The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-06-15

was then read and ordered To n second reading.
II provides-Is,, for The repeal of the actor July
4th, DC.
Cd That the present act shalLnot be so constru.
cd as 10 prevent The prosecution or punishment o.
any who shall have offended against the penal pro
visions of the act to be repealed,
Sd. That any person charged with keeping Of
the public money s. or engaged in the service OF the
Post Office Department, who shall emhezzle any
OF the funds committed to his charge, or loan any
ortion Of them, with without intnres;, shall be
deemed guilty Of felony, and on conviction thereof,
shall be punished by fine equal To the amount
cnbezzled and by Imprisonment for period not
less Than SIX months, nor more thnn five years--tg
moreover, that the refusal Of such officer to pay
yer any monies with which he is lawfully charged,
upon the order of the Secretary of the Treasury
shall be deemed prima facie evidence of embezzle.
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On Mr. Clays motion, the hill WIS made The or
der of The day for Monday and ordered to be print
ed. So we see there is TO be no dayng ir. the
Senate, but that the contrary, The siege of the
principal strong holds of the enemy has already
commenced, and the storming thereof will com.
mence on Monday. Then Greek will meet Creek
in good earnest, and there reason to doubt
the strong
Petitions were then presented from citizens oC
Chicago, praying the passage of general bankrupt
law-an1 from other citizens of Illinois, relative
to private land claims.
Mr. Clay hoped the Senator would withdraw
those petitions. If Congress was now to be ca lied
upon to transact all the usual business ola regular
session, in addition to the urgent affairs which
claimed their particular attention at this time, he
prophesied this would be extraordinary session
in one respect at least, and that would be its dura-
ton. He was opposed to taking up the subject Of
a general Bankrupt law at the present crisis The
subject was of SO complicated character, and so re
plee with very great, if not uperabIc difficult tiles
that its discussion would necessarily protract the
discussion to almost unreasonable extent, o.
force them to djourn without having effected any
thing.
Another Senator here and said that unless
the petitions were with withdrawn, he should him
self feel bound TO present some behalf of his
own constituents.
MIR Clay SAID he would endeavor to prepare n
resolution which should express what the Senate
were willing to engage in, and what they would
Ter the present session-and he hoped that other
Senators would do the like. He then moved that
The Senate should adjourn till Monday, to allow
he various committees time to perform the duties
which had been assigned TO them, and the motion
was at once adopted without objection from any
luarter and the Senate adjourned after session of
about half an hour.
Almost all the work has already been laid out in !
he Senate The different portions of The Presi. |
Tents message have been appropriately rred 81
Ill the CO nmitees have been appointed as have !
before mentioned
INTELLIGENCE FROM WASHINGTON.
The letters of our Washington correspondent
will be found embodied the principal items
Intelligence from the Capitol relative to the pro.
seedlings Of Congress The Chalrr,en of the sever
i committees, with but two exceptions, the com.
artively unimportan; ones ofcgricuIture and en-
rossed bills, are good and sound Democrats Our
Jew England friends will be pleased to see that
1r Eva ms of Maine is Chairman of the importan,
committee of Manufactures. l. will be seen that
committee of five have heen appointed, on mo- I
on Of Mr. Bayard Of Delaware, in reference to the
cath OF President Harrison. The committee were
expected to report TO day, and it was generally an I
cpated that the Hon John Quincy Adams would :
e selected to deliver the eulogy, who is Mt the i
cad ola similar committee of one from each State :
n the part of the House.
In the House, the committee, consisting of ono
iembor of each State, to join the Committee from
ne Senate, to consider and report by what token
respe and affection, it may be proper to ex-
ress the sensbiy Of the Nation 10 the event of
le decease oftheir late President, VIM H. HAIR
IsoN.
The Senate, on Thursday, was principally occu.
led with discussion OF Mr. Clay's Motion to in
ruct the Committee on Finance, to bring in bill
repeal the Sub Treasury, which was finally pas
ID. The following the standing committees :
the Senate, announced on Thursday
On Foreign Reations-Messrs Ri,es, Preston,
Tallmadge and Choate I
On Finance-Messrs. Clay OF Ky. Evans, Wood
nry, Mangum and Bayard. :
On Commerce-Mossrs Huntington, Merrck, d!
ing, Barrow and Wright
On observation-disclosures. Evans, Archer Mil. {
II, Buchanan and Simmons. , r
On Agriculture Messrs. Linn, Woodbl idge, I
NTH of CT, White and Simmons. ,
On Military Affairs-Messrs. Preston Merrck
enton Archer and Pierce. I
On the Milita--Messrs. Phelps, Kerr Clay of G
L. Barrow and Fulton. e
On Naval Affairs-Messrs Mangum, Archer, ,
Villains, Smith of Ind, and Choate. hf i
On Pulic Lands Messrs. Smith of Ind, Tall I
a.t-- Ill, d.