Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-07-06
rWENTY-sEyENTH CoNGRESs---lst sess.
CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS.

CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS.
SENATE.
W,suIycros, June 3O.-A the opening OF the SEES
sion there was some dexterous manauvring played on
with great REEL, upon which was wound up pr"dl-
pious Bank petition. The reel was hung in frame,
and being set upon the Secretarys table, one OF the
paoes of the Chamber out the strip containing sig
natures, quite across the Senate Chamber, TO Mr. h.
Clays desk Mr. Clay said he understood the petition
was ty feet in length. and that the signatures were
in double columns, from which inference might be
made in regard TO the number. MIR. Buchanan told
Mr. Clay as he enlarged the length OF the Bank
memorial, that public opinion could not be manuiac-
tured in this country by the yard This occasioned
hearty laugh and the long string was rolled up lot
another occasion.
We think this exhibition of reel and line TT isins-
tration of the process now going on IN inns country
The great financers at home and abroad IKE expert
anglers understand well The power OF an elastic line
and multiplying reel, in worrying to death the strong
est fish that shall have gorged the bait. we nave
seen fish weighing fifty pounds, killed with hook ana
line not much thicker than halr, ny inc use OF lns
sort Of apparatus How perfectly emblemaiic was Tins
morning display, of the elegant ar, OF angling ny
which this great country be dragged into the net
Of the moneyed capitalists They have got their hook
fixed in its mouth at the great Emporium, ana they
send their reel and line, made up OF the strongest
6bres of the British interest IN that city, to be worked
with Mr. Clay's skilfu hand until he shall have e1,
hausted the prey of the last ten years pursuit, and
snhec,ed the whole country as victim OF line OF
discounts.
Alter this reeling machine disposed Of Mr. Man
gum made an effort prevent even an exhibit OF the
list Of removals and appointments 10 the people, that
they might Judge how lie and his friends had kept their
words-nay worse, he attempted 10 cut of all discus-
SION on the subject, lest the argument and facts ad.
duced TO ex,ort what has heretofore been matter OF
coursel information from the Departments might rouse
the public mind TO consideration ct the SUBJECT MI
Manpum 1--WE doubt not al the ins;igation OF Mt II.
Claw moved TO lay Mr.. Buchanan resolution on the
table This motion operates, as all know, I" gag mem
bers and although Mr. Buchanan had only briefly
spoken TO IL and Mr.. McRobers partially handled Il
during the fragment of two morning hours, and al
though there was nothing pending TO prevent hr
Pierce of New Hampshire, who asked 10 he heard,
from occupying The time intervening before eleven
o'clock brought up the special ORDER yet snch was the
determination of the ma orty to get rad OF the CALLING
inquiry which their friends in power dare not answer,
that Mr. Mangum positively refused To withdraw his
motion on Mr. P,erces application TO be heard Mr.
Preston perceived that the application OF ibe gag law
TO cut off the ordinary mode Of obtaining information,
was what the country could not be brought 10 endure
He therefore asked the Senator from North Carolina
to allow the Senator from New Hampshire TO proceed
Mr. Cuihbert Of Georgia complmen,ed MIR. Preston
on his courtesy Mr.. Benton would not however, re-
cognse it as courtesy. He said ii was the right OF the
minority explain their views, on calling Tor intor-
nation The motion to lay the table might prevail,
but he would speak this subject 10 the full extent
of his desire aud every occasion that should occur
Here il was urged SIR Pierce not 10 accept Of any
courtesy but to proceed right TO explain the views
on which he would demand the information he desired
unit the hour for the orders Of the day should arrive,
and make such application out OF order; and Mr. Pierce
did proceed without further interruption lie went on
to show that the main object of the removals IN his
section was to got rid of all those who opposed the
Abollonists and put in their places the supporters Of
Abolition principles
He then entered upon display from recorded proofs
of ~ hose no n
rested The rip hit of removal He had just RECALLED the
Senate with some Of MIR. H. Clay doctrines the sub
iect when the clock, striking eleven, brought up the
NATIONAL BANK.
