Mr. Lecompte moved the following resolution, viz:

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire as to the expediency of amending the constitution of the United States so that the Judges of the Supreme Court, and of the inferior courts, shall hold their offices for a limited term of years.

The said resolution was read; when

Mr. Whittlesey moved the question of consideration;

And on the question, Will the House now consider the said resolution? 60,

Yeas,

It was decided in the negative, Nays, .

116.

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Messrs. Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, Willis Alston, William G. Angel, Robert E. B. Baylor, John Bell, James Blair, John Blair, Ratliff Boon, Churchill C. Cambreleng, Samuel P. Carson, Thomas Chandler, Thomas Chilton, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Henry W. Conner, Jacob Crocheron, Warren R. Davis, Robert Desha, Charles G. De Witt, Jonas Earll, jr., James Findlay, Thomas F. Foster, Joseph Fry, William F. Gordon, Thomas H. Hall, Jehiel H. Halsey, Jonathan Harvey, Charles E. Haynes, Thomas Hinds, Thomas Irwin, Leonard Jarvis, Cave Johnson, Perkins King, Adam King, Henry G. Lamar, Pryor Lea, Humphrey H. Leavitt, Joseph Lecompte, Dixon H. Lewis, Wilson Lumpkin, William McCreery, William McCoy, Daniel H. Miller, William T. Nuckolls, Walter H. Overton, Spencer Pettis, Robert Potter, Joseph Richardson, John Roane, John Scott, James Shields, James Standefer, John B. Sterigere, Wiley Thompson, John Thomson, Starling Tucker, James M. Wayne, John W. Weeks, Charles A. Wickliffe, and Joel Yancey.-60.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Messrs. John Anderson, William S. Archer, William Armstrong, Benedict Arnold, Noyes Barber, John S. Barbour, Robert W. Barnwell, Daniel L. Barringer, Mordecai Bartley, Thomas Beekman, Thomas T. Bouldin, John Broadhead, Elias Brown, Tristam Burges, Samuel Butman, William Cahoon, Clement C. Clay, Lewis Condict, Richard M. Cooper, Richard Coulter, Henry B. Cowles, Robert Craig, Joseph H. Crane, Thomas H. Crawford, David Crockett, William Creighton, jr., Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Thomas Davenport, John Davis, Edmund Deberry, Harmar Denny, Philip Doddridge, Clement Dorsey, Joseph Draper, William Drayton, Joseph Duncan, Henry W. Dwight, Samuel W. Eager, William W. Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Edward Everett, Horace Everett, Isaac Finch, Chauncey Forward, John Gilmore, Benjamin Gorham, Innis Green, George Grennell, jr., Joseph Hemphill, James L. Hodges, Cornelius Holland, Michael Hoffman, Benjamin C. Howard, Thomas H. Hughes, Jona than Hunt, Jabez W. Huntington, Peter Ihrie, jr., Ralph I. Ingersoll, Kensey Johns, jr., Joseph G. Kendall, William Kennon, John Kincaid, George G. Leiper, James Lent, George Loyall, Rollin C. Mallary, Henry' C. Martindale, William D. Martin, Thomas Maxwell, Lewis Maxwell, George McDuffie, Rufus McIntire, George E. Mitchell, Robert Monell, Henry A. Muhlenberg, Ebenezer F. Norton, John Mercer Patton, Dutec J. Pearce, Isaac Pierson, James K. Polk, William Ramsey, John Reed, Robert S. Rose, William Russel, Jonah Sanford, William B. Shepard, Augustine H. Shepperd, Thomas H. Sill, Samuel A. Smith, Jesse Speight, Ambrose Spencer, Richard Spencer, William Stanberry, Henry R. Storrs, William L. Storrs, James Strong, Joel B. Sutherland, Samuel Swan, Benjamin Swift, John

W. Taylor, John Test, James Trezvant, Joseph Vance, John Varnum, Gulian C. Verplanck, Samuel F. Vinton, George C. Washington, Elisha Whittlesey, Campbell P. White, Edward D. White, Richard H. Wilde, Lewis Williams, Ephraim K. Wilson, Joseph F. Wingate, and Ebenezer Young.

