Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-11-26
LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK.

fouSe q .dsscnabty--tfedncsday, Noe. II.
The bill to amend the charter of the fItna
Insurance Company, was read third time and
passed.
The bill relative to the Lackawaxcn canal
Company, passed in committee OK the whole.
lie committee OF the whole was sometime
engaged on the bill for the payment of certain
notes gwen by Myron Holly, as treasurer of the
canal commissioners, when they rose and report
ed The amount directed by this bill to be
paid, is about Si7,0OO.1
al ~ O'Clock, VIM. J. Caldwell was again
arrained at the bar Of the house, when the letter
addressed by him to the chairman Of the com
mttce appointed 10 investigate the Chemical
ijank business, was read, and the interrogato-
RES prepared by the committee for that purpose
were PROFOUND TO him by the Speaker and his
answers given TO each separately as they were
put
st was the communication now read to YOU
written at your request?
1t was written at my request
Cd Did you read the said communication or
was 1T read your presence before it was signed
and did you sign your name to tie same?
read the communication before il was signed
and did sign my name TO the same.
sd Did you address the said communication
to the Hon. John c. Tillotson, chairman of a
select committee this house, or did YOU direct
any other person SO to direct ita
he communication was addressed at my re-
quest.
4th Did you deliver the said communication
thus addressed, to the Hon. John G.. Tillotson.
Or to any other person to be delivered to the
Hon. John G. T'illotson, as chairman of said
committee?
did not deliver the communication to John
G. Tilotson myself, sent it by boy
5th Did you read the said communication TO
any person or persons before it was delivered to
the Hon. John G. Tillotson, and if yea, to
whom9
did not read ii to any one.
9th Did you permit any person or persons to
read the said communication before it was deli
vered TO the Hon. John G.. TIllotson, and if yea.
TO whom
permitted no person to read said commune
cation previous to sending it to the Hon. John
I. iillotson, except the person who copied it
for me at my request.
7th Did you refuse to answer as a witness be-
fore The committee of which the Hon. John G.
IIllotson was chairman?
did refuse 10 answer as a witness before the
committee Of which the Hon. John &. T'illotson
was chairman, on the ground that two persons.
as was informed, were admitted as witnesses,
one of when stands indicted for bribing the
other, and no other person sent for as a witness
but yseif.-Although the names ola number
OF witnesses were given TO This committee
and what they would probably testify to, they
being in the remote parts of the state, and not
summoned to appear, as | was informed, did
consider myself Justifable in declining to testi-
fy under the circumstances, as my testimony,
presume, would not agree with those implicated,
and had no reason to believe that witnesses
IN corroboratien ofmy testimony would be sum-
moned to testify before the committee.
have learnt, however, that yesterday, a Joint
committee ofthe Senate and Assembly arc about
proceeding in the investigation of the means
made use of to obtain the charter of the Cberni
cal Bank, and am assured by the Hon. John
Sudan, chairman of the said joint committee
that 1T is intended to make thorough inyesti
CATION into that subject; and uRder this belief. 7
have concluded to submit to an examination be-
fore the committee