Delaware journal., 1828-02-05
CV.HG NESSAONAA,
january 80, 1928.

Ju"uu'y oOs to~os
The Senate yesterday resumed the consideration
of the bill providing for certain Revolutionary ol-
GERS the motion to fill the blank with 100000
dollars, still pending Mr.. Smith, of S. c. spoke IN
opposition to the bill and Mr. Robbins and others III
its favor No question was taken.
In the House of Representatives., the resolutions
offered by Mr.. Chiffon. we're again taken up.
MIR. Chiltons resolutions which originally point
ed to the payment of the public debt as the great
object for which his proposed retrcnchniens we're
to be made, have under gone to many metamorpho-
ses in the process OF political necromancy through
which they have passed. that we begin TO suspect his
constituents may be inclined to deny that he has re-
deemed his pledge. Ii his pledge was to enforce
system of retrenchment for the purpose OF paying
the public debt, his original propositions ndica-
ted ; that pledge is not likely to be redeemed /; for
the payment of the debt which originally stood bold
" and conspcuously in the front of the resolutions,
has now dwindled down into an incidental and de-
tached member Of the proposition, awkwardy, very
a,ykwardly, tackled TO it by way of codicil.
The great object which the resolutions now bear
upon their countenance, is to detect some abuse
which the inventive suspicious OF the Opposition
point 10 in the direction of the fund for the contin-
gencies of eur foreign intercourse. The mcros-
copic eve of faction has found out something there
which no common optics can detect Whatever it
NAV be- it is perfectly clear that its detection will
not discharge the national debt without unavoidable
delay"
1t was incidentally mentioned by Mr.. Pearce, in
the course of his remarks yesterday that there is
no appropriation asked for this session, accout Of
these contingent expenses. During the Adminlstra-
ton of Mr.. JEFFERSON as much as $4,000. for
single year was appropriated for these contingencies
The sum annually appropriated has varied. from
wear to year. between $4,000 and $4,000; but
we believe this is the first session, since the Govern
ment existed, that no appropriation whatever has
been asked for this fund.- In the estimates furnished
from the Department ofStae during the last month,
Congress was informed that no appropriation was
required for this fund, as there sufficient bal
lance remaining of the last appropriation to meet
: any probable demands.
/ Yet this is called proAgate, exiravagant Ad-
mipstration Yet this is the moment selected to
1 institute an inquiry into the manner in which that
: fund has been applied in order to impress on the
public mind belief that the confidence which has
: ALWAYS been reposed in the Executive, as regards
the application of this fund, has been now abused
We put it to the intelligence, the common sense OF
the people to determine the character of an oppos-
i,ion which can chalk out and pursue course so
e novel and dsreputable.
= Jam 81.
In the Senate, yesterday, the bill for regulating
the process of the U. States Courts, in the States.
admitted into the Union since the year 1888, was
taken up. Mr.. White withdrew his amendment
the BILL after some discussion, was laid on the table.
The bill providing for certain surviving ofhcers oi
:. the Revolution, taken up,and supported by Mr.
Berrien, in speech of great length.
In the House of Representatives, various commu-
II nicat,ons and message from the President, which
had been lying on the table until Mr. Chiltons should