Litchfield enquirer., 1837-10-19

| 1 for fine extension of MerchantB' Bonds, and in preference to all the Bills before the | Ho,ise. MT. Iegare, of South Carolina, OD- nosed inc motion to takc up the Divorce Bill | in preference to other Bills. Tho Debate, however, was not in order, and the House de- cided in favor of taking up the Bill by vote | of lOOfo SO. Mir. Smith, of Maine, was cal- ] led to the Chair, and the House went into a Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union.
 MT. Pickens took the floor, and has begun l long speech in favor of the Sub- Treasury experiment. He goes the whole for the ex- | pertinent, as far as the furthest. The State Banks he blesses much after the manner of Gen. Jackson in his late letters from Tennes- see to his friends of. the Globe. MT. P. says he is committed upon the experiment-and he thinks it essential to the honor, glory, hon. esty, &c., of the Republic.
 Mr. Gordon's proposition of February l1th, ] 1885, similar, as it is said, to tho new and untried Expedient now before the House of Representatives, was read by the Secretary of the House, at the request of Mir. P. But 8 members voted in favor of Mir. G.'s IT, Mir Cambreleng and nine-tenths of the Wings and Van Buren men are recorded against it. Mir. P. of course, has much to say about the National Bank and National Bank, both of which he opposes most zeal ously. The Bank never restored the curren- cy of the country; but the power and credit of the Government, he says, did and will res- tore the currency.
 IN SENATE.-The Committee of Finance, through Mr. Wright their Chairman, intro- l dnced the Treasury Note Bill, as it passed the House last night for the concurrence of the Senate. The bill was read for informa- ton.
 MT. Benton moved to strike out the clause ofthe bill giving the Secretary of the Treas ury power to issue notes of denomination of $5O and insert $lOO, agreeably with the original bill as it went to the House from the Senate. The Senate refused to concur aoith Mir BENToN's AMENDMENT, and the Expunger therefore cleared out of the Senate Chamber, and refused to vote upon the final passage of the bill. The amendments of the House Were however, all adopted, and the vote stood up- on the final passage of the bill as amended in the House-Ayes 35, Noes 6. Eleven Sena- tors were absent.4 The Senate closed its pub- lie business for the day after the passage of the Treasury Note bill, and then went into Executive session. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10.
 Sub- Treasury BiU-BiU for the Ertension ot Merchants Bonds, 8'c.
 The Senate and House of Representatives, for day or two past, have put on their working jackets, ceased to talk awhile, and have commenced work in good earnest. The fever, however, is only temporary -nothing more, merely an interregnum between the 1 Treasury Note Bill and the Bill for meta morphosing the Treasury Department, Sub- Treasury Department, Post Offices, sc. into a new kind of Government Pet Banks Speeches by the score have been in embryo through the day, and every desk has been a
 
 ture of speeches, Blessed are the speech l makers ''saysthe politicians bible, !" for they shall inherit the kingdom of office :" The Senate today were in Session an hour or two only. The Amendments made in the House of Representatives to the Treasury ] Note Bill were concurred in by a large ma- jority. The big tumble-bug Humbug of | nrlssouri, W1e ssty lIItlt Ireasury Nores Wltn interest arc not currency, and that Treasury Notes without interest are currency, propo- | sed an amendment limiting the denomination of notes to sums at and over one hundred dol | lars instead of a denomination of fifty dol | lars as prescribed by the House. The Sen- ate were not disposed to ''walk in the foot | steps" of MT. Benton, and therefore gave ! large majority against it. The vote of course l was not party vote. Nothing beyond the concurrence in the Treasury Note Bill was done by the Senate.
 The House for a wonder, for the past twen- y-four hours, have been doers instead of hearers and speakers. The mild, good tenn pered, respectful, amiable MT. Pickens of $. C., has made the only long speech that has l been delivered. The Sub- Treasury system was his general subject-the Yankees, U. s. Bank, the Earrings, Riddle and fiddle-de-did- de, southern rights. northern fanatics, old l times m Virginia, imports, exports, south of the Potomac, and so forth and so on, formed tho topic of his particular remarks. A liber- al sprinkling of newspaper scandal and a venomous outpouring of salt and cayenne upon newspaper editors, formed part of his speech-the ornamental part believe. Mr. l Jetferson's peculiar notions -assimilating the Democracy and Loco Focoism of the North with the peculiar iastitutions, as MT. Pickens calls them, of the South--WaS made the sub- ject of final comment.
 MT. F. concluded, the Committee laid by the Sub-Treasury Expedient at the request of MT. $. c. Phillips, of Mass, who solicited | the committee to take up the Merchants | bond Bitl, and pass ik before proceeding fur ther with the Sub- Treasury Bill, which 1 would create long discussion. Mir. Phil l hps's solicitations had the effect of giving the Sub- Treasury Bill the go-by for today.-l l The Merchants Bond Bill WAS TAKEN UP AND PASSED W1TIInuT "A couNT. no one OhieCtinG to its passage. MT. Cambrelcng moved an 1 amendment to the Senate Bill, which con- lines the time of extension of bonds to three and six months, instead of six and nine as | proposed in the Senate's Bill. Mr. Cambre- leng was understood to say that the Mer- cnantS preferred credit of three months to | credit of six and nine! Is it so? I Many of the members of Congress have al- l rGanV m the rNf fS~