H. OF R. Exportation of Munitions of War. hill, William Widgery, Thomas Wilson, Rich'd Winn, and Robert Wright. NAYS-S. Archer, John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, Harmanus Bleecker, Adam Boyd, Wm. A. Burwell, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Thomas B. Cooke, John Davenport, junior, John Dawson, William Ely, James Emott, Asa Fitch, Thomas Gholson, Thomas R. Gold, Charles Goldsborough, Bolling Hall, Aylett Hawes, Jacob Hufty, Philip B. Key, Abner Lacock, William Lowndes, Nathaniel Macon, Archibald McBryde, Hugh Nelson, Thomas Newbold, Joseph Pearson, Timothy Pitkin. junior, James Pleasants, junior, Elisha R. Potter, Josiah Quincy, John Randolph, William M. Richardson, Henry M. Ridgely, Samuel Ringgold, John Roane, Thomas Sammons, Adam Seybert, Daniel Sheffey, John Smith, Philip Stuart, Silas Stow, Lewis B. Sturges, Pierre Van Cortlandt, junior, and Leonard White. The question was then taken on the second member thereof, and determined in the negative -yeas 49, nays 68. The House was then cleared of all persons for a short time in consequence of a message from the Senate, and, being again opened, on motion of Mr. RANDOLPH the House was again cleared, and the doors were closed, and remained so until the usual hour for adjournment. SATURDAY, June 27. JUNE, 1812. next. A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have adhered to their amendments to the bill "supplementary to the act authorizing the President of the United States to raise certain companies of rangers for the protec tion of the frontier of theUnited States." EXPORTATION OF MUNITIONS OF WAR. The House resolved itself into a Committee of of naval and military stores, arms, and the munithe Whole on the bill to prohibit the exportation tions of war and provisions to Canada and certain other British provinces, and for other purposes. amendments, which were concurred in by the After some time, the bill was reported with House. On motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, this bill was ordered to lie on the table; and, likewise on his Mr. QUINCY, from the committee appointed for motion, the Committee of Commerce and Manuthe purpose, presented a bill for the relief of Da- factures were discharged from the further convid Henley; which was read twice, and commit-sideration of the resolution a few days ago subted to a Committee of the Whole on Monday mitted by him relative to importation and export next. The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Commissioner of the Land Office, transmitting a report of the Land Commissioners for the District of Vincennes, made in obedience to the act of the 30th April, 1810; which were read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have passed a bill "authorizing the President of the United States to lease, for a term of years, any part of the reservations of public ground in the City of Washington ;" and they have passed the bill "supplementary to the act authorizing the President of the United States to raise certain companies of rangers for the protection of the frontier of the United States," with amendments, in which bill and amendments they desire the concurrence of this House. The amendments of the Senate, to the bill "confirming claims to lands in the Mississippi Territory, founded on warrants of survey granted by the Spanish Government," were read, and concurred in by the House. The amendments of the Senate, to the bill supplementary to "An act authorizing the President of the United States to raise certain companies of rangers, for the protection of the frontiers of the United States," were read, and disagreed to by the House. The amendments of the Senate to the bill authorizing the issuing of Treasury notes, were read and concurred in by the House. ation. YEAS-William Blackledge, Matthew Clay, William Crawford, Richard Cutts, Isaiah L. Green, Bolling Hall, William R. King, Peter Little, Nathaniel Macon, Hugh Nelson, Elisha R. Potter, Ebenezer Seaver, Samuel Shaw, Robert Whitehill, and David R. Williams. NAYS-William Anderson, Stevenson Archer, Dan iel Avery, John Baker, Burwell Bassett, William W. Bibb, Abijah Bigelow, Harmanus Bleecker, Adam Boyd, James Breckenridge, Robert Brown, William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Francis Carr, Epaphroditus Cochran, John Clopton, Thomas B. Cooke, Lewis Champion, Langdon Cheves, Martin Chittenden, James Condict, John Davenport, junior, Roger Davis, John Dawson, Joseph Desha, Samuel Dinsmoor, William Ely, William Findley, Ása Fitch, Meshack Franklin, Thomas Gholson, Charles Goldsborough, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Felix Grundy, Obed Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, Jacob Hufty, John M. Hyneman, Richard M. Johnson, Abner Lacock, Joseph Lefever, Joseph Lewis, junior, William Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Thomas Moore, Archibald McBryde, William McCoy, Alexander McKim, James Milnor, Samuel L. Mitchill, James Morgan, Jeremiah Morrow, Jonathan O. Moseley, Anthony New, Thomas Newbold, Thomas Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Joseph Pearson, Israel Pickens, William Piper, Timothy Pitkin, junior, James Pleasants, junior, John Randolph, Wm. M. Richardson, Henry M. Ridgely, Samuel Ringgold, John Rhea, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts, William Rodman, Thomas Sammons, John Sevier, Adam