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FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

August II, lo4l
In the Senate to-day, the Distribution Bill
was taken out of committee, and considered
with reference to amendments during the
day.
MIR. McRoberts renewed his motion to in
sert the Territories of Wisconsin, Iowa and
Florida, so as to share the distribution. This
was advocated by Messrs. McRoberts, Allen,
Sewer and Benton, and opposed by Messrs.
Huntington and Prentiss. 1t was then adop.
ted-yeas %, nays Is.
Various others amendments offered in COM
mittee, were rejected
Mr.. Berrien offered an amendment provi-
ding that the distribution shall cease, if, after
the goth June, 1912, the rate of duties on i'm
ports shall be increased beyond 20 per cent,
ad %rdlorenl, to operate again whenever the duty
shall be advanced to 30 per zen.
An interesting and at the close excited de-
bate followed on this amendment, extending
into the general subject of the tariff question.
Messrs. Bates and Huntington opposed, intro
ducing in the Distribution Bill a provision that
should deprive Government of the power of
supplying its necessary wants, bv an imposi.
ton of duty, Messrs. Benton, Calhoun, King,
and Walker made "A violent outcry against the
amendment, as treacherously intending viola
ton OF the compromise Act. The Senate then
adjourned.
In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mr..
Sergeant introduced a resolution to take the
Fiscal Corporation Bill out Of Committee on
Monday next at a O'Clock P. NJ. and called
| the previous question.
After a long and angry debate the resolution
was adopted Yeas l16, Nays IS.
The bill was then taken up the Committee
| of the Whole, Mr.. Dawson of Ga. in the chair.
Mr.. Sergeant, in his usual clear and practi'
cal manner, supported the bill. Mr.. Wise Of
course opposed it.
Mr.. Turney then moved to strike out the
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FROM WASHINGTON.
The LATEST FROM WAsHINToN.

The LATEsT FROM WAsHINToN.
The Land Bill is now under discussion in
the Senate, preparatory to the question of its
final passage. 1t is supported by Mr.. Rives, Of
Virginia. Benton is stark mad. He promises
John Tyler he shall have his support four years,
if he will veto the bill, and tells the Cabinet
they must resign or be dismissed. The New
York Express, says the news from Washing
ton is, we shall have no bank this session. The
President will veto the new bill, es it is suppo-
sed Mr.. Rives in the Senate and Mr.. Wise in
the house speak his sentiments. The wings
stand undismayed by the howlings around
them. The land bill however will become a
law.
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PEOPLES PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, Aug. 81, ls4l.
SKIES BRIGHT! WHIGs ARE YOU READY 2

The veto by the President of the Bank bill,
an essential and prominent feature in the sys.
fem of relief which our friends in Congress
intended for the country, for a moment damPed
the ardor of patriotic effort, aid threatened our
party with disaster, if not with dissolution. But
the agitated waters have subsidized, harmony is
restored, the clouds have passed of. and the
bright sun of Austerlitz has arisen upon our
prospects. Another bill of essentialIy the same
character and objects is now in progress, and
we have the strongest assurances, will receive
the sanction of the President.
And now, Wings of Vermont, are you ready
for the contest on the 7th day Of September ?
For years you have struggled with a giant party
who had treacherously obtained an ascendency
in the government, which by the influence of
power and patronage, a subsidized press, and
an union of the purse with the sword, they hop
ed TO make perpetual. But American Free
men would not bear the calling chains of a
government administered for the purposes of
pcISOudl dSSl diulLOiiChh.
feeling burst through their hearts, from one end
of the continent 10 the other.
The administration has been changed, and
the triumphant party in Congress are now en-.
deavoring 10 heal the wounds of the conflict,
and restore the country to that high and palmy
state of prosperity from which it has fallen. But
you have seen how every measure of reliefhas
been obstructed by indiscrimira,e and unprin-
ciPled opposition. The serpent is scotched,
but still able 10 infict his venomous wounds.
He still swells with restless desires to avenge
his defeat and regain his ascendancy. The
black banner of locofocoism in Vermont is
again flung TO the breeze. They are again
endeavoring to bewilder the public mind by
their usual arts Of Misrepresentation and false.
hood. A national Bank, which the loftiest pat
riots OF the country have sanctioned, and whose
destructionsh has proved utterly %ruinous to the
business Of the country, is denounced upon the
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LoCo-FoCo REJOICING.