Mr.. Henderson of Mississippi proposed very i'm
portant amendment TO the charter, providing that the
stock left to individual subscription should b. confined
to ci.ens or resilient agents On the suggestion oil
Mr. Clay of Alabama, MIR Henderson accepted mo-
difcation excluding nil individual foreigners from be-
coming shareholders IN the Bank. This led to long
and interesting discussion, in which Nes-rs Benton,
Henderson, Mangum, Clay Of Alabama, Walker, Al
len Calhoun Berricn and Woodbury., took part in Ia
vor of it, and Messrs Preston, Bayad Smith of lndi.
ana, and Huntington, in opposition Mr. M"rehead oil
Kentucky proposed to amend the amendment so as 10
ADM, alien residents 10 become shareholders Mr. Clay
of Kentucky seconded this amendment and SAID that
this exclusion of foreigners from participation IN the
Bank was a mere demagogue appeal. Mr. MoTehead $
oropos,on was lost by a vote Of "a TO %. After this,
Mr. CLAW observed that he should vote fur the e1clu
sion of all foreigners the resident aliens were cx
cluded and Mr. Iendersons amendment 10 that effect
was carried by considerable majority. The debate
vas of too much interest to be left to the sketch OF an
analysis; but there was one point urged against MT
Henderson's amendment by the Federal side OF the
chamber which characteristic OF the party that
il deserves To he noted.
Mr.. Smith of Indiana, and others, charged il as a
great inconsistency, that the Democratic members who
strongly insisted on giving the right to foreigners oil
settling on onr lands, and awaiting themselves Of our
pre. emption laws should attempt tn exclude foreigners
from identifying themselves with the interests OF the
Government in the great Fiscal Bank proposed
in the charter Mr.. Benton, MIR. Walker and Mr.
Allen of Ohio responded, and showed that the lncon
sstency was on the side Of Federalism. That party
abhorred the idea of permitting aliens to enter into the
bosoms of our forests improve and plant themselves
as population, in the place OF the wilderness and
which, adding to the strength and products OF the
country, rendered their own prosperity a''oge., ue
pendent on its prosperity This, Federalism could not
endure because this wide spread agricultural interest
was the enemy 10 arstocratica monopoly IN every thing
Mr. Allen particularly insisted that the same party Ia
vored the introduction of the privileged class OF To-
reigners as particpators in privileged Bank mono
poy because they command the necessary means, ana
were the most powerful supporters OF every species oil
monopoly and privilege which it was the leading prn
ciple of Federalism to establish
Mr.. Allen said the Federal party invited the advo
Gates of privilege abroad to share our privileges here
because they were not of the peope-would aid them
in maintaining a supremacy over the peopie-and be-
cause the very privilege they would exert as Bank
stockholders would be to depress the people by taxa
ton in taking their dividends out OF the products OF
their labor and they would exclude the alien producer
who made his profits out of the improvement of our
soil, simply because he added bis strength to the eonn
try and the country party and not to the party o, ,h n
terests and privileges alien to our ns'toohs ana INC
welfare of the body of the community.
Mr. Henderson Of Mississippi moved another amend
ment, in which he was successfully opposed by the ma
iorty of his own party. To give publicity 10 the con-
duct of the corporation he proposed that every STOCK
holder should have the right examining its proceed,
ings and accounts. This amendment was snpporte1
with great power by Messrs. Henderson, walker, oal
houn, Benton and King, and was opposed by Ne s
Huntington Clay Of KY, aIerrick Preston, and h ~,
We shall give sketch of the debate hereafter Inc
amendment was lost by vote of % TO %
HOUSE. c,.
When the journal had been read Mr. Briggs of Mas.
sachusetts moved that the House go into Committee Of
the Whole.
Mr. Atberon thought this would require suspen,