New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-09-01
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
The Defent OF the 81, 900, 900 Bill
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

in Tbnrsdav's Tribune. was singularly beside the
truth In your reioinder you did not notice the ms
take the Herald made in saying that the bi'i had
Just passed the Senate. The bill was never before
the Senate either in secret or public session. TIL
Monday ut about half past II O'Clock 1t was not
even the same bill which Mr. MCKAY at first report
ed The bill which passed the House and was
sent TO the Senate, was reported by MI MchAi
ms substitute for the he first offered, nj late
honr ON SATURDAY night. AFTER the speech OF Mr.
JoHy QUINCY ADAMS. Being amended by Mr.
WirMoT of Pennsyl vania 1t received a majority Ia
the House
hive been accustomed to look upon the veneer
able Editor OF the Union with respect but what can
say Of the following paragraph which | cut from
tie leader of last nights paper | pray his atteu-
ton TO it again with the subjoned facts For the
foolish and savage onslaught Of the Party on Mr..
Senator DAVIS compcls me TO 60 into little history
which ms an eyewitness know to be correct
Here is The Unions language;
I'm The Avry Of e last hours Of he SESSION, the House
of Representatives attached the bill making the mp.
preparation proviso, which In that stage of the
business nj least unnecessary and tived 1t the
opnioH of many that this condition might be rcsc:udcd
by both the Houses but others feared TINT this pfovieo
might defeat the bill in the Senate Yet the Wings in
rheir cngerncss Of opposition unwilling 10 trust 10
such chance The measure must pass in few hours.
or foil 1t was an Administration measure, and Wing
Senator found willing 70 stand up in the Senate OF
the United States and consume the last moments OF Il
session Of Congress in speech against time 10 defeat
measure OF peace
Now bark We Mir Richie let US look at this
thing fairly. You say that the amendment OF MIR
WILMor was unnecessary and ill-timcd' The
Loco Foco House of Representatives. by their de-
liberate votes-s5 to 79-decided that II Sc0S both
NECESSARY and sreli-:med Ii was not done III &" the
hurry of the last hours OF the session. II was pass
cd utter a long discussion III which thirteen Mem
bcrs took part and made set speeches IL was not
the opinion of any wcii-iniorHed- person that the
dmput ~ rcscutpu
III either House. So far from tins being the case
the fact is notorious that proposition was made
and entertained to put these two millions IN the
General Appropriation Bill But this was aban
doucd for fear of having even this bill defeated
which il certainly would have been il this We're in
ser,ed-so determined were the Members of Mr.
Polk own party that the Two Nlllionn appropriation
should not pass without MIR NiImots amendment.
But The Union charges Wing Senator with
the defeat of the bill Let us see soh' "s'crF
that If Mr. DAVIS had not opened hlS tips az "H ne
oil aeould haze bren dtteated and that too, by the
friends Of the Adminstrat a, Ino n,,c .,
II O'Clock Mondav-haf an hour before the time
for adjourning the Senate clock being seven or
eight minutes slower than the House clock. 1t
lett only twenty-five or tweny-tlree minutes TIL
the House adiousAed. Knowing tins, Mr. LEWIS
made the motion to strike out Mr. Wmot's amend
ment He aud rybody else knew that the
Yeas and Nays would, after OF course. be
taken This would occupy the Senate about ten min
there was not time TO call the Yeas and Nays That
operation occupies twenty minutes in the House. and
mos; probably the Yeas md Nays would have been
called several timcs before II got through the House
fifth of the Members present order the Yeas and
Nays. am now reasoning for the sake OF argument on
the possibility OF the House agreeing 10 the Scnatcs
Amendment striking out Mr. Wilmot's proposition But
thu could not have passed the iouse The only effect
of Mr. Lewiss motion il the Senate had agreed 10
IT. and it there had been time, would have been to
again To the senate with the disagreement OF the
House when they would have been ust they started.
