Litchfield enquirer., 1837-10-05


 Mr. Sergeant, Oi Penn. followed. He sud ne wished to speak ut some length. upon the resolution before the House. 1ndisp0sition, however, would prevent him from saying | more than a few words. He was in favor of postponement until there was time for delib- eration. He appealed briefly to the South- ern members not to oppose, if they did not favor National Bank, until they were con- Iinced that National Bank could or could not restore the currency to state of sound- ness and security. He drew striking pie turc of the condition of the country-Of the dlstresses of the great commercial and plan 1 ting interests of the countryside necessity each party was under of redeeming the country from its present sad position in rela- tion to the currency.
 He spoke briefly of the unity of interests which bind men of different professions-the tradesman-thc f;lrmer--the merchant-of him that sells, and him that buys, and, ap- pealIng to the representatives of each class, ne asked 1t there was not something wrong 1 that had brought us where we are. Had l tnere not been war against individuals-a war against commences war against mer l chants-a war against the country? In the 1 history of the world there had not been such | a contest as that carried on by the govern. 1 ment against the commercial and mercantile interests of the community. He appealed to Cambrelcng. as chairman of the committee of Ways and Means, as the ! representative of New-Yor and painted be- fore him and the House the situation ftha, city-the character of the N. Y. merchants their suferings by the fire--by the acts of the government-by the pressure. MT. s. said he did not despair of such interests and such men. They were capable of struggling against the storm, until death released their struggles. They were intelligent, energetic, persevering. It had been boasted by Brit on that the sun never set upon England-nei- ther said Mir. s. does the sun ever set upon enterprise and intelligence. He spoke of the effects of the acts of the Administration touching the Currency--il- illustrated their natural and real effects upon the country-the condition of the Domestic Exchangcs-the kinds of currency which flooded the country, and the general embar- rassments which attended every kind of bu- siness. This very day, he said, the Secreta. ry of the Treasury had given public debt or draft for more than $500 upon one of the Depositc Banks, in payment of a public debt, and yet that Deposite Bank did not pay specie, and the creditor must lose the differ ence between the price of specie and bank paper.
 In regard to giving the government one currency and the people another, he said the Act was unjust in the extreme. Still the people must receive it, as they did in this country when tobacco was Q currency-as they did in China, where the government re- ceives silver for duties and pays out metals for debts. Now there was no place on earth that did this, except the United States--for China was not a terrestrial, but the "celeS- tial' empire, as it was called. f MT. Sergeant's remarks finished, MT. Wise offered an amendment, saying, that it would be expedient to have National Bank, when- ever public opinion should be expressed in 1 favor of such an Institution. Mir. Bell intro- duced an amendment against the sub-Treas. ury system. Mir. Pope of Kentucky, intro- duced an amendment, saying that Nation- al Bank is expedient. All ofthe amendments lazy ,nnan tho f.nhln intil +n- nnnrrns0 A Aresolution was introduced, fixing the day of adjournment to the 9th of October. The resolution came from the Senate. MT. Bell moved to lay it on the table. Ayes 90; noes l2l. Mir. Cambreleng then moved that the resolution be postponed until next Monday. Adopted without Q count. The resolution will be made the special order for the day, for Monday.
 WASHINGTON Sept. 26th, 1887.
 Postponement Bul, 9c.-Night Session.- The House of Representatives adjourned at one o'clock this morning, atter session of fourteen hours! Up to eleven o'clock, no less that ten speeches had been made--sone of them of fimmoderate length. Garland of Vir- ginia, opened the campaign in q long and la- bored effort against the Sub- Treasury hum- bug. Williams of Tennessec, Rarden of In- diana, and Gushing of Massachusetts, follow l cd in speeches against the Postponement Bill. Lewis Williams of Kentucky, followed Mr. Cushing in a speech upon the same side of the question. Fillmore of New York, took the floor between 8 and 9 o'clock, for q two. hours speech. Bronson of New York, half conservative, half Loco Foco. half Bank-man, and half Anti-Bank, a little of this way of thinking and little of that, followed in re- ply to Fillmore. Fillmore in his remarks had cut right and left against the Banking. system of New-York, the manne. of distribu- ting Bank stock, &c. in the State. Bronson ! acknowledged that the manner redistribution I had been discredtable and "damnable."- Martin of Alabama, another Van Buren man, took ground against Bronson ina short speech I-Tiilinghast, ot k. l. followed in few re-. marks against the Bill. It was now eleven o'clock. An attempt was made to force the | Bill from the Committee of the Whole.- Question:" "Question," "QuEsrIoN," was cried vociferously in all parts of the Hall.- Motions were made that the Committee rise. Tellers were called and the motion was again l lost, as it had been dozen times, for the half dozen hours before. One hundred members were for carrying the Bill through ri ct armis, l Gnrinp 4h.> ---.e,l4 E:Ss'-sJ -vtsO vr TWO were :.. orPositiun, swelling the affirmative chorus as loud almost as the negative. Thirty five or six members had left the House in the ear- | ly part of the evening, and the majority left were all politicians, determined upon the one hand to force the Bill through the Committee, | nsaA Al AA..--- N Al sA