Twenty ninth Congress-:


FIRST SESSION
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Mr.. Calhoun, from the Select Committee
appointed on the resolutions of the Memphis
Convention, made report, affirming that 60
vernment has the power, under the clause to
regulate commerce, to improve rivers; confined,
however, to the beds, and not to the shores and
harbors.


Mr.. Barrow, from the same committee,
made separate report, claiming the right to
improve harbors and shores, as well as the
beds Of rivers.


Mr.. Calhoun also introduced a bill to en-
ploy engineers to survey the rivers Of the West;
which was read twice. Il


A resolution was adopted calling on the Sc
cretary of the Treasury for information in rela-
ton to frauds on the revenue