Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-03-21

HIM, but the House would do no such thlng.
He is very much chasrlned to be thus cast off
This two.thirds vote saves this bill from the
'veto"--but | learn from good au hority to-
day, that the President will pocket it, and thus
snatch il from the action Of tho House, and ito
constitutional minority. We shall see.
THURSDAY, March 2.
A busy day-next to tho last-all Of the
most important measures Of the session, with
hundreds OF bills Of minor importance on the
and quickly done. In the Senate Mr.. Morris
presented abolition pettions-on the table
appropriation bills for civil and diplomatic ex-
peDses and for harbors were passed. A reso-
luton, acknowledging the Independence Of Tcr-
as, was passed, % TO 10, last evening, and Mr..
Ruggles of Maine, moved reconsideration,
and Mr. Walker moved 10 lay this motion on
the tablo-negatived, 25 to %; and the mo-
ton to reconsider was not carried, ayes "a, noes
"a, so the resolution stands, and one branch
of Congress has actually, aud tho other virtu-
all, acknowledged the independence of Texas.
The House having returned the Fortiiica-
ton Bill with n resolution disagreeiDg to the
amendment Of the Senate, by which the dis
ulbulion section was stricken from the bill, on
motion OF Mr.. Wright the Senate proceeded
to the consideration Of that bill.
! Mr.. Wri- ht moved that the Senate insist on
| its amendment.
! MIR. Clay expressed hope that the amend
ment would not be insisted on. The Land
Bill it was now asccitaned would not become
a law, and other bills (among them the Tar
lif) were likely 10 be in the same condition.
| There was now no doubt that there would be
a large surplus, and was that money to be LETT
in the Opposite Banks? He rejoiced TO sec
the change in the House, TO see light breaking
in from that glorious quarter, represented by
those who knew the feelings of the people
He called for the yoas and nays which were
ordered.
The question being about 10 be put, Mr..
Clay said the question is 10 insist, so that those
Senators who intend to vote with the House
and the people could vote in the negative
The question was then put and decided in the
affirmative as follows:
Yeas-Benton, Black, Brown, Buchanan,
Culhbcrt, Dana, Ewing Of H., Fulton, Grun-
dy, Hubbard, King OF Ala, King of Geo,
Linn, Lyon, Mouton, Nicholas, Norvell, Page,
madge, Walker, Wall, Wright-23.
Noes-Bayard, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton,
Criltenden, Davis, Ewing of Ohio, Hendricks,
Kent. Knight, Mexican, Moore, Morris, Prem
tiss, r obbins, Southland, Spence, Swift, Tom
linson, Webster, White-22.
So the Senate insist on their amendment.
| The House, after passing very large num-
Der Of private bills proceeded 20 consider the
FORTIFICATION BILE, returned from the
| Senate. That aristocratic" body 1--WE give
credit to Rives for the term,) had stricken out
The clause providing for distributing the sur
plus money among the staes, in Jan. 1888, by
a strict party vote, in which the V. B. men vo-
ted TO keep the money in the pet banks, while
the Wings voted 10 distribute it TO the states.
Mr. Bell SAID. he would not now enter into
further debate, because he believed that all the
t arguments which could be presented on the
subject were already before the country. Moth
ing he could cay could gthon these argu-
: mcnts. He intended, however, to submit a
molion which but for the late period OF the
session and the vast number of important bills
before the House, he should not think either
proper or expedient. He would merely sug.
sost that as additional argument, why the
Eiourc should disagree 10 the amendment o.
the Senate, was to be found in the fact that
would be taken by the House in relation &c
the public revenue was known. The Lane
Bill had been laid on the table by definite
vote. lie moved that the Honse disagree lC
the amendment Of The Senate.
The Chair said, this motion, # it shnnld b,
rejected woud be equivalent 10 Il motion 10 IA
9 cree TO the amendment
3, Mr.. Mercer spoke in favor of the amend
= mcni and entered into some statistical state
. mruts 10 show that, unless some CxtraordIna
p nv expenditures should be made there wou,t
q BE- a surplus in The Treasury on the first o
D mex, January nearly equal 10 that in The Trea
Q sury on the first Of January last.
Mr.. Yandorrcol said, ho believed every gen
tleinan had mad mp his minds, and he therefore
demanded the previous quetton.
A call of the House was demanded aud re-
fused yeas n, nays ll3,
The previous question was then seconded
he main question was ordered and III,
!, main question being, " W III the House disa
y gree TO The amendment OF the Senate was Ia
! ken and decided III the Affirmative; yea1 III
= nays 81
- So the amendment Of the Senate was DIS
;, AGREED TO by the House.
il The House agreed 10 an amendment Of H.,
II the Senate 10 the navy BILL appropriatin,
" 100000 to launch the ship OF war Pennsyl
!. yania. In the evening the orliication bill Il
it gain up, The Senate having Insisted on the stri
u king out Of The surplus clause; several II
- amendments to the amendments Of The Sanal
7 were offered, but tho House REJECTED III
ID whole, ITO to 70. Tho resolution from III
:, Senate to settle with the U. S. Bank WAC con
at cured in. Other matters occupied the Hous
at until 1 / O'Clock at night, when there was II
=, quorum ! We have but a single comment {
to make on these proceedings; The House ha