Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-01-02
,Tw enty-tllird COngress.--Ist scss.
Monddy, December 80.
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The Chair laid before The Senate A communicates, ,o
me secretary OF the Treasury, in reply the resolution
% Tue iS' caring Tor copies OF cer,ain spon.nce
between Mr. Crawford aud others ON the subject of the
Bank sc. "
Also, communication from the Secretary of the Tre,
sury, the subject OF the amount of nnbic meme Ia
posteu IN Tie various Banks. and other matters
in Tie other call made by the Senate OH The motion of Mr.
Clay. " "
three quarters OF an hour
Mr. Clay then and said, that as 10 the repor, which
hau oeeh JUST read and which he held in his hand il
was most extraordinary and an
The Senate had called the Secretary of The Treasure
Tor documents, and he had given them an Argument
I'm respect 10 That argument the Secretary was ecome
TO the FULL benefit Of it, He (Mr CT would undertake IN
prove AT proper opportunity that the Secretary had mis-
quoted the letters OF Ar Crawford MIR Crawfod hd ~,
ed under the resolution OF 1916 and all xlracis yhjch
ierrsd to that authority had i'm the
the Secretary OF The Treasury The Senate had called for
hhgs Whch tbey had not got, and had got things which
they had not called for They had asked of the Secre,,rv
breal, aud he had given them a stone The Senate al
'or me name OF the agent who had been employed
20 make arrangements with the Banks. The Secretary
ought to have known that this was one of the objects Of
me call because he reced in the ginning of his reuorr
Tue whoie OF The resolution But tile of the 40 emf
was not communicated The Senate had asked for Ihe
compensation to the agent but the Secretary had no
IT, The Secretary asked BY virtue of what f. ~;
agent was appointed Ii was replied by The Secretary
'hat he knew oil no law but the practice of his
so's ~ was not now The proper occasion 60 into this
question: lie bad himself looked Into the
OF Mr. Crawford, the time, aud had seen il ali bu, m
circular TO the Banks which he had obtained AN onoo,
my vi seeing uIs morning, rom another quarter And
W's reauy 10 assert That IL asserted such poyer "a
that which was claimed by the Secretarv of ia, r.
sury. '' VI '"e ''ea-
lie concluded with moving that the commune ,,o, h.
Ian on the table, and printed but viiIJre ia. uoon
al the request OF Mr.. Forsyth WV '''
MIR. Forsyth then said that he thought The sn,,or fo,
hehtScky was mos. unknd to the Secretary of The 1rea
sy, ana had doDe him much Injustice. He had
me secretary Of suppression oil informant because b
nsu nov returned ai which had been asked for INA,
was asked lot? The Secretary had been asCd Il, s,i
~ uocumen'' TO slew that the extracts made from,
We 'eUefs Of MIR Crawford sustained the conrse oI a..
"eV'e'd'y' tie had done The geut,eu.n from, u ,
lucky bad charged that Of the Sc extr,c, ,.a, -;
quo co. and that Others u ID concealed Tie Secre
'dry b"d, " must he well known. r,ferreJ ,o a. -.
Inen's which were exclusively in his possession IT,
were OUT Oi his possession. AMI there could he o conr
meh ne S'hdiOr from Keuiurky when he In, ,ol ,ot
'h's cali, had dttncty declared ha lie denied the Sprte
10y s'"'eMeh' OF MS own case There il was. The
quotations from Mr. era otds let era uore ,La f. ,
"eie-cb'pler aud verse. lie thought fI,e Senate,
NouId De grossly m.taken II he thought n. should he
are 10 sbew any ms-stdefnen OF tie Secretary Mr.
"eh Teeifed 10 lie charges made against Mr. Crawfo,d
before the UOue OF Representa- ives TO sLew H., Lo
was not charged With pfopriey for having sds ,fans
i we pub'te money but Tor having failed To comou
e we TACT 10 Co gress 10 the oiher p,rf If A. -
se ~ 's Tie Secretary, that he had not given the
i ~ " we agent woui be uDd that the name az
wo,Ii siso bn 1 OF 'he "grn and among The papers
r. go NC '0hhd The cOmpensa ion given In f. sge,t
ne ihiorna ion required yas here giyen in a., @ '
IL he pleased. ' ""he "hd' Use Of
Mr. Clay replied. that no could be more free from
,ne chlrse oil unkind feeling towards fbe Secrs,, ~
the Treasury Than he was. He scsrerv kns,v ~ ~
individual aud could have no unkindoess tovs,is IT,
We gentleman from Georgia had said that he (Aif CavN
psu required rom the Secretary his own statement oI liz
''u not Tue Secretary made out his statement be