The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-10-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BOSTON ATLAS.


ity, that seven millions had already been spent
upon the war, exclusive of vast amount of I'M
settled claims. He moved to postpone the fur
Their consideration ofthe resolution to the first
Monday of December. The motion was oppos-
ed by Shenod Williams and by J. q. Adams.
Mr. "A. accused the administration ola design to
smother an inquiry which they did not dare o.
penly TO resist.
The House resolved itsefintoa committee of
the whole on the state of the Union. Pickens
moved to take up the Sub-T'reasury bill. Gar
land moved to strike out all after the enactlng
clause and to insert the bill formerly offered by
him.
Hoffman of New York, took the floor, and
commenced most eloquent speech against the
bill. He replied to Pickens, and defended the
laborer of the north against his atrocious SIAN
-(for he had put them beneath the level Of
the Southern slaves.) He then addressed him.
self to the bill He objected TO it, OH the ground
that it was against the spirit and substance Of the
constitution, tending to raise the government to
Il station above the people and independent of
them. That it tended in most remarkable de-
gree to increase the power of the government.
and TO concentrate all authority in the hands of
the executive. That, in n financial point OF view
it was wholly unsafe, altogether more Unsafe,
than the agency of banks; and in support of this
measure he quoted tho opinions of Polk, and
Cambreleng expressed in very strong terms to
this very point, when the Gepose bank system
was under discussion.
He then entered into splendid defence of the
credit system, and he traced back all the exist
ING caanites of the commercial classes 10 the
political schemes and operation of executive au-
thority. He called the attention of the House to
the fact. that under the gubernaorial admins
trution of Van Buren, and his successors, in the
State of New DIRK, since 500, all the existing
banks OF that State, with but FIVE or six eXcep-
tionsA had como into exis,ence; and existence
so guarded and arranged, that il had secured The
political ascandancy to that gentleman and his
friends, system by means of which he had
mounted to the presidential chair; and now
scornfully and without n moments warning, he
kicked down tie ladder by which he had as
cenGed careless which of his friends and fiat
tercrs it might crush and destroy.
In the Senate, Webster presented n number of
petitions from various parts Of the Northern and
Eastern States demonstrating against the admis-
sion of Texas into the Union. 1t was not his
original intention, he said, to have presented
these petitions this session, but a correspon
dcnce had been published, the subject now
properly before the country.
Grundy moved TO discharge the committee on
the Judiciary from the further consideration of
that portion of the Message of the President of
the U. S, which relates TO the subj ect of Bank
ript Law.
Benton made some remarks in which The ad
vocaled the passage of Bankrupt Law.
Crttenden followed, and argued against the
constitutionality ofsuch law.
The subject was then passed over by general
consent.
Southland submitted resolution calling on the
Secretary of War for information to what had
been done under the provisions OF the Cherokee
Treaty of 1915.
A bill to revoke the charters of the Banks of
the District of Columbia was read third time
and passed. The title having been changed to
read "a bin to regulate the currency Of the Dis
trict of Columbia"
October 10.
In the House, a bill providing payment for
horses lost in the military service Of The United
States, ii. e. the Florida war; was taken up, and
after considerable. discussion the bill read
third time, and passed TO be enacted
Here goes an additional million or more to-
wards the Florida war;-and this is but The be-
ginning of eXpenditures,-sin this bill provides
for only single class of cases.
The bill from the Senate, authorizing Mrs
Madison to publish abroad, tor her own benefit,
the "Debates on the Federal Constitution pur-
chased by Congress, was read a third time and
passed to be enacted.
The bill from the Senate 'to suppress the cir
culaion of small notes in the District of Column
bia" was read second time sand on motion of
Mr. Harlan of Kentucky, it was laid on the ta-
BILE.
The House then resolved itself into com nit
ice of the whole on the state of the union and
Legare proceeded TO deliver able and interest
ing speech against the sub-treasury bill. He ar
gued, that the acquisition OF wealth(which some
gentlemen on this floor acclaimed against so vi
olenty lay at the very bottom of modern civil
izatlon. That we lived indeed in a new era;
era in which the standard Of comfort was con-
stantly rising, poverty disappearing, war going
out offashon; while the peaceful arts of trade,
of production, of acquisition, were dffusing
new beauty, new splendor, new enjoyment,
over the whole face of society. This was the
of all modern ideas;--hut the plans
preached here, to contract commerce, to limit
credit, to go back to gold and silver currency,
we're in direct opposition to these tendencies of
he age; and were a return to the spirit in which
Lvcurgus legislated when he prescribed an IRON
money system for his republic of Sparta.
The Senate proceeded to elect Presidentpro
empore, 1.-THE Vice President, according to custom,
having vacated his seat.) The result of the bal
ot was as follows: King, of Alabama, %; Niles
King, of Georgia, !; Sonthard,2 2.
King makes very good presiding officer, and
t is great pity that the Vice President, who is
terrible bunging fellow, would not leave him