Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-09-30
,rwcmty-Fifth Congress.
BUSINESS Or THE EXTRA SESSION.
SPECIAL SESSION.

ReSolued, That the action Of the sew
eral standing committees Of this House.
on all matters not embraced in the mes
sage OF the President of the U. S., sub
mitted at the opening Of the session, be
suspended until the commencement OF
the annual session of congress, and that
the consideration of all petitions on all
of such suspended resolutions, be also
+. postponed nntil then.
Mr.. Smith made some remarks, ex-
pressing his great object to be to avoid
bringing up at the present session the
many questions which could not fail to
excite the house deeply, and to leave the
whole community in doubt as to the
great object for which the present ses-
sion had been convened.
After some remarks from Mr.. E.
Whiltlesey, urging the propriety of in
termediate action on private claims.
Mr.. Bell said he could not form any
opinion as to what might be the direc-
ton of this session until he possessed
some information in relation TO what
might be expected from the committee
TO whom the main proposition Of the
Presidents message had been referred
Probably the chairman of the committee
could furnish such information. If the
very extraordinary, and in his opinion,
the impractible project submitted by the
President for the arrangement and reg
ulation of the fiscal concerns of the gov
eminent, was the only project TO be dis
cused, the session could be terminated in
very brief space of time. The project
was one which no administration could
carry at this time, and under the circum-
stances in which the country was now
placed: no majority in this house could
seriously undertake to urge it in the
simple form in which it appeared in the
message. Gentlemen would not dare
to urge the matter seriousl y for the ap-
probation of the people. If any CON-
prehcnsive and efcctual measure Of re-
lief should be proposed, he would not be
willing that they should yield to any 9th
CT. business.
Mr.. Cambreleng said that the gentle
men from Tennessee having called upon
him for information, though it was not
strictly in order under the resolution
they were discussing,yet he would make
a brief response. The gentleman must
be perfectly sensible that in the present
position Of the committee of ways and
means, for it had only just been announ-
ced, he (Mr. CO. cond no more than an
swer for himself. Thus far, however, he
would take upon himself to answer for
the committee, that he was very GER
tain every member OF it would give i'm
mediate attention to the subjects embra-
ced in the Presidents message, and re-
ferred TO it, that they would bring for
ward their bills with the greatest posi-
Bile despatch. He also expressed the
hope that the house would confne itself,
as fal as practicable, to the propositions
embraced in the message. On some of
these, he believed there would be gen.
eral concurrence, not only in that COM
mittee, but in the house ITSELF
Upon other great questions adverted
to in the message, he should not, at that
time, prematurely engage in any debate.
The gentleman, however, must permit
him to say, in reply, that he, for one, was
perfectly willing to submit the question
to the nation. Since we, sir, continued
Mr.. lC. have been drawn out on the
question, hope gentlemen on the other
side will be as bold and as frank as the
President of the U. States has been.
Let them take their ground. The
glove is. thrown. Let them come for
ward with their propositions. They
have been talking SO long about non
committalism, let them come forward
now, initiate the example Of the Presi-
dent, and not delay.
From the organs abroad, it may be in
ferred that we are not now to have the
question Of the Bank of the U. S. That
question may be postponed beyond the
fall elections but, sir, that that issue we
shall come to at last, is as certain as the
noon-day sun. The great issue will be
between the Bank of the United States,
and the proposition whether the finances
can be, and shall be, managed without
any bank or banks at all. That is the
great question and hope that the COM
mittee ofways and means will concur
with me in framing some bill to dispense
with all banks. That is the real ques-
ton for the house TO determine. Wheth-
or that question should be settled now,
or deferred till the fall elections, is one
for the consideration of the house, and
for the committc and trust that the