South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-02-06

soon got through with, and Mr.. Adams
resolution again came upon the taps.
Mr.. WISE resumed hisremarks. He
recapi,ulated the points upon which he
touched yesterday, and recommended
his salles upon the Van Buren, leaders
with renewed vigor and animation.
He maintained that there was no ne
cessity fer appointing the committee
asked for, because such committee
would not agree upon any one report;
there would assuredy be two reports,
Numerically opposed to each other
and because the facts we're already
before the House, or some Of them
were, and the remainder should De );
there was the place for them 70 come
out, to be divulgsd. He said it had
already been charged, and not denied,
aye, it had been proved, that the For
LITIGATION Bill of the last session was
lost by means of a gentleman whose
name reads ia the reports CHURCHILL
C. CAMBRELEN0 II had been prop
ed that the chairman oflhe Committee
of Ways and Means JAMES K. Polk,
did 60 round, privately, among those
members he thought he could rely up
on, aud tell them that the Executive
wanted three millions grant, but not to
say any thing about It'll 1t had been
proved that the Chairman, on the part
of the House, of the Conference Com
mittee, did refuse to make a report a.
greed upon by the joint committee of
the two branches Of the Legislature,
and gave as a reason, that j. was after
IL o'clock, and had conscientious
scruplss about there being, consttu-
tionally, any House after that hour II
had been proved that it was but hall
past IL o'clock, instead of being after
IL, when that conference committee
agreed upon a report and separated
Il had been provsd that CHURCHILL C.
CAMBREIENo, Notwithstanding his
conscientious seruples, did remain in
the House and vote, long after he re.
fused to make the report of the con-
ference commiltee,and long after it was
in reality IL O'Clock II had been
proosd that the President went away
from the Capitol, on the famous last
night, in a rage a. the indsfnite post
ponement Of the nomination of a Judge
CT the Supreme Court. Why then
need committee These facts had
come out, and more must follow. Let
them come, and let them come 10 this
Hall, without report to gloss them
over. Men in high places had been
charged with under. handed manGver.
ing, for party purposes. Here, said
Mr.. WISE, (s.riking his breast) stands
the accuser, and there [poin.ing to
Csmoreieng,) and there (pointing to
the Speaker and al the Whife HOUSE,
are the accused ! Let Us have no
Committees, no reports, upon this sub.
ject.-Let the facts and the naked
truth come out here, in this Hall.
He said the party pretended to as
sumo responsibility bat it was not SO,
they did not do it. General jackson
assumed responsibility, but his party
did not. The case of this three mil
lions grant was in point. Why was
there SO much caucussing, vancouver
ing, whispering, cutting about the
Capitol, sending Of billot-doux, &C., il
the party were not afraid Of the re-
sponsibiitys Another case he cited
The removal of the deposites. Gene
raj Jackson had to assume the rsspon-
sibilily of that measure. There was
little man, on tina, occasion, said Mr..
WISE, who trembled from the hair
upon his head to the SOLE of his foot
Here being reminded by soma menu
Der, that there was no hair upon the
top Of the Magician's head, he correc
ted himself and said "from the top Of
his head TO the sole of his foot. But
when ii was found the measure would
go down, this little man and the lead
ers OF the party were very willing to
take the respoasibilily-not before
| MIR. Wise said there were strange
spirits and imps haunting the Capitol
| the last night of the last session. He
put it directly to Mr.. CAMBRELENo to
| say il he was not informed verbally or
in writing, that if the appropriation
bill for Notifications were TO pass with
out the three millions retained, the
President would not sign it : He ask.
! ed him if he did not see and hold con.
verse with some Of the ghosts about
the Capitol that night upon the subject.
file asked him if hs did not take coun-
sci that night Of a certain Senator who
was no ghost, and whose complexion
was far from being ghostlyf Here
the sca,her Of the sycophants and the