The editor of the Providence Journal thus
reasons on the subject of the Loco-Foco reJol-
cings at the defeat of the National Bank Bill :
'These attempts at rejoicing which are made
at Washington, and all over the country, by
the opposition, are but a shallow pretcnce, and
intended to rally the fainting spirits of their
rank and file. The more than firmness which
the President has shown in the adherence to
this own peculiar views, in opposition to his
entire cabinet, and to nearly all of his friends,
is enough to convince the Loco-Focos that
they have no hope of e~ffecting a change in his
views by their disgusting adulation. The man
who has just signed the repeal of the SUR
TREASURY, will hardly prove a rallying point
for the Loco-Focos.
Upon the whole, we think, Notwithstanding
the present discouraging aspect, the three great
measures will pass-The Bankrupt Bill, the
Land Bill. and the Bank Bill. Let the Loco
Focos, then. rejoice while they can, and make
the most of the CLEAN of sunshine which has
priced the dark clouds of the "winter of their
discomfort )" it will soon disappear and make
more striking, by the contrast, the return of
complete darkness"
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VETO! VETO I!

This is the cry of the factionists through the
length and breadth of the land. Three times
three, howl these traitors to democracy, for the
glorious g What a beautiful sample OF
~locofoco federalism is thus exhibited.
Andrew, the iron crowned, was never 90
heartily cheered by his thrulls, as King Veto Is
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WOODBURY'S
TION OF A TAX ON TEA
AND COFFEE

In Levi Woodbury,s Report to the Sem
ate, Jan Is, ls4l, is the following recon-
mendation Of a tax on tea and Coffee.
which doubtless spoke Van Buren,s sent.
ments:
Suppose then. there should be selected
from the free articles those regarded
most as luxuries, though not i'll every res.
pect belonging exclusively to that class such
are TEA, COFFEE, and silks: should we
then add to them others, conflicting with
similar, American productions such as
worsteds, linens, &c. and ,he aggregate,
deducting the amount re-exported would
be 90. O26 ,44S. A duty of2O per cent, on
those after paying the expenses of collec-
ting would yield about the same amount OF
five millions. This seems to contain the
general data for the most eligible and unex-
ceptionable.
Let the locofocos chew this cud, and
swallow it ifthey please, for it came from
from their own party about six months
ago. [CaledoniaD.
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e~nacting clause of the bill, and on this motion
Mr.. WISE took the floor, and succeeded in
speaking another hour, which he devoted to
manifestations of the bitterness of his feelings
against Mr.. Clay.
Mr.. Profit asked leave to offer a resolution
asserting the power of Congress to repeal the
character of a fiscal agent, if established. The
resolution was objected to.
Mr.. Marshall of KY. took the floor on the
Fiscal bill, and the committee arose, and the
House adjourned. ARGUS.
CONGRESSIONAL In the Senate on Tues
day the bill for the distribution and presumption
of Public Lands, which passed the House of
Representatives more than a month ago, re-
ceived its third reading, and was put upon its
passage. After hearing a very able and con-
vincing speech in favor of the bill from Mr..
Archer, and q speech in Mr.. Calhoun's best
manner against it, the Senate, fatigued appa-
rently with hearing debate, however able, on
a subject on which they have been already so
long engaged, laid the bill over till to-day, and
employed the remainder of yesterdays sitting
in the consideration of Executive business,
with closed doors.)-Nat. INTEL.
The Bank bill was received from the House,
and read a first and second time.
Mr.. Tappan moved to pospone the bill indef-
initely.
Mr.. Berrien hoped the motion would not
prevail. He asked Senators to consider the
importance of this matter, and to reflect that
it was the incumbent duty of Congress to
make provision for the safe keeping and dis
bursement of the public revenue. Such had
been done: he alluded to the bill which had
failed by the disagreement between the Exec
utive and Legislative branches as to the con-
stitutionality of the measure and hence the
money was left without any other care or con.
troll than that of the Executive. They now
presented this measure to the consideration of
The Senate, and prayed Senators before they
took any step to defeat the will of the other
branch, that they would consider well the con-
sequences Of not providing some means for the
safekeeping of the revenue Of the country.
The yeas and nays having been ordered, the
vote on the postponement resulted as follows {:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Benton, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton,
King, Linn, McRoberts, Mouton, Nicholson,
Pierce, Sewer, Sturgeon, Tappan, Walker,
Williams, Woodbury., Wright, Young-21.
NaysNMessrs. Archer, Barrows, Bates, Bay
ard, Berrien, Choate, Clay, of Ken, Clayton,
Evans, Graham, Henderson, Huntington, Kerr,
Mangum, Merrick, Miller, Morehead, Phelps,
Porter, Prentiss, Smith, ofInd., Southland, Tall
madge, Woodbridge,-24.
The bill was then referred and the Senate
went into the consideration of Executive bust.
ness.
In the House, the Bill appropriating the sum
of S497, 900 to pay the debts of the Post Of
fee Department, was taken up in Committee
of the Whole, and discussed at length. 1t was
not denied by any one, that the Department
was in debt to the amount named, and there is
nc doubt that the bill will pass. The Commit
tee will probably report the bill to. morrow.-
Albany Adu.
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Addiso Co..
ELIAS BOTTOM,
WOOSTER,
ISAAC CHAPMAN,


