Litchfield enquirer., 1831-12-22

Huntington, it will require higher power, to prevent his voice from giving this great questions Mir. Slanberry from Ohio, is also removed from this committee, because he cOncurred in the report men.
 toned, and because he will not at all times and on all occasions, and under all circumstances, the "JacksOn collar" John s. Barbour from Vir. member of this committee at the last Congress is put at the tail end of the list because he has dared to to his constituents the musings, that he was disap- pointed in Gen. Jackson and that he dsspprOved of the attempt to sacrifice Mr. Calhoun, to the ambitious views of Mr. Van Buren. The judiciary committee consists of Messrs Davis ofSouth Carolina Esworth Daniel, White of Lou Foster Gordon, and Beardsley Four Of these gentlemen, to wit, Davis, Daniel Eos ter and Gordon, Ooted as year to repeal the 2h tiOn c the judiciary act. Mr.Beardsey is new mem- Der from New-YOrk, and his opinion, he has no op- pOrtUnity publicly to express.
 alt was expected that Mir. Polk of Tennessee, would be the principal, head butcher, in carving up the Presidents Message. That office was dis. charged, however, by Mr. Wayne of Georgia. The second resolution offered by him was as Collows- Resolved, that much of the said Message, as re- laes to the stae of the public finances, the public debt and rsvenue and that which recomme nds that arrangements be adopted. at the present Session of Congress, to relieve the people from unnecessary tax aslon' afier the extnguishment of the public debt, be 1 referred to the committee ol Ways and Means" By another resolution, he proposed refer ke subject ol | the United States Bank to a select committee Mr.. McDufie moved to amend the second resolution by inserting the words and Bank ofthe United States after the word revenue. This amendment was oppos- ed by MT. Wayne at grea, length, and with much ear nesness and zeal, principally on the ground, that the bank question did not within the duties prescrib. ed ny the rules for the Committee of Ways and Means and because the chairman ofihat committee Mr. Me. Dume' had committed himself in a report to sustain the Bank. Some of Mir. Wayne's remarks were somewhat tart; but Mr. McDufie replied to him in a lew words, in very pleasant mood. He said he re- gfetted very much that the nation would not be benc- htted by report of the gentleman from Georgia who would undoubtedly bo put at the head of the Select Committee, if one raised, bu, he could not con- sent that the committee of Ways and Means, should have taken from any po,ton of it's preroga,ve-tha, the bank was directly connected with the finances o 1 'he country The amendment was carried, a di. vision, by large majority. Mir. Wayne did not carve suit gentlemen, and several select committees were rased, besides those he proposed by his
 Mir. Wickliffe said there subject which h, thought the gentleman from Georgia had overlook ed when dssecting the Message-that of internal iu
 prOvemens, and that he (Mr Wicklife) would there fore propose. that so much Of the Presiden,s Mes sage as related to the suiec of internal be referred to select committee" Mr. Wayne sait the subject was ono of importance, which he had not as the gentleman from Kentucky had supposed, oue, iooked" he said he had "looked aJler tn tie Mes sage, and could not find it. Mir. Ih,ie, of Penn. a Mir. WickIiffe's left in under tone remarked i ought to bs there iii was not when MT. W. rose ans said, his friend his left had said it onph: 10 hay, been found in the Message, and ne Mr. Wickif, thought it would be found there Mir. Mercer said he had examined the message with the hope of finding it. and had been disappointed, and had laid resolution on the table to raise a committee, 10 whom the pe
 tons Tor roads and canals might be referred. Mr. W'cki'ffe, by this time, had procured copy of the Prss'denrs message, and running his eye over it. he saw the words :" internal improvement on the first page; and supposing he had found the ignis fatuus he requestsd the Clerk read the part of the mes- sage commencing at the word "agricul,urs" For once there was general silence in the house. The following is the sentence to which Mr. w. more imme. diaely referred. " The aborer is rewarded by high improvement, which arc extending with unprecedented ra. pidiiy;" and when the Clerk closed the sentence. there was general burst of laughter through the House. Mir. Taylor, thinking the subject of internal improvement not recommended io that part of the message just read, moved to strike out of Mr. Wick Ife's resolution, the words "so much of the Presi dents message" Mr. Ingersoll moved to lay the res o'nt'on and amendment on the table, which was car ried MT. Adams presented fifteen petitions from th. Society Of friends in Penney yIvana praying for the ab oIio" Of the Slave Trade, and ofsavery in the Dis trct of Columbia. Before moving their reference he spoke about ten minutes, and the house WIS never siiIler. His enuncia"n perfectly distinct, and his manner far exceIled any thing had expec.ed." CONGRESS. House of Representatives., Dec. l2.
 The following gentlemen were announced as hay. ing been appointed by the Chair since the last sitting