Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-10-05
bill making additional appropriations for
the Florida war; committee.

II MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
I The House resumed the consideration
Of the resolution reported from the ma
jority OF the committee Of Elections, de-
claring Messrs Ghols0n and Claiborne
TO be entitled TO their seats, as members
Of the 25th Congress, the question being
on the amendment declaring that they
were not so entitled.
The debate was continued by Messrs
Turney and Townes and at ~ o'clock
the orders Of the day were taken up.
i STATES DEPosirE BILL.
/ The motion Of Mr.. Pickens TO recon-
slider the vote by which the bill post pom
ing the 4lh instalmcnt was ordered TO q
third reading, was taken up.
Il MIR. Pickens stated that he had offered
this motion for the purpose Of obtaining
vote on the amendment which he had
offered to the bill, and which was cut Off
by the previous question.
MIR. j. q. Adams followed. He was
willing, he said, to vote for any Of the
me asures Of the administr ration which
looked to relief Of the country but it
appeared to him that this bill was, in re-
ality, a measure ofrevenue. 1t proposed
one thing and looked to another.
1t was deception. II purported TO be
a posiponement Of the deposte but in re-
alty, it repealed it. lie was willing to
postpone; but if we left it for future leg
islation to carry the measure into effect,
it would be posiponemem "ad Grecas
Kaiendas. He would not, in this way,
consent to cheat the people. Treating
as n Revenue Bill, as he contended
that il was, he asserted that it must orig
mate in this House, whereas this Bill
came to US from the Senate. We had
heard much Of Executive despotism; and
il became the House, as the source Of
supplies, to look to its rights over the
revenue bills. This bill did not originate
even in the Senate. 1t originated in the
Treasury. The whole batch of bills
brought forward were drawn out Of the
Treasury Department.
After further debate, the question to
reconsider was taken and prevailed
yeas l49, NAYS 81.
MIR. Pickens then submitted his a
'neRdment, which fixes the period Of
postponement, the / st Of January, 1889.
In submitting this amendment, he re-
marked that it was not his intention to
debate it farther, and he hoped and
trusted that we might be enabled to take
the vote without much farther debate,
because he was satisfied that the House
must be exhausted and the subject thor
oughIy understood. He hoped gentle
men would not protract the discussion,
and that the previous question might not
again be moved until u vote was taken
upon this amendment.
MIR. Robertson was opposed to the
amendment and the bill. He did not
see how the government could pass it
without manifest breach Of faith. In
this instance, the United States govern
ment, by the deposite law Of 1886, had
pledged itself, and in his opinion it was
bound, to perform what it had promised.
He would like to know how il was that
the money which had been laid apart for
this purpose had been disposed Of. On
the LIST Of January, 1887, the amount
was actually in the Treasury; and he
wished to know what law justified the
Secretary to lay his hanCs on single
dollar Of this special deposite. Ii the
Secretary had used it for other purpo.
ses, he had offended against the law of
the land No man had right 10 use
what had been destined for specific
object. 1t had been said that the mo-
ney was in the banks, and not available,
and that the states would not like to ac-
cept it in the paper Of those institutions.
But that was the concern Of the states.
They were willing to receive it in any
way it could be given; and he was sure
that Kentucky, Massachusetts, and 9TH
er states, could make those notes avail
able. Let the government pay them
with what it had; they asked no more.
Il Various amendments were offered ,and
motions made to lay the bill on the ta-
BILE, which were sevcraIly rejected.
The yeas and nays on the main ques-
,ion being finally taken on ordering the
bill to third reading, stood as follows
--yeas II8, nays lO6-and at a late
hour On o'clock P. N.Y. the bill was
read a third time and passed by the
same vote. The House then adjourn
, ed.
!. In the SENATE, Saturday, Sept. 30,
Mr.. Preston concluded his speech on
the Sub-Treasury bill, in reply to Mr..
Buchanan.
7 The postpone ement bill, as amended in
the House, was concurred in; Messrs.
Pierce and Upton only voting in the