The North-Carolina standard., 1841-09-08
CONGRESSIONAL.

President of the United Stites. read twice
and referred TO The Committee on the District OF
| Columbia. The joint resolution for the dlstrlou-
Ion of the returns of the census, was passed
The Fortifcation bill was then called up, but the
charm IN of the Committee on Military affairs
not being present, it was passed over. The bill
to increase the present tariff of duties on imports
was taken up, the question being on concurrlng
in the amendments of the Committee on Finance.
deb tie ensued The first amendment was a.
greed to ayes Al, noes s. The bill was then
postponed until tomorrow, and the Senate went
into Executive session.
In Senate, on the 29th, the Fortiication Bill
was discussed, and various amendments propo-
sed.
Alter the amendments of the defence bill were
disposed of, the new tax bill was taken up-varI-
out amendments Of little moment were nude
On the proposition to make sumach--an article
used in manufactures free, Mr.. Woodbury. sug.
gested that, as this was an article supplied by
our own farming classes, the commodity ought
not to be admitted frce IN bill which professed
10 make all lis determinations in favor of home
industry. Sumlch, an agricultural product.
provided by our farming class, ought 10 have the
preference the foreign article as is given to
the products four manufacturers over foreign
ina n ufLctuTerS.
Mr. Calhoun insisted that, to be consistent, Mr..
NO''''
by the Senator from New Hampshire.
Mr. Calhoun adverted 10 the true principle
which should be allowed TO operate in such ques-
tions, and referred to the enlig ghtened views
which were gaining ground in Great Britain
on the subject of free trade. He adduced the
testimony OF the practical men, which had been
drawn out by late inquiries instituted by ParlIa-
ment.
Mr.. Clay here seized the occasion TO make
home thrust at MIR. Calhoun. He SAID that the
bookmen and theorists Of Eng land concurred In
the distractions and visionary views which SO
stroLgIy characterised the Senator from South
Carolina. But. with air of triumph, he In
quired. what said the people OF England 10 these
visonaries among them The late elections
answered. He pointed to the defeat of Mr.. Hume
the able and honest LIBERAL who has so long
opposed The Tory monopolists with the most in
defatigable zealand to the triumph of the Tory
party, and the change of ministry. as an answer
to those authorities, TO whose Eeasonlngs Mr..
Calhoun gave so ruuch weight.
Mr. Calhoun retorted by pointing to the iden-
tity in principIe-ths sympathy felt by the leader
of the Wings here, with the high Tories of En-
gland. He ran over with rapid precision the
points in which Tories, on The other side of the
Atlantic. and Wings, as they call themselves,
here concur. They were for monopolies Of all
sorls-6anks, corn LG1os, taxing the aboreT, until
stript of all but his last potato. We can barely
g'ance at the passage of arms between Toryism
and Liberalism in Senate.
MIR. Walker of Mississippi at the conclusion
OF it, gave Mr.. Clay TO understand that he could
not with propriey claim the result of the late
elections in England. to which be adverted with
so much triumph, as the decision OF the people.
1t was decided by the landlords. who controlled
the English counties where there was oue-sev
enth of the population The cities and towns of
Eng land. and the people of Scotland and Ireland,
making six-sevenths, had returned liberal rep
reservations. Free suffrage would have put
down the m9nopolists OF England, as it had done
here, and would do again.
In the House, on the 28lh, the bill from the
Senate relating to the award of the Mexican
Convention was taken up and passed.
In Senate on the Both. MIR. Tappans motion
to bring up his resolutions to appoint day of ad
iournment, was voted down In the Senate, as a
similar resolution on the part of the Democracy
was, we understand. in the House of Representa-
tives. A Federal member in the House. we
learn, submitted proposition that that body
would not adjourn until they had carried sys-
tenn for the management of the public money;
and Mr.. Clay. in the course of this Gays debate
in the Senate declared that be would not consent
to fix day Of adjournment until two great mea-
sures were brought 10 conclusion-and being
called on by MIR. Calhoun to say what measures,
he SAID the bill raising the tariff, ana the Bank
bill. This last named bill was reported from the
special committee composed Of Federal mem
bers exclusively, as it came from the House.
without amendment. Taking this fact with Mr..
Clay's Simultaneous announcement in the Senate.
with the proposition in the House, not to adjourn
until the majority had carried some fiscal con,ri-
vance to suit their political Designs we conclude
that the PRESIDENT may consider himself as be-
seiged in the White House and that he must
surrender at discretion and swallow "Botts
bank" or something that will eat up his nav
or be beleaguered with this rump Congress of
the gone-by census. until the people can come to
his rescue under that which will bring in body
representing ma jority of the people
The tax bill was taken up as the order Of the
day. and Mr.. Buchanan's amendment to repeal
the law making railroad iron free and to impose
the same tax on it as other iron, was debated du-
ring the greater part OF the sitting. 1t was op-
posed by Messrs. Berrien. Cuthbert. Calhoun.
Clay of Alabama, and King. and advocated by
Messrs. Buchanan. Walker, Huntington, and
Clay of Kentucky. 1t was contested particularly
by Messrs Buchanan and Calhoun, who in re-
peated bouts. (if we may transfer such phrase
from the ring to the Senate,) gave much vvacity
to the controversy
In the House on the 3Otb Mr. Morrow from |