Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-07-17
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Mr.. CRITTENDEN presented a memorial from up
wards of Sc ven hundred citizens of the District Of Io-
luInbia, asking rccharter of the banks, and stating ti:
unple asant condition in which the community WI ne
placed in the event Of the charters not being granted.
The memorial was ordered 10 be printed.
The following bills, received from the House, were
read and ordered TO a second reading:
.An act 10 continue in force the lst section OF an ACT
entitled "An art 10 extend the time for locating Elr-
gina military land warrants, and returning surveys
the! con 10 The genera! land Office, approved July I,
I I>3-.
An act for Tie relief Of the owners of bounty land
warrants granted for military services in the army 81
the United States in the late war between tie United
States and Great Britain.
DISTRICT BANKS.
On motion of Mr.. MERRlCK, the Senate resumed
tho consideration ofthe bill Gas from the House, and
amended by the Senate committee,) 10 continue the
corporate existence of certain banks in the District OF
Columbia.
After a brief conversation on points Of order by
Messrs. ALLEN, CRITTENDEN, and MERRICK,
Mr.. ALLEN moved to limit the continuance by the
bill 20 July !, leil, instead Of lHl2; to strike out all me
conditions, both from the House and Senate, om!nit-
| tee, on which said continuance was predicated; and to
insert instead thcIeofa section, requiring the banks To re-
! 5 anne, and continue specie payments within ten days
iftcr the adjournment ofCongress, and annuliing Their
ch lricrs in case oi any neglect or refusal TO comply
with all the provisions Of the bill as it should be passed.
This section, MIR. a. SAD, was merely preliminary 10
several others which he was bout to offer.
Nh. BUCHANAN Cnstead % dividing Tie question
on MIR. Aliens amendmcnD moved to limit the effect
of the bill, as amended by comml.tee to July !, lsai,
instead Of 1912. The amendment was agreed 10 as iol-
lows:
Yeas-Mcssrs. Allen, Benton, Brown, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton, GRIM
dy, Hubbard, King, Linn, Lumpkin, Mouton, Roane,
Robinson, Smith, of Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tappan,
Walker, Williams, Wright, Young-G.
.NnyS-Messrs. Clayton, Crittcnden, Davis, Dixon,
Hun tington, Knight, Mcrrick, Phelps, Porter, frcn-
,iss, Preston, Ruggics, Saith, OF Ind rana, Tallmadge-
II.
Mr.. ALLEN then renewed his motion as above,
anercly onitting the part to which the Senate had just
agreed.
A1r. WALKER made some remarks 10 the effect
that he would not vote for a new bank OF issue, much
less would he vote for this bill, however amended. lie
alluded to the resolutions OF two of the banks TO resume
this bill would ne 10 invite them again to suspend.
Mr.. GRUND Y expressed his concurrence with Mr..
Buchanan that the amendment already offered, las
above,) by Mr.. A lien, would be proper in any shape
which the bill mi.'ht assume.
Mr.. ANDERSON offered a proviso, which Mr.. Allen
accepted, that MIR. AS amendment (as above) should
not extend 10 dcposi,e les in bank, which had been made
with the undc r~standing that they should be paid in cur
rent money.
Mr.. BUCHs IMAM said these six banks were 10 be
wound up. I heir doom was fixed, and would not be
reversed, al lei 81 never with MIR. BIS consent. Mr..
B. was always of opinion that these little banks should
not exist With n the I en- miles square. But ifthey were
destroyed at o! ice, there would be bank agencies in