Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-05-23
From the Correspondence Of the Bait Patriot
MIDNIGHT AND SUNDAY SESSION.

ASHlNGTON, may IA, 1905.
| send you herewith some rapid
sketches of the extraordinary proceed
ings in the House OF Representatives
on Saturday, and on Sunday morning.
The conduct ofthe Administration par
ty in attempting to press the Treasury
Note Bill through the Committee, with.
out any time for examination and dis
cusslon, is wholly unprecedented.
THE PROPOSITION OF MIR HOPKINS
Early in the day, Mr.. Hopkins, OF
Virginia, asked leave to submit the
| following joint resolution.
"ReSolred By the Senate and House
of Representatives. of the United States
of America in Congress assembled. -
That the Secretary of the Treasury be
and he is hereby, authorized to reissue
to the amount Of two millions of dollars,
Treasury Notes authorized bv the act
approved 18th of October, 1887, I'M
der the restrictions conditions, and linn.
itatIons therein prescribed"
Let the reader mark it well. 1t was
proposition to give immediate relief
to the Treasury, and enabling the Co.
vernment to satisfy all pressing demands
against it. Instantly every means was
put in requisition by "the Administra-
ton party, to embarrass and defeat it ?
They objected to lis being considered
at all: and when Mr.. Hopkins appeal
ed to the House and moved for sus-
pension ofthe rules, up starts Cambre-
leng to call in question the manner of
introduction. He asked whether the
rules did not require such resolution
to be sent to standing committee
The Chancellor Of the Exchequer wan
ted to have it in the hands of his junto
on the Ways and Means, who would
bury it forthwith beyond resurrection.
But the Chair decided against his objec-
ton and Cambreleng had nothing for it
but to lead up his forces, and vote
down this measure ofrellef for the Go.
vernment: twas rejected By the friends
of the Administration. Let that not be
forgotten.
hE FItOfOSll iON Ut WIN. DELL.
Mr.. Bell of Tennessee, Immediately
rose and offered the following PROPOSE
ton:
Resolced, That the Committee of
Ways and Means be instructed to re-
port to.the House forthwith, a bill author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to
raise, by LOAN, the sum of two millions
of dollars, to supply any demands upon
the Treasury to meet which there are
no available means on hand"
Here was another offer of relief to
to the Government-and the form of
granting them the supplies rendered me-
cessary by the exigencIes ofthe times.
This also was objected to /: and CAM
BRELENG declared that he would OPP
pose this and every proposition which
would interfere with the action Of the
House on the Treasury note bill-in
other words, he told the representatives
of the people, that if they did not give
him, the financial organ of the Execu-
tive, the amount he asked for, and in
the form he proposed, he would not
take any thing +?
The proposition Of Mr.. Bell, be il re-
membered, was open to amendment,
modification, and discussion. The a.
mount might have been increased to
three millions or to five millions, or to
any amount necessary to satisfy the
claims ofthe public creditors: and so the
Char, in reply to question from Mr..
Bell, distinctly declared. But the par
ty rejected it as unscrupulously as they
did the measure Of Mr.. Hopkins. The
vote was, yeas 81, nays 94-and the
supporters Of the Administration, TO a
man voted in the negative. Let that
be remembered.
The country will learn from these
proceedings, alone, enough to satisfy
them what party is justly chargeable
with stopping or delaying the supplies
necessary TO enable the Government
to pay its debts. Had the Admlnisira-
ton and its friends willed it, either Mr..
Hopkins or Mr.. Bells proposition might
have become a law OF the land before
night, and the Treasury supplied with
money enough to discharge all the Pc
cuniary obligations ofthe Government.
Why then did they go against both ?
Their motives and objects were made
abundantly manifest in the course OF
the debate that followed.
TREASURY NoTE BILL.-Gen. Thomp-
son, Of S. C.-The House went into
Committee of the Whole, and resumed
the consideration Of the bill authorizing
the reissue of Treasury Notes.
GEN. THOMPSON, of S. c., took the
floor and finished his ingenious, elo-
quent, and highly instructive speech in
opposition to the measure. In the
course of his remarks he shows the su.
periorty of the plan proposed by Mr.,
BELL for loan over the Treasury