The Litchfield County post., 1827-03-15
From the National Journal.


Congress, which closed its term on Satur-
day, and especially those of the Senate,
will receive the serious consideration of
the people of the United States 1t is
our purpose hereafter to notice them more
particularly. 1t need not be disguised
that towards the close of the past Session,
we presume by some of those sscombina-
lions" of which DR.. FLOYD, in his late adj
dress at Richmond, made precious con-
tession, the Opposition gained small
majority in the Senate. We will select
only few prominent instances to show
how this majority was disposed to use the e.
phemeral power so obtained.
Il. The wool bill, (this measure so inn
portant to the great interest of our coun-
try was, in effect, rejected by the casting
vote of Mr.. CALHOUN, the Vice Presi-
dent.
2. A committee appointed by the ma
Jorlty OF the Senate made long report on
the subject OF the Georgian controversy, of
which three thousand copies were ordered
to be printed for distribution among the
people of the United States, countenan-
cling and encouraging the Governor of
Georgia.
8. The bill for converting portion of
the six per cent. debt into debt, bearing
an interest of five per cent which passed
the House of Representatives was lost in
the Senate. By the failure to pass bill
last year, in the consequence of the now
acknowledged error of Mr.. LOUIS McLANE,
the country lost about nnty Thousand dol
lars. BY the failure Of the Senate to pass
this bill it loses like sum.
4. The Colonial bill was lost by the re-
1usal Of the Senate to agree to an amend
ment Of the House of Representatives,
without WHICH the measure would have
Inundated the country. And now Great
Britain is left in possession of the monopo-
~ OF the navigation concerned in the in
tercourse, unless the President feels HIM
self authorized to close our ports uuder the
act Of March, 1928.
Whatever regret will be felt at the
course pursued by the Senate in the above
instance, the people will derive much sat-
istaction from knowing that that of their
immediate Representatives was directly
the reverse of it.
We must add, as one of the remarkable
incidents of the last Session of the Senate,
that Duff Green, the editor of paper, no.
torious for the scurrility of its columns, and
its utter disregard to all decency and truth,
received the votes of twenty-three SaN-
AToRs of the United States to be the prin-
ter of the Senate.
District Attorney.-Congress, in their
hurry at the close of the session, did not
forget one important subject, which Mr.
Wright, of Ohio, had promised to call up
at an early period Of the session, but which
had since been apparently unnoticed and
forgotten. On Saturday, after IL o'clock,
the committee charged with the investiga-
ton of certain accusations against Hezeki-
ah Huntington, U. S. Attorney for the
District of Connecticut made their report.
This report, (says the National Journal
refers the subject and the testimony to the
President of the U. S.; the officer impli-
Gated being of a rank to which, in the o.
pinion ofthe committee, the process Of I'M
pedchment cannot properly be extended.
If the learned attorney wishes to end
this case as he has many others, we think
he will write short and Ineligible letter
to the President, and advise Him to enter
a nolle. 1t is to be feared, however, we are
shortly to be deprived Of the services of
this Iong-tried and valuable public servant,
who, it is said, during his period of office,
has cost the u. S. $4,000.
Conn. Her.