Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1841-08-12
CONGRESSIONAL.
WAsHrNcToN, August 2.

,en until haIf.nast four. The U. s. Bank
Bill was the subject under consideration from
the commencement of the session TO tue aO-
tournament. The hours were consumed. eX-
cepting one, taken up in the reading Oh Mo
Bill, with speeches, some of them relevant:
others irrelevant, and all characteristic VI
the debate which is to be heard upon the
bill through the week.
Mr., Sergeant, the chairman OF the com"
mittee upon the subject of the currency,
made an able opening speech in defence OF
the Bill. MIR. Stuart of Virginia, very
sensible man, with no cobwebs IN ms ora'G
in the way of abstract nonsense, suPPo!.eu
the Bill also, and with reasons that n!gn'
convince any man, both OF the CONSTRUCTOR
atty of ank,-always, OF course except.
ing those who are so blind that they won't
see, and whose moral senses are so ta'neo
that they will not acknowledge the conVlc-
tons of their own understanding.
The opposition members delivered three
speeches. Mcclellan OF New York led OH IN
a regular slang changing " Federal, Al,
exander Hamilton" "creating natlonal
debt" speech. The second Speaker in op'
position to the Bill was Mr.. Saunders OF ~:
c., and the third man was Mr.. Kennedy OF
Indiana, a Loco Foco, who comes from the
strongest Wing district in his State, and who
had the good fortune to obtain place here'
from the division of the friends of the admin.
istra:ion at home.
In SENATE, August 2d.-The business OF
the Senate to-day has been productive OF no
results whatever, although protracted to
late hour, and various subjects under consld-
Grafton. The proceedings of the New York
Bank meeting were presented by mr., lall-
madge. The proceedings OF the Rochester
meeting in behalf of General Bankrupt
Bill were presented by the same Senator.
Mr.. Wright had charge OF the memorial from
the New York Chamber of Commerce in op.
position to the Revenue Bill which passed
the House on Saturday. The morning busl-
ness included long debate upon the subject
of a National Bank. Mr.. Calhoun commen-
ced the discussion, in the presentation OF a
memorial from Virginia. accompanied oy
Resolutions hostile to an United States Bank,
the Distribution Bill, and all the prominent
measures of the session. Mr.. Calhoun be.
gun the debate in presenting the memorial
upon point we'll calculated to elicit some
controversy. Whether or not the question
of the establishment Of q Bank was presented
to the people of the United States ut the re-
cent contest.
An argument in the memorial, or rather
an assertion called forth reply from Mr..
Henderson, the Senator from Mississippi.
The memorialists contend, as others have,
that the Convention which framed the Con.
discussed and rejected the PROPOSE
ton to establish q National Bank. MIR. IL:
pronounced the statement unfounded, and
maintained it, too, with brevity, clearness,
and the most satisfactory evidence. Mr..
CLAW Of Ala. took issue with tho Senator
from Mississippi, but being hard pushed,
found protection under tho wing Of Mr.. CAL
houn. Mr.. Calhoun was resisted in turn by
Mr. Morehead of KY, a very talented and
well informed Senator, particularly upon
this question, and consumed two hours OF the
day, opening the whole Bank question pre-
cisely where it was when the Bank Bill was
before the Senate.
The memorial came from Virginia, and
advocated the doctrine not only of the un.
constiiutionality of the Bank and OF the Dis
tribution Bill, but of Repeal. Mr.. Archer
covered a multitude of former sins, by
manly resistance of this last abominable doc.
trine. He spoke, too, in the name OF the
people of Virginia, and nobly indicated
Them from any such political heresy, as that
which has now become the creed OF the OPP
position party. He would not, he said, rep.
resent people who believed in such right
and time, he assured the Senator from South
Carolina, who took issue with him, would
show the Senator that Virginia would show
more resistance to the cry Of Repeal than he
had to the doctrine of Notification. AS Mr..
Calhoun had undertaken to speak for Virgin
ia, as he often does for those he does not re.
present, and of whom he knows nothing, the
reply of Mr.. Archer, which was bold and
frank, rather disturbed his not very equable
so to make him declare and
repeat, that he should rejoice at the opportu-
nitv of voting for Repeal, and further, that
the people of Virginia and the United States
would support him in the Repeal faith before
the termination of three years. The papers
of Mr.. Madison, the Journal Of the Conven..
ton, and the opinions of Mr.. Madison and
Mr.. jefferson. having been talked OF for two
hours. the subject passed from the Senate by
an order to print the memorial. Mr.. Benton.
however, promises repetition Of the scene
to. morrow.-NeW York Express.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.
In the Senate to-day, with the exception Of
an hours discussion, the Fertilization Bill
was the subject under consideration from ii
o'clock until the hour of adjournment. The
debate however, was but repetition of yes
terday's discussion, and prior discussions in
the House of Representatives. Localities
and interests were discussed with all the
feeling of men representing localities and
interests. Wars and rumors of wars were
talked of during the discussion by several
Senators. With some it was matter Of
possibility-with others u matter of proha-
bility-with others a certainty-and with
some even matter Of improhability altoge-
Their. Senators made the war argument the
argument for an appropriation, and each Sc.
nator used it or not, according to the necessi..
" of the case. Where so much is said Of
war, and for reasons like those. il is well the
country should know the why and the where
fore of so much defamation.
Much Of the time was consumed in dis