The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-07-05
From the New York Express.
w ashingion, June 9th.

Washington, June 9th.
The session becomes more and more in
teresting as the end Of it approaches, and
hardly day passes away without action
upon sope subject, new or old which does
not call forth some new ebullliou of feeling.
! The Provisional Revenue Bill went off
like rocket on Saturday in the prompt but
none to prompt, concurrence of the House
in The amendment of the Senate. The Lo-
CO Foco members were disposed 10 make
fuss about this speedy action upon a simple
amendment TO their own bill, though it was
well understood as the Bill, and conceded
10 them the postponemeni of the operation
Of The Distribution clause of the Land Bill
until the first of August. Two or three Of
the party wished 20 be excused from voting,
because, as they said, they did not under
stand, or had not time to consider, the
meaning of clause which proposed sim.
pie postponement Of law for thirty days
Most sapient Legislators, truly The vote
was taken in spite of all clamor, and there
was enough for time to drown every sin.
gle voice, though loud as Stentor's raised 10
preserve order. The Hall of the House of
Representatives has rarely presented a
scene Of greater confusion, and one might
well have been reminded Of the description
of the Stygian Council, after the speech of
Mammon, when
"--sucb murmur filed
Tn assembly when hollow rock retain
The sound Of clustering linda. which all night long
Had coursed the ,ea.''
The confusion gradually died away. when
space was found for reflection in the prompt
and vigorous action of the majority. "In
spite of lamentations" there was a concur
renee, and by party vote.
Two things, en- PEASANT, are worthy of
note upon this vote of concurrence.
The first is, hat although the distribution
of the proceeds of the public Lands would
have taken place on The first of July. with
out The passage of the Bill, the loco foco
members first voted en- masSe TO lay the bill
upon the table, and then voted against the
proviso of the Senatr, which postponed this
to them. obnoxious, Distribution until the
Isl of August.
This suhjc had hardly passed from the
Hall of tho House on Saturday, when the
Private Secretary Of the President of the
U. S. appeared with message from the
President. The message was known to re
late to the Apportionment ill. The Hpuse
being as in committee of the whole when
the message came. some thirty minutes
passed away before it was read. The CON-
mittee, however, was b-oken up with all
convenient dispatch, and a general cry was !
made for the message" The Speaker
gave it TO the Clerk, and the Clerk read as
follows:
81 have this day approved aud signed an
act which originated in the House Of Rep |
"resentatives, entitled an act 'or the APP
''portionment Of Representatives among the
Estates according to the sixth census, and
share caused The same 10 Be deposited in The
"ofice ofthe Secreta ry of Stale, accompan.
.'ieded by an exposition of my reasons for
'tgiping 10 ii my sanction"
Signed, JOHN TYLER.
John Quincy Adams, was the first to gel
the floor after the reading of the message. |
1t puzzled him a good deal as il did nearly |
all Of the members. Many had expected |
and predicted an unconditional veto, with |
a Message 10 that effect. Others had en-
pectcd an approval with dissent, but did |
not dream that ''the exposition Of the Presi-
dents reasons" were 10 be deposited in the |
office OF the Secretary of State"
He pronounced it a novelty altogether, &
with motion forthe appointment,
Of select committee with power 10 send |
fCrpersons and papers.