Seybert, Daniel Sheffey, John Smilie, John Smith, Richard Stanford, Philip Stuart, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, John Taliaferro, Uri Tracy, Charles Turner, junior, Pierre Van Cortlandt, junior, Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, William Widgery, Thomas Wilson, and Robert Wright. H. OF R. cific force for the defence of the eastern shore of Virginia, for the reason, as he stated, that the House had utterly refused to take into consideration this subject, the first which he, for his peculiar constituents, had ever pressed on their attention. On motion of Mr. WRIGHT, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill from the Senate to amend the militia laws within the District of Columbia; and the bill having been gone through without objection the Committee rose and reported the same without amendment. The bill was ordered to a third reading, and immediately read a third time, and passed." The Senate having adhered to their amendment to the bill for raising four additional com The bill was then further amended; and, on motion of Mr. McKIM, recommitted to the Companies of rangers, which amendment goes to remittee on Foreign Relations. NATURALIZATION LAW. duce the addition to one company, &c., the House took it up, but laid it on the table for the present, without deciding thereon. The House resolved itself into a Committee of of Vice President of the United States; which was agreed to--ayes 54. And the bill, as amended, was reported to the House, by whom the said amendment was concurred in, and the bill ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. The House resolved itself into a Committee of Mr. LACOCK said, that he should not offer any subject for the consideration of the House at this the Whole, on the bill allowing additional comlate stage of the session, had he not been con-pensation to the President pro tempore of the Senvinced the subject was such as required the im- ate, acting as such when the office of Vice Presimediate interposition of Congress. It would be dent shall be vacant. found, by an examination of the naturalization Mr. CHEVES moved an amendment importing laws, that, after the declaration of war with Great that in such case the President pro tempore should Britain, the courts were prohibited from natural-receive the compensation attached to the office. izing any foreigners, although they might have registered their names and resided in the country during the probationary period required by law. To these persons, it appeared, the Government was pledged, and the change of the relation between the two countries, did not lessen the obligation the Government was under to redeem that pledge, and admit those persons to the rights of citizens. It would, moreover, be recollected that, by the State laws, those persons were made sub ject to perform militia duty, and that, as volunteers, or otherwise, they would compose a part of our Army; and, perhaps, while in this situation, might be taken and punished as traitors by their Government. No apprehension of danger could be entertained by their admission to the rights of citizens. They were, most of them, attached strongly to our Government, and sought this country as an asylum from oppression, &c. He was, by these considerations, induced to offer the following resolution: Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the naturalization laws of the United States as to admit to the rights of citizenship such aliens as have emigrated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and her dependencies to the United States or her Territories previous to the eighteenth day of June, 1812, and that the committee have leave to report by bill or other the Whole, on the bill from the Senate, making further provision for the sale of certain reserved sections of public lands in the State of Ohio. The Committee rose and reported the bill without amendment; and, on motion of Mr. LITTLE, the bill was postponed indefinitely. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill from the Senate for the relief of James Wilkinson. After some discussion, the Committee rose and reported the bill without amendment. The House took up the report of the Committee, and ordered the bill to a third reading to-day. The engrossed bills authorizing transfers of stock of the United States, &c., the bill to com. President of the United States, and the bill for pensate the President of the Senate acting as Vice the relief of James Wilkinson, were severally read a third time, and passed. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill for the relief of David Henley. The Committee reported the bill without amendment, and then proceeded to consider the report; when, on the question of its passage to a The resolution was agreed to, and Messrs. LA-third reading, it was determined in the negative. COCK, EMOTT, and TROUP, were appointed a committee accordingly. wise. MONDAY, June 29. So the bill was rejected. Mr. WHITE presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Salem, in the State of Massachusetts, stating their disapprobation of the war against Great Britain. Mr. BASSETT withdrew his resolution which The SPEAKER laid before the House sundry resbe offered a few days ago relative to raising a spe-olutions adopted at a meeting of the inhabitants of the city of New York, in approbation of the war against Great