Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-05-27
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. ihings had become more quiet at Washington
In consequence of the Agitators in the Senate Inv
mS ceuseu, I'D some degree, to sound their tocsn-
Mr.. Webster has resumed the business however
WIN some spirit: Although he has not altogether
satisfied his own friends, by the reasons which he
mas gwen for laying his Bank Bill on the table,
Mr. clay is also attempting once more to excite the
country-and brings forward, in STYLE which little
becomes the dignity of the Senate illusions TO small
anecdotes, to the visits of gentlemen to w sslington
&C, &C. Tie thing will not lakeland the coun-
Try Is becoming dissatisfied if not Disguised with
me extraordinary Proceedings of the Senate Much
tiie IS also lost in This system of agaionand the
pupllc business is proracted beyond all example,
Mr. Benton declared in his speech of the 2Ist Nav.
that -
Never since he had been member OF the Senate and
he had now been member for fourteen wears had
SION oil SIX months passed of with little attention TO the
business OF legislation, and with large Accommodates
oil business, public and private all in srrear
and unhoug h'of, while this loud and incesant crv 10
up for new job as il the Senate had nothing TO do The
egSaVe business was IN great and sgrant srrea and
lar as he might be permitted speak OF Executive bus
ness II was in the same miserable condition. He would
speak OF the Of the Bank Directors for the
proceedings the subject these nh
lished, and The whole subject open 10 public remark
rave we any Directors at this time in the Bank OF the
u D. NO! not one The year half gone Tor which they
were TO serve, aud Directors for the vel in
that institution Whose fault is Thu? Is il The fut of
President upon whose shoulders every fault il now 10
hIown' NO. s IL IL not his fault, hut the fault of those
who have converted this chamber into hall of accusation
"a SORT OF cuO'room-or the incessan attack and de-
Hunclahon OF the GTeSiuent Early in Decemler Last
The President sent in his nomination Of Bank Directors; il
was moi until The last Of February that these nominations
were acted upon, and then they were rejected Ten or
Twelve Gays afterwards tie President re nOnina
ton OF the same Directors, with message expsnatorv
o his reasons for doing this denomination Law in Tho
Srnae almost TWO monis,-rom early in March, till the
nrs' OF May-and The nominees again rejected
Immediately upon this election other persons were noni
mated Tor Directors and these nominations ore TO this dsy
without the action Of The Senate. The nominations Of
these five Directors upon hands, and instead
OF acting up them. instead oidng what we can 10 give
he government its share in the management Of the affairs
oil the United States Bank leave those nominations
untouched and unattended 10 and call out for ev nomina
tons, as we were die and had nothing 10 do and could
not go to work until the President would send in fresh
nominations. cofnorani cry is up for new nomina.
ions. when we have five Bank nomination. OIL hand
awaiting our acton, and demanding our attention. Sure
~ the People will that il Tor want of work tht
we are thus crying on, for works
In the course of this speech, MIR. Benton nttemp-
ed to show, that the distress ofthe country had been
eXnggeraed-ihat The prices of many articles of
produce were as liberal, MS they had been hereto
fore-ihat those Banks, about which such idle and
extrayagant reports had been circulated stood firm
That there vs. more specie i'm the country Than
bad been for many years past; its quantity RAPIDLY
augnentng, and giving TO the country the assurance
OF an ample and secure currency of Oo and siIyer0
that since the LIST Of December, S7031331 had
been entered on the custom-house books as import-
ed into the U. Siates-aud he las no doubt, the
Whole amount was at least equal to ten millions He
attempted TO prove, that il was not the removal of
was The panic got up by the Scnntc and the Bank
that as the distress had commenced with the meet
ing OF Congress, il would entirely vanish unon
'lle rise of Congress-that the cry was already
"beconiiIg lnand faint-that essential means of
relieving The embarrassmens which already existed
Congress ought TO pass soon as possible the Coin
bllls-and he concluded by saying, that she would
never give vote 10 leave this place until the great
measure Of the GOLD CURREScY, aud of tic circu-
lation of FoREIGN CONS, should lie passed upon by
direct vote Of Yeas mud Nays"
But stu more important Bill than either Of
these, IS tie other Bill Of the Committee of WAYS
and Mcans-We mean the Stale Bank Deposits BIZ;
aud It IS accordingly noticed by another Senator
In the course of the same days Debate, MIR. For
sytb gave out other signs Of the views of the Admi-
nsiraiIon. For instance, lac said:
believing, that there 10 hope 10 the present ses
sion OF Congress- or Ia any Congress Cor ten years yet 10
come, ihAt project for Bank could receive msnity
u votes lac asked the honorable gentleman rom Msssa
chuse,' what was our duty. That gentleman said he
waited Tor he friends Of tie Administration 10 propose
something. Was not tae plan OF the Administration be.
Tore CongfesS Was II not working IN the other House
Was good or bid' SO far regarded the security of
nc public reGsure securities mere proposed and iai-
tdtions Of ErecutiUe control ohieh Uere nfger afforded
IN the ehor'es@ ne present. Bank cfhs United States