The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-07-11
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE. Friday, June 29.-Mr.

presented a SttteHieht vi 'hc o"Iuoi ga
penditures of the Government since its
organization. Two thousand extra CO.
pies were ordered to be printed
The Senate resumed the consideration
Of Mr.. Webstcr's bill making further
provision for the collections. Of the Rev.
cnue - the question pending being still
on the proposed substitute Of Mr.. BuchaD-
AN for the special deposit system. Mr..
Webster opposed tho substitute, at con-
siderable length denouncing 1t as absurd
and inconsistent in the extreme. lie ur-
sed his own measure as temporary
relief, and all that Congress at this session
could undertake TO do. He said, it would
carry out the law which passed month
ago for the repeal of the specie circular,
but if his bill did not pass, Congress would
rise and leave things exactly as they were
in very unsettled condition in regard to
the reception Of Bank Notes for revenue
Mr.. buchanan defended his substitute.
Mr.. Tallmadge advocated Mr.. Webster's
bill. and pronounced the substitute oi Mr..
Buchanan "superla,ve humbug."
Mr.. Strange after few preliminary
remarks offered the following amendments
10 The substitute of Mr.. Buchanan.
|. That the Collectors and Receivers
of the public money should he allowed TO
make special dcposites Of bank notes In
the banks during the sixty days, at the
end of which they were TO be converted
into specie.
This amendment was rejected-Yeas
81, nays 26.
.. That the clause of the substitute
allowing the public creditor the choice Of
specie or bank notes be sticken out.
Rejccted--yeas %, nays "a.
3. That the payments OF the public
creditors should be made by the officers
of the government, aud not by the banks.
Relccted--yeas l9,nays %.
MIR Strange also offered two other
amendments which he subsequently with
drew.
The question then recurring on Mr..
Buchanan's amendment, Mr.. Rives spoke
at length in opposition to the substitute
Mr.. Buchanan replied and the qnes-
ton being put on the adoption of Mr..
Buchanans substitute, it was agreed to as
folews Yeas 26, Nays "a.
So tho substitute became the bill, and
was in its turn rejected by the following
vote on the question oil its engrossment
Yeas 81, Nays29
Mr.. Wright then gave notice, that he
should bring in bill to modify the las,
clause of the fifth section OF the doposlte
act of lS36--and the Senate then adj,
In the House, an order was adopted
instruc,ing the committee on the Judici.
ary to consider the expcdiency Of re.
porting bill for continuing in force until
next session all laws which shall expire
at the end of the present session OF Con.
gress. After disposing Of other unim-
portant business, the report of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs on The subject
ofTexas was again taken up, and Mr..
Adams spoke until the expiration of the
morning hour, in support OF the motion
TO rccommit with Instructions, and closed
his remarks with powerful and eloquent
defence OF the Rights Of Women.
Among tho orders ofthe day a rcso-
luton was adopted, calling upon the
Executive TO furnish at tho commence
ment of tho next session detailed mlor-
nation respecting the explosion of boilers
in steam vessels, with the names of
owners. &c. The army bill was further
debated.
SENATE, Saturday, June 80. MIR.
Wright brought forward bill to suspend
until the lst of October next the provision
OF The deposie law of 1896, which pro.
bbiis the receivers Of the public revenue
from taking the notes of banks which
have issued notes ola less denomination
than five dellars.
Mr. Webster proposed 20 amend the
bill so as to allow the banks which had
issued small notes to become repositories
ofthe pubic money, which they arc now
prohibited by law from being. This
would destroy tho independent treasury
scheme now il operation.
Mr.. Wright opposed this amendment
as goirg to revive the state bank deposits
system.
Mr. Webster contendcd that the de-
posite system was still the law Of the
land, but that without the amendment he
proposed its operation would be unequal.
Mr.. TaImadge concurred in this view Of
he subject. Mr.. Rlves supported Mr..
Webster's amendment.
MIR. Wright then moved a substitute for
Mr.. Wcbster's proposition, by making an
amendment to his own bill, repeating tho
wholedepositc law, except such sections
as apply to the distribution Of the surplus
money, and placing tho Treasury upon
the basis ofthe law of 1889.
Mr.. Clay objected that this amendment
absoIved the Treasury from all law but
the will of the Executive. II was, he
said, "fifih sub-treasury project"
MIR. Talmadgc and Mr.. Rves opposed
the bill on the grounds taken by MIR. Clay,
denouncing it as proposition OF the
greatest audacity, and in disregard OF
public feeling and opinion.
Mr.. Wright replied, that to place the