Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856.

126 ABRIDGMENT OF THE H. OF R.] President's Message-Election of Sergeant-at-Arms-Public Lands. [DECEMBER, 1832. Government an unlimited power over the subject candidates were nominated for the office. of internal improvements; and that I could not, After three unsuccessful ballotings, the result therefore, approve a bill containing them, without on the fourth ballot stood as follows: receding from the positions taken in my veto of the For William J. McCormick - - 35 Maysville road bill, and, afterwards, in my annual William B. Robinson - 29 message of December 7, 1830. William A. Gordon - 25 It is to be regretted that the rules by which this Jonathan Ny 25 classification of the improvements in this bill has Thomas B. Randolph - 25 been made by the Engineer Department are not Thomas Bs andolph more definite and certain, and that embarrassment And many scattering votes. may not always be avoided by the observance of lhe House then adjourned to Monday next. themIn; but, as neither my own reflection, nor the lights derived from other sources, have furnished MONDAY, December 10. me with a better guide, I shall continue to apply my best exertions to their application and enforce- Election of Sergestaat-arms. ment. In thus employing my best faculties to ex- The House then again proceeded to ballot for ercise the powers with which I am invested, to avoid a Sergeant-at-arms, to supply the vacancy in evils, and to effect the greatest attainable good for that office occasioned by the resignation of our common country, I feel that I may trust to John Oswald Dunn; and, on the ninth ballot, your cordial co-operation; and the experience of Thomas B. Randolph, of Virginia, was elected. the past leaves me no room to doubt the liberal indulgence and favorable consideration of those for whom we act. TUESDAY, December 11. ~The grounds upon which I have given my assent to.Falls of the Ohio. appropriations for the construction of light-houses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and the removal of On motion of Mr. CARR, of Indiana, the petisand-bars, sawyers, and other temporary or partial tions of the citizens of the State of Kentucky impediments in our navigable rivers and harbors, and Indiana, praying for an appropriation to be and with which many of the provisions of this bill made to improve the Indian Chute, through correspond, have been so fully stated, that I trust the falls of the Ohio river, which were referred a repetition of them is unnecessary. Had there to the Committee on Internal Improvements at been incorporated in the bill no provisions for works the last session of Congress, and not acted upon, of a different description, depending on principles are again referred to said committee. In makwhich extend the power of making appropriations ing ti ti to every object which the discretion of the Govern-ng this mn, ment may select, and losing sight of the distinc- r.. remarked, that it was a subject in tions between national and local character, which I which a large portion of the commercial and had stated would be my future guide on the sub- agricultural community of the West felt a deep ject, I should have cheerfully signed the bill. interest, and hoped that the action of the House ANDREW JACKSON. might be had upon it during the present Dec. 6. session. AMr. TAYLOR moved that the communication The Public Lands. be laid on the table and printed; but withdrew Mr. CLAY, of Alabama, offered the following: Ihis motion at the request of Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be Mir. WICKLIFFE, who moved its reference to instructed to inquire into the expediency of reducthe Committee on Internal Improvement; which ing the price of such portions of the public lands was agreed to. as have been offered at public sale, and have reMr. CLAY, of Alabama, subsequently moved mained unsold for the period of five years and upto reconsider the above vote on the ground wards. that the question had not been understood by Resolvedfurther, That said committee inquire into all the House. the expediency of relinquishing to the respective After some conversation between him and States in which they are situated, such portions of Mr. VWIcKLIFFE, he agreed to postpone the con- the public lands as may have been offered at public sideration of ihis motion for reconsideration sale, and, being subject to private entry, have reuntil to-morrow. mained unsold for the period of ten years. Mr. EVERETT offered the following resolution, Mr. WILLIAMS, of North Carolina, observed which lies on the table one day: that the resolution involved a very important Resolved, That the President of the United States question-perhaps as important a one as had be requested to communicate to this House, as far ever been offered to the consideration of Conas the public service will permit, such portions as gress; and he wished that its consideration have not heretofore been communicated, of the in- should be postponed to Monday next. Why structions given to our ministers in France on the was this unceasing demand heard for the subject of claims for spoliations, and of the cor- relinquishment by the United States of all its respondence of said ministers with the French Gov- public lands? For his own part, he was unable ernment, and with the Secretary of State of the to give any good reason for it; and as he deUnited States on the same subject. sired time to reflect on the subject of the resoThe hour appointed for proceeding to the lution, he moved its postponement till Monelection of a Sergeant-at-armns, having arrived, day. the House proceeded to the ballot: twenty-six Mr. CLAY said that this was a species of

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