mud the hour OF adjournment past And we have
seen ,hs. The speaker considered il his bouudcn duty
adjourn the iicuse precisely at II by lis own clock
But the great charge made against Mr. DAVIS Is, that
he did not Weld the door Mr. Lewis make motion
10 ploong the Session The Congressional GioJe which
is before gives Mr.. Lcwls's remarks. IN which
he states when he asked leave make tie motion
20 lcnsthc the Session. that there were but twenty
minutes rclnalnng or in other words about twelve
minutes nv the House clock suppose there had been
no objection and Mr.. Davis had yielded the floor.
the constant Interruption occasioncd 10y the reception
OF Messages from the House. and from the President
would not have left sufficient, time to get the Yeas and
Nays called in the much less i'll the House before
the hour for the latter adjourn. And even the qUo
ton had been taken proung the Session doubt whC
thcr it would have passed either House, and then OF
not only the bill but Mr. psViss speech would
have been lost
But Mr. DAvIss was not the only speech we should
have had hud there been time and that the Polk party
knew very well
No No Mcssrs. Loco Focos. You had determined TO
XIII the bill yourselves as II came from the hands o.
your own party in the House amended by Mr. Wilmot
OF whom the Union boasts that Mr. WALKER and he
made the locality iuslriouS by their common
nativity could pass alone in the form IN which il cse
from the House, Hut in the House the Presidents
own friends voted asninst il IN the negative ! notice
the names of Bsyly Burt, Cobb. Constable Douglass
Dromgoole l. f Holmes, Hopkins, Hunter Mcdowell
Martin (rolk's Representatives. Payne Rhett lib.
bats Ct I'd sesus omne-whsi chance had it then OF
getting the LocoFoco party III the Senate
The truth is that M. DAVIS supported the bill. He
in favor of passing in the oals WAY II could pass Nix
LEWIS killed the bill HIS conduct co"d do nothing
IL, l.. nfsS sy,
fell, ust from the House or not at all The
Senate could have passed it and the President signed 1t
aar the House had adjourned and Mr DAVIS had con
Guided his speech but the Senate proceeded 10 other
business, on the motion OF Locofoco Sena;or after the
House had actually adjourned
The Wings, then. in favor of the bll-thc Loco.
TO ask Tor Two Millions to purchase Peace from
pay old debts YET the Wings werc the only ones that
here supported the Administration.
That this fac; acknowledged even by the Loco
Focos themselves, the following in the House,
on Saturday evening, VIII SHOW:
Mr. BUCHANAN in the House when the Two Nil.
lions bill under discussion, lobbying toC Is success
and evidently frightened NJ the course things
raking.
Ra,bbun of New.York Edss OF New,Jcrsey, Hainln Of
Maine Brnkerhoti OF Ohio, Wilo. OF Pennsylvania o!.
lowed by nearly the entire delegations from The Free
States had uniurled the standard OF Rebellion So ~
was surrendered The River and Har5or bill and the
French SpOliaton bill vetoed 10 enable The totS
arty 70 carry on their schemes bloody acquisition in
The South And ,he donkey OF Loco Focoisin driven
almost to death. aroueh rosd would NJ 50 step
farther.
They had met and taken counsel snd the amendment
Mr. WILMor Instead OF being the result o. hurry was
the result of careful counsel ana 6ed5erson Those
engaged in the ot knew ha, they refused 10 Note
the Two Millions the old cry OF embarrassing The nd
rninisration would De raised. They agreed therefore
TO say Take the money. but we veto any farther eN
tension of The area OF SoashsrH Freedom
Mr.. BUCHANAN that the bill was IN danger lie
called Mr.. GROVER 10 him iI the LOBBY when sueSsn'
daily the following conversation tooS place
Mr. RYor must go for this bill II : A9so'9e.S Heces
M G-certsinly Mr. Buchanan, the oii! mast ana shall
pass.
ton.
Mr. G--Cerainly sire. We must haze t.str votes to
pass the bill Do MT you that The Southern friends OF
Dir Po.k are gong against the bill THERE'S no" no hope
but by WING votes Do nj are carrying ihS:H
with us, sud we WI psssit, without the South GA
yea ulu-t and il shah pass
And il did pass by Wing against the OF the
prominent Polk and i. would have passed the Sen.
ae but for the subbornncss OF the friends of Mr. Polk,