-116.

On motion of Mr. Thompson, of Georgia,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims be directed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing, by law, a re-issue of the revolutionary bounty land warrant numbered 1625, issued to Jacob Bosworth on the 7th of June, 1830, which the said Jacob Bosworth alleges is lost.

Mr. Drayton moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to furnish this House with the several original reports and statements, or copies thereof, received by him, or transmitted to the Major General, relating to a resolution of the House at its last session, directing the Secretary of War to report "whether any reduction in the number of officers in the army of the United States can be made without injury to the public service."

Mr. Ellsworth moved the following resolution; which was read, and laid on the table, viz:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to lay before this House the manner in which annuities due to the Cherokee nation of Indians are paid; whether to the nation, or to the individuals constituting the nation.

On motion of Mr. Grennell,

Ordered, That the petition of Ebenezer Whitney be recommitted to the Committee on Military Pensions.

The Speaker laid before the House the annual report of the Commissioners of the Navy pension fund; which was read, and laid on the table. A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of this House of the following titles viz:

No. 507. An act to authorize the construction of three schooners for the naval service of the United States;

No. 516. An act to ascertain and mark the line between the State of Alabama and the Territory of Florida, and for other purposes;

with an amendment to the last mentioned bill; in which I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House.

The Senate have, also, passed bills of the following titles, viz:

No. 80. An act for the relief of James Sprague;

No. 89. An act to amend the "act granting certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers," approved the 23d day of May, 1828;

No. 68. An act to alter and amend "An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive;"

No. 97. An act for the relief of William Scott, of Tennessee;

in which bills I am directed to ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew.

The House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Dwight reported that the committee had, according

to order, had the state of the Union, generally, under consideration, particularly the bill from the Senate, (No. 78,) entitled "An act making provision for the compensation of witnesses and payment of other expenses attending the trial of the impeachment of James H. Peck;" which bill he was directed to report to the House with an amendment.

The said amendment was read, concurred in by the House, and ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be read a third time to-morrow.

The House again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill from the Senate, (No. 47,) entitled "An act to amend the act entitled 'An act to quiet the title of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio,' passed 26th May, 1830;" and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Howard reported the said bill without amendment.

Ordered, That the said bill be read a third time to-morrow.

The House again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House, and proceeded to the Senate chamber to attend the trial by the Senate of the impeachment of James H. Peck, judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri; and, after some time spent therein, the committee returned into the chamber of the House; and the Speaker having resumed the chair,

Mr. Martin, from the said committee, reported that the committee had, according to order, attended the trial by the Senate of the said impeachment, that further progress had been made therein, and that the court of impeachment had adjourned to meet again to-morrow, at 12 o'clock meridian.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, accompanied with 218 copies of the printed Army Register for the year 1831; which letter was laid on the table.

The Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary of War, prepared in obedience to the order of the House of the 11th instant, directing him "to communicate to the House whether the existing laws do not provide for a greater number of cadets at the United States' Military Academy than is consistent with the objects for which it was established, and, if so, that he report a plan and organization for that academy, corresponding with the alterations and reductions which may be deemed expedient;" which report was read, and laid on the table.

And then the House adjourned until to-morrow, 11 o'clock A. M.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1831.

The Speaker presented the petition of Robert H. Saunders, heretofore presented on the 16th December, 1829; which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill (No. 573) to repeal the 25th section of an act entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," passed the 4th day of September, 1789.

The question recurred on the motion made on the 25th instant, that the consideration of the motion that the said bill be read a second time be postponed until Tuesday, the 1st day of February next: when

The previous question was moved by Mr. Crawford; and being demanded by a majority of the members present,

The said previous question was put, viz: Shall the main question be now put?

And passed in the affirmative.

