Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-14
Mr.. CRITTENpEN AND HIS TWO PROPOSITIONS.

Mr.. CRITTENDEN AND HIS TWO PROPOSITIONS.
The position which this Senator now occupies gives
10 his propositions claim upon the public attention
which these of no Senator, however respectable,
sdered merely as Senator, could command. MIR.
Crittendens position is that Of (reputed and beered)
member of the new Cabinet. He is the confidential
friend of Mr.. Clay, and Mr.. Clay's position is that
of President dc facto for four years to come, with
arrangement for the succession for four years therea
ter. These circumstances give to MIR. Crttenden s
propositions the stamp of Executive recommendations;
and therefore his declaration in the Senate We'd
day last, that he was in favor of the creation Of a
new National Bank, and his offered amendment to the
pre-emption bill Friday TO divide the proceeds of
the public lands among the States, may be considered
as administration under the Federal rule,
and to be accomplished al the called session
Of Congress. Thus far, then, the political curtain is
lifted Its lifted high enough to let the people have
glimpse of the new monster National Bank of fifty
or one hundred Millions to be bnilt up for foreigners
on the credit and of the United Sa,es-and 10
let them see that the distribution policy has got
beyond "surpuS rerenue, and is selling upon the
rent rtrcRuc, ndspensably necessary 10 the daily pay
men,s Of the Government and which cannot be seized
for distribution without occasoning an immediate re-
sort to loans taxes Now what is raising money by
loans taxes, TO supply the place of revenue dsrbu
ted 10 the States but raising money by loans or taxes
to he given 10 the States What is it but this Dis
guise it as you may, what else is IL Mr.. Crittenden
did not say whether loans taxes would be the Fede
raj substitute for the loss of the four millions of land
revenue which he proposed 10 distribute but it must
evidently be the other and as Federaliss love
both, it will be for themselves TO say which they prefer
in the present case.
The proposition of Mr.. Crttenden-in the present
condition of the Treasury, when requires economy 10
meet the demands upon it, when his friends alege the
existence Of public deb-hs proposition under these
circumstances, was extraordinary, that MIR. Benton
denounced it upon the spot being equally uncons
tutional and mischievous-as throwing away revenue
to get prete1t for loans taxes-as creating new
National Debt for the foundation of new National
Bank; for he said there wayto get the capital
for a new National Bank but make it out of stock
issued upon National Debt.
The importance which the Senate attached to Mr.
Crittenden's propositions evident from the man.
in which they were received, and postponed until
Monday for deliberate consderation.-G Globe.
Mr.. Webster has formally accepted the place of the
State Department Mr. Ewing, the Post Office De-
partment; and Mr.. Critenden, the post Of Attorney
General. Gen Harrison thinks of leaving home, it is
stated the loth and having accepted invitation
visit Pttsburg, cannot well be in Washington before
February ISL whence he goes short visit 10 Virgil
MIA W. H. n Taylor, Esq, his son-in-law, will be his
private Secretary. In the absence of Mrs Harrison,
(who has been seriously threatened with lock-jaw
from splinter into her thumb,) Mrs. Taylor of
Virginia, the mother Of the Generals son-in-law, will
open the White House, and have the charge of its do
mestin affairs till Mrs. H. can leave North Bend. =