Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-03-01

LII Norycll[ locofoco) expressed hope that the
Incoming administration would make clean
sweep, and leave not one stone upon another OF
TIP old administration.
MIR. Preston trusted that the Wings would do
10 such thing. The most Infamous sentiment he
lad heard in all his life was that "to the vctors
belonged the spoils" 1t was not his sentiment,
and he repudiated it altogether, and believed that
neither the head Of the>-sew administration nor
any one that sustained it would carry out such
principle. The sentiments of the Senator from
Kentucky were his-honesty, capability of can
didotes for Office aud faithful discharge Of pub
lie duties by them in Office should secure them in
their places, if they had not been guilty of Interior
ence with the people in their elections.
Mr. Muugum assened to the same doctrine.
In the House the bill to continue the pensions of
widows and evolutionary soldiers was considered,
and in the course Of the discussion, Mr. Pckens of
S. c. made an outrageous personal attack upon MIR
Stanley OF N. G.. Mr.. S. replied in a scorching
speech, full of fight messages have since passed
between these men, and some expect duel; 9TH
ers say that Pckens will "show the white feather"
i. e. back out. We opprehend he didn't think of
blood so quick as this when he wrote his late re-
port.
Saturday, Feb. 90. In the Senate, Blair and
Rves received 81 votes for printers to the nert
Senate. The Wings did not vote-of course b.
aud X. were duly elected.
Mr.. Clay's resolution for the REPEAL of the Sub
Treasury was taken up. MIR Clay stated that he
had little to shy on the subject and he intended to
occupy the time Of the Senate but very briefly
lie had delayed calling up the resolution until this
ue period of the session in order that the present
administration might have the benefit ofihe system
so long as it remained in power. 1t was not TO be
denied that the people, i'll bringing the new party
into power, had, among other objects, the express
purpose of setting aside the system of financial
policy now in operation. i" | have offered the res
Uluton,' said MIR. Clay, Gin spirit Of exultation.
The repeal is demanded by the voice of n large
majority of the people, and gentlemen on the 9th
! or side ought not to regard il ms personal matter
n, all. The voice Of the people in every part of
Christendom, where III not crushed by the iron
hand of despotism is always permitted to inlu-
ence the action of the government. do not re-
gard every evanesccnt burst of popular feeling
rs entitled to great consideration; but on this
matter the people have deliberately made up their
Judgment. The primary, leading, and paramount
object of the majority in the late contest, was to
get rid of the suh-rreasury. This was the proxi-
mate and immediate cause OF the overthrow ofthe
administration, and | put it to gentlemen wheth-
CT they will carry out the will Of their constitu-
ehts"
SIR Allen said the fact that Mr. Clay had pro-
posed no substitute for the sub-treasury, rea-
son for voting against the repeat, and after some
further remarks, lie moved to lay the whole mat
ter on The table.
Mr. Clay replied that the report would leave
matters precisely as they were from 1897 to the
4th Of July 1910.
| MIR. " illiams Of Maine undertook to draw a
distinction between technical, specific, mandatory
Instructions which he was ready he sad to obey
or resign, and those which he had received from
his Legislature, which merely signifed the wishes
olhs constituents But as his ideas on the subject
weie not ve.y definite precise, he was not par
ticuarly ineligible or happy in his explanation.
Mr.. Walker gave the reasons which would gov
ern him in his vote
The ayes and noes on the motion TO lay on the
table were then called, aud stood as fol!ows:--
Ayes 27-Noes 25; strictly party vote with tho
exception of Mr.. Nicholson Of Tennessee, who
voted with the Wings against layingthe matter OH
the table. This is the first time in which fifty two
votes were ever given in the Sennte. That body
has not been full before since Michigan came into
the Union.
ln the House, the discussion was continued on
The pension bill.