And on motion of Mr. Crawford, a call of the House was then ordered; And the roll having been called over, one hundred and eighty-four members answered to their names, viz:

Messrs. Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, Willis Alston, John Anderson, William G. Angel, William Armstrong, Benedict Arnold, John Bailey, Noyes Barber, John S. Barbour, Robert W. Barnwell, Daniel L. Barringer, Mordecai Bartley, Isaac C. Bates, Robert E. B. Baylor, Thomas Beekman, John Bell, James Blair, John Blair, Abraham Bockee, Ratliff Boon, Peter I. Borst, Thomas T. Bouldin, John Broadhead, Elias Brown, James Buchanan, Tristam Burges, Samuel Butman, William Cahoon, Churchill C. Cambreleng, John Campbell, Thomas Chandler, Thomas Chilton, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Clement C. Clay, James Clark, Nicholas D. Coleman, Lewis Condict, Henry W. Conner, Richard M. Cooper, Richard Coulter, Henry B. Cowles, Robert Craig, Joseph H. Crane, Thomas H. Crawford, David Crockett, William Creighton, jr, Jacob Crocheron, Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Henry Daniel, Thomas Davenport, John Davis, Warren R. Davis, Edmund Deberry, Harmar Denny, Robert Desha, Charles G. De Witt, John D. Dickinson, Philip Doddridge, Clement Dorsey, Joseph Draper, William Drayton, Joseph Duncan, Henry W. Dwight, Samuel W. Eager, Jonas Earll, jr., William W. Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Edward Everett, James Findlay, Isaac Finch, James Ford, Chauncey Forward, Thomas F. Foster, Joseph Fry, Nathan Gaither, John Gilmore, William F. Gordon, Benjamin Gorham, Innis Green, George Grennell, jr., Henry H. Gurley, Thomas H. Hall, Jehiel H. Halsey, Jonathan Harvey, Charles E. Haynes, Joseph Hemphill, Thomas Hinds, James L. Hodges, Cornelius Holland, Michael Hoffman, Henry Hubbard, Thomas H. Hughes, Jonathan Hunt, Jabez W. Huntington, Peter Ihrie, jr., Ralph I. Ingersoll, Thomas Irwin, William W. Irvin, Leonard Jarvis, Kensey Johns, jr., Richard M. Johnson, Cave Johnson, Joseph G. Kendall, William Kennon, John Kineaid, Perkins King, Adam King, Henry G. Lamar, Humphrey H. Leavitt, Joseph Lecompte, George G. Leiper, James Lent, Robert P. Letcher, Dixon H. Lewis, George Loyall, Wilson Lumpkin, Chittendon Lyon, John Magee, Rollin C. Mallary, Henry C. Martindale, William D. Martin, Thomas Maxwell, William McCreery, William McCoy, George McDuffie, Rufus McIntire, Charles F. Mercer, Daniel H. Miller, George E. Mitchell, Robert Monell, Henry A. Muhlenberg, Ebenezer F. Norton, William T. Nuckolls, Walter H. Overton, John Mercer Patton, Dutee J. Pearce, Spencer Pettis, Isaac Pierson, James K. Polk, Robert Potter, Gershom Powers, John Reed, Joseph Richardson, John Roane, Robert S. Rose, William Russel, Jonah Sanford, John Scott, William B. Shepard, Augustine H. Shepperd, James Shields, Thomas H. Sill, Ambrose Spencer, Richard Spencer, Michael C. Sprigg, James Standefer, Henry R. Storrs, William L. Storrs, James Strong, Joel B. Sutherland, Samuel Swan, Benjamin Swift, John W. Taylor, John Test, Wiley Thompson, John Thomson, James Trezvant, Starling Tucker, Joseph Vance, John Varnum, Samuel F. Vinton, John W. Weeks, Elisha Whittlesey, Campbell P. White, Edward D. White, Charles A. Wickliffe, Richard H. Wilde, Lewis Williams, Ephraim K. Wilson, Joseph F. Wingate, Joel Yancey, and Ebenezer Young.-184. Further proceedings in the call were then dispensed with;

And the main question was then put, viz: Shall this bill be rejected?

