The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-01-08


scompensaton tor all my sacrifices u Sir, fee
no rejoicing at these public osses;-but certain
can and do feel sense of victory, OF triumph.
cannot help il when see all that predicted
happening, and all that charged ua''y coming to
There Mr. Wise yielded to a motion Cor adjourn.
ment.]
FRIDAY, Dec. %.
| On Friday, in the House, very spicy debate
occurred upon motion by MIR Wise, to print 90,
| 900 extra copies of the correspondence with public
defaulters, so often referred to by himself and Mr.
Prentss in their recent speeches. The following
ketch of the debate is from the Madisonian.
| Mr. Wise moved that 90, 600 extra copies of two
documents of the last session relative to public de-
| faulters and the Swartwout documents be printed
for the of the House.
His object, he said, was to get before the public
the letters Of Indulgence from the Secretary Of the
Treasury to the dcfaulters.
Mr. Crazy opposed the motion the ground,
that the expense was unnecessary, and that one Of
the documents was erroneous.
Mr. Tllinghast spoke with earnestness, in sup
port of the motion. The documents official
and important, and presented facts, not arguments
MIR Wise said, these documents had not been ex
tensvely published. Their contents were little
known TO the country. They showed that the
Secretary of the Treasury had connived with pub
lie deiauters, and coun!enanced and encouraged
them. The documents were the handy work of
the Secretary himself, and could gentlemen
wish to suppress them If they were the work of
an opposition committee, he would not be much
surprised at the objections to print and circulate
them. Give the people light on this subject
These documents tell plain tale-and tell it in
the words of the Secretary himself They show
that the Secre tary IS liable to impeac hment for
gross neglig ence of his official duties.
Mr. Boon said, it would be useless to print those
old documents which had been once published al
ready.
Mr. Crazy willing to give the public light but
the documents had once been published, and the
only object of re.printng them, would be to give
be of no service to tho House to the coun.
Mr. W. Thompson said this was the first instance
to which prominent men of the Administration
party had refused to print the information emanat-
ing from their men, 1t was we'll known that
~ could get nothing from the administration
cept by hard screwing. MIR G. had got this much
under the seal of the Secretary of the Treasury
himself and ii important TO give it 10 the peo-
pie. The people might use the prayer of Ajax
70 Give us but light and we can drive these spoil
ers out of the government" The people hon
est and give them light, and they will do what is
right There is man of any party who
sta nd up here and defend the conduct of the Secre
,ary. II the people will submit TO such gross mis-
conduct on the part OF the public func;ionaries, as
is set forth in these documents they are no longer
fit to be free. The objection is, that these facts
are stale. They may be so. Frand and pecula-
ton are novelties with this administration
Mr. Cambreeng said he did not oppose the PRINT
ing. He intimated that the object of rakng up
ali these defauers, dead and living, 10 hid the
en- ormous defalcation OF Mr. Swartwout. He had
as much commseration for Mr. Swartwout any
other gentleman. But his fate and that of every
other public and private defauler was owing to the
Bank system. Those who formed and supported
that corrupt system were the authors of all these
| REGULATIONS and fiauds.
Mr. Wise. | will have the gentleman TO know
that feel no commiseration for Mr. Swartwout. 4
consider him puroiner OF public money, and
hold him in contempt and detestaton. But, sir,
the administration participants in his fraud ;
for they had knowledge of his felonies, and did
not remove him.
MIR Cambreleng said, if the Sub-Treasury bill
had been adopted when first offered, the dealca
tons would haye been prevented. AT n proper
time he would show that all the gambling and
fraud which had disgraeed the country grew out of
the credit system.
MrReed sad the gentleman from New York
told us last session that lament it who might, the
Sub Treasury system was and should be the law of
the land. How could he then say that that the
Sub Treasury bill would have prevented these
frauds. 1t was very necessary in the adminisra
ton party to file facts which might enable us TO
prevent future dealcaons.
| Mr. Cambreleng would take the opportunity to
xpiain his views to the law relative to theregu-
laton of the Treasury. He consi dered the depos.
lite act of 1886 as abrogated There was no law
on the subject except the act of 1889, modified
by the Joint resolution of 1886.
After some remarks from MIR Looms and Mr.
Williams of Tennessee,
MrJames Garland offered an amendm on calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury for additional
statements of desacations, and the correspondence
relative to the same, up to October last.
Mr. Garland said he wished the whole informa-
ton go in BODY to the people, who would be
able to Graw their own differences from the facts.
He cared not what the facts proved,i if they showed
the truth. Every one would draw his own INFER
ences from the facts. 1t was proposed to
change the whole financial system of the country,
and every thing that shed light upon the subject
Uuments for and against the Sub. Treasurv system
from the documents, as 10 himself, he had taken
his position and made up his opinions on this sub
| iect, and from that he should not swerve.
| Mr. Duncan spoke against the resolution. He
objected to it, because he said it would do good
and cost much public money. He moved TO lay
the subject the table, but withdrew it at the re-
quest of.
| MIR Bronson, who proposed 10 except from the
motion the two House Documents, relative to pub.
lie defauIters The statements in these Documents