The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-29
CONGRESS-.

In the Senate, Saturday, motion Of Mr..
BAYARD, a COMMITTEE of Con erence was appoint
ed, in conjunction with that of The House, ON the
disputed points the bill to suppress the vending of
lottery tickets in the District of Columbia.
The bill from the House, to repeal the twenty per
cent proyiso in the sixth section of the Distribution
act came up its second reading and the question
being stated
Mr.. ALLEN objected.
Mr.. CRITTENDEN inquired whether he under
stood that single objection sufficient to stop the
bill
The CHAIR re llied in the affirmative, and stated
the substance of the rule upon the subject.
Mr. CRITTENDEN suggested to the Senator
from Ohio, whether courtesy woud not induce him
to withdraw his objection.
Mr.. ALLEN said that if this was a matter of
courtesy alone, he would relieve the Senator but
one of great Importance, and against which the
party to which he attached had labored for many
years. He therefore objected to the second reading
matter of course, and would by all fair and con-
sttutional means in his power endeavor to defeat it,
So the bill was not ordered to a second reading.
The bill regulating the taking of testimony in cases
Of contested elections, was after short debate re-
committed to the Committee on the Judciary-yeas
l6, nays Is.
The joint resolution from the House making an
appropriation TO test the invention of Mr.. Colts SUBJ
marine battery was taken up on the motion of Mr.
Preston.
Mr.. ARC HER proposed an amendment auth rz-
ing the ), crrlary OF the Navy cause experiments to
be made on the inventions OF Messis Eiston Camp
bell or Onuby, for the prevention If explosions OF
steam boilers.
A shor, de bate ensued but he morning hour hav.
ing expired, the Senate proceeded orders of the
day, being the bill provldng for the collection of
enue aud 10 change and modify existing laws and Tor
other purposes.
Mr.. B BUCHANAN addressed the Senate, and in
substance, SAID that it most in oriant con-
sideratlon with hun TO vote for any bill which would
arrest the distribution OF the splendid inheritance of
the public lands and place the fund where it was
previously To he passage OF the law of last September
Every duty was now pa under protest, and the st
revenue for the support OF the Government was in
law, and would continue Tor time to be in law
and no one knew W at would be the judicial res uIt
Inc reasury was empty, the public credit affected
and was tue eoIe ndlspensably necessary to pass
some measure TO relieve the public distress He felt
that their very first duty to sustain he natIonal
| credit abroad failing to do this, they would make
themselves the scorn OF the citizens of Europe and
ubect the lovers OF Tree Institutions TO deep hum-
ation. There were hundreds of thousands of honest
mechanics WHO make their living by the sweat of their
face" scattered throughout the Union With twenty
per cent duties, the cheap labor of foreign countries
would be brought into runous competition with that
of our own; and cheap shoes, cheap clothing, and
cheap everything else, would seriously niure our
own artisans, and deprive them of employment
This would be the case, he knew, in Pennsylvania
and all he would desire for his own State was such
duties as would enable the manufacturers to live He
would take this b at tins moment, in preference to
leaving the country IN the condition in which if
would be left without it, trusting to some other time
to amend it to render II acceptable to the North
East, South, aud the West.
MIR. MERRICK replied to the Senator from Penn
sylvania and said that he would feel justified in voting
against this bill because IT calculated to restore
the public lands to the Treasury I'd defeat the mea-
sure to which the party to which he was attached
from the loitiest principles of Justice adhered His
firm opinion that this bill would not provide the
necessary revenue for support of the Government
1t would not yield so much, by three or four millions
as the other act recently passed. for tea and
coffee in this, to in free of duty In fact
he considered this measure extrayagant bill of
protection designed to operate and il would operate
inurousy and unjustly the agricultural interests
of the country.
Mr.. SMITH, of Connecticut condemned the h;,l
having in view the protection of one great interest
at the expense of, and injury to- the other
Mr.. SIMMONS replied, and spoke in defence o {
the BILL as being necessary to the support of the Gov
eminent, and the protection of the great manufac-
turing agricultural, and other interests of the coun-
try. -
Mr.. HUNTINGTON answered his colleague MIR
SMITH and observed that the people of Connecticut
demanded protection and had right to demand it,
them from the consequences of the influx into
the country of the pauper labor of Europe and other
countries; and he expressed the hope that the bill
before them would, in few moments, become a
law.
Mr.. CHOATE would vote for the bill under
profound conviction that il all that they could do
at 'the eleventh hour ''or the was going down
in the West. He grieved that in passing good law
for revenue they defeated good law for distribution
He had wished to live under the shade and partake
of the fruit of both trees but he felt that, the
same moment, in planting this, he assisted pluck
ny the other by the roots He replied to the Senator
from Mary objections to the BILL and compared
| the distribution land fund drop of dew divided
among thousand men dying of thirst and in con-
clusion he urged the passage of the measure, and
begged Senators, while aiming at the apple Idistribu
| ton to remember that it rested on their own chds
] head