The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-02-08
Morris of Ohio, Howard, and Cravens Of

"oiiiS VI OolO, I1OWdIQ, ana CTaVenS OF
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Mr.. Underwood. from the Select Com.
mittee on the improvement of steamboat
navigation, reported amendments to the bill
nov under consideration of the Committee
Of the Whole.
Mr.. Kennedy of Md, from the Commit
tee on Commerce, reported bill making
provision for the warehousing of imported
goods He stated that the bill met the un-
animous concurrence of the members Of the
Committee, although this was not the case
with some of the arguments of the accom-.
panving report. A motion to print 5000
extra copies of the report. which is under
stood to be one of much ability, lies over.
Mr.. Wise presented several memorials
from Buffalo and other parts of Erie County
in favor of the Exchequer.
The anti-Exchequer resolution from the
Committee of Way and Means was taken
up at the instance of Mr.. Fillmore, who
expressed the hope that the question would
be taken to-day.
Mr.. Pendleton made sensible speech in
opposition 10 the ExchequeT scheme.
Mr.. Wise replied to Mr.. Marshall, in de-
fence of Mr.. Webster from Mr.. Ms. charge
of Inconsistency. in having long and uni
formerly directed his mighty powers of in
tcllect and argument in opposition to Gov
eminent Bank. and then when in power, of
recommending the very thing which he mad
thus condemned. He attempted to prove
that the Exchequer was not Government
Bank that it partook no more of the quail
tiles of such a bank than the Treasury itself,
or than the present system of Government
financial operations under the control of the
Treasurer of the United States, according
to the law Of 1889, &c.
Mr. Artherton. (the author with Mr..
Pickens of the minority report in favor of
the Sub Treasury occupied his hour in an
exhibition of the beauties of that system, so
signalIy repudiated by the people in 1910.
Dir. Profit advocated the adoption of the
Excbequer scheme.
Without action the House adjourned.
In Senate, Hon. Arthur p. Bagby of Ala
bama made his first appearance for the ses-
sion.
Petitions for and against the repeal of The
Bankrupt Law,for the Exchequer, DC, were
presented.
A variety ofprivate business was disposed
of, by adverse reports, indefinite postpone.
ments, &c.
Mr.. Bayard, from the Committee on Ma
val Affairs, reported bill TO amend the Act
recognizing the Navy Department.
The considerations of the Oregon bill was
resumed, and Mr.. Linn, (the inlroducer, as
will be recollected, of the bill,) at some
length advocated its passage, and replied
to various arguments of gentlemen precc-
ding him. He referred 10 the delays Of Con-
gross from time 10 time in action on this SUBJ
ject; to the fact that through the encroach-
ment of Great Britain by her Hudson's
Bay Company and in other ways The annual
value of our fur trade there had diminished
since 1920 from four or five hundred dol
lars TO the comparatively Insignificant a
mount of t,co or three thousand,-to vari-
GUS evidences of the great productiveness,
fertility and value ofthe country and urged
the policy of encouraging settlements by
grants of land, protection, &c. He de-
nounced the course of Great Britain in ref |
erence TO the Mcleod case, the question of
the search of vessels, and other questions, |
considering her pacific disposition subordi.
nate to her selfshness and rapacity, and
arguing thence that We should not hesitate |
in boldly asserting and maintaining our
rights &c. &c. The Senate adj. ARGUS.