The Arkansas advocate., 1834-01-17

direst treason, It could only come before the Senate in the shape of charge against the is If, ;oii tiss, 6
 gestion having been made of any official use l of this paper to be made by the Senate, MT. f. said he should still oppose the call flor ii.
 Mr. WEBSTER rose, and after few re- marks. moved to amend the resolution, hy striking out all after the word l" Resolyed,n and inserting as follows
 That the President be requested to send to the Senate copy of the paper which has been published, and which pur- ports to have been read by him to the Heads of the Executive Departments, dated the 18th day of September last, relating to the removal of the deposites of the public mo- nev, from the Bank of the United States and it's ofFices.''
 Mir. CLAY said he believed there was no instance of an official paper emanating from the President, having been sent to ei- ther House without call for its production. It was the Parliamentary usage, not only here, but in England and France, and in all countries, to make calls for official pa- pers. There was no instance in which Congress had used any paper, purporting to be an official one, without previously calling on the Executive to lay a copy of such paper before them. All this was ac- cording to Parliamentary usage. All pro- clamations, from the celebrated proclama- ton of neutrality of Washington, to this time, had all been brought before Congress by call from one branch or the other.-- Such was the case with all papers enana- ting from authority. l Tie motion which he had made, therefore, was in conformity to usage, and was the most respectful course to the President himself. A paper might be published surreptitioalsiy, and yet bear on ii the stamp of authority. It was most proper to go at once to the highest source and obtain the fact.
 Ks to the uses which were to be made of this paper, nothing seemed to run iii the head of the gentleman from Georgia, but the idea of impeachment. This appeared to be the only idea he could connect with the call But there were many other purposes and some of them had been named by the gentleman from Massachusetts, and there might still be others. RI ighf1t 1t not De iffs portant 10 ascertain who had received the public deposites2 Whether they had been removed by authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or not! And whether he was a mere aatomaton, or acting, as he bellev- ed, in the discharge of his duty? He nr. C. had never intended to use the docu- ment in the form of impeachment, nor had he even indicated such a design. A great measure had been done, in connection with the financial condition of the Treasu- ", concerning which the gentleman from Mississippi had made some very apt and very excellent observations; and 1t was inl- portaat to know whether the removal oftbe7 public fundssiiiusii been, done ;spranerly. in order that, if so, the Senate might consider whether 1t might not be proper, by joint resolution, to restore them.
 As to the resolution being premafilre,he could not comprehend on what ground such suggestion could be made. It was clear lY the duty of Congress, as early as pos sibie after their meeting, to look into the state of the Treasury, and, in this case, to see if the transfers had been made in conformity with the provisions of law, to other banks than that of the United States; to probe the matter thoroughly, and under stand how, why, and on what authority fl had been done. The reasons were only now given on the authority of the Editor of newspaper. He had said before, that it was his object to get at the paper; and so far from intending any imputatlon on the Chief Magistrate, 1t was out of respect to him that he made the motion, not desiring that. in an extraordinary proceeding like this, the facts should betaLen on insufficient authority. His object being merely to ob- tain the paper, he would not object to the modification.
 MT. WEBSTER disclaimed any intention to impute premature action to the gentle man from Kentucky.
 The amendment was then modified ac- cording to the suggestion of Mr. WEBSTER.
 The debate was further continued by MT. BiBB, Mr. CALHOUN, Mir. FoRsyTH, MT CLAY, and Mir. KANE; when the question was taken on agreeing to the resolution, and decided as folIows:--
 YEAs.-Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, Kent, Knight, Mangum, Nau- dain, Poindexter, Prentiss, Preston, Rob- bins,. Silsbee, Smith, southard, Sprague. Swift, Tomlinson, Webster.--23.
 NAgs.-Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Grun- dy, Hili, Kane, King, Moore, Morris, Riyes, Robinson, Sbepey, Tallmadee, 1ipton, Iy- ] Ter, White, Wilkins, Wright.-- 8. So the resolution was agreed to.
 After some further business the Senate | adournaI