The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-10-14


ngent expences Of the Senate, reported resolutions
10 pay extra allowance 10 the officers Of the Senate,
which was read a third time and passed.
| Mr. WRIGHT submitted resolution TO continue
the clerks OF The Senate ordered by resolution OF last
session. until the further order OF the Senate.
MIR. WHITE moved % strike out " further order
of the Senate" and insert TO the end of the next
session of Congress" which was agreedto.
The resolution as amended was then agreed TO-
An Act 10 amend Act 10 provide for horses LOST
in the service of the u s., read iirs and Sc
cond time and referred TO the Committee on Claims.
The resolutions ON the table were considered and
agreed to-
Mr.. SoUTHARD submitted a resolution calling
for information the condition of the Navy Pen
sion Fund, and the names OF the persons drawing
pensions from that fund, which was agreed TO.
Mr.. HUBBARD, from the Committee on Claims
reported without amendment, an Act TO amend an
Act To provide for horses lost in the military service
of the IT, s. This bill was then passed
Mr.. CLAY submitted a resolution calling on the
President for information 10 the progress made in
the prosecution Of our claims on the Mexican go
vernment.
MIR. BUCHANAN saw no objection to the reso-
luton, which he had no doubt would produce the in
formation called for
The resolution was then agreed to.
BANKRUPT LAW.
The Senate then resumed the consideration Of the
motion Of MIR. GRUMPY that the Committee on the
Judiciary be discharged from the further considera-
Of the u 5. which relates TO a bankrupt law, when
Mr.. Southland then made some remarks In
opposition 10 the remarks Of Mr. Benton, and 10 the
idea OF a bankrupt law 10 operate on banking corpo-
rations. In his remarks on the Sub-treasury system
he said il would double the number of officers ere
atng an army, which would in the event Of the pas
sage of such a bankrupt law, be increased beyond
limit They would be like the locusts Of Egypt de-
vouring all the produce of the land, and ike the
frogs, will BE- found In your beds and your kneadng
troughs. Every village would be subjected To rigid
party despoism, and all the rights Of the states would
be submerged and lost before the people were aware
OF the effect of the measures which to be fast
ened on them. He adverted to the plan of the Sub
treasury system suggested by the message of Gen.
Jackson in 1929 and showed that this was realiza-
ton of that plan which was secuted al the time il
was published especially in the report of an intimate
political and personal friend of Mr.. Calhoun, and
then representative in the other House (Mr Hamil-
TOM To the argument that the Government must
take care of ITSELF he replied that the people were
the Government, and the Government were the peo-
pie, and this argument divorced the Government
from the people. Ii said this was to take care
of the poor man. He showed that il would reduce
the price Of wages to the best mechanic to 25 cents
day, and would so reduce the value Of money as 10
render it impossible for men TO pay their deb's 50
that the property Of individuals would be merciless-
y sacrificed.
The Committee was then discharged
The Senate then went into Executive business,
And then adjourned.