Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-08-13
q entp Ninth Congress
Correspondence Of The journal Of Commerce.
The Tariff Bin Passed.

CUTesP0Hoence q lne journal 81 commerce.
WASHINGTON, July %.
The Tariff Bin Passed.
The House Of Representatives was scene Of in
tense interest this morning. though 1t time
after the hour of meeting before the galleries con-
tanned more than few Struggling spectators, and at
time there any thing Ike crowded audience.
As soon as the journal had been read and the
Speaker had announced the special order, (he Ware
housing B) thesSecretary of the Senate appeared at
the bar and announced that the Senate had passed
the Bill from the House entitled "An Act reducing
the duty imports and for other purposes" with an
amendment in which he was directed to ask the con-
currence of the House.
Al motion was Immediately made to postpone the
special order and take up the message from the Sem
ate, which (aer call of the House, from which it
appeared that 81 members presently adopted
by vote of los to 100. This was test vote, and
secured the passage of the bill.
After some discussion upon point of order and
two Intellectual attempts lay the bill upon the table
the first lost by majority of IL and the last by
a majority of 12-tbe amepdment concurred
in by majority of 22i-the vote being. yeas lis,
nays SO.
"A motion to reconsider was put, and the House re-
fused reconsider Thus has this great measure of
the age been carried through hath branches of Con-
gress, in spite of the most strenuous. eforts of its
opponents-a triumph of which the advocates Of free
trade may well feel proud
The Sub Treasury.
The Senate had the ub-Treasury bill under CON-
sderation the greater part of the day. Several of the
amendments reported from the Committee of Finance
were agreed to without debate but upon coming to
one in the 2lst section, the object of which was to
enable the dsbursing officers to pay out Treasury
drafts in lieu of gold and silver whenever the public
creditors are willing to receive Them il was objected
to by Mr. Benton, who said that it had been reported
by the Committee without his knowledge or consent.
and that if it was adopted he could not vote for the
bill He spoke of the late Sub Treasury act as per-
feet humbrg, full of escape holes through which the
largest man might Creep and he wanted the present
bill to be in reality what it professed to be, hard
money system. The amendment destroyed the vital
principle of the bil and changed the Treasury into
great banking establishments bank of ISSUE He
said that the late Sub-rreasury was humbug full
of loop holes and he produced letter from Mr. Craw-
ford, late Commissioner of Indian Affairs, written
while it was in operation, to Indian agent, asking
him TO pay out the notes of the Bank of the United
States IN his disbursements, and the reply of the
Agent, who refused TO do so, because il would subject
him to a charge Of deception. IL.
In answer to question by Mr.,Huntington the
Chairman of the Finance Committee said-the amend
ment had been inserted upon the recommendation of
the Secretary of the Treasury and that unless it was
adopted the whole bill would be useless.
Mr.. Calhoun defended the amendment, and it was
opposed by Mr.. Allen and Mr. Davis. No question
had been taken upon it when the Senate adjourned.
Report of Debates.
The history of the remarkable and interesting pro-
ceedngs and debates of the Senate, during their pro-
tracted session of yesterday, is faithfully and fully
recorded in the Union" of the same night
The report occupying two pages of the paper was
accomplished, as l learn, by one indivdual-the
accomplished Senate Reporter for the ''Union," Dr.
Houston.
The debates of both Houses have during the pre-
sent session. been reported in the Union" with un-
exampled dispatch and accuracy, and commendable
impartiality.
This is probably the last session that the Washing
ton newspapers will be able present that fell record
of the Congressional debates that has for SO many
years and with so much benefit to the public, been
presented by the Intelligencer, the Globe, and the
Union" AT all events, it is the last in which the
great expense attending the service will, be- in any
measure, directly indirectly recompensed, through
the government patronage heretofore bestowed on
these papers, II is well known that private subscrip-
tons will not support expensive newspaper establish
ments here; and their scale of expenditure must
hereafter be proportional to which recent
legislation has very much circumscribed
The of the House regulating the public printing,
which the Senate has to-day manifested disposition
to pass by large majority, not only reduces the
pensatiDn of the public printer so low that according
to the oaths and statements of practical printers
the work cannot be done without loss but goes back
to the commencement of the session. and applies the
reduction work already done under the prescribed
rate twenty per cent less than it was done prior
to the 25th Congress.
You will see that the Sub Treasury Bill provides
that the specie clause shall take effect in January next
It created much merriment when it was read. But
MIR. Lewis said that it necessary to retain the
FORM though he should offer an amendment providing
for the payment and reception Of Treasury notes.