Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-02-01
Suburban., January 30.
The Senate did not SIT to-day.
unI.sE OF RESENTATlNEs

Mr. FILLMORE asked the gentleman from Massa.
chuse,ts who Was entitled 10 the floor, 10 give way and
agree 10 posponement Of the business before II"
House So as 10 take up the Treasury Note bill
Mr. ADAMS said he had observed before that ne
was not, and would be, responsible for moment
consumption of time of the House IN the progress OF Inc
proceedings against him; aud though his defence was
Of great importance 10 him, he was wiling 10 postpone
it to allow Tie public business To go on
SIR HOPKINS inquired of the Speaker whether, u
the motion of the Chairman Of the Committee OF ways
and Means prevailed, the proceedings against the
member from Massachusetts, MIR Adams,l would
again up the order Of The day. when the lFea-
sury Note bill shnll have been disposed OIL
The SPEAKER said it would.
Mr. HOPKINS SAID that he hoped, then, that The
Treasury Note bl! would be taken up and disposed OIL
Mr.. BABCOCk moved 10 lay the proceedings IN the
ease Of Mr. Adams the table; but withdrew the mo-
ton at the request of Mr. FILLMORE.
Mr. INGERSOLL asked leave TO offer resolution
TO postpone the subject, 10 allow Mr. Adams time 10
ret the information he had called for for his defence,
and TO refer the question Of presidents 10 the Commit
tee OH the Judiciary but the resolution objected TO,
and not received.
The SPEAKER having put the question on the post
ponement,
Mr. SPRIGG objected, but his objection over
ruled not made IN time.
The vote was then taken, and the proceedings i'll
Mr. ADAMS 5 were postponed Tor the present.
and the Treasury Note bill taken up the question
being on the amendments Of the Senate.
Mr.. SPlRGG had long observed the tyrannical and
despotic of the majority III that House, when
ever money bill was before them whether TO raise
tax or loan-and whether it tax or loan, il all
advantageous to New York. He called upon the De-
mocrats of the House 10 stand by HIM IN resisting this
measure Of the Wings deserted him. At the Extra
Session he astonishcd at the introduction OF the
bill creating national debt oftweye millions Of dollars.
This was no; Wing measure before the election, and
they could never have got into power if they had
knowledged IL 10 be Of their principles. He
sdcred that he now acting in strict accordance
with the pledges made by the Wing party previous to
the election opposing this bill He referred 10 the
course Of dctation pursued by the Senate The House
was the constitutional body 10 originate money bills
and yet when il had senla bill authorizing debt of
twelve millions, the Senate had returned it in shape
authorizing debt OF seventeen millions. The House
by strong majority had passed bill to repeal The
Bankrupt Law, and yet that body had returned it 10
them rejected. II was time 10 put stop 10 this
of usurpaton and for The representatives ofthe people
10 take stand against il. lie insisted that there
no occasion for the increase Of the debt proposed
by the amendment of the Senate; for By reference
10 report Of the Secretary Of the Treasury, under
date of June last he found that there were upwards
of seven millions of dollars outstanding in tie hands
of discussing officers unaccounled Tor. This was
une xampIed in the of great number Of years
The last Administration had been held responsible
for the ex.ravagant expenditures during lis exist
ence but he held that Congress the responsible
body, and That they had always gone far beyond the
Inmates OF the Departments The expenditures were
forced upon the Executive, and yet lie was held re-
sponsblc for them. In 1887 the estimates Of the Sc
cretary of the Treasury we're between twenty and
twenty three millions OF dollars, and they had been
increased by the amendments in the two Houses
To upwards of thirty nine, nearly forty millions Of
dollars In 1888, the estimates were twenty-five
millions, and the appropriations made by Congress
amounted TO thirty-sx millions Of dollars Thus,
in 1897, there were appropriated nineteen millions
tn,r El.a 4
for by the Executive. He determined 10 hold up
the Wing party before the country and lash them for
their departure from and violation of the principles pro-
fessed by them before they got into power Their pre-
sent course than justified the Democratic party for
the course pursued by them, and for which the Wings
held them 20 the public reprobaton. lie had exsmin-
ed as closely as he capable of The report of MIR Sc
cretary Ewing and he had found full of blunders whe
Their clerical, blunders Of the Secretary himself
errors of The printer, he knew not but II was full of
gross plumbers, and conflicting statements, which rem
dered il impossible 10 ascertain the condition Of The
Treasury; had any light been thrown upon it since
by the Committee Of Ways and Means They call
ed TO vote in the dark-they wanted him TO vote blind
folded There talk ofthe insulting proposition
that had been made TO dissolve the Union, but he consi
dered that there more insulting propositions than
that made to the House; and among them that of
taxing the people of this country every blade of
wheat on every head OF cabbage, every potato that
was produced by them, without showing them the ne
ccssity for doing so. During the las, campaign, the
Whrs in their search for items Of extravaganza, had
descended even into the culinary department Of the
White House, and had raked up charges on towels and
spoons and other things which he would not mention;
vet thew had not gone far TO be willing give u
per cent interest for money. Some gentlemen had
expressed the strongest opposition to Treasury notes,
and his colleague had gone SO far as 10 say that he
would prefer loan at twelve per cent if the money
could be had for six, to issuing Treasury notes
Yes, his colleague Mr. Underwood who was crying
the other day in company with his abolition friend,
mir Giddmgs,l willing 10 borrow money al twelve
per cent. Great God said Mr.. s., TO kentuckian
CRYING in this Hall, weeping what considered
perfect hummery by the whole nation. Yet, when n
bill to borrow money under consideration, he had
no tears shed. He knew that the gentleman voice
was SO smooth, and his tongue oily, that be could
make n man believe he was in debt when he was not
in debit but it would not give him much trouble 10 show
that the gentleman estimates wrong. If he did
not do so he would acknowledge that he knew nothing
of arithmetic. Mr.. S. then went into examination
and refutation of MIR. Underwoods argument in the
course of which he adverted to the charges in Mr.
Ores speech, show extravaganza in the last Admit
nistraton. The gentleman Mr.. Masonl from Ohio
with his splendid voice. manner, and person, used these
charges with tremendous effect and though every
Administration from that of Monroe down, had used
the much-taked Of gold spoons, they were thought 10
be good grounds for charges against that Of Mr. Van
Buren,. Though we 1.-THE Whigsl said Mr., raked and
scraped up every thing against the last Administration
yet we never charged them with borrowing money a,
IL per cent, and he asonished when be heard bis
colleague make such disgraceful avowal in that Hall
In referring the expenditures projected
by the Administrator Mr.. s. referred TO the forts
which, though it cost many millions 10 build them,
were now in dilapidaed condition.; and the number
proposed to be built great, that it would require
of the standing army of at least forty add
tional regiments if it intended to garrison them.
In the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. s. warned the !
members of the House that they voted for this bill it
would be made funded debt before the end ofthe next
year
The previous question having been moved,
Mr.. ROOSEVELT rose and submitted the following
question of privilege, which he accompanied with some
remarks
"Whereas the amendment made By the Senate TO the
bill for the issue of Treasury notes. rendering the same
an addition TO- instead of partial substitution for the
twelve million loans, heretofore authorized by law,
converts the said bill into bill for raising revenue
which, by the Constitution, only originate in the