The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-09

,h.v hrougbt forward their owl measures and refer
! red them TO committees Of their own appointments
| The Democratic party poweIless, either 'of goou
or for evil They had part or lot In the business
and seemed to be here only IN some sort as suos.o
ing witnesses to what was done We'll sir, wnat mas
| been done | repeat the question, what mas been
done The first thing IN order oil ume, DIS wen "' VI
| dement,, Is the
| DESTRUCTION BILL.
Nv this law all moneys raised by the sale and entry
I of the public lands amounting " many millions .,
acres are longer be paid over into the Na.oha
Treasury but are to be given away 10 the States
| Not given in equal proportions neither Nine
of The twenty-six States first gwen hve huhorea
thousand each, and also I'D per cent OF the net
proceeds OF the sales and entries. All this is 10 DO
done extra for them before distribution takes place
and in that DIVISION they get their propoItionate I'll,
vidend with the Well, Sill, ohsn was this unequal
! donation made TO the States AT the very moment
when your National Treasury was so empty that you
| had TO pass Loan Bill TO borrow money when anu
where and from whom you could. Yes. sir, the same
Congress that gape array your money passed law TO
borrop money to supply your necessities WIN one
hand they gape away whilst with the Diner iney Dor
| rowed money Was this sensible = was IL just
| Was it honorable But will not go into partlcu-
larsI will say nothing of tho drill which got
the bill thfough-nothing of the log rolling between
| its friends and the friends Of the Bankrupt OH.
| These things all known and condemned by the
Peop,e South Carolina spurned the II thy BRIDE from
her door--VIginia refused TO touch a dollar OF The
moneyolher States, think, have followed Their no
| BILE example. My own, my loved and honored stale,
is at this decided in her opposition to this un-
| wise and unequal measure Look at her Representa-
| lives here on this noor-fve Democrats and three
Whigs--eight in all So five using their bes; ex-
ertions for its repeal SO far as yet we have not sue
ceeded-but let me tell you this Distribution bill is
doomed measu,e-the hand Of destiny Is upon IT, and
| repealed II must and will be.
The next thing done was the passage OF tue
BANKRUPT BILL
This measure was the twin brother of the Distnbu-
lion bill II prepared in Wing caucus brought
into the House and passed under the gag OF the PRE-
yious question A few Of the Wings al first were
little refractory, but the overbearng dlcation OF Mr.
| Clay, soon put things to rights, and the bill was
passed under that can never rehect Gre
| dit upon the party who hurried it through.
| Mr.. Speaker would you believe that attempts have
been made TO shuttle the odium of this law OIL OF the
Wing party, and to put it on he Democratic party
have even received letters from Tennessee speaking
| of this law having been passed by Democratic votes.
have also been informed that in that State Is quite
common for w higs to say that 1t was passed equally
by both parties Sir, once for all, call on you and
this House, to bear witness to the utter alsehood OF
| sue insinuations. The Democratic party voted
against ii every stage; they fought IL at every step OF
It's progress through both Houses. Sir, have turned
to the journal and have it lying befole me, and
II shows that on the final passage OF the bill, every
Democrat in this House voted against the bill except
three Mr. Wood and Mr. Roosevelt, from the State
of New York, and Mr.. Dawson from Louisiana
The main question, viz Shall the bill pass was
then put; and passed in the ahrmativeyeas III nays
| l05
The yeas and nays being desired by one-6ih of the
members present. those who voted in the affirmative
| Messrs. Adams, Allen, S. J. Andrews, Arnold
Aycrigg, Babcock, Baker, Barnard, Black, Blair
| Boardman, Borden, Briggs, BTockway, Bronson, M.
| Brown, jeremiah Brown, Barker Burnell, VIII
liam b. Calhoun Thomas J. Campbell, Robert l..