Britain. The petitions and resolutions were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. MORROW, from the Committee on the Public Lands, presented a bill concerning the lead mines in the Territory of Missouri; which was read twice and committed to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow. Mr. LACOCK, from the committee appointed on the twenty-seventh instant, presented a bill supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of an uniform rule of Naturalization; which was read twice, and committed to a Committed of the Whole to-morrow. Mr. BACON, from the Committee of Ways and Means, presented a bill supplementary to "An act authorizing a loan for a sum of eleven millions of dollars; which was read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow. Mr. BACON, from the same committee, presented a bill authorizing a subscription for the old six per cent. and deferred stocks, and providing for an exchange of the same; which was read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole to morrow. The bill from the Senate "authorizing the President of the United States to lease, for a term of years, any of the reservations of public ground in the City of Washington," was read the third time, and passed. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill to facilitate the transfer of the stock created under an act passed on the 10th day of November, 1803. The bill was reported without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed aad read the third time to-day. EXPORTATION OF MUNITIONS OF WAR. Mr. CALHOUN, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was recommitted the bill to prohibit the exportation of naval and military stores, arms, and the munitions of war and provisions to Canada and certain other British provinces, and for other purposes, reported the said bill without amendment. The House proceeded to consider the said bill; and Mr. NEWTON moved the following as an additional section to the bill: And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel admitted by the fifth section of this act into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall import within the jurisdiction of the United States any goods, wares, or merchandise, unless the same be of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of the State or Kingdom to which such ship or vessel belongs. This amendment was objected to as denying to neutrals those rights which we, whilst in that character, had strenuously insisted on, and as therefore exhibiting an inconsistency of conduct not suited to a great nation contending for its rights. Mr. NEWTON replied that the circumstances of the civilized world had so materially changed as to destroy the force of this argument altogether. JUNE, 1812. The question was then taken on the proposed amendment by yeas and nays, and decided in the negative. For the amendment 31, against it 59, as follows: YEAS-Matthew Clay, John Clopton, Lewis Condict, William Crawford, Richard Cutts, Joseph Desha, James Fisk, Meshack Franklin, Isaiah L. Green, Jacob Hufty, Peter Little, Aaron Lyle, Thomas Moore, William McCoy, Alexander McKim, Samuel L. Mitchill, James Morgan, Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, William Piper, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts, Ebenezer Seaver, Samuel Shaw, William Strong, George M. Troup, Robert Whitehill, David R. Williams, and Richard Winn. NAIS-Stevenson Archer, John Baker, Burwell Bas sett, William W. Bibb, Abijah Bigelow, Adam Boyd, James Breckenridge, Robert Brown, Elijah Brigham, William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Francis Carr, Langdon Cheves, Martin Chittenden, James Cochran, Thomas B. Cooke, John Davenport, jr., John Dawson, Samuel Dinsmoor, William Findley, Asa Fitch, Thomas Gholson, Edwin Gray, Felix Grundy, Obed Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, John M. Hyneman, Joseph Lowndes, James Milnor, Jeremiah Morrow, Jonathan Kent, Abner Lacock, Joseph Lewis, junior, William O. Moseley, Thomas Newbold, Joseph Pearson, Israel Pickens, Timothy Pitkin, jr., James Pleasants, junior, John Randolph, Henry M. Ridgely, John Rhea, William Rodman, Thomas Sammons, John Sevier, Adam Seybert, Daniel Sheffey, John Smilie, Richard Stanford, Philip Stuart, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Uri Tracy, Charles Turner, jr., Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, Thomas Wilson, and Robert Wright. And the question was then taken on engrossing the bill for a third reading, and carried-46 to 41. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Mr. BACON laid on the table the following letter from the Secretary of the Treasury: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 24, 1812. ted in conformity with the appropriations made by SIB: The expenditures for the year 1812, calculaCongress, and adding such as are contemplated, may be stated in round numbers as follows, viz: 1. Civil list, diplomatic intercourse, and miscellaneous expenses of a civil nature, appropriated Printing Treasury notes, and other miscellaneous expenses not yet provided for, estimated at 2. Military Establishment including militia, volunteers, and Indian De - $1,522,030 02 37,969 98 $1,560,000 partment, appropriated 12,695,584 89 Add for rangers, &c 104,415 11 Although the experiment of issuing Treasury notes be novel under this Government, the solid