Litchfield enquirer., 1835-03-19

ment Ofthe public grounds. Presidents house, sEe. &c. if this same opposition in the Senate had not made perfect 0nsmibws of the civil lisf bill, for carting along these measures. thus dropped out and leil behind by the House of Representatives?
 The opposition in the Senate! Was there ever session, since the government began, in which the Senate finished of SO clean, and the House of Represent atives left such mass es 0f uDdO0e work by means whereof, we might add, with great truth, sO many worthy citizens, interested in private and public bills, are in danger Of being undOne themselves? It was a melaDchOly. thing to go into the House of Representatives on Wednesday, and see the great number of printed bills, waiting only for the concurrence Ofthe House in some slight (Perhaps veen verbaD amendments.- Six hours of untaikiog industry would have been worth half a sessiOn. We stood our 1 selves at the door of the Senate, occasionally, for the last three or four days, and we noticed an incessant calling out of Senators by mem bers of the House, for the purpose of saying, in reference to the bills which had had the good fortune to reach that body, "Pray do no: alter it, though you think it imperfect.- Let lt pass for Heavens sake; for if it gets back to US, we cannot get it up, were it only l if you please, but fur the present keep it out of the grave :" It was only through the in- auence of such solicitations, that the bill for the benefit of the Navy. and several other i'm portaDt bills, passed at all. gs 1 The opposition in the Senate! Well, we have booked over the yeas and nays on the
 fhotiOn for the three millions, and we should like to be informed, among other things, when MT. Hendricks joined the opposition in the Senate. .and more especially .hOw !ong it is since the Globe has counted MT. White of Tennes- see among the opposition members? The gentleman last named not only voted against the grant of three millions to the President, to be used at his entire discretion, but he spoke against it also, and delivered one ofthe most condensed. sensible and earnest speech es we ever heard from him. Si simper sic ? The sum and substance of the case is this. The House passed the bill for fDr;ifcations tlIe Senate thought. iu the present state of the country, prudence required larger appropria- lions the Senate added these larger apprO- out fOrtresses, ornaments, &c, &zc. SLc.
 The Senate put every thing into the bill which the President or the War Department required. or recommended-and it made still further additions to the bill, on the authority of the committee on Military Affairs of both Houses. ss
 The Senate passed this bill reasonably, and sent 1t to the House a week before the ad- journment.
 In the night of the last day, the House sent It back. pressing this grant Of the three mill ions of d0IIafa. The Senate disagrees to this "a conference ensles-the confsrring com mttfees mutually agree upon an alteration or c0mproiliise. The Senate is satisfied with this alteration, but the .coamiftee of confer enee. on the part of the House, delays to make its report. The Senate is waiting, time is fly. ing, and fhe hour of twelve is at hand. The l Senate sends to the House hastening mes- sage; a proceeding strictly parliamentary, but which, SO far as we know, it has never been [ found pecessary, to resort to before in the Con- gress 0fthe U. States, t 1
 When this message reached the House, the l Committee of the House had not yet report ed i! The Chairman of the Committee then i gets up. and formally declines to report !- Was such thing ever heard ofbefore Nev- CT, to our knOwledge-never, we are certain HereupOn the next named member of the Committee. as was his duty. in such an un- precedented state of things, makes the report. [ But the House does not choose to act upon 1t! 1t will not act. on a report of one of its | own Committees on matter that the public | service requires should be decited instantly! |
 Mean times the Senate waits, with patience. At length it sends another message but ne- l ther patient waiting, nor the repetition of mes sages, produces any answer, nor any result and up to the moment of adjournment, and when both Houses did adjourn, the House Of Representatives had not acted on report of its Committee of Conferenee--a report too, of Agreement, which would have saved the bill-on question of great national magni. tnde! We venture to say, that such thing never happened before, in an American House of Representatives. Every one acquainted with the forms of business knows, that if the Committee had reported, aud the House had agreed with their Committee, it would not have required five minutes to pass the bill fl. nal'y. as amended by agreement, through the two Houses.
 Tne Van Buren papers insist upon it, that me Senate are solely responsible for. leaying tne sea coast defenceless, because they would not agree to the amendment to the appropri. alton blIi, placing three millions of dollars in the hands of the Executive, to dispose of as he pleased. If defence was the only thing which the pGrty were after in the House of Representatives, why did they not concur in lhs' sum of eight hundred thousand dollars That was certainly better than nothing: and probably was as good as the whole sum would have been. because it IS doubtful wheth- CT more could have been usefully expended before Congress will meet again. Besides.
 how did MT. Cambreleng, and those who vol.
 ed with him know, that the President ,v;,h.A