The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-27

the reorganization Of the Navy Department The
motion prevailed without count
The next bill in the regular order of business was
the bill providing remedial Justice After sope dis
cussion, as to the right to the floor, between Mr. Bar
nard and MIR. Black; the bill was laid aside.
The bill repeating the proviso to the sixth section
of the Distribution act was then taken up, and MIR.
ARNOLD obtaining the floor, delivered one of his
characteristic harangues. He was 70 lowed briefly
by MIR. COOPER of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. WISE next obtained the floor He said that
an amusing scene had been witnessed that morning,
in new series of the family jars among the Wings.
Not long since 1t had been the fashion to blame the
Executive for every untoward event--to accuse him
of violating pledges and vacillating in his course.
But here we have the accuser making pledge and
violating it-pleading guilty and urging justification
Has not this House exhibited vacllaton' II has de-
cared that it would not do thing, and has done it,
The President has been accused of promising to do
thug, and failed to do it. Surprising the charge
against the President true, where the moral law
condemning him, which does not condemn the Housed
Again, let us hear no more about the one man power
as exercised by the President after the exhibitions
OF 1t in this House, where questions of the highest
moment were decided two or three times by the act
OF one man here The one man power, the yacia-
ton, the perfdy, the treachery, belong here
Mr.. ARNOLD asked leave to explain
Mr.. WISE said he had not time. He could not
yield, but he would give the gentlemen better
apology than any they had yet offered themselves
The lntelligencer, the organ of the majority, had
said that in yielding the question of Distribution
nothing had been yielded to the will of the PRESIDENT
but to the constitutional provision granting him the
power of the veto, (which is as odious to us as it
can be to them"
Has the Constitution, said Mr.. w. become odious
Las the Constitution, or any part or Item of that
cred instrument, become odious to the editor and the
party for whom he speaks This is the issue to be
made before our constituents This is the use Of
n Upn thev hava
yielded TO the Constitution. That instrument is be-
come odlous, and the odium is pleaded excuse.
But there is another and important question:
How did this bill get hele how il concocted in
the committee and how it proposed to pass it here2
The gentlemen belonging to the Committee on Pub
lie Lands have explained the action of the committee,
and no doubt have stated it truly. But the Chair
man was not allowed to make his statement Five
gentlemen met, and expressed their opinians on the
merits of the bill--no vnte TAKEN Three advo-
cate the bill, one opposed to II, and objects
any action being had on it, After the House IS in
session, at time when the committee should have
been adjourned, one member-no matter what his mo-
tlves-quis the room, leaving quorum and then
tae vote was taken
Mr.. HOWARD inquired who said vote had been
taken. He asserted that vote had been taken nor
was it necessary that there should.
MIR. WISE continued. Here is new fact No
vote was taken in the Committee on the question of
reporting the BILL and yet the bill has been reported
as III Oy OTQcF OF COnmlttec. Inc House, nOWe-
ver decided to receive the bill as if reported by the
committeeman here the rule is applied to restrict
the time in which it may be discussed to one hour
why this haste? Why take it up at all? One gem
tleman has said, that he did expect it would be-
come law. Why waste time on it them Why lay
aside bills of Importance and which ought to be pass
ed, to discuss bill which we know, beforehand, can
not become law? 1t can but be to give quotas to
the consciences of certain gentlemen.
The allotted hour having expired, Mr.. ANDREWS
of Kentucky moved that the committee rise ana re-
port the bill
aside and take up the bill providing for the surrender
of the canal stock belonging to the United States to
the State of Maryland Negatived.
The committee rose and reported the bill, and Mr..
ANDREWS, of Kentucky, moved the previous ques-
tion but withdrew his motion at the request of Mr.
Thompson, of Indiana, who, after some remarks on
the course of the President and his pledges re-
newed the demand for the previous question. After
the usual preliminary votes, the bill passed by
vote taken by the ayes and noes. The ayes being 104
and the noes &C.
MIR. FILLMORE, ON leave, reported bill from the
Committee Ways and Means, to limit the sales of
the public stocks at par and to authorize the Issue OF
Treasury notes.
Mr. ANDREWS moved to lay the bill on the ia.
BILE. Negatived. 1t was referred and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. BARNARD moved to go again into Commit
tee of the Whole, when the bill providing for RENE
dial justice was taken up and opposed at length by
MIR. Black, and then briefly by Mr.. c. J. ngersoll.
The hour having expired, the committee rose and
reported the BILL and MIR. Barnard called the previous
question.
Mr.. w. A. IRWIN moved to lay the bill on the
table and called for the yeas and nays They were
ordered. The vote stood ayes 10, noes 50.
The question REQUIRED the passage of the
bill
Mr. e. ]. INGERSOLL addressed the House in
lOnno IN thp dipo
made in addition TO those already yielded to Great
Britain by The treaty just confirmed by the Senate
MIR. CUSHING replied to the arguments of Mr..
lngerso. He said he had hoped that no attempt
would be made to PREJUDICE the treaty, either way
the other The situation of the country is pc
culiar. But though there cries of disress-they
are not such cries heard in ngland sounded
by the oppressed Millions But to hush them, all we
want, it is conceded, is permanent system of tariff
| permanent system of currency, and permanent
system of relations with hat country with whose in
terests ours are most intimately complicated. The
whole argument relating to the treaty, he maintained
must be based on uncertainty-on suppositions to
which fancy might give one shape well another.
After these prciminaries, he REPLIED with great
force to the positions and arguments of Mr. Ingersoll
and showed that so far from any thing being surren
dered, the interests and honor Of this country had
been boldly maintained all the poins of controver
sy In conclusion, he showed the popriety of the
enactments in the bill under consideration and argued
hat there Weres no concession to Great Britain
as conceded by the gentleman from Pennsylvania
since other conterminous nations were interested
IN it.
The previous question was moved, and the ayes and
noes ordered on the passage of the bill. The vote
stood, ayes 3d. noes "a.
The House then adjourned.
From the Philadelphia Express
HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN.
1t is stated in the New York Journal Of Commerce,
that this distinguished Senator made of his hap
piest and most brilliant speeches, in secret session, in