From the information we have, there can be no doubt that the leaders
of the locos in this county are exerting every nerve for the next election,
training their men, circulating foreign papers, either gratis OF at very re-
duced prices and through their agents, committees, and every appliance
in their power, encouraging the broken spirit of their party, to make the
greatest show of strength their thinned ranks will admit: These fellows
so exceIIent discinFnarians. Their men rank and file will be as certain
as snnrsea a the ballot boxes, and true S a die for the candidates the par
tv have DESIGNATED. What a severe reproof does this administer to the
greatw bio nartvi in this county for their habitual supiness, and present
state of dssenhOn.
WINGS OF ADDISON COUNTY.
You see the untring zeal and diligence if your opponents Are you
nrenared to meet them on the 9TH of Have the town
committees amounted their district committees, and made any efforts to
bring out every man to the polls d? Have the towns selected their candi-
dates for the legislature? Ifthese things have been neglected, 60 about
them instantly, and continue your most indefatigabe efforts until the day
of election! Throw down the implements of husbandry' and the tools OF
trade which can never be proftably employed until the government is re-
formed, and instantly arm yourself with the little mage bit ofP paper,
which, when placed in the ballot box tells upon the interests OF the country
through every channel of power. Let vigilance, activity and zeal mark
your course! Sacrifice all local considerations and personal preJudiceS
the altar of patriotism Assailed by dcmagogues and monarchists
under the false guise of democracy, be true to the cause and iniexlble in
the path of duty; and fight on friends Of liberty and ha-
ters Of tyrants. fight on until the full measure of reform for
which we have contended for years, against a remorseiesS iactionbhas been
melted to a country, grooming under the burden oh 'nelr oesoiatng eAPer-
imentS.
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ROBBERY AT THE Boston Post OFFICE.
Godfrey Myers, a boy of Is, formerly in
the employ of Mr. Dexter T. King, was ia
ken up for stealing a letter out Of the Post
Office in this city, on Monday morning. a
few minutes after Mr. K. had noticed the
letter in his box. The boy obtained the
letter by calling for it. as if still in the en-
ploy of Mr. K, and it was given to him, as
a matter of course. Yesterday he called
again for letters, and one was given to him
and then the clerk asked him to step inside
He understood the meaning of the invita-
ton, and made off upon the run, and was
not seized till he had left full a hundred
yards between himself and the Office. He
was then given over to the custody of Dep
utv Marshal Harris, who carried him to
jail. Tomorrow he will be examined be-
fore Judge S~prague. He confesses that
he has obtained several letters within a
month, containing in all about $40, and a
little over ten dollars was found upon him.
Boston Post.
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PRICE FOR MARRYING.-The price paid in
Iowa for tying the Knot switch binds two
willing hearts," is two coon skins and four
bushels of sweet potatoes.
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CONGRESS.-The news from Washington
is of the most cheering nature. Congress, on
Monday, performed a most glorious days work
In the Senate the Land Distribution Bill EN-
phatically The bill of the session Of the fate oil
which, great fears were entertained, was ordered
to a third reading { equivalent to a passage } by
the decisive vote of ayes %, noes 22-maioriry
6! The Locofocos are in a perfect rage. Every
species Of Remuneration is TIN ned to The Presi-
dent, if he do not veto this bill. Their charac-
teristic efforts, however are well understood, and
will be Of little avail. The President, we have
no doubt, will sign the bill, and by that act Loco
focoism will receive It's death blow.
Nor was the House at all behind its neighbor
in the despatch Of the public business. Despite
Tie panic Efforts of Wise. Gilmer, Profit, Sc. &c.
the Wings stood manfully to their posts. The
The Bank Bill was PASSED by the decisive
majority of31! All the disorganizers, of course,
voting in the negative, Honor to the brave
soldiers who thus stand up boldly to their work,
despite the jibes and taunis of false friends and
open enemies. Their "Roman Courage is in
deed worthy of all praise. The Wing party may
well be proud of such noble and lion hearted
Representatives
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BANK RIDDEN.-Rhode Island with q terri.
tory of46 miles long, and 81 broad, has fifty.
two banks.--Al6any Argus.
Well, what of it Is there a state in the
Union that, at this moment, enjoys more real
substantial prosperity than that same little,
shank ridden" state of Rhode Island. The
facts mentioned by the Argus prove that there
is nothing inherently evil in banks. They
prove more. They prove that in a good, sound
Wing state, banks properly managed, by sus.
tanning industry, and manufactures
can be made profitable to the stockholders and
a blessing to community. 1t is your Loco
Foco, Wild Cat political banking, such as has
been witnessed in Michigan. Mississippi, and
Alabama that is a curse to the country.--Buf
fdIo Com. Adr.
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INVITATION ExTRA.-'Francis Patrick Ken
rick Roman Catholic Bishop of Arath, and
conductor to the Bishop of Philadelphia, has
addressed a long letter to the Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, inviting them
and their adherents TO take refuge in the arms
of the Holy Mother. The following passages
are from the concluding part of it:
AN impulse, Right Rev. Sirs, has been
given to the religious mind which you will
find it impossible to check, and difficult to re-
sist, and if YOU pass not speedily with your ad-
herents to the camp of Catholicy, there is eve
~ appearance that numbers nay break from
your ranks and without you rally under its
glorious banner
Come to us, then brethren, and be engraf-
ted in the vine, that you may bear fruit unto
everlasting life. 1t affiicts us deeply to see
you still separated from the church by reason
of the unhappy revolt of your ancestors from
the authority Of Peter. Look up, we entreat
YOU, to that chair, which amidst the wreck of
empires remains in its sublime elevation. by.
nasties have passed away, and even within our
DAYS the occupants of thrones have changed,
like the acters on a stage whilst the successor
of the fisherman continues to sit in the chair
of unity, repeating without regard to the pre-
vailing prejudices Of the day, the unchanged
Bile maxims of religion, and presenting the las
ting miracle of a power, serene and secure a
midst the storms of a convulsed world, and baf-
fling, by its clear and deep tones, the efforts Of
hell to drown divine truth in the discordant
sounds of erring teachers. Gregory XVI in
vites you to return to the Church, with the
same authority and affection wherewith the
first Gregory called your ancestors to her
communion
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IN SENATE.

