Litchfield enquirer., 1831-12-29
THE ENQUTRER.
LITCHFIELD, DEC,R %, 1881.

LITCHFIELD, DEC'R %, 1881.
 COngTsss as yet appear. to bs engaged in but I'Ie business of importance. The two houses, 0sual tn te early part Ofhe seuOH, meet at aOOn, and sit two three hours for each day for the first four days tn the week, and thea adjourn ever to Monday. The esmmisIoss aVo carving 0uehe work, thai aer the hoIldsys is msy Se ezpsosed that COngre will go ao uSoVk or Co EaLking in earnest. We observe thnt a great Humher of petitions, and numerous liqR and resolutions; ure almost daily presented; basan0N of them relate 10 matters of riAing interest to the com anunily at large. We shall endeavor ta keep our readers appraised of all business of OfimPostsnes nns- acted during the session.
 O@crrs ef the Sena,e.-On Monday the 18th. the officers of the Senate were elected. Waller LOwrie va. reelected Clerk, with only dsseHiieas, nol
 ishstanding the efforts of Mir. Auditor Lewis; Mont joy Bailey was reelected Principal DoOrkeeper; Mir Shackford of Missouri, the 9th ballet. Assistant DOOrkeeper; and Rev. Mir. Durbin, of KenGaek ef. the Methodist Church, Chaplain to :he Senafes s TRe Address of the late National Repubiiean Con- venten at Baltimore has just issued from te press at Washington and others. It occupies between five and six columns in the National InieiIigencer We have locked over it cursorily. It is written with abi-
 y--is an able and just review of the course of the presen, administration of the general government, and deals out it's animadversions with unsParing haad. We shall probably next week make extracts Or our paper.
 \ Cay Bank, Nev- Hausn-The stock of this Insli3 tution which, when the books were first opened, was att taken up was sll subscribed for last week On the ss-npening ofthe books-partly by ssockjobbers inN .w-York. On Friday last. meeting was held for u choice of Board of Directors. Samuel St. yOhast Nsw.York, Nathaa Smith. Henry w. Ed wards. lohn H. Coley, Hervey Sanford, Theron TewuerA William Mix, Horace R. HO,chkss, and Seth Tho\Sas were chosen. Mfr. St. John was sab seque en,ly Ascted President oftbe Bank. The Bank will probabA Nso into immediate operation. Capi,al $500 oOO-of which 100 900 is to g as bonus the completion 4 lie Canal. IA
 U We haSe given in .o-day's paper some further extracts from Nh. Report of Mr. Secretary McLaoe, upon the subjeck ofthe Uni,ed States Bank. And as connected with s question, we give tho following letter from the Hon. Wm. H. Crawfords Addressed to Charles ). IngersoI Esq. of Philadelphia, and pub lishe in of the papers ot that city. Coming from a gentleman of 90 wash experience in the fisea con cerns of tue country, and much weight with many Of the lsadsrs of,hs Jackson party, should ima xias it would aot be without i.s influence upon Ahe opponents of shat National Instia,iol.
 WooD LAwN, 5ih Dee. 1881.
 Deer Sir: Your ffisndly lelsef On ihe subject ofl ihe Baak ef!he U"i':d sta'es hns 6se9 rsssivsd by ahe course of mail. The opinI0n whlch iOrmed of 4hs seoosu,ionai,y aud .exneaisncy ef the Bank of 2he uniied States whep was.4 meniRer OE the Sen- ssas the result cf ea.elu exasslna.oa of shs prSconceived opinions. That opinlD1 s recorded in swO speeches which made a ihe ssna,s in the year 1911. Since that time have lipz nc oec"sionof rs- was Secretary of the Trsasury more than eight years, and during that time had ample evidence of the grea, utility of the Bak ofhe United States iD managing the Gscal censcrns of the Unon.s NH
 ain persuaded tbys no man, whatever hsg Rrecon- Geiyed op,nions may can pvess over the Treasn- ry year, wi'h9e le"s sisePly ipssssssd wish .hs ducting the 6nas ees of the URion. The pravieion in ahe Constitution which gives Congress. the power i0 pass all laws which may be necessary snd proper t0 carry into effect the enumerated powers gives Con- ersss the right tO pass the Bank bI unlses law mos proper tO carry into effect the power to callfet and 1s,ribue revenue, should be excluded by that pro. Ssion. The oppone"ts of the cons''ln'csaly ol the Bank, placed great stress upon the word necessary contained in the grant of power. and insiss that no law be necessary, hut such, that wHhout which ahs construction appears be inde iensible- Jl does seem me, that tho words ' necessary and proDer' cannot exclude law that ie most proper to carry the power into effect. Yet the unconsuti0n- any ot the Bank be pronounced only upon that construction. It does appear to me that the framers Ofthe constitution never could have intended to ex- nude the passage ofa law most proper 10 carry power into effsci because it might be carried imperecty into effect by another law. My construction of the grant of power to pass all laws which may be neees- oary to carry the enumerated powers into sGect, D cludes the power pass all laws which nscessa ry and proper carry the e0umeraie4 pOWer9 insO effect in s,a nost perfect and complete mannsr, and Nos ia an ineomplsae aad imperfect msaner.
 | have nos Oe0n . complete deysIopemene of the Predicate plan of Baak. It is possible aha: by shis plan the ransmisson of the revenue may be ef- effected by the Presidents plan. The advantage of ahis security to the public iS inraleuable ought not to be renquished, uRess t can be satisfactorily proved that the Bank of the U0ited States uneon. siiiuliOnal. .
 This think cannot hs satisfactorily shown. My apeeches are recorded aad can he repubshed. if cessarv They contain thc result of tho hest iDvest Ratio0 was able o give the subject. r am persua. sed could not improve upon ii now, had the ncams of invesg gating the euiject, which have not
 ! am, Sir, your frieMd, &c.
 EHNRfks ;. sHuHKsoEL, Esq.
 An sn4uiee Conseisncs.-During the last winter, a
 gentleman of this village received letter from New York, ia disguised hand, and wiih fictitious sigma sure. covering the ofiy dollars, which 'hs wr'- ses said had been wrsngaly obtained from him some years since. The writer iheu said that # the above should be acknowledged in New-YOTk paper. he .,a ann..a .,i ,has remit q like