The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-03-16


subject until the case shall have reached the
court of final resort of the State of New York,
and been decided in that court; and although
such delay ought not in national point OF view,
to give cause to umbrage to Great Britain, yet
the prompt and instant rendering Of justice to
foreign nations 'shoold be placed among our
highest duties. / cannot therefore, in consid-
erat;on of what properly becomes the United
States, and in anticipation Of any demand from a
foreign Governmnt for the discharge of one OF
its subjects, forego the duty of repeating my re-
commentator to Congress, for the immediate
adoption of some suitable legislatives provision
on this subject. JOHN 'TILER. =
March 8, 1912
Mr.. Berrien said as the Committee on the Ju-
dietary had reported a bill in accordance with the
accommodations of the message, he would move
that it be laid on the table and printed, which was
agreed to. The Senate then went into Execu-
tive session, and shortly afterwards adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
| The House was engaged until O'Clock in re-
ceivinr reports from the Committees. The ap-
propration bill was then takenup, and Mfr. Wise
smoke for some time in favor of his project for
National printing Office Mr. Fillmore then
appealed to Messrs. Wise and G. Davis TO with
draw their respective amendments on the sub
iect of printing in order that the bill might be
progressed with Mr.. Davis agreed TO this,
but Mr.. Wise insisted that proviso adopted at
the instance of the Committee of Ways and
Means, that the printing Of thy Executive De-
partmants should be given out by contract,
should be also withdrew. Without coming to
any determination on this matter, the subJectWas,
postponed until morrow.
A Message from the President OF. the United
S ates was received, inviting the attention of
Congress to an accompanying letter from the
Secretary Of he Treasury on the subject of the
state of the Treasury, on which there were now
.srge demands, and plan to relieve the exist
inc difficulties. A motion was made TO refer thus
ro the Committee of Ways and Means, Which
Mr. McKeon moved to amend by nsfructing
the Committee TO bring in bill to repeal the
Distribution act This subject was also post
pond until tomorrow.
A messane was then received of similar tenor
to the one given in the Senate proceedings. MT.
Barnard said the Committee on the judiciary
had already reported on the subject, and as there
was a necessity for prompt action, he moved TO
discharge the Committee of the whole from the
further consideration of the bill, and II that mo.
ton prevailed, he wouldthen move that the Dill
be considered at an early day.
Mr. Pickens opposed the motion OF the gen.
tlemen from New York, for in his view this bill
was as worthy of consideration in Committee OF
the Whole as any other measure that could he
brought before them. 1t involved some of the
most important principles of constitutional law,
and which had divided the two great political
parties of the country since the commencement
of the Government He was not prepared to go
into discussion in the House of bill involving
such principles as this. It involved not only the
criminal Jurisdiction of the State of New York,
but of everv State in this Union. Hc hoped It
would be discussed in Committee of the Whole,
and fully and fairly discussed.
The motion, at the suggeaton of Mr.. Cush-
inc, was withdrawn, and the message was reIer-
red to the Committee on the Judiciary. The
House then adjourned.
Highly Important Decision-U. s. bankrupt
La,cus. The State Insolrem Law.-A highly I'M
portant legal decision touching the influence OF
the u. S. Bankrupt Law upon the lnsolvent
Law of this State, was made by the Judges OF
the Court of Common Pleas yester day. The
Sheriff being in doubt as to the operation OF the
General Bankrupt Law, recently gone into
oneration. upon the old Inslvoent law OF
the State, and how far he was justified in con-
tinung to discharge prisoners from custody up
on their fling the usual insolvent bond IN the
office of the Prothonotary of the Court OF Com,
mon Pleas, and wishing to clear himself OF all
personal responsibility, in consultation with the
n. S. District Attorney, took the necessary
steps to have the question decided by the proper
tribunal. That it might come before themSih
a tangible form, he refused to discharge an ud- |
vidual from custody who had, in conlormance
with the act of Assembly for the relief of insol-
vent debtors filed an insolvent bond in the office
of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas, and sent him to prison. The prisoner
was brought before Honorable Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas yesterday upon a
habeas corpus, before whom, sitting in bank, the
question was fully argued-the opposing couu-
sci assuming that the United States law does,
upon Constitutional principles, supercedes the
law Of State. The Court decided that
the prisoner was entitled to his discharge,
he having preiously given the bond required by
the Insovent Law of this State, to appear at the
next Insolvent Court, to comply with the re-
nuirament of said law. 1t was, moreover, the
obi Mon of the Court that Congress, in framing
the General Bankrupt Law, never contemplat-
ed the annulment of the Insolvent Laws of the
States. and that such an operation of it in Penn
svlyania would be fraught with the most serious
Itwould be extremely oppres-
sive to the nc or, and those whose estates are COM
nIetelv exhausted. inasmuch as the proceedings
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