Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-31

before the Senate of the United States for trial,
If he were to be compelled to compensate his own
witnesses. 1t was right and proper that the Gov
eminent should pay all the witnesses attending
trials of impeachmen!s; and whether Judge Peck
should or should not be cleared, it was obvious,
that If he were to be compelled to pay his witness
es, he was ruined man.
Mr.. Carson was in favor of the bill as propos-
ed to be amended He remarked, that if pre-
cedent was now established, that the United
States were not to pay witnesses on behalf OF the
persons accused in trials of Impeachment, no fu-
ture prosecution would take place, however agg-
gravated might be the offence committed. No
man would undertake it.-There was no analogy
between the ordinary trials in the States and
trial in the Senate Of the U. States. In the latter,
witnesses had generally to be brought from dis
lance, often very great as in the present case, land
their detention here was both long and expensive.
What possible chance was there, he would ask,
that an individual could clear himself of an al
legged crime, if he was obliged to pay his own
Witnesses! No man could clear himself, for no
man could afford the expense. In his opinion,
for the United States to refuse to pay witnesses
in the trials of the kind referred to, would amount
to positive denial of justice, &c.
The question was now demanded; and, being
Committee, they were agreed to.
The Committee then rose, and reported the
bill as amended; the amendments were agreed to,
and the bill ordered to be read third time to-
morrow.
AAsS
By private letter from a member of the Lee
gislature of IT, State of Maryland, received by
member of Congress, we are glad to learn that
the Representatives of the People of that State
have spoken trumpet-tongued, a very Ineligible
language on the subject of these modern reforms
of the errors of their fathers. A resolution
was lately introduced into the House of De-
legates (whose members were chosen IN Oc-
tober LAST contemplating an alteration of the
Constitution of the United States 50 as to al
low an appeal to the Senate of the United
States from the decisions Of the Supreme Court,
in cases involving the consttutionality OF State
Laws, and requiring the concurrence Of t,co-
thirds ofthe Senate to declare State Law un-
constitutional. After short discussion, the
question was decided by Yeas and Nays, ffty
nine members voting against the proposition. and
twO in favor of it. Thirty to one! Nat. Int.
-1Asp
The attentive reader will not fail to remark as,
one of the most portentous indications of hostill-
ty towards the Judiciary of the United States, a
motion yesterday made in the House Of Repre-
sentatives looking to Limitation Of the term of
gervice of the judges of the Courts Of the United
States. til gratifying to see by what vote it was
dscouutenanced, although it proposed an cnqui-
ry merely, on which ground, many of those who
favored IT'S consideration, voted in the affirmative
on that question. One hundred and fifteen
votes to sxty-one, against the consideration of
proposition, is, for another reason an overwhelm-
inc negative: because many vote for considering
resolution from an idea Of its being due in cour-
tesy to the member who moves it.--Nat. mt