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| OOINO hESS.
| The SENATE.
WAsHISoroH, Feb. 3, 1871.
In the Senate this morning, Mr. Calhoun movex
torefsr the Message from the President, in relano.
| to the Creole case, TO the Committee on Fore;-,
| Relations, and accompanied the motion with sonn.
remarks, showing the importance of promp, actie.
on the subject. He insisted thai this subject invov.
Cd principles paramount in impormce to those Of
any other molten now in negotiation between the
woFgovernments. He thought it should be fuIv
considered in committee, and an opinion expressed
upon tho subject by Congress, before it was submit
| ted for negotiation.
Mr. PRrsror concured in the opinion of Mr.. Cal
houn as to the importance Of the principles involved
in the question, but he was confident that the Exs-
cutive would see that justice was promptly done in
the premises, and he doubted the propriety of any
action on the part of Congress.
The melton preference prevailed. without opno.
sition
The remainder Of the day was consumed in DE
discussion Of a proposition BY Mr.. Simmons to an
point clerk to the Committee on Manufacture.
The business Of the clerk. as stated by the mover.
10 to copy circulars addressed to the importers in
all the commercial towns, 10 obtain information, to
assist the committee to adjust the tariff and to N
upon some practicable system Of appraisement Of
suitable articles. The debate branched off into =.
elaborate discussion of the tariff, home valuatio.
the compromise act, the expenditures, retrench.
ment and reform. Messrs. King, Sewer. Woed-
bury, Simmons. Clay, Calhoun. Buchanan, wrieht.
Huntington, Mangum, aud Linn, participated in The
debate.
The proposition was agreed to by vsts of y 10
IA, when the Senate adiosmed
House Of Representatives.
Elk PREslDxxr ApAMs' Conrxmrr.
Another day has been consumed by the House Of Re-
Prss0atives with iii starred attempt 70 sensure ~
1Sn sash II, S would be Esd
devised Al the close Of yesterday Mr. Giner was u
dressing the House, and this morning he resumed tie
SUBJECT which be went over with painful minuteusas
Of rspetition-Arst, however, ntmasiur that he va
willing to withdraw his original resolution the gentle
man from Massachusetts would withdraw the Petition
which had given rise TO the debate. To this Mr.
Adams replied that he had declared before the House ~
duty Of which he could not disess himself ana 49,
ought to be sufficient for the gentleman freu
Virginia Al the close Of Mr.. G,lmsS's address, M
Adams again addressed the House, and spoke until near
four O'Clock when. at the request Of many members he
gave way to motion to adjourn which was carried
briefly alluded to the peculiar POSITION in which he
stood, and defended himself from the charge Of incon
h; wncs nsa been attempted to be fastened upon
his report In the case Of John Smith, when he occupied
seat in the United States Senate He pertinacionsly
insisted that the House should either try him the
charges fxeasoA and suboinaton perjury which he
said the gentleman rom Kentucky, (Mf MAisHALL) had
preferred against him, hand him over to court Of
justice; alternative he either one or
the other he would have. He then, with biting irony
ed sny such accusssn but the chsrss VA. moi made
distinctly was made obliquely for he Of
that which would make him an accessory in ordinary
cases Of crime while in treason all wers principals and
therefore the disclaimer worthless Bat again the
gentleman had cut Of the country to nd the crime
"high trssson;n the gentleman from Kentucky he'd
chosen to the law Of England rather than to the
prefer agains him But still farther when he
the head Of the committee foreign relations, tIs
ground assumed was monomania, and ya
with singular inconsistency tho geatlemen from Vr-~
gnia (Mr. Wise and Mr.. Gilmer) turned round aal
accused monsmauiac of the crimes treason and sub
ornation Of perjury. In the he was income
tent from want Of sense but on the ether he dsen
duct. but il he were inssas he should deserve coz.
passion rather than punishment But respecting p
u. 6s'f son NJ had SS'asd .hsI
had discovered that the petition written on Con
gressionsl paper, and was signed by the same hand.
him, BY avowing or disavowng all knswisdgs Of TIE
hoax a. it was called for the dsavowal which he he'd
ledge he had Of the rckery to which the
gentleman from Maryland sometimes resortsd This
direct appeal called from Mr. Joha:on positive
these accusations as having their origin in . -
cret couclave, in which his removal from the head
Of the COMMITTEES on Foreign Relations determined
upon He charged upon Mr. Glmsr an expressed de-
termination to remove him, and the tamrering with
declared that this charge was utterly false and M
Cushing said his colleague had made accusation,
which w.s totally without foundation bat the sxla
he made it. He then read the minutes of meeting Il
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 10 which the sab
ject had occupied the Committees attention, and 70
show that the gentleman from Virginia was not with
out auxiliaries He read series OF letters
personal violence loss of 1s Oas of these letter.
though besrng the Norfolk va pastmark, was datsd
% isxaIJObn aiOcy Adams na E MrS;s VII;
yon that your violent course in Congress has bssa
watched by the whole south, and unless yes sesn
change your course, death will be 20 porieu
Prepare for the day Of, you will unex pecteA-
ly be launched into eternity, where you ought to have
been long since" He also exhibited portrait Of hisoN
which had . mark Of a riffs ball on the forskssa
and various sdmonons writtn around it. On these
and on the speech Of Mr. 0lnsr, he commented han
greet that the Of Marshall should have been found
IN such connection, and mixed up with such
with such names Holt and Hale, than with such jul
ges he who threateUed the poet, Savage Engsnl
s,und il the ears Of ard words and hansne
Marshsll 30 your Judge" Blu, anothsr cause Of did
wa, that these charges had e%sna;Sa from virgnisns
twice saved from the Of the House. Virginia
State for which he felt attachment greater per-
hsps than for any other. was vgnian that first in
roduced him into the service Of the nation. Washington
called him at the age of twenty to his
try q foreign Ministerial time, too when Washing
ton accused, he Of being under British
influence. He then iulated the removed ofhss
lenc in various by Succeeding Preside sand
by long Of historical detail proved his
and the Union and asked what must be his iee
ings then finding himself charged with high
and other Infamous crimes, by which his good name
would be injured to the end eftime. There mast have
been great change in the feelings Of virgnians since
his with their predecessors from Washing
ton 10 Monroe On the suhjec, Of slavery he said L
was sbhorred by Warrington, and Jefferson and Mad
son, and Moaroe, and that they aooltionis,s he
could prove from their writings.
Tomorrow he will proceed with his exculpstion.
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