Friday, December 18.
Increase of the Navy.
The House again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the bill to increase the Navy of the United States.
Mr. Cutts then moved to strike out the seventy-fours, with a view to increase the number of frigates to be built to ten, and to add a number of sloops of war.
Mr. C. spoke at considerable length in support of his motion, and in favor of frigates and sloops of war in preference to seventy-four gun ships.
The question was then taken on striking out the provision respecting seventy-fours, and was carried—for the amendment 56, against it 53.
Mr. Cutts moved an amendment authorizing the building of ten ships of war, of forty-four guns, and ten sloops of war.—Motion lost by a great majority.