security on 8,000,000 which they rest, the facilities they will offer in making remittances, the interest they bear, and, above all, the power to apply them to the payment of duties and of public lands, induce a belief that, notwithstanding some difficulties incident to a first emission, the amount contemplated may be put in circulation before the end of the year. The funds provided to meet that expenditure are, viz: 1. Of the balance of $3,500,238 06, remaining in the Treasury on the 1st of January, 1812, there may be applied to the expenses of the year 2. The receipts into the Treasury, arising from the duties on importation and sales of lands, were estimated, for the year 1812, in the annual report of 22d November last, $8,200,000. This estimate is predicated on the supposition that the receipts of 1812, arising from duties on importations made during the year, would be equal to the amount of debentures payable during the year, and there are not any data from which a more correct estimate can be made 3. Loan authorized by law 4. Treasury notes, according to the bill which has passed the House of Representatives Total $2,000,000 5,000,000 The result of the loan is more doubtful. The old six per cent. and deferred stocks are two or three per cent. under par; and any depression in public funds would seriously affect the sales of the residue of the new loan. Nor does it appear eligible, without an absolute necessity, to give a premium or additional interest in order to obtain subscriptions for that residue. For, as it would be just, in that case, to place the first subscribers on the same footing, the charge to the public would be more than double the premium actually wanted to obtain the four millions and a half which are not yet subscribed. The committee will, having all the facts before them, be able to decide whether any additional provision 8,200,000 ought to be made, during this session, in order to guard 11,000,000 against any possible contingency. In the mean while, I beg leave to suggest, that a conversion of the old six per cent. and deferred stocks, into a new six per cent. stock, not materially different from that created by virtue of the act authorizing the loan of eleven millions, would have a favorable effect on the price of those stocks, and thereby might facilitate the loan of this and the ensuing years, the large sums which must now year, and prevent the necessity of applying, both this public debt. I have the honor to be, &c. be expended in the reimbursement and purchase of the $26,200,000 Two branches of the expenditure may fall short of the amount appropriated : 1. It may be expected that the whole amount appropriated for the Military Establishment will not be expended, for the appropriations are sufficient to defray the expenses of the old establishments, (about 10,000 men,) as if these had been complete on the 1st January last, and of the additional force of 25,000 men, as if the whole of it had been raised, and in actual service, on the 1st day of May last: neither of which is the fact. That expenditure not being, in any degree, under the control of the Treasury, and the amount which may not be wanted, being unscertained, a provision equal to the sum appropriated must still be contemplated. Whether the number of men in actual service in the navy corresponds with that for which provision was made by the appropriations, and whether, on that, or any other account, there may be less expended by that department than has been appropriated, is not known at the Treasury, 2. If the six per cent. and deferred stocks should be at par, the whole amount of the sum which the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund will otherwise be bound to apply to purchases, may not be wanted. ALBERT GALLATIN. Hon. EZEKIEL BACON, Chairman, &c. TUESDAY, June 30. The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from William Duane, late a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of the United States, transmitting, for the use of Congress, "a hand-book containing the first principles of military discipline, founded on rational method, intended to explain, in a familiar and practical manner, for the use of the military force of the United States, the modern improvements in the discipline and movement of armies." The letter was read, and, together with the book, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The House proceeded to consider the amendWith respect to the funds provided to defray the ex-ments of the Senate to the bill for raising four penses, no more than $16,660,000 are already secured. The subscriptions to the loan, including $200,000 offered on special contract, but not yet accepted, amount to $6,460,000; leaving an amount unsub$4,540,000 scribed of additional companies of rangers, which amendments reduced the number from four companies to one. The amendment was agreed to. on the suggestion of Mr. GRUNDY, who said if four additional companies could not be obtained from the H. OF R. Exportation of Munitions of War. Congress, he was, for his Western constituents, willing to take what he could get for their further defence. The House refused to toke up Mr. WRIGHT's bill respecting American seamen, 48 to 24. The engrossed bill supplementary to the act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands north west of the river Ohio to complete the payments of the same, was read the third time and passed. A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have passed a bill "respecting the pay of the Army of the United States," in which they desire the concurrence of this House. