The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-04-13
SECOND SESSION


country, made party question.
Mr.. SPRAGUE presented the resolutions of the
Legislature of Rhode Island, stating that the embar
raised cond ton Of the public Treasury, and the cr
cal state our foreign relations call most imperative
ly upon all parties in Congress unite for the relief
and defence of our common country.
Mr.. LINN, in pursuance of notice, introduced a
bill to surrender to the States of Missouri and Arkan
sas alternate sections of certain lands reported not
worth the expense of survey, for the purpose of in
creasing the value of the public domain.
Mr. MERRlCK, from the Committee the Post
Office and Post Roads, reported bill to provide for
the revision and publication OF new edition OF the
laws and regulations for the government OF the Post
Office Department
Mr.. TAPPAN gave notice that he would, to-mor
row, ask leave TO introduce bill to amend act for
the punishment of Ger ain crimes in the District Of
Columbia.
THE LOAN BILL.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the Loan
Blll-the question being on its third reading.
Mr. CLAY TON moved 10 reconsider the vote by
which the bill had been ordered to third reading. II
that motion prevailed, he would then move to recon
slider the vote by which the third section was stricken
out, He made this motion at the request Of several
gentlemen Tor whom he had much respect, and who
thought that there had not been fair expression OF
the Senate IN consequence OF the absence OF Sena-
tors from their seats when the vote taken, and
not from any change Of views or any determination on
his part 10 give different vote from that which he
gave yesterday.
Mr.. KING said that he would not object to giving
the Senator from Delaware an opportunity of getting
rid of the odlum occasoned by his association with
those who had voted to strike out this third section
but whether that gentleman was opposed to reinsta-
ting it not the inevitable result of his motion if
successful would be to restore that section to which
the Senator says his judgment is so much opposed
The object in striking it out to protect the Trea
sury from fraud, and to prevent these bonds from
hai usad a lafin nlabip he Ser.
ator from Delaware and the party to which he be-
onged were not content that the country should
pect them of being willing to do indirectly, what
they dare not do directly, they would vote against
the consideration The principle contained in that
section was calculated to do mischief 1t was novel
in its character, suspicious in its appearance, and
would be extremely dangerous, II adopted.
Mr.. CLAYTO On SAID that he had not changed
his mind, and that he took up his own opinions for
HIMSELF being his own and not those of others. He
would repeat that he had been induced to make the
motion by gentlemen who believed that the vote was
not fair expression of the op MON Of the Senate and
that they wanted to know whether those who were
yesterday absent would vote to strike out the
third section or not. But he would not change his
vote His opinions were his own, and if he chose to
make motion to reconsider, it was a matter of his
own, and that of nobody else.
The question was then taken on re-consdering the
vote by which The bill was ordered to third reading,
and it decided in the afirmatveyeas % nays 10.
Mr.. CLAYTON moved to reconsider the vote by
VIII oh the third section, which is follows, was
stricken out
Sic g. And be ii further enacted, That the cetif-
Gates hereafter to be issued for SAID loan may, when
required be in such form as shall be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Treasury, that the stock may
be transferable by delivery of the certificate instead
of being assignable on the books Of the Treasury.
Mr., EVANS called for the yeas and nays, which
were ordered He said that since the vote was taken
yesterday, he had understood that the Secretary
considered the section very important, it em-
braced the terms on which loans were negotiated in
Europe. The omission of similar provision was
made objection last fall by persons who cali
ed upon to take up some portion of the former loan.
The section was of more importance than he had sup
posed it to be- and therefore he hoped that the Senate
would conform the bill to the prevailing usage abroad.
The question was then taken, and the vote
considered-yeas 25 nays 20, as follows
YEAS.-Messrs Archer, Barrow, Bates, Berrien,
Choate, Crittenden, Evans, Graham, Henderson,
Porter, Preston Rives, Simmons, Smith, of Indiana
Southland, Sprague, Tallmadge, White, Wood
bridge-25.
NAYS. ~ Messrs. Allen Bagby, Benton, Blu
McRobers, Sewer Smith, of Connecticut, Stur-
geon, Tappan, Walker, Wilcox, Williams, Woodbu-
ry Wright Young-20.
The question now recurring on agreeing to the
original motion to strike out the third section it
decided in the negative by yeas and nays, fol-
lows:
YEAS.-Messrs Allen, Bagby, Benton, Buchanan
Calhoun, Clayton, Fulton, Henderson, King Linn,
McRoberts, Sewer, Smith, of Connecticut, Stur-
gcon, Tappan, Walker, Wilcox, Williams Wood
bury, Wright Young-2l
NAYS.-Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates, Berrien
Choate, Crittenden, Evans, Graham, Kerr Mangum
Merrlck, Miller, Morehead, Phelps Porter, Preston
Rives, Simmons, Smith, of Indiana, Southard
Sprague, Tamadge, White Woodbridge-24.
The question, was then stated, shall the bill be
read third time 7 when
+ Mr., CLAYTON enumerated the reasons why he
would vote against The bill. He perfectly will
ng that The terms of the loan of July last should be
extended, and that it nigh be obtained on such
dItlons the Administration desired Should they
succeed this amount, in addition 20 what had already
been guaranteed 10 the Guvcrnmenl, would, In his
opinion, be sufficient to meet its nee esstes
Mr. SEWER called for the yeas and nays, which
were ordered.
Mr. CALHOUN remarked that he would vote
against the bill, as he considered il TO be part Of the
system of measures commenced at the extra session
aud persev crngly pursued by the Wings, and would
continue to be pursued, and, if he was not mistaken
it had already produced disastrous consequences
credit and was calculated to produce still more
Mr. MANGUM replied to the Senator from South
Carolina, and in the course of his remarks, he said
that he had perceived that the official organ in
the habit of asserting that Congress subjected 10
the will OF one man amongst them and il also ac
cuscd them OF not acting according to the convictions
of their own hearts and this too, while they gave to
the Government the pabuum on which il lived. They
had given it the Revenue Bill, and the Loan Bill
as well consequence of station, while these
denuncations were going 1t his opinion
that they ought to rise up and treat with odum and
contempt the Executive Department of this Govern
ment, for endeavoriDg thus to detrac from the dgn-
tyof this deliberate assembly. He called upon gem
tleman on the other side of the chamber, as well as
his friends to vindicate their dignity, power
and their influence jim coordinate branch OF the
Cover lmentand he believed that while this press vas
under the control Of the Executive, the People would
be continually agatcd with regard to false issues
If the Senator from South Carolina would instead OF
dealing in distractions, turn his hand to something
practical and cooperate with the Wings much might
lie done in the way of retrenchnent far as they