Caruthers, Timothy Chids, Chittenden J. c. Clark
s. N. Clarke, Cowen, Cranston, Cravens, Gushing,
/ G. Davis W. e.. Dawson, j. Il. Dairson, Deberry
J. Edwards, Everett, Fessenden, Fillmore, A. L. Fos-
ter, Gamble, Gates, p. g. Goode, Greig, Habersham
Hall, Hasted, Hastings, Henry, Howard, Hudson,
| Hunt, James Irwin, William w. Irwin, Brancis
James, w illiam Cost Johnson l. ID. Jones' J. p. Ken
redy, King, Lane, Lawrence Linn, Mason, Ma,hiot
Maxwell, Maynard, Merwether, Moore Morgan,
Morris, Morrow, Nisbet, Osborne Pearce, Pendlelon
Powell, b. Randall, A. Randall, Randolph, Rayner
Ridgway Rodney Roosereli, RUSSELL Salionstali Ser
geant, SImon,on, Siade, Smith Sellers, Stany Stoke
Iy, Slraiton, Stuart Taliaerro, R.W. thompson Til
ling art, ToIand, Tomlnson, Van Rcns.-iaor, Wal
lace, Warren, +. D. White, J. l.. White, T. w. Viii
iams, l.. Williams, C. H. Williams J. l.. Williams,
Those who voted in the negative are,
Messrs. l.. w. Andrews, Arlington, Anterior,
Banks, Beeson, Bidlack, BIdseye Bouts, BOVINE,
Boyd, A. V. Brown, G. Brown, Burke, w. Butler,
Campbell, w. b. Campbell Cary, Chapman, Cliff
ford, Clinton, Coles, Cross, Daniel, Davis, Dean,
Doan, Doig, Eastman, J. c. Edwards Egberi, Fer
rls, J. G. Floyd, c. Floyd, Torrance, Foster, Gent
Graham, Cuisine, Harris, w. A. Hastings, Hays,
Holmes, Hopkins Houck, jr., Houston, Hutsrd,
Hunter, Ipgersoll, Jack, Cave Johnson, j. w. Jones,
Keim, A. Kennedy, Lewis, Littleie'd, A. McCIel-
Ian, R. Mcclellan, Mckay, Mallory, Marchand,
Marshall Mathews Matocks, Nledll Miller, New
hard, Parmenter, Payne, Pickens, Plumer, Pope,
Profit Ramsey, Reding, Rencher, Rhett, Riggs, Ro-
gers, Saunders, Shaw, A. II. Shepperd, Shields, Sny
der, Sprgg, Steenrod, Sweeney, J. B. Thomson, Trip
lett, Turney, Underwood, Van Buren,, Ward, Wa
terson, Weller, Westbrook, j. w. Williams, Wise.
have also examined the journal ofthe Senate land in
that body, only four Democrats voted for the bill:
| Those who voted in the affirmative, are,
| Messrs. Barrow Bates, Berrien, Choate, Clay, Of
Kentucky, Clayton, Dixon, Evans Henderson, Hun
tngtoD, Kerr, Merick, Miller, Morehead, Mouton,
Phelps, Porter Simmons, smith, of Indiana South,
ard, Ta!lmadge, Walker, White, Williams, Wood
| bridge, Young.
Those who voted in the negative, are,
| Messrs. Allen, Archer, Bayard Benton, Bucha-
nan, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton,
Graham, King, Linn, McRobcts, Nicholson, Pierce,
Prents, Rives, Sewer, Smith, Of Connecticut, Sur
geon, Tappan, Woodbury., Wright.
| Messrs. Walker, Williams, Young, and Mouon.
Three of these Walker, Williams, and Mouton,
directly and specially instructed by the Legisa
lures of their States to vote in that way | repeat
| here, in my place, from the journals, that in the
House. the vote for the passage OF the bill, was one
| hundred and eleven; of these, three only were De-
mocrats, all the rest Wings. In the Senate,
! there were twenty-six votes for the bill OF
these four Democrats, (thrcc under instructions
and one of his own Accord and all the rest were
| Wings. Sir, these facts are notorious. Mr.. Clay
| and the w hig party have always boosted that these
measures were theirs, and now look to them in
many quarters TO secure Mr. Cay's election to the
Presidency. Sir, the people ofmy State, both Wings
and Democrats, opposed To this law, but few OF
their Wing leaders and the Whig papers trying to
impose upon them the belief that party was as
| much for it az another The insinuaton is false
proved to b. falsc by the journals before proved
to be false by all the published speeches OF the
son-proved to be f,se by the Wing Manifesto is
sued at the ad ournment OF the called sessonproved
to be false by various published letters of Mr. Clay
| himself
come now Mr.. Speaker, to inquire what this uni