The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-12-21
9th CONGRESS---2d Session.
Tuesdau, December 7

through RoDeIt Iyief, Esq, Whch was read oy
the Secretary.
On motion of Mr.. Mangum, the message and
documents were ordered 10 lie on tue table and
be printed.
Mr.. Benton said be could not vote for The ex-
ira number of crpies which had been moved,
without expressing his opinion briefly upon the
message. and pa ticularly 10 that feature OF II
which related TO the new Fiscal Agent" Look
I-g over the Message as IL was red, he saw the
outline If the plan of the President, and learn,
enough 10 know what were the details of The plan
to be furnished by the Secretary Of The Treasury.
apprehrnd, that details of such plan can
meet with any part of my appreciation. regard
it as hagrantly unconstitutional, and emineDty
dangerous 10 the country, The Federal Govern
ment was called upon 10 issue paper money; and
as the Constitution was draughled, Congress has
M power to issue bills OF credit. or paper money.
The attempt p'oposiIinn 10 give such power
failed 10 he established. The plan now propos-
ed was 10 make the Government hard money
Government, and the proposition in the message
was TO dn not only what was not granted, hut
VIII was positively denied.
The proposition To- issue bills Of exchange for
commerce was a new invention, utterly unknown
to Grn. Hamilton wien he proposed Bank of
the United States. Tie plaE was not Only utterly
unknown tn him, but it was Invented by Mr..
Biddle lar the purpose of making This Government
furnisher ul bills of exchange. Mr. B:ddle
| brought it forward for the purpose of changing
the Government from hard money 10 a paper
money Government. | entirely object to allow
ing this Government 10 become a urhsher Of
exchange. The power 10 furnish bills of ex-
change is not TO be found in the Constitution
nor any equivalent TO ii. While we are called
upon IL furnish bills OF exchange for commerce
why should lie not be called upon for drafts icr
| farmers? Such power was utterly unknown
II the Constitution and who'll, p-rnicioUs in rs
pactce. 1t was nothing more than British
| Exchequer system revived. IL began Wi TIE
| first Grorge, continued with the second George,
and had been handed down to the present ting
| [: was the system by which the British G IT ern-
mrnt had Inst nine millions slerliog. The ore
system was borrowed from Sir Robert " alpnle
and the other from Mr. Biddle, who was in the
city few weeks since, and without doLbt, fur
nished il for The Government.
But this Continued Mr.. Bcn,nn) is not the
lime 10 discuss Ibis question. Formerly, the
message was gone into regularly, and contributed
regularity Of debate allerward, but the occasinn
for discussion did not now present itself. nor
uld it be ueaing The President Of tie United
States with proper respect 10 10 50 but could
not sill still and permit tie bill 10 pass tirougH
his Chamber without expressing my VI er repu2
nance TO The sys EN- proposed, regarding il as cn,
as eminently unconstitutional calculated io
change the currency of the Constitution 10 pa
per nancy cuTreEcy-to abandon the hard. money
Government of our anceSto,s, and burrawin.,
instead Of il, 4 system borrowed from Sir Horace
Waipoe and The high Tory times of Queen Anne
We propose 10 60 far beyond what General Ham
iou advocated. He utterly rcpudiate the ilrn
of Exchange, which was now proposed in nd Ii
zion 10 the plan To issue paper money by the guy
erAment. The Two plans have nv utter a'.hor-
renee, and shall avail myself of tie earliest p
propriate opportunity 10 sustain what have said
bv md h,, rafarancc, I
regard as formal Proposili'n change the hard
money system If our Government nto that of the
paper money system nf Great Britain and which
had increased the debt ni that Government, from
the reign of George, from The sum Of twenty-one
million sterling, INFO The enormous amount If
| three hundred millions. Adj urned.
RULES AND ORDERS
HOUSE.-After some preliminary proceed
ings, Mr. w. c. Johnson modified his resolution
as 10 rules and orders, TO read as follows:
ResoL,ed That the rules and orders of the 26h
Congrcss, as they were al the close of the said
Congress, be the rules and orders Of Ibis Cor
gre-s until nihrrs are adopted; and he report
m1de by the Committee on Rules at the last ses-
SION be the SIP clal order oi the day for Thur day
nexr, and each succeeding day until disposed OF.
The question taken. and decided in tie
affirnalive-yeas 81, nays 95. A 'journed.
No business of importance was transacted on
the Sth by either House.
Thursday, December g.
SENATE.-Mr. Woodbridge, fIom Michigan,
appeared in his Plsce-thu' mixing the VIII. 10
number Of Senators present forIy-thrce.
On motion of Mr.. Wright, The 34th rule was so
far suspended as TO admit OF the President Of the
Senat, appointing the Standing Committees.
There being no business before the House, the
Seuale adjourned.
HOUSE.-Mr. Fillmore offrrei TO pfesent
cerlain resolutions distributing among Standing
and Select Committees, the various subjects en-
brsceL in the Presidents Message.
Air. Anterior objected to the introduction of
the reso'u i"ns on the ground that no committees
mad yet been appointed by the speaker.
MIR. Gilmer argued that it would be better TO
let the reference oil the message lie until the
standing committees had been announced BY the
Chair. The House could then determine wbet!i-
er il would be proper TO appoint select Commit
tees TN particular branches OF the Messenger not
Mr. Fillmore insis ed That it was important iha,
the speaker should know what selecLcommittee5
were to be raised, so that he might be the better
able To select The members Tor all the committees
The speaker sustained this view-5ut said that
debate could not be entertained, as the reception
OF The resolu ions had been objected 10.
MI Lawrence. oil Pa, then rose and in an ap-
proprIa'e eulogy. announced the death ci his COL
league, Mr.. Back (succe~sor of the late Mr.Ogle.(
who died on the 25h Nov. al appoplexy, at his
residence in Somerset Co.. Pa. And the House
adjourned.
Friday. December 10.
The Senate did not sit to-day.
HoUSE.-The speaker announced that the first
order ofbsness would be the presentation petitions
RULES AND ORDERS.
Mr. Cave Johnson was understood to inquire Of the
speaker neither the special crer (belng the consider