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill directing in what proportion the future, detachments of the militia shall be distributed among the respective States; and after some debate, the Committee rose, and on motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, the bill was indefinitely postponed. A message was received from the President of the United States recommending the adaptation to the public service of the volunteer force contemplated by the act passed on the sixth day of February, by making the requisite provision for the officers thereof being commissioned by the authority of the United States.-Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The bill from the Senate "respecting the pay of the Army of the United States," was read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. A message from the Senate informed the House that they have disagreed to the amendment of this House to the bill "authorizing the President of the United States to lease, for a term of years, any part of the reservations of public ground in the City of Washington." They have passed a "joint resolution requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer ;" and they have passed the bill "making an appropriation for the purpose of discharging all the outstanding claims for the construction and repair of the Capitol and President's House; for the compensation of the late Surveyor of the Public Buildings, and for the furniture for the different apartments of the Capitol, and for other purposes," with amendments; in which resolution and amendments they desire the concurrence of this House. The amendments of the Senate to the last mentioned bill were read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole to-day. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the said amendments; and, after some time spent theirein, the Committee rose and reported that they had disagreed to the first, and agreed to the second, with an amendment. The House proceeded to consider the report; whereupon, Resolved, That this House do disagree to the first of the said amendments, and concur in the second, with an amendment. The House proceeded to reconsider their amendment to the bill from the Senate, "authorizing the President of the United States to lease, for a JUNE, 1812. term of years, any part of the reservations of public ground, in the City of Washington, which has been disagreed to by the Senate; and the same being again read, Resolved, That this House do recede from their said amendment. The joint resolution from the Senate requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer was read twice, and ordered to be read the third time to-day. The resolution was accordingly read the third time, and passed: and Mr. TAGGART, Mr. ROBERTS, and Mr. CHEVES, were appointed a committee, on the part of the House, to present the same to the President. Mr. HARPER, from the Committee of Foreign Relations, after leave given, introduced the following bill: Be it enacted, &c. That the proviso contained in the first section of the act, entitled "An act respecting alien enemies," passed on the sixth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, which proviso is in the following words: "Provided, That after aliens resident within the United States shall have become liable as enemies, in the manner aforesaid, and who shall not be chargeable with actual hostility, or other crime against the public safety, shall be allowed, for the recovery, disposal and removal of their goods and effects, and for their departure, the full time which is or shall be stipulated by any treaty, where any shall have been between the United States and the hostile nation or Government, of which they shall be natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects; and where no such treaty shall have existed, the President of the United States may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality," be, and the same hereby is repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That where there shall be no existing treaty between the United States and such hostile nation or Government, the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality, for the recovery, disposal, and removal of the goods and effects of such alien enemies, and for their departure from the United States. The bill was twice read and committed. EXPORTATION OF MUNITIONS OF WAR. The engrossed bill to prohibit the exportation of certain military stores, &c. to Canada, was read the third time. Mr. WRIGHT moved its postponement to the first Monday in November next, on the ground that it was unnecessary, because the state of war of itself precluded such exportation; and on the ground that it went to violate existing treaties. The question was decided by yeas and nays For postponement 44, against it 44, as follows: YEAS-Abijah Bigelow, William Blackledge, Harmanus Bleecker, Adam Boyd, James Breckenridge, Epaphroditus Champion, Langdon Cheves, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, Thomas B. Cooke, William Crawford, John Davenport, jr., Asa Fitch, Thomas Gholson, Charles Goldsborough, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin |