Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-06-08
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surveyor Uchcral OF Arkansas was taken up and
concurfed in. The bill from the House, rc.esta.
bhshing Land Districts i'm the Territory of Arknu
sas, was read first and second time and referred
to the Committee on Public Lands.
On motion of Mr.. Pondextcr the Senate took up
the bill granting township of land to the French
College in St. Louis, and he moved so to amend
the bill as to make it read, "to College i'm Mis-,
souri," which was agreed to. Further amendments
were offered, and the principle of the bill was dis.
| cusscd, at some length by Mcssrs Poipdc,ter f.
iiughuyscn, Holmes, Clay, King, Buckner. Ew;ne
Chambers, Rugglcs, Benton, and Dallas, when. on
motion of MIR. Webster the bill was laid on tho ia
bic.
The Chair communicated report from the Sc
crc.ary OF tho Treasury, transmitting the monthly
returns OF the U. S. Bank for the months of Aprii
and May.
Mr.. wilkins gave notice that tomorrow he
would beg oavc to introduce joint resolution for
Transferring the duties imposed on the Secretary of
! tho Treasury by the Pension Bill to the Secretary
| of War.
The following bills from the House were read
third time and passed-the bill for the relief o.
John Knight the bill for the relief Of the heirs of
DIR. Samuel j. Axiom, deceased; the bill for tho re-
mission of duties on iron imported for the use of
Rail Roads; and the bill for the relief of Rebecca
Blodget.
BANK OF THE w. STATES.
The bill to modify and continue the act to incor
poratc the subscribers to the Bank of tho u States
was taken up as the unfinished business, the aucs-
!lon being en- concurring in the amendments made
in the Committee of the Whole.
The amendment striking out the third section w g
taken up, and Mr.. Hayne stated that when the sinh
lect was before the committee, il determined so to
frame the bill as to check practice which had
OF late grown up, of issuing orders as currency
and OF issuing notes at one place PAYABLE at an
other But the bill reported, & as il now stands
after the amendments adopted would not effect that
object The third section provides that the Bank
snail not issue any note notes of less denomi.
nation than fifty dollars payable at any other than
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oil the Per"on or persons to whom tho bill is made
payah.c." Mr.. Haync, with a view to make the re-
riction PRACTICAL proposed to retain the third sec
ton, striking out the exception in the last clause
and restoring the fourth section to its original
| form.
After some discussion, in which Mcssrs CLAYTON.
Webster Ewing, Smith, Johnston and White took
part,
Mr.. Tazewcll moved to amend the third section.
SO as to make 1t read, any note, BILL check, draft
instead of ''note notes."
MIR. Webster proposed to effect the object to add
to the second section, words prohibiting the Bank
from issuing bills, checks drafts as currency
Mr. Tazewell then withdrew his motion
After some remarks from Messrs. White, Benton,
Buckner and Haync,
The amendment striking out the Sd section, was
disagreed to- and the last clause of the section was
stricken out, proposed by Mr.. Hayne
The amendment allowing fire wears as the time
within which the Bank may dispose of its real cs-
tate, was agreed to; also, the amendment requiring
An
any State.
The amendment requiring the Bank to paw, as
bonus, Sl50,000 year, for Is years, being under
consideration, Mr.. Bib moved to substitute for it,
a provision that the Bank shall not receive more
than fUe per cent. interest.
Upon this motion, Messrs. Ewing Bibb. Clay,
Mangum, Webster, Smith, Knight. Frclinghuyscn,
Buckner and White, spoke briefly, and, without Ia
king the question: on motion of Mr. Holmes,
The Senate adjourned.
In the House of Representatives. after the Jour
nal read, Mr.. Pendcton resumed the discuss
ion of the petition which he presented on Monduy
last, relative tn tho release of the missionaries
confined in the Georgia PeDtentiary. The sub
jcct, he said, did not necessarily involve the I'M
portant and delicate points raised by our Indian
relations. The real question referred only to the
fair and Legitimate extent of tho Jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court of the United States. The
motives under which these missionaries had acted
in the transactions for which they were now con
fined had nothing to do with the subject Whe-
Their they were fanatics not, was a point of no
Importance. He would, however remark that the
cause of civil liberty indebted to cccesi-
ssical persons than to any other class of indivdu-
ais English liberty more indebted to Hook.
er and Chiilingworth, than to Hampdcn and Sid
ncy. Why should these missionaries be denied
the release to which they had been adudged to
be entitled by the decision of the Supreme Court?
Mr. 4. went into extensive assertion of the
Constitutional supremacy of the General Govern
ment over the Governments of The respective
u
merOus opinions and arguments, and commended
that the judicial power of the United States was
co-extcnsive with it's Legislative The appellate
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court was unaucs
tionable IN civil cases circumstanced this wa
--he denied that any grounds of exception ex-
istcd III favor of criminal eases. Ii the do
ty of the House to relieve the Jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court from tho difficulty that had
been interposed by the 1Ith Section of the Judi
ciary Act, which exec pied all who were imprison
ed by the sentence of q State Court from the nov
or OF writ of Habels Corpus emanatinc from
any Judge of the United States Courts. He pro.
posed therefore to give the Supreme Court power to
execute its own judgment. and to repeal so much
of the Judiciary act related to sending a man.
date TO State Court-as it could not have been
anticipated that State Court by the trick of re- |
fusing to record the mandate, could avoid the obi
CATION of obeying it. Ho therefore moved tho
Instructions, the substance of which was given in |
our last Tuesdays paper.
MIR. Foster rose and commenced a reply to Mr. |
Pcndlcton, but gave way to motion by Mr.. Clay, |
to postpone the discussion till Monday next, which
was agreed to.
The bill for the improvement Of certain har |
oors and the navigation of certain rivers, then
taken up, discussed, and ordered to be engrossed.
The act from the Senate, for liquidating Ger |
tam claims of the State of Virginia, read
The question before the House wss--shall this |
bill be read third time?
Mr.. J. s. Barbour explained the grounds of this |
clalm which grew out Of certain ndemnities to the
officers and soldiers of certain regiments raised by
that State during the revolutionary war, which had |
been taken into the Continental service.
Mr. Barstow opposed the allowance of the claim |
mn the ground that most Of tho States could on |
The same principle claim similar indernnities. The
state OF New York had made extensive grants to |
her troops which engaged in the common
servIce during the revolution Pennsylvania |
South Carolina and most of the other States, he |
believed, had done similar atcs Of voluntary gene |
rosity to their troops. IL such gratuites afforded