Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-09

| Possession of the public money when the rates of interest are two per cent month, is something to him, which he will DARE some thing for. l have but feebly expressed the the enemy.-N. Y. Express.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 1887. The unsuccessful attempt made in the Sen- ate by MT. Walker, on Saturday, to take up l the Resolution recognizing the Independence of Texas, is almost equivalent to refusal te act upon it this session.
 The almost unexpected result of the vote of the House to distribute the Surplus Rev. enuc, has created great surprise, and great joy among the Wings.
 I do not believe that any Tariff Bill will pass the House. It is my opinion that it is not the intention of the Van Buren party to pass any, unless the distribution of the Sur plus is forced-for the larger the Surplus, the greater the capital Van Buren will have to operate with.
 | Many strangers are now arriving in the city to attend the Inauguration of Mir. Van Buren. The city is quite full. The gaieties of the season are about being suspended.- Strangers are also beginning to prepare to go off. --,-x
 There is rumor afloat that MT. Van Bu- ren, afraid to trust Mir. Kendall with the pat ronagc of the Post Office, will put him in an- other as good situation. Kendall, it is sus- pected, is for running Benton after Van Bu- ren's first four years, and then of using Ben- ton to run himself afterwards. No doubt, Van Buren does distrust Kendall but doubt whether he will dare to offend him by taking away his Post Office patronage. H. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s. It curious fact as indicating the indus trv and attention of remarkable man, that J. @. Adams was seen going home in the dawn of the morning-having kept his seat all night, old as he is, awaiting and watching l all the doings of the House. What renders this fact yet more curious is, that there was l little party at his house the same night, where were assembled, with their parents, many lit- tie girls, the companions of his grand-chil- dren, to an evening" dance-in which sports, it is said, he always enters heartily, enjoying all their gambols over-much ;-but children, nor friends, could draw the veteran from his seat.
 | Tue Distyibution.-This has been the sub- feet of debate all day in the Senate. MT. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, comes out most decidedly against distribu- tion for year to come. MT. Rives has told us in what is unusual with him, very fee- ble speech, that he shall now slump Jim Crow!" and vote against distributing the Surplus! Dr. Niles promised to give us his idees upon the subject then before the Ssnotors but as usual, the Doctor only give us his ,oords, from which we learn Connecticut is we'll off enough, and that while he votes to give away thousands to the Cumberland Road, and bribes Connecticut people by Land bills tempting squatters to emigrate West; yet he does not will that Connecticut shall have her share of the Surplus He would rather the money would be in the Deposit Banks O.! Connecticut, this is no Yankee notiom, this
 WASHINGTON, March I.
 The way business is done now in Congress is by steam: and the Secretary of the Sen- ate, and the Clerk of the House are but loco- motives to carry Bills from one wing of the Capitol to the other. Vain are all attempts to keep up with it now, or to make calcutta tions. You must wait for the end which is beginning to be ! but in the meantime wish the People of the United States could look in- to the Hall of the House of Representatives and mark the manner in which the most im- portant measures are shuff1ed of-without ceremony now-without form, when all a. long before this, there would be the most fie- ry debates even upon the crossing ot a [!
 The Distribution Principle was voted down in the Senate last night, (ayes 26, noes 10.) Four or five of the friends of the distribution were absent, (among whom was Mr. Clay) while all the Van Buren unflinching men were at hand, which turned the tide so deci- dedly in his favor. King of Geo. and even MT. Black of Miss. voted for it. Thus the Bill, with tho amendment out, goes back to the House. The House, it is said, will ad- here to their amendment, but the Bill, as it is, as wrote you last night, can never be- come law.
 have not time to comment upon this high handed exercise of power by the Senate as it deserves. The simple question was, "Shall the Surplus Revenue remain in the Deposite Banks at two per cent per annum, or in the pockets of the people, where it is worth from ' to 30 or 40 per cent 2" The Senate deci- ded to give it to the Banks, and by party vote! Thus, we see, it is the determination of Van Buren to have the use of the public money at all hazards-and the sum then will be thus at his use till 1889, if the Land and
 Tariff Bills do not pass, and tho appropria- tions are not enormous, it is estimated, will amount to Sirty Millions of Dollars! Think ] oft the value and power of this ut two per cent i month Who does not start back from such corruption with alright!
 l The Treasury Circular Repeal Bill, and ] without Cambreleng's deceitfil amendment, passed the House today by more than con- stitutional majority of two-thirds. Cambre- l leng's amendment nullified in effect the ] whole Bill. In his speech he pretended it did not, and he endeavored to make the House believe him, but the House would do no such thing. He is very much chagrined . to be thus cast off This two-thirds vote } saves this Bill from the veto"-but I learn ] from good authority to-day, that the Presi- dent will pocket it, and thus snatch it from the action of the House. and its constitutional