The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-01-10

Jan. 10, 1923.
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We have received several letters from
different correspondents in Washington
since the commencement oftbe session and
select the following as being the latest and
most interesting.
FROM Qua CoRREsPoSDENT.
Washington, Jim. lst, 1898.
GENTLEMEN Yon will find by this,
that my correspondence commences with
The New Year; it has been my wish TO have
written you before, but although have
been resident for some time, ] have not
before had leisure moment, such have
been nv engagements. and 50 completely
has my time been monopolized by my own
concerns. A. Congress is now in session,
and many of the great men of the nation
are win the ten miles squire, suppose you
would be pleased to know what the Hon
orable Houses have done, and what they
probably will do, and the nation reasonl.
bly, expects from them,Geiore they adjourn.
aud the members return To their respec
tive homes. What they have done, you
have learnt from the newspapers which
you have received from time to time, if not,
| cHn IN a very few words inform you; the
house has met, (and / speak Of the house
more partcrlsrly, for | have attended that
body more than the other branch, aud OF
the two the house has been the most indus
trious,) and after receiving and referring
few petitions and adopting as many re
solutions, he members have "resolyed, on
mot,on OF mr.. Van Rensselaer,, that when
they did adjourn, they would adjourn to
Mvod"y most" Ono month baa nov
lapsed, since the session -commenced, aud
it would be safe to say, that neither branch
has been in session forty five hours Yes
terday the house had long sitting, for the
members were called to order at twelve,
tho standing hour, and the house did not
adjourn until after four. The members are
certainly entitled to some credit for the
manner in which they have ended the old
year, but am apprehensive that this long
sitting was rather the result of accident
| than Of design speculatons had
been aAoat relative to the doings Of the
! Committee on Manufactures; some have
entertained the belief that that committee
would not report at all, while oe,ers have
supposed they would rep)rt bill to the
house, but OF such a natrfc, that it would
not, and could not receive any support or
counienance from even those who are
friendly to the Tariff Yesterday, soon
after the Journal was read, mr.. Mallary
the chairman of the committee on Manu-
| features, rose and said he was directed by
the committee Of which he was chairman,
to offer resolution which he would send
to the Chair, and which was i'm these
words : "Resolyed, that the committee on
Manufactures have power to send for per.
SONS and papers," Most Of the members
were astounded at this resolution, and call
ed on the chairman Of the committee for
explanation, who rose and in words observ-
ed, that he was himself opposed to IN e re.
solution. but in compliance with directions
given him by majority Of the committee,
had offered it to the house. A sharp, in.
teresting, anmating, and may add able
debate commenced, in which mr.. Wright,
of Ohio, Strong, Storrs, Oakley, Cambre.
leng, Wood, Wright, and Hoffman of N.
York, Stewart, Stevenson, and Buchanan,
of Pennsylvania, Randolph and Floyd, of
Virginia, Livingston Of Louisiana, and
some others participated: the debate con.
tiuued for three hours and longer. You
will see report OF the debate before tins
reaches you, and il will be sufficient for
me to say that the friends Of the tariff con-
sidcred this an attempt to give the question
Of aid and relief to our manufacturers and
farmers the 20 by, for this session but I
am led to believe that although this was
the object Of . majority of the committee
on manufactures, with whom the resolution
originated, from the manner in which they
have been pinched and pushed, during the
debate, they will be obliged to abandon the
ground which they first took, and report a
| bill, in the Course of two or three weeks,
and whatever may be its original shape
the house can mould and mod, it as they
p'ease.-The resolution as you will learn
as modified by mr.. Oakley, which, by the
way, was no alteration at oil, was adoptco
by a majority OF fourteen. The Maryland
N. Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana ad
miuistration members who are anti tarif
men, voting for it, and two or three Jack
son men voting against it, and twenty
three members absent. In this debate, 20
/ the first time, had the pleasure Of hear
, ing the celebrated lawyer from New Y orb
mr.. Oakley, Of whom you have heard 8
! much, and Of my desire to hear him yo