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Mr. Van Buren submitted some additional sections as amendments to the bill; they were ordered to be printed, and the bill was then postponed to, and made the order of the day for, tomorrow.
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Mr. Van Buren laid on the table a letter E. Causici, sculptor, announcing the completion of the model of the allegorical group for the Senate Chamber; and it was referred to the Committee on Finance.
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The bill "to abolish imprisonment for debt," was read the third time. Objections were then made to certain parts of the bill, by Messrs. Lanman, Mills, Van Dyke, and Hayne—which were replied to by Messrs. Talbot, Van Buren, and Johnson, of Kentucky. One or two immaterial amendments were made, by general consent. An amendment proposed by Mr. Johnson of Kentucky, was objected to by Mr. Hayne—and... Continue Reading
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Some further discussion, involving the principles of the bill, took place—in which Messrs. Macon, Holmes, of Maine, Johnson, of Kentucky, Van Buren, Findlay, Lloyd, of Massachusetts, Chandler, J. S. Johnston, Mills, Taylor, of Virginia, and Noble, engaged. The question was then taken on reconsidering the vote by which the bill was recommitted, and decided in the affirmative, by yeas and nays... Continue Reading
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The bill "to abolish imprisonment for debt," was then again taken up for consideration. Some further amendments were made in the details of the bill, at the suggestion of Mr. Mills. Upon one of these amendments, which provides that the creditor shall have a right to hold his debtor to bail, without proof of fraud, when he is about to leave the State in which the debt is contracted, some cursory... Continue Reading
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Mr. Van Buren considered that the recommitment of the bill would be tantamount to its rejection, for the present session, at least. He went on to remark, briefly, upon the probable result of again committing the bill.
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Mr. Van Buren was well aware that the present mode of settling private claims against the Government, was extremely objectionable; that Congress was not a body calculated for a full and fair investigation of such claims; and another great objection to acting upon these claims here, is, that the decision upon them is never final. But yet he was opposed to the principle contained in the present... Continue Reading
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Mr. Van Buren, from the same committee, to whom was referred the bill to change the terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States, in the State of Ohio, and one of the terms of the circuit court in Kentucky, reported it without amendment.
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Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary to whom was referred the petition of A. V. Mattson, reported a bill supplementary to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt;" which was twice read, by unanimous consent.
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Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred the bill extending the benefit of copy-rights to the authors of paintings or drawings, and the bill, entitled "An act to alter the times of holding the district court of the United States for the district of Illionois," reported them severally without amendment.
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Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States, in relation to certain acts of the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas, reported a bill, "confirming certain acts of James Miller, as Governor of the Territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes." The bill was twice read.
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Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted a report on the petition of Thomas Hewes, of Louisiana, accompanied by a bill for his relief. The bill was read, and passed to a second reading, and the report was ordered to be printed.
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Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the petition of Charles S. Hempstead, and others, members of the bar in Missouri, reported a bill to alter the times of holding the District Courts in the District of Missouri; which was read, and passed to a second reading.
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Mr. Van Buren, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill, entitled "An act giving the consent and sanction of Congress to a certain act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida," reported it without amendment.
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Mr. Van Buren, of New York, said, that it had not been his intention to add any thing to the remarks he had heretofore submitted on the motion now under consideration, but some explanation on his part had become necessary. It would, he thought, be injustice, as well to his constituents as to himself, to suffer the new views which had been taken of the subject by his honorable colleague, to pass... Continue Reading
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