Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-01-12
PASSAGE OF THE JEW BILL.

PASSAGE OF THE JEW BILL.
Extract of letter to the editors Of the Baltimore
american, dated ANNAPOLIS, Jan. ., 1876. |
The Jew bill has been confirmed to-day. The |
vote in the house was 45 to 80. AT last the State
has partially wiped away the religious test which
has so long been her disgrace.
The legislature have deputed this morning |
Messrs. Chambers of the Senate, and Goldsborough
and Lee OF the House, to proceed to the legisla-
lures OF Pennsy vania, New Jersey and Delaware,
to bring about some remedy for the alledged pro-
lection which runaway slaves meet with In those
states-Thc depu,aiion, is said, will proceed on
their embassy immediately,
Extract Of another letter of same date.
's MIR. Herbert from the Internal Improvement
Convention Committee. this day handed in their
memorial and accompanying documents, which
were ordered to be printed"
LEXINGTON, Dec. % The legislature Of this
State adjourned on Wednesday last. The Senate
TO the last moment obsnately adhered to the de
termination to disebey the will of the people and
not to repeal the Unconstitutional recognizing act.
The judiciary consequently must continue IN It's
present disorganized state for another year We
ry candid, sensible address TO the People on this
subject, was drawn up at the close of the session,
and signed by the minority in the Senate. 1t will
| be found in the preceding page. A similar docu-
ment signed by the majority OF the House. But
! few acls of a general nature were passed.
Reporter.
| wAsrINGroN, January A. The business
which principally occupied the Senate yesterday,
during its private sitting was it is understood, the
consideration of great number OF nominations OF
! Revenue Officers, whose commissions have, or
soon will have, expired-of whom, some thirty
or forty we've confirmed Besides these, the only
| nomination Of consequence which was acted on
and confirmed, that OF Alexander Caldwell,
as Judge OF the District Court for the Western
| District Of Virgiaina. Nat. Int.
THE JUDICIARY.
| WASHINGTON, January 5.--The House OF
| Representatives. yesterday entered seriously on the
| discussion of a measure, whose Importance is mag
nfed by the obviously impe:ous necessity for
some such measure, but which Is intrinscally SUI
ficienlly m.cresting. In our whole political sys-
TEN, there is nothing more valuable than the Judi
ciary, by the aid of which, whilst the powers of
the Government are asserted, the rights of the
several States well as of individuals upheld
| and maintained. A creature OF the Constitution,
it is of poserior birth it, but, of creation
following it, that the Judiciary Act OF 1883 Is al
most sacred the Constitution itself, and should
be approached with nearly the same reverence
That act, as Mr.. Webster Justly remarked yester-
day, is worthy OF admiration system formed at
n single effort IL is az admirable as Legislative
act the Constitution is body of organic ayg.
1t is obvious, however, that the dimensions of the
body polite have sweed hey ond the limits of the
| System established at the commencement OF the
| Government, and that, 10 a homey figure, the
! old coat wants letting out. This precisely what
is proposed by the bill now before the House OF
4 Representatives, which should be happy to see
passed into a law. We need not invite attention
| to the exposition of the views of the Judiciary
Committee, by its Chair man; for they can hardly
| fail to attract universal attention. 10.
| January THE bill proposing TO add three
Judges to the Supreme Court Of United States, and
to create three new Circuits, further discussed
yese rday in the House of Representatives. The
subject is under serious advisemcnt, and we have
little doubt that the discussion of it will result in
some measure calculated to satisfy the Just claims
of those States, in which is said that Justice, un
der the laws OF the United States, is now imper-
fectly administered, if administered at all.
| An extraordinary number of propositions have
been, at this Session, and particularly within the
| last week, submitted to the consideration of the
| different, committees of the House of Representa-
tives. II may aot be aniss to say, for the infor-
nation of those who are not as conversant as we
are with the usages of the two Houses of Congress-
that the agreement TO an inquiry, into any matter
whatever, is no indication ola disposition favorable
| 10 that matter or measure, and much less of a de-
termination to act upon It, 1t is matter of course
! to agree 10 the inquiry, by committee, into any
/ measure proposed by member of either House. I'M
less there is decisive an objection to the matter
involved, as to forbid inquiry, so far as TO
obtain the opinion of committee upon it. 1t may
also happen, and does sometimes happen, that re-
solutions are adopted, sub SHenfio, involving
questions into which, properly understood, the Lee
gsIative Body would not have consented even TO
Inquire. We make these remarks, not with refer
ence to any particular proposition which has, in
the shape of resolution, been referred for consi
deraiion, but general caution against the form
ing of any calculations, favorable TO particular
measures from the fact of their having been referred
to committees n either House, and particularly in
the House of Representatives, in which motions
for reference Of subjects to committees do not, as
in the Senate, lie over, one day, but, unless in
special cases, are acted upon ipstanter. II thus
happens, that inquiries are frequently instituted,
which, though they may TO elicit information
useful to Congress and to the People, not even
expected 10 lead TO any defntiye measures at pre-
! sent. ID.