Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-02
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WEDNESDAY MORNING., JUNE 2, 1890.


"WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1880.
THE CLOSE -CoNGREss adjourned on Monday
the last few days of the session having been boiste-
Gus and busy. We publish letter which narrates
many interesting particulars. The Postscript says
that the President had rejected the Washington and
Rockville Turnpike BILL he passed however the an
nuul bill making appropriations for surveys, which
contains the whole principle Other bills of the
same description pretermitted altogether. All
accounts agree in the high caused by those
acts of the President, that detection to formidable
extent produced in the jackson ranks by them.
and that that party stood the brink of dissolution
From the National Intelli gencer of Monday, we
extract brief notice of the transactions of the last
days of tue session, and of the fate of the many i'm
portnut matters pending before Congress.
The bill making appropriation to the Frederick
and Rockville Road mentioned by the Tnteigencer
as being in the hands of the President, has been re-
jecied by him. This bill passed each House by
considerable majority.
Saturdays and Mondays tho last day proceedings
will be given in detail in our next.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDEECE.
WASHINGTON, May 81. 1880.
Gentlemen: This has been an anxious morning in
Congress. The Houses met at o'clock, and pro-
ceeded to some few acts of Legislation. private
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bill, where the claim Of the strongest character
and the claimant very poor and very urgent, and
where the House the bill having passed the Senate)
was called on to act, 'in the name If humanity and
of Coda kind of appeal in his House. was ia
ken up and passed The bill making appropriation
for the Marine Corps reported & passed through
both Houses. You may recolect that Mr.. Amos
Kendall, when he first came into Office off the ra-
tons and other allowances of Marine Officers multi
tying the practice of the Government from time i'm
memorial, and IT correct this new construction
OF law and this heretcal practice, that Joint resou
ton within the last few DAYS passed the two Houses
restoring to the Marine Officers the allowances of
which they had been unjustly deprived The Pre-
sident IN approving this resolution, stated in mes
sage, that would render appropriation neces-
sary. In consequence of this suggestion, the bill
which have named reported and passed, and the
Ohcers of the Marines will now receive the arrears
of their allowances. The other bills acted on to-day
are "a bill making re-appropratoHs of money appro-
prated for the suppression of the slave and "a bill
authorize the President cause the present site of
the National Mint to be sold, and making appropria-
tinna for the erectluu'nf the new buildinga"
The President has approved and signed the bill
making appropriations for the surveys of various
works of internal improvement, with n condition an
neXcd which limits the extent of of its objects,
the Chilago road, to the boundaries of the Michigan
Territory There three other bills before him at
this moment. of which the fate is supposed to be
doubtful, and on the subject of which a message is
expected every moment These bills are-the bill
making appropriations FOR light houses, the bill autho-
Il
Canal Company, and the bill authorizing subscrp-
ton to the stock az the Washington and Rockville
Turnpike Road. 1t is thought by some that one of
these bills at the least. will have the placed upon
it. The rejection Of the Maysvle Road bill has put
| the northern and western members into q fever. |
have never, since have been in the habit of w;ness-
ing he proceedings Of Congress, heard such language
used has been used on the floor of the House du-
ring the last two days The old divisions Of parties
acting under names of persons, broken up; aGd
political parties will now be framed on the ground of
Internal Improvement and the Tariff and the Ants of
these systems. You will be as well able | am to
speculate OH the result of such arrangement of
parties The friends of Gen jackson belonging to
the States other than those South Of the Potomac,
all ready to file of from lis ranks and the probe
bty is, that at the commencement of the next seq
sion the opposition ranks will have greatly increased
so much as 10 give them majority in the House.
In the Senate also said that some secession from
the Jackson party may be looked for. The Southern
members on the other hand, arc much gratihed with
the course of the President, and much more
ready to stick to HIM than they the earlier
part Of The session. because he has put dnmper on
the cause Of internal Improvement. 1t is believed,
however that the voice Of the people will have spoken
out loudly on the subject before the next Of
Congress that the President will be compelled TO re
trace his steps and remodel his arguments on the
subject. --VrgiH Maxcy of Maryland, is oppoin-
ted by and with the advice aud consent Of the Senate
| the Solicitor of the Treasury. lie is friend of Mr..
Calhoun and an opponent of the Great Magician.
p. s. The President has rejected the bill making an
appropriation for tho Washington 81 Rockville Turn
pike Road, and two thirds of the Senate not voting
for it re- consideration, the bill is lost. The Pres-
dent retained tho other two bills, so they arc Of
course lost
From tho National lnieligeneor Of Monday.
Saturday was the last busness-day OF the present
Session of Congress; that IT, the last day which
any bill could pass either House. And on no duv,
probably, in the History Of Congress- have 50 many
questions of interest Whose fate doubtful up to
the moment of their passoge) been decided Tho
Previous Question freely used and both Houses
sat, with lt le interruption. from ten o'clock in the
morning Of Saturday to four five O'Clock in the
morning Of Sunday
We shall, for tho more direct information Of our
readers condcnso tho most important decisions in n
| few paragraphs
! (. THE CoLoNtAL TRADE. The bill upon this
subject which passed the House Of Representatives.
on Thursday passed the Senate by large majority
latter some time spent. was IN the other House,
1 in secret SESSION. and has been approved and signed
by the President o. the United States and become a
/ law.