John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

18. VI.30

I gave yesterday, the last sitting for my Portrait, to Mr. Billings, the painter from Erie Pennsylvania He is himself, well satisfied with it, as a likeness— I called 434this morning at the Bank of the Metropolis, and deposited the order for three hundred dollars, which I had received yesterday, from the Speaker of the House— At the House, the Select Committee, appointed on Monday, to retrench expenses, in the War Department, in the pay of the Army, was announced, consisting, of James. A. Black, of South Carolina, Alvan Cullom of Tennessee, Joseph J. McDowell of Ohio, D. M. Barringer of North Carolina, Orvil Hungerford of New York, Caleb. B. Smith, of Indiana, Hugh White of New York, Jefferson. Davis of Missouri, and James. A. Seddon. of Virginia, not one member from New England, on the Committee— It is an anti-Oregon movement, from South Carolina, presented by James A. Black, the only member from that state, who voted for giving the notice— Martin Grover, of New York, moved to reconsider, the vote of yesterday, for supplying the Reporters with Documents, which was carried.— and a Resolution substituted in its place, calling on the Clerk, to report upon the cost, and other consequences, of such a Resolution— Hannibal. Hamlin, moved a resolution, to allow the use of the Hall, for the Congressional Temperance Society, on Thursday evening the 26th. inst. Lost, by yeas and nays. 86. to 62, not two thirds— On motion of Charles. J. Ingersoll, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, was discharged from the consideration of the case of George Brown, late Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands; also from the petition of Citizens of New Jersey, praying Congress, to recognise, and guaranty, the independence, of the Colony of Liberia, in Africa— The petitions were laid on the Table. James Thompson, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on The Territories, reported back with Amendments, the Bill, to protect the rights, of American Settlers in Oregon, referred to the Committee of the whole on the state of the Union.— John P. Martin of Kentucky, from the Committee on Mileage, reported a Bill, to regulate the pay and milage of members of Congress; referred after some debate to the Committee of the whole on the state of the Union, by yeas and nays 88. to 71. A motion by Henry of Indiana to make it the special order, for some particular day was ruled out by the Speaker as not in Order— The Indian Appropriation Bill, was then taken up, and much debated, On various points, without coming to a conclusion— The Committee rose, and the House adjourned at four o’clock—