Yeas,

And passed in the affirmative, Nays,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,
Those who voted in the affirmative, are,

Messrs. John Anderson, William Armstrong, Benedict Arnold, John Bailey, Noyes Barber, John S. Barbour, Daniel L. Barringer, Mordecai Bartley, Isaac C. Bates, Robert E. B. Baylor, Thomas Beekman, John Blair, Abraham Bockce, Ratliff Boon, Peter I. Borst, John Broadhead, Elias Brown, James Buchanan, Tristam Burges, Samuel Butman, William Cahoon, Thomas Chilton, James Clark, Lewis Condict, Richard M. Cooper, Richard Coulter, Henry B. Cowles, Robert Craig, Joseph H. Crane, Thomas H. Crawford, David Crockett, William Creighton, jr., Jacob Crocheron, Benjamin W. Crowninshield, John Davis, Edmund Deberry, Harmar Denny, Charles G. De Witt, John D. Dickinson, Philip Doddridge, Clement Dorsey, William Drayton, Henry W. Dwight, Samuel W. Eager, Jonas Earll, jr., William W. Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Edward Everett, James Findlay, Isaac Finch, Chauncey Forward, Joseph Fry, John Gilmore, Benjamin Gorham, Innis Green, George Grennell, jr., Henry H. Gurley, Jehiel H. Halsey, Joseph Hemphill, James L. Hodges, Cornelius Holland, Michael Hoffman, Benjamin C. Howard, Henry Hubbard,. Thomas H. Hughes, Jonathan Hunt, Jabez W. Huntington, Peter Ihrie, jr., Ralph I. Ingersoll, Thomas Irwin, William W. Irvin, Kensey Johns, jr., Cave Johnson, Joseph G. Kendall, William Kennon, John Kincaid, Perkins King, Adam King, Humphrey H. Leavitt, George G. Leiper, James Lent, Robert P. Letcher, John Magee, Rollin C. Mallary, Henry C. Martindale, Lewis Maxwell, William McCreery, George McDuffie, Rufus McIntire, Charles F. Mercer, Daniel H. Miller, George E. Mitchell, Robert Monell, Henry A. Muhlenberg, Ebenezer F. Norton, Dutce J. Pearce, Isaac Pierson, Gershom Powers, John Reed, Joseph Richardson, Robert S. Rose, William Russel, Jonah Sanford, John Scott, William B. Shepard, Augustine H. Shepperd, James Shields, Thomas H. Sill, Jesse Speight, Ambrose Spencer, Richard Spencer, Michael C. Sprigg, James Standefer, John B. Sterigere, Henry R. Storrs, William L. Storrs, James Strong, Joel B. Sutherland, Samuel Swan, Benjamin Swift, John W. Taylor, John Test, John Thomson, Joseph Vance, John Varnum, Gulian C. Verplanck, Samuel F. Vinton, George C. Washington, John W. Weeks, Elisha Whittlesey, Campbell P. White, Edward D. White, Lewis Williams, Ephraim K. Wilson, Joseph F. Wingate, and Ebenezer Young.-137.

Those who voted in the negative, are,

Messrs. Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, Willis Alston, William G. Angel, Robert W. Barnwell, John Bell, James Blair, Thomas T. Bouldin, Churchill C. Cambreleng, John Campbell, Thomas Chandler, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Clement C. Clay, Nicholas D. Coleman, Henry W. Conner, Henry Daniel, Thomas Davenport, Warren R. Davis, Robert Desha, Joseph Draper, Thomas F. Foster, Nathan Gaither, William F. Gordon, Thomas H. Hall, Jonathan Harvey, Charles E. Haynes, Thomas Hinds, Leonard Jarvis, Richard M. Johnson, Henry G. Lamar, Joseph Lecompte, Dixon H. Lewis, George Loyall, Wilson Lumpkin, Chittenden Lyon, William D. Martin, Thomas Maxwell, William McCoy, William T. Nuckolls, Walter H. Overton, John M. Patton, Spencer Pettis, James K. Polk, Robert Potter, John Roane, Wiley Thompson, James Trezvant, Starling Tucker, Charles A. Wickliffe, Richard H. Wilde, and Joel Yancey.-51.

The House proceeded to the consideration of the resolution moved by Mr. Haynes on the 11th instant; when it was,