...the Whole House on the state of the Union on the bill of the House (No. 498) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending on the 30th June, 1846, shall cease at two o'clock on Thursday next, (if the committee shall...

...purpose of executing this convention that a clanse was inserted by Congress in the bill to provide for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1837, appropriating the salary and expenses of a commissioner and surveyor; and the President of the...

...; and that the House do proceed to the consideration of the bfll ( No. 283 ) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1834. JOURNAL OF THE [March 29. A motion was made by Mr. Mercer to amend this motion, by adding thereto...

...who served under him at the defence of Fort Sandusky, during the late war, were concurred in; and a further verbal amendment having been made, on motion...construction of a bridge over the Potomac. The resolution ofl'ered some time since, directing that the new Senators be supplied with copies of Gales & Seaton's...

...Mr. Patton reported, that the committee had apain had the said bill (No. 216) making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1836, under consideration, aud come to no resolution thereon. A motion was then made by Mr. Cambreleng,...

...follows: SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the second section of the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1834, is hereby repealed, and that in no case shall the compensation of any other officers than collectors,...

...Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. PATTOH in the chair,) and, on motion of Mr. CAMBRELENG, took up the bill making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1836. Mr. CAMBRELENG, after the bill had been read, said that in consequence of the vote of last year,...

...and was before the Committee on Finance here. This bill was entitled "an act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1835." In this state of things, several members of the House of Representatives applied to the committee,...

...ascertained, no definite sum could be appropriated. It was attempted when the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year 1842 (in which the above appropriation of $20,000 is included) was before the House of Representatives,...

...the House, went into Committee of the Whole, (Mr. PIERCE of New Hampshire, in the chair,) and took up the " bill making appropriations for the civil and...diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year 1837," which had been returned from the Senate with various amendments. The first amendment of the...