, 1841-06-26
CONGLESS.
SENATE, June 9TH.


The first business of the body to-day was
the consideration of the resolutions in rela-
ton to the death of the late PRESIDENT. 1t
was resolved that the usual badge of mourn
ing be worn by the members, and a resolu.
ton of coincidence with the family of the
deceased PRESIDENT was superadded. Ano-
Their emblem of grief was ordered, which we
fear, future events will associate with the
miSfortunes brought upon the country, rather
by the fate OF the regretted dead, with whom
II Is designed to connect it. The presiding
tribunals in each House are to be shrouded
in black during the present session. This
presages wo 10 the country. Ill boding au-
curry attends every step in the Vaccinations
with the extraordinary cali Of Congress was
intended TO bring to Il head before the popu-
lar sentiment could be arrayed 10 arrest
them.
After the presentation of these resolutions,
Mr.. CLAY Immediately proposed another,
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
for a plan of a Bank Of the United States.
Mr.. KING of Alabama objected TO this
form of call. In this he was supported by
Messrs WOODBURY., CALHOUN, BUCHANAN,
BENTON. WRI1Hr, and RvEs. The latter
moved an amendment, TO enlarge the call so
to embrace not only that Government Fis-
cal Agent. Ia Bank of tie United States,) for
which the Secretary of the Treasury midi
Gates his preference for deemIng II constltu-
%tional; but that which. it is presumed from
the reservations made in the Secretary's re-
port, the President is inclined to establish.
which will not be liable TO the constitutional
objections heretofore urged by him to such
an institution.
This amendment Of Mr.. RvEs, makes it
the duty OF the Secretary of Treasury, to
report that plan which he has suggested
would remove the constitutional objections
which have heretofore been insisted upon
by the President of the United States in
common with all the opponents OF a Nation
al Bank, and to which reference is made
in the late message, as having been
con iirmed by the voice of the nation, IN
sustaining the veto of President Jackson.
Under the standing rule of the Senate, an
election of officers was then entered upon,
and terminated in the reelection of the for
mer offices of that body.
Mr.. CLAY next laid before the Senate his
protocol las he called i) of the matters TO
which the discussions of the Senate should
be confined. They embrace, it will be seen,
his whole system, and nothing but his sys-
tenn: FIRST the overthrow Of the Constitution
al Treasury-next the establishment of a
National Bank-then a tariff to fill its col
fers with deposites-'a temporary loan,' las
he calls it,) but really to begin a national bebt
more enduring than the Government which
will exist only in form under the proposed
extablishments-and finally 4 distribution OF
Of the public domain to make the debt, Bank
and tariff, the more indispensible-to insure
the States to a dependence on the Govern
ment system itself on the new system pro-
posed. | will be observed that Mr.. Clay
excludes the bankrupt law from the list OF
measures to be acted on at this session. IL
is reserved until the pressure of the great
Bank on the minor ones, shall make the bank
ruptcy more universal than it is and then
probably it will become an element in a fu-
lure Presidential election; and Federalism
and the bank will held out relief on the con-
dition that the political power lodged In the
hands they may indicate.
The bill to repeal the Constitutional Treas.
ury came up (after the exhibition OF Mr..
Glars other permitted measures as the spe-
cial order of the day. MIR. CLAY. who as
chairman of the Finance Committee, repor-
ted this bill several days since, found on sub
seauent reflection, that, in his haste, ne had
forgotten to destroy the preceding system Of
State bank fiscal agency, which would be re-
vived on the repeal Of the Constitutional
Treasury. This would have left a resort to
the Executive, in case he should feel it his
duty to veto such a National Bank as 1t might
be the pleasure of Mr.. CLAY. and the MAORI
ty that obey him, to force upon him. Mr..
CLAf therefore introduced an amendment to
his repeating bill, SO as 10 make 1t embrace
the fiscal agency Of 1886, which both par
ties had united in adopting. This sweeping