Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-03-05

Postmaster General had allowed one of the
clerks in his employ to leave the Department
and take charge of the Kentucky Argus as
the editor of the paper. This clerk, who is
Mr.. Robinson, it was alleged, had employ
ed substitute for $40 month, while his
own SALARY was $1,000 per annum. In order
to obtain official information of this matter,
before writing out his speech, Mr.. Graves
addressed letter to the Postmaster General
asking to be informed of the facts IN the
case. Mr.. Kendall has written saucy and
insolent answer, declining to give the lntor-
nation. He neither denies or makes good
the charge In the meantime, Mr.. Graves
has found out the particulars Of this Mr..
Robinson. 1t appears that he was a clerk in
the Department-had u salary of $1,000 per
annum-was the President Of a Democratic
Association" and good hurra party man
while in office. Mr.. Graves asked for the
adoption of a resolution of inquiry, authorlz-
ing the Committee on Post Office EXpendi-
lures to inquire into the charges made. Mr..
Albert Smith, of Name, who is prouder now
of wearing party collar than any man in
Congress, objected. Mr.. Graves moved a
suspension of the rules, but two-thirds being
necessary, the motion was not sustained.
The vote was 116 ayes, to 81 negative votes,
the 80 being good men and true in the Loco
Foco faith, and some few of the lis, being
not of the rank and file.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS.
New York matters have been under con-
sideration to-day in the Senate, and the SUBJ
iect of immediate controversy was the reso-
lutions recently adopted by the Legislature
of New York upon the Currency, the Sub
Treasury Bill, and the conduct of Silas
Wright Mr.. Tallmadge introduced the res"
olutioas to the Senate, and ON MS motion
they were read by the Secretary.
Mr.. T. felt called upon, he said, not to
make Treasury speech upon the reso.
lutions, but to express his opinion In regard
to others. Justice to New York, to the Le-
gislature, to his colleague and himself, re-
quired this. With this brief introduction,
Mr.. T. related many facts in relation to the
peculiar position of himself and colleague.
He reminded the Senate that his colleague
upon another occasion said, that the dlf1eren-
ces between them should be decided by the
people of the State. Behold their verdict.
| He complained that his colleague had press
ed the Sub Treasury Bill through the Senate
with so much precipitancy. and considered
| it uncourteous to New York and himself
Had his colleague moved the postPonement
of the passage of the Bill to some future
! motion. Had he awaited the action OF the
Legislature of New York, in the adoption OF
the Resolutions now before the Senate, ne as
one believing in the doctrine of instructions,
would have voted against the measure. The
Bill would not have been passed had he been
permitted to record his vote in opposition to
| the scheme also, as he was most anxious to
| do, and hoped for an opportunity OF doing
after receiving information of his election.
But no. In indecent and precipitate haste,
it was hurried through the body and passed
by less than majority of the Senate. No
thing had been gained by this hasty action,
and the Bill remained a monument of this
precipitancy upon the Speakers table at the
other wing of the Capitol. For thirty days
it had been there. No one had called it up
or moved a reference, or disturbed it in any
way.
Mr.. Tallmadge spoke briefly and elo-
quently of some of the provisions OF the bill
-ofth names it had assumed some OF
its certain results,-upon the practical evil
dence given that it gave one currency, to the
Government officers and another to the peo-
ple,-of the fact that members of Congress
were paid in specie, which at 5 per cent.
gave them more each day than the daily
wages of the laboring man in some parts of
the country. The premium upon the Presi-
dents salary advanced it between 5 and 6
dollars day. No wonder that the officers of
Government were content with these times.
Mr.. Tallmadge spoke~with great plainness,
but with much courtesy and good temper.
He spoke of men kindly, but of measures
strongly, and gave picture ofthe President
in his last Springs tour to New York, which
the President would have recognized had he
been present to have been lawfully true.
He spoke with great force also of the power
of the Executive in reference to this same
measure. He had felt it hourly almost from
the moment he came out in opposition to the
Sub-Treasury scheme in 1887. The Globe
denounced him in unsparing terms of re-
proach. That paper, said Mr.. Tallmadge,
as the official organ of the Executive, is not
wont to speak without authority. While in
1887 he was denounced, a Senator from Vir-
ginia, holding the same relations to the Adj
ministration which he held, was spared, and
on in New York it would do to denounce
him, and would not do to denounce the Sem
ator from Virginia.
Mr.. Wright rose when Mr.. Tallmadge had
resumed his seat, and in that calm and mod
crate manner so easy and so afectedly put
on, he proceeded to make brief reply.
Mr.. Wright is always courteous in language
and manner, and especially so towards his
colleague. All were anxious to know what
sort of defence he would make for himself,
holding the peculiar relations he does to his
constituents, and protested disciple as he
is in the doctrine of instruction. What
troubled Mr.. Wright most, he got over east
est, by emitting to say any thing of the mat
ter that troubled him. He was shy in re-
gard to public opinion in New York, and
would not say whether or not he would obey
instructions if he received them. He con-
fessed that the Legislature ola State was the
index of the people, and that the Legislature
of New York believed in political creed
unlike that he was brought up in. AS for