The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-10

nunicaIion from the Navy Department, in compl |
ance with the resolution OF the Goth uItimo directing
the Secretary of the Navy To report To the Senate the
pay and emolumens, if any in dollars and cents per
annum OF the officers in the naval service of Great
Britain, of all grades, distinguishing the pay of each
grade and the pay Of petty officers and in the
service with like information in reference To the
officers and prisates Of the marine corps in the Bri
fish service; and also the pay and emouments Of Off
and in the naval service Of the United States
with the number of each in the latter service in the
year lS4l
THE BANKRUPT LAW.
Mr.. TALLMADGE presented remonstrance
against a poslponement "a repeal of the Bankrupt
law, from ST. Louis in the State OF Missouri lie
remark ed that IL Was very numeIously signed by the
most respectable business of that city and he was
glad to have this evidence, from that quarter, of the
favorable mannerin which this benign measure had
been received.
Mr. LINN said that he should be very sorry if this
petition was considered any thing like conclu-
sive evidence of the opinion of the people of Mis-
sour with regard he operation of this benign law
| as il was here called. He believed that this sort of
public opDionnot this exactly, but kind of public
opinion--had been manufactured throughout the 1
country to operate upon Congress and he gave it as
his belief that the American people, people, had
never spoken upon or discussed the Bankrupt law.
On the contrary, they had just began to discuss it
and, when their views should be brought before Con-
gress, that the law injurious in its effects, and
that it was an post taco law, he thought that gen
that the law was not benign as they had supposed.
The greater part of his life had been spent in his pro-
fesson, in relieving individual distrcsses and he had
thought that they might pass law to relieve individuals
who were borne down by debts which they could not
throw off but, in the general operation ofhis law he
confident that it would be destructive TO public mo
rails that it would do harm than good and that it
violated the spirit Of the Constitution. He would not
have said one word, had not the petition been APP
pealed to evidence of the feelings of the people
| O
was willing however, to pass law that would have
a benign influence for the good Of the WHOLE but he
objected to this one, because il was law for expung-
ing all debts heretofore contracted law for repud
alton, and was agrarlan in its tendency. The party
to which he was attached had been held up as agra
rans, and as disposed to destroy every thing which
was sacred in our institutions but this not true
they had opposed the law because it agraran and
ca post tacto in its operation. Gentlemen who had
accused them Of having brought on the country
mass of misery and sorrow by their acts would have
to stand up before the country hereafter when the
judgment of the people shall have been presented
rously and gravely, and when the mists, which now
clouded the vision of gentlemen, shall have passed
away. Then they would hear different tone from
the people in relation to the Bankrupt law, and it
| would be similar to that which up here with
regard to the coffee tea, and sugar tax; il would be
overwhelming; and gentlemen who now advocated
| the law would have to take retrograde course
The country at this time undergoing a
change of a geological character, and public mea-
|
treated gentlemen not TO insist the benignity of
/ the Bankrupt law before public opinion was formed
upon that subject. Large cities often manufacture
public opinion; they did so in relation to the
val of the deposites, and in consequence of this kind
! OF manufactured opinion, two bills were forced
4 through Congress contrary to the popular will The
! benignity of the measure 1t was remarkably easy
to make use of mild and bland terms when speaking
OF measure of this sort but if they looked at the
benign bankrupt of 1901, they would find that
! so Of ne of and
so immoral in its tendency, that Congress OBJ
| liged to repeal the law.
Mr.. TALLMADGE hoped that he had given no
offence by presenting this petition. 1t had been sent
to him. and he had presented it, and he had merely
said that he had the that those whose
appeared on the petition respectable business
men of St Louis. Ifthese were the who had
attempted to manufacture public sentiment, he had
nothing to say upon the subject as they were the
! gentleman's own constituents.
Mr.. LINN explained He said that great
amount of public opinion was manufactured, but he
had not applied his remarks to the petition which the
Senator had presented. The gentleman could not
have listened to his remarks if he had he would not
have made the observation lie meant offence to him.
and he would say that Autographed petitions often
scattered through the country for signatures, pro-
cured sometimes was recently the in the city
of New York, by paying stipulated sum for each
name; and his remarks had that tendency, for there
was great deal of public opinion manufactured in
this way. The Senator had said that he glad to
Bankrupt law in Missouri SO far as the gentlemen
whose names were attached TO it were concerned it |
did express their opinion but il not the opinion of
the people of that State.
Mr.. TALLMADGE remarked that the gentleman
seemed to misapprehend him. If he understood the
Senator he (Nlr LINN) said that public opinion was
manufactured in large cities; and he believed that
St Louis large city.
Mr.. LINN said that il was.
Mr.. TALLMADGEwash happy, then, to learn that
n in larpe
cities, there none manufactured in st. Louis
and he had said, in the first instance, that the
petition expressed the opinions of citizens of St
Louis and not those of Missouri and that he was
glad to have the evidence communicated. He had
understood that the petition signed by some of
the most respectable business men OF that city and
it not lithrographed but written, he was glad
to have the evidence of the Senator that it was not
a manufactured article The Senator had said what
the public sentiment would be upon the subject of
the Bankrupt law, and had alluded to the pur
sued Interference to former measures but he had only
one remark to make His frend-and he trusted that
from their former relations he mig be permitted re-
gard him such-was very willing other gentle
men WERE to comment on all the measures of the
party to which he opposed, and in the strongest
language and terms but il any one of the Wing par
ty commented upon the doctrine of the other party,
there remarkable degree of sensitivcness mani
tested on the other side of the Chamber
He had taken occasion TO EXPRESS himself as
to their measures but had intended nothing
personal TO any man. ne senator had expressed
his opinions, and no exceptions had been made to
them. He would, whenever he thought proper,
comment on the effects OF the maintained
the other side and when he did so, he hoped that
the Senator from Missouri would not take offence
and he Mr. Tamadge) would extend the cour-
tesy to the Senator.
Mr.. LINN said that, as long as they did not make
personal remarks they had right to speak upon the
tendency of any measures presented for their debe
ration, and he presumed that this privilege would be
acknowledged Ivy all gentlemen without dissenting
voice He trusted that nothing which he had said
would be regarded as personal by the Senator from
New York. ~
Mr. TAIIMADGE Certa;nlv NOT cir