r. K then directed his discourcc princi

pally to the importance of retaining, and supporting that fund. Ho pre--ented, w ith his usual eloquene, a history of its origin and progress traced it from the patriots yvho originated and sustained it explained the dilVereiice that existed between it and the sinkfund of Kngland -paid .inelegant tribute of ropcctVto the integrity of Hamilton and the wisdom

of Sherman, w ho had not thought it a matter of inditb rence: and con

cluded by expressing his concurrence with the'gentlemaii from Pennsylvania, that further light should be thrown upon the actual state of our finances, before appropriations of so lar'e an amount should be made. Mr? Sergeant thought that the house were brought unexpectedly to the consideration of subjects to which the legitimate purposes of the bill did not lead. Was it a question whether there should he a reduction if the Dublic expenditures? No.

i i Was it a question whether the revolutionary pensioners fhould be cut shortof their pay I No. The ques- . .a 1 It

tion yvas, whether the house wouiu

make appropriations to carry into

eltect the laws already in existence, or whether we should break the faith of the government by failing to fulfil those 'promises to which that faith was pledged? We had a proposition to reduce the expenditures of one department of the government and might. iiue a bill t increase

crued to the extent of all the expense of a double transportation. He beleived there was never a more abominable speculation than has been on these articles: Mr. T. concluded by moving to insert after the word woollens the vrords "of Americaa

manutacture. The question was then taken on 4 (iillieg the blank w ith tne sum of 75,000 dollars, as proposed, and carried. Mr. Smith, then moved to fill the blank for the quarter master general's department, for regulating -applies, fuel and contingencies, and tor extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection and repairing of barracks, and other labor, with the sum of :? 13,2 17 dollars. Mr. Ross observed that he understood that the bu-iecss of courts martial had become a money making job, and that a gentleman from the north (New-York) had made the moderate charge of 13

or . si 4,000 for presiding in them one

vear. He yvished to be further informed on that subject. The question 'was then taken on the sum proposed and decided in the affirmative Sundry other blanks being filled

Mr.Snith moved to fill the blanks of pen-ions to the revolutionary pen

sioners oi the U. State?, (including a deficiency in the appropriations of last ycar"of $451,839,57, and in ad

dition to an unexpended balance of

Sl91,345,39of the year 1820) with the sum of $1,0-12591 which was agreed to. Mr. Smith then moved that the committee rise and report the bill as amended, which was agreed to. .Adjourned without having taken up the report. Di'iles Register,

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