Litchfield enquirer., 1842-02-10

MT Woodbury sad thls was question ot hnance and belonged to that Committee.
 MI. Clay said, gentlemen on one side opposed any tar for protection, and on the other favored lncden tai protection. lnascertaning the home vauations a clerk necessary, and after the necessary inform ation was obtained they would be free to act any measurs brought before them. The fears of high tariff might be represse6; he knew no one who de-
 M. Calhoun said the only way in which the home- valuation could be obtained was to add the foreign invoice price to the expense of importation he trust cd that all who were opposed to the scheme of home valuation pToposed, would place their seal of demnatiOn. The highest amount of annual importa- tions was not over l5o millions this at the rate of twenty per cent, would not give more than twenty millions, and was high rate. How then could they mal"tain thelr annual expenses at twenty-five mil lions z.
 Mr. Clay differed from the Senator as to twenty or thirty per cent being an exTavagant duty. Was the Senator opposed to duty on imports to supply the wants of the Treasury The great staple of south Carolina was at lower price than had been since the with Great Britain and this was the result Of the free trade policy of the Senator. . Mir. Calhoun said 1.-the duties were increased, next year there would be another increase. lie farther maintained that the free trade system benefited the cotton interest, and the interest Of all who trade ther own capital; and was demanded by the expe- Mr. Wright should vote for. and Mr. Buchanan against, the proposition.
 MT. Clay expressed his intention of offering a se- which he should first submit proposition to reduce the expenses of Congress by the reduction of the me- age of its members, SLc.
 MT. Simmons farther contended that investigation necessary to fix true home valuation and avoid frauds on the revenue.
 The debate was farther continued at some length by Messrs. Linn, Sevier Huntington, Buchanan, and Woodbury, on the subject of economy in the expen- ses of Government after which the motion Of Mr. Summons was carried: Yeas 2S Nays II.
 In the House, MT Gilmer continued his remarks from in advocacy ot the resolutions of cen sure Of MT. Adams. He commenced by proposing Co Mir. A. to withdraw his proposition on which all were hnsed, # Mir A. would withdraw the petition. MT. A. declining do this, stating that he had presented 1t under solemn sense Of duty, and not ut iber ty withdraw it, Mr. G. spoke for about hour and aat in suppor 2ore % particularly o Is simple Ies9 uess Of the Union, the value ot which should not be brought into calculation, as would be the case if the petition were received, and report however able is made by the gentleman from Massachusetts He wanted no agreement to preserve this Union. Sev- enteen millions of people reposed in peace and per iecs content under it, except the 46 citizens oi Haver hill, signers Ot the petition. It would be better and nore economical way to send Mr. Adams as an En- voy Extraordinary to them. than to up the whole country with report on lhs subject
 Mr. Adams spoke of the inconsistency of the char ges made upon him by gentlemen who at one moment agreed with the mock peu.ion from Georgia, that he Inonomanac, and the next, charged him with crime. Was Il customary tO charge an insane man with crime lie referred to the declaration made by Wm. C. Johnson, that this petition was written Congressional paper. and its signatures were in the same hand ,intimatng that the gentleman was acquainted with it's origin.
 <; Mir Johnson denied any knowledge of the petition, until MT. A. presented IL.
 Mr. Adams, in farther remarking, said that MT. Glllncr had tempered with O his colleagues INT. Clshing) his colleague himself had told him, by proposing to him fro,n his post Chairman Gt the Committee on Foreign Affairs and appoint Mr. C. n his place.
 Messrs. Gner and Cushing sevcraIy denied this, the latter stating that in conversation with MT. A. he ing that such purpose existed; which would cause hun, if action was taken on il, to withdraw from the Committee.
 Mir. Adams proceeded in reply to Mir. Gilmer, and referred t0 his former declaration that he would stop MT As music, saying that he had auxiliaries in this design. He then read to the House an anonymous 20 ls42 and posimarked N"rf,lk, Va. informing him that his course was watched in Congress by the whole South, and unless he changed his course he wond be unexpectedly launched into eternity. ae also exhhited picturesque representation of himself which he had received. inc origin of which he said va was known to men,bers of tue House, in which was tOn VI written over; on the s'ea, the words Meme, leke upharsin;" and underneath the words, ITO stop the music of o. Adams, the 9th Pesden. of the United States, who
 "In one revolving moon
 Is statesman. babl,ler and bufoon'
 This. well reading o the letter. caused consid erable laughter He then expressed his surprise ,ha, proposition 10 censvre him had come from Virginia, tn which State more ihon any other except his own native State, he was attached. as from that he had been been nrosased int" public l'i". by Washington;
 
 as uf Madison Jefferson and Monroe he had enjoyed. ln connection with the history of his diplomatic ms. sOns and public services under these Presidents he incidentally alluded to various facts of history which occurred al this time particularly 70 his services when Munster to RIssia tue enormous influence of Napo- leon at that Court. &c. &c. He could never extin. eush his attule those nf Virginia aud to that State, aud he surprised receive this treat ment from her Representatives. He declared he would have preferred t, have been stabbed to the heart at his desk, than that hOse propositions should haze been brought forward to destroy his character Wiihou, his concluding, the House adjourned.
 WAsHIxsroN. Feb 4. In the House of Representatives, Mir. Adams con- tnued his defence ;he proposition 10 censure him. He said he had shown that a conspiracy existed against him to convict him of subonation o perjury and high treason, and against the freedom of speech, the rght ot habeas corpus, and of trial by jury. He said he had established that there had been tamper ing by the gentleman from Albemarle MT. Gilmer) with his colleague, MT. Cushing.
 . This gave rise to further explanation by Mcssrs Cushing and Gilmer, n which both these gentlemen repeated their positive denial of yesterday that this was the case or that they had had any such commu- ncatiOn together.
 touching upon various topics in his defence, causing at times considerable merrlment and exciting much interest. He gave way little before four o'clock to m tion to adjourn.
 In the Senate. nothing of consequence was donc.
 WASHINGTON, Saturday, Feb. 5
 The Senate was not in session to-day.
 In tke House, MT Adams occupied the floor prin- cpatiy during the day. in continuation of his defence wlieh will probably consume yet a week.
 Rtfoun from the right Quarfcr.-Hon. John C. Spencer Secretary of War; has issued instructions 10 .the sePeriurendsnts agents and others connected with the Indian service, strictly forbddinR them to introduce, attempt to introduce spurious liquors of my kind among the Indians: md enjoininp if urn,n