The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-02-16

Secretary of the Treasury at the las
session, and entitled ga bill amenda.
tory of the several acts establishing the
Treasury Department. ought not e
be adopted.
This was carried by the overwhel
ming vote of One hundred, and Nine
ty-tlsree to Eighteen, as follows Fo,
the Resolution, the great mass Of Wings
and Locofocos against it, or for the
Exchequer
| Messrs. Winthrop, Borden and Hud-
son of Mass. T. w. Williams of Con.
Tillinghast of R. l. Halstead ofN. ].
Johnson and /. D. Jones, of Md.
Barton of Va. Rencher Of N. C. T.
| F. Foster of Ga. fourteen Wings.
Messrs. Gushing of Mass. w. w.
Irwin of Pa. tsOo Tyler men.
| Messrs. Bovine OF N. Y. G. w.
Caldwell Of N. c.. tsoo Locos.
So it Nill be seen that on the test
question, only two Locofocos stood up
for the Exchequer, and ftco Of the Ty-
Ter party!-Wise and Profit being
among the missing, and Gilmer and
Mallory voting against it, leaving the
Wings to give il nearly all the little
support it did get. Wise excused
himself afterward for being absent, but
avowed that he should have voted in
the negative. With what face, then,
can the Tyler men complain of the
Whlgs for not supporting the Exche-
quer when their own CARLOAD oppose
it?
Mr.. Chas. J. Ingersoll, of Pa. one
of the ablest and most INSCRIPTIONS
Locofocos in the, House now moved
reconsideration, for the sake of get
ting in Speech. He made a strong
one, of course declaring that he could
not vote for the Exchequer because it
came here VIGOROUSLY as an Executive
project, sustained and pressed by the
whole force OF the Presidential power.
He owned that the STATE Bank exper-
iment of 1S34-7 was move Of his
party, and had turned out badly. He
thought this matter of Currency and
Finance belonged entirely to Congress,
and should there be settled without Ex-
ecutive intermeddIing or party feeling.
He took pains to cut loose from the
Sub Treasury, prououncing any such
continuance needless, and declaring
the old act of 1859, este oIishing and
defining the duties Of the Treasury
Department, sufficient for the regula-
ton of the Finances, if duly enforced.
That act stands in full force, and will
stand till something better is furnished.
That act establishes true 'lndepen-
dent Treasury'-independent of The
President, but not of Congress re-
curing to report to congress and not
to the President authorizing this
House to require of him any informa-
ton respecting the Finances, directly,
and not through the President autho-l
rizing this House to call him to it, bar,
to answer any questions relating
thereto, &c. &c.-thus making him
the officer of Congress and not the SER
want of the President. Mr.. Ingersoll
forgot to say that all this had been in
effect destroyed when Gen. Jackson
was sustained in dismission Mr.. Du-
ane from the post of Secretary because
he would not become an Executive
minion and remove the Deposites-'
and that he, Charles J. IngersoH, az
dcd DO sustain and gre success to that
fatal usurpation. So, he too exul-
ted that Mr.. Webster now declares
u. S. Bank ian obsolete idea, though
he in 1887 and later believed it the
grand panacea for the ills of the Ma
ton: but Mr.. /. did not observe that
he, G. J. IngersoTl, who now likewise
prononnces a Bank IAN obsolete idea,'
did, in 1882, make himself very busy,
and noisy, and vehement, in favor OF
rechartering the Biddle Monster, be-
sieging every great man for letters to
publish in its favor, and elicltlng such
letters from President Madison. VIM.
Fl. Crawford. &c. Sec. All, Charley!
crooked path is that of a demagogue
of your talents, your lack OF principle,
aud your desperate ambition /! You
ss,rould hare been Tory" SO you de-
clared in the newspapers, if you had
lived in 1776, yet that sort OF Tory
ism IS now san obsolete idea with you.
Shall no one else have right to pro-
ncunce their former ideas Obsolete but
you?
Mr.. |. went on TO show that Mr..
Webster knows nothing about Curren-
CIV and Finance, which he accomplished
to his own satisfaction, putting the
House in great good humor. lie
thought the Country vas now reilev-
ing itself, and would perfect the work
Iif let alone /; aud yet he went on to pro-
nose that Mr.. Webster be sent abroad
to make Commercial Treaties and
open foreign ports TO our produce "