Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-08-26
CONGRESS-.
HHVKSDAr, AUGUST ~, ]
IN SENATE.

hV0UoT 10, x01k.
IN SENATE.
After two successive disappointments. ON
previous days, from votes to postpone, the
question at last came up, at 10 o'clock. on
considering the Executive communication
containing the Presidents objections to the
bill chartering Fiscal Bank.
Mr.. CLAY addressed the Senate in We
ry eloquent speech in vindication Of the
course OF the Senate in relation to the bill,
anu particularly that in respect to the l6fh or
compromise section, against which the OBJ
Jections OF the President were expressed
with peculiar emphasis. Gas a full report
OF TINS speech and some Of those which fol.
lowed Is in course of preparation by our
Reporter, we must defer even an outline of
tne speech for the presently After going
through with an examination of the several
positions taken in the Message, and replying
to the Presidents objections. Mr.. C.. advert.
cd to the fact that some of his friends round
Nun were engaged in the preparation Of
new Dill, and, without pledging himself to
any course respecting it until he should see
It's precise form, MIR. G. expressed his hops
that they would 60 on, and render il as per.
iect as possible. And he concluded with
congratulating the country on the many im.
Portant measures which had been carried
through both Houses during the present ex.
ira session, and expressing his hope that, it
NOT now, at the regular session, something
might be done to put the currency Of the
country on sure and solid and satisfactory
basis.
MIR. RlVES followed in speech viudica-
ting the course of the President, on which he
passed the highest eulogiums. He seemed
inclined to treat Mr.. CLAWS speech az an at-
tack on the Prcsiden: for treachery to the I
country and to his party. But, in repeated
explanations which passed between the two
Senators. MIR. Clay disclaimed all such pur.
pose, and resisted what he considered az
misrepresentation (tho' unintentional ones
ken.
Mr.. r. concluded by expressing an earnest
hope that no new bill would be broughi X.
but that the question would be referred over
to the People. If, however, such bin
should be reported as he could conscientious
ly support, it should have his vote.
Mr.. CLAY rejoined in second speech,
(Which became unusually impassioned to-
ward the close,) and in which he warmly re.
PEELED the imputation of having attacked the
President, or charged him with treachery.-
tie adverted to their long personal friendship,
declared 1t to be unimpaired by what had
transPred, and his desire for its long contin-
uance; but adyerted to rumor of the exis-
tenco OF certain cGbdl, which claimed to 20
the Presidents friends par ercelicnce, and who
surrounded and sought to uide him as sort
OF second Kitchen Cabinet-whose object
was the dissolution Of the Wing party, tho
dissolution Of Congress, and change in The
whole lace OF the affairs of the county,
Those might whisper suspicious into his ears,
and endeavOr to pour poison into his heart,
with view to separate him from Mr.. G.. Ii
the President should choose, though MIR. &.
was sure he could not, TO lend his ear to such
advisers, and to separate himself from him, he
Should deeply regret it for the sake Of their
common country.
Mr.. RIVES also spoke again, with much
| animation and earnsstness, still taking the
g,ound that MIR. T.. had attacked the President.
| Gar. Z. still disclaimed and corrected his
representations of what had pessed.)
MIR. CLAY said a few more things, ina
more playful spirit than before, in reply to
Mr.. RS last remarks.
Mr.. ARCHER made an ellor, to bring Mr..
CLAY to disclaimer Of any allusion to his
colleagues in the House OF Represontatiyes IN
| what he had said about kitchen cabinet.
Mr.. CLAY denied that he had asserted the
existence ofsuch a cabal he had stated the
existence Of such rumor, and asked Mr.. A.
II he had never heard Of it. AS to his col
leagues being implicated, that was Mr.. AS
own inference. not Mr.. C.'s assertion.
~H'"i oVvosoi ihiu'liCo diu IcpIl6B n1O pass
cd, in the last Of which Mr.. C.. refused TO 90
further in his disclaimer
MIR. BERRIEN stated to Mr.. ARCHER what
MIR. Clay had said; with which MIR. A. pro-
feseed himself Satisfied, and the inquiry drop
ped.
The question was then Cat past o'clock)
taken anew upon the passage of the bank
bill, and decided by yeas and nays as follows:
YEAS:-Messrs. Barrow. Bates, Bayard,
Berren, Choate, Clay, of Kentucky, Dixon,
Evans, Graham, Henderson, Huntington,
Nerr, Mangum, Merrick, Miller, Morehead,
Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Simmons, Smith,
Of Indiana. Southland, Tallmadse, White,
oodbridge.-25
NAYS.--Messrs. Allen, Archer, Benton,
Buchanan, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama,
Clayton, CuthbeIt, Fulton, King, Linn, Nc
Roberts, Mouton, Nicholson, Pierce, Riyes,
Sewer, Sturgeon, Tappan, Walker, Will
iams, Woodbury., Wright, Young--24.
There not being the constitutional majority
OF two-thirds in favor of the bill, which would
be requisite to enttle it to be sent to the House
OF Representatives for the like concurrence
there, the bill remains finally rejected.
The Senate then, after an exhaustinr ses.
sion of seven hours, adjourned.
Correspondence Of the baltimore AMERICAN.
WASHINGTON, August 30 lS4I.