Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-03-15
Correspondence of the N. Y. Express.
WASHINGTON, March Z, Il

Correspondence Of the N. Y. Express.
WASHINGTON, March \, 1888.
Fifty two Senators, representing the entire
twenty six States, were in the Senate Cham
Der this morning. The privileged seats and
galleries were thronged--all the Senators and
people drawn to the Senate Chamber by an
expected vote upon the two important propo-
sitions, of Postponement over to the next ses-
sion, and the amendment of Mr.. Rives to the
bill of Mr.. Wright. The vote was taken
only upon the proposed Postponement, which
was disposed of-yeas %, nays 30; inclu-
ding, as you will perceive, among the mega
tives, Messrs. Morris, Wall, Nicholas and
Cuthbert. The following is the vote:
Ayes-Messrs. Bayard, Buchanan. Clay,
of KY, Clayton, Crittenden, Davis, Grundy,
Knight, Mexican, Merrick, Prentiss, Preston,
Rives, Robbins, Ruggles, Smith, of Ind,
Southard, Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, Upton,
Webster, White-23.
houn, Clay, of Ala, Cuthbert, Fulton, Hub
bard, King, Linn, Lumpkin, Lyon, Morris,
Mouton, Nicholas, Norvell, Pierce, Roane,
Robinson, Sewer, Smith, of Conn.,, Strange,
Trotter, Walker, Wall, Williams, Wright,
Young-29.
To make good the opinion I advanced last
evening, may quote remark made by Mr..
Morris, of Ohio, to-day, explanatory of his
vote upon the proposition to postpone the bill
until the next session of Congress. 81 shall
vote against postponement,' he says, "and
against the amendment of Mr.. Rives, and a.
gainst the bill ITSELF unless amended in its most
material provisions. 1 highly approve of
some of its provisions, and as highly disap-
prove of Others" Mr.. Morris's opinions, /
presume, and with some reason, are the same
of Tnn 80 Nv
Nicholas, of Louisiana, and Mr.. Cuthbert, of
Georgia, who, / understand, will vote against
that provision of the bill requiring payments
of Government dues to be made in specie
From these calculations you will see. that the
vote to postpone is by no means test vote
neither will the vote upon the amendment be
test vote and no vote, unless one upon the
bill itself, or motion of indefinite postpone
ment, or to lay the bill upon the table. The
chances now are, that the original bill will
be amended, and pass by q majority of one
or two votes. Messrs. Wall, Morris, Nicho-
las and Cuthbert have the power to defeat its
passage-its defeat in the Senate depends up
on the united opposition.
The Prospeci--Judging from the present
appearances there is no doubt that a revolu-
ton in public sentiment is going on in our
SldIC WulCu Will dSLOulSu tlO SCuuLy az thC
coming election no less than that in New
York last fall, and which will show the world,
and especially the office holders, that the
boneand muscle of Connecticut are not going
to be ground into the dust to promote the
humbuggery that Bentonism and loco-foco-
ism would palm off on our honest and unslls-
pecting people. We look upon Connecticut
as certainly among the regenerated states, if
our honest citizens do their duty, as there is
the best reason to believe they will. The of
fee holders and their party know and feel
this, and look like mon whom we have some.
times seen between judgment and execution.
Middleto,on Constitution.
Members of Congress Deserving their Posts.
The Loco Focos must regard their cause
in this State, as being in the most imminent
peril, when they are under the necessity of
calling home such an important member of
Congress, as the Hon. Orrin Holt. This gen.
tleman, we learn, has come all the way from
Washington on important business We
would not intimate that the object is an cleo
pioneering tour in his own district The
Conservatives in that region, it is said, he in
tends to cut up, root and branch. Another of
our members of Congress, the Hon. Lancelot
Phelps, has been in Connecticut several
weeks, and is still here. Perhaps nothing
would be lost by the public, if they were all
to follow the example, Conn. Courant.
1t is stated, that of the one hundred citizens
composing the New-York central committee
of the opponents of the Sub Treasury bill,
fifty. fue were signers to the call for the first
Jackson meeting that was held in the State of
New-York in 1924. And yet these men, and
others like them, are denounced by some who
have been in the democratic ranks but few
! months, as traitors and apostates, because
they happen to differ with other friends ofthc
administration on particular measure, and
have the independence to express their opin-
ion.-Philad. Sentinel.
Private Opinions ola Van BMrenmGn.-The
following is an extract from letter received
in Washington from one who is character
lied ir the Madisonian as gentleman OF
high standing, who has shared largely in the
confidence and honors Query, Spoits y of the
Democratic Republican party, and who has
been throughout one of the most devoted
Jackson Van Burenmen in the State.
-, IN. W Feb Is, 1888.
According to all present indications, the
party in this State is gone, irretrievably gone.
We shall not be able to elect, at the next fall
election, either Governor or Lieutenant Gov
ernor-nor Senator, nor member of AS
sembly, nor Congressman. The entire rep
resentation will be adverse to MIR. Van Buren,
and his Administration. What, under Heav-
en-, has become of his forecast, his cunning
and sagacity! Surely he cannot act his own
part; he must be in leading-strings; or we
have all been most grossly deceived as to his
tact, talent and management-N. Y. Ana.
Duellinc Signaliy Rebvked-The Supreme
Conv, If the United States refused to adjourn
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