August Ig, 1911.
The following sketch of the Debate IN the
Senate on the Veto Message, we copy from
the baltimore Patriot:
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Inc ldo pdIl IL tAc IHtSSdnc commented
upon was the comments in reference to the
10th fundamental rule of the Bank bill presen-
ted to the President. He considered the COM
ments of the President harsh and uncalled for.
The clause was inserted by compromise, and
| conceived in the spirit of Cancellation. 1t
received his reluctant assent, and the reluctant
assent of many of his friends. 1t was brought
forward in the hope and expectation that it
would meet the objections Of the President,and
| the objections Of some of his friends.
MIR. Clay said the clause was intended as a
peace-offering, and it was not received in the
| same spirit in which it had been offered. A
| principle in which much mad been yielded to
! the President as was conceived, was denounced
| by him in terms which he conceived to be
| both harsh and ungenerous.
In conclusion, said Mr.. CLAY, l regret more
than any one in or out of this Hall, the event
| which has made il necessary for me to speak.
| No man regrets it so much as ! do. If We have
| failed to concur with The President in one great
measure, there are many left in which we shall
concur.
In regard to a Bank of the United States. said
| Mr.. Clay, the question left ls-,chat shall be
done ITO my friend l say 90 on, go on. Per-
feet your measures. As an humble Senator |
will throw no obstacles in the way, and support
The measure il can. Our measures may yet be
carrie ont. and to all l ssy-Shall we be excl
ted by any improper feelings and go home in
disguise No, no, No. Come what may, let us at
this end oil Pennsylvania Avenue do our duty,
our whole duty, and nothing short of our Guty.
we owe this duty to the country and let us not
j fall short of it,
M Clay having concluded his remarks. the
Private Secretary of the President appeared with
three messages from the Presidents signature tc
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