Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-07-23
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

II mas been determined Dy concurrent vote
of both Houses Of Congress, TO adjourn on the
| 10Th day Of August proximo. The Gradua-
ton Land Bill has passed the House Of Rep
resentatives by vote Of 90 Ayes, Nays So
Mr.. RurK of NJ. (Whig.) and MI. LEVIN Of
/ Pa, (Native) were absent, and got back to
Washington fifteen minutes after the vote was
taken; they would have voted against the
Bill.
| The bill authorsing the issue Of Treasury
Notes, and the negotiating loan by the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, has been passed by the
House and sent to the Senate where il is now
under discussion. MIR. McKAY's Free Trade
| Bill is under discussion in the Senate. Some
powerful speeches have been made upon it
a more particular account of which we shall
give at another time, as we have on hand some
admirable sketches of the debate from lhe able
pen of "Oliver Old School," the Washington
Correspondent of the "Unlted States Gazette"
The vote viii be very close--the bill may per
hap, be defeated yet. Petitions from the Eas-
tern and Northern States, are pouring into the
Senate, demonstrating against the passage Of
the Bill.
Mr.. NrLrs of Conn. an Administration Sen
stor, on Monday spoke in opposition to the
Bill-,he Baltimore American furnishes the
| following sketch Of his remarks -
| Mr. NILES addressed the Senate at length in
opposition 10 the bill.
| The speech of Mr. NILES was of very
! high order, botn in the general opinions ex-
| pressed and in his examination of the lntents
OF the bill. He declared that il was a most in
furious measure TO his constituents, and that
no bill could be more so. |, Disseminated all
through downwards, or against Protection, and
! upon the principle Of the Irish hoist
| His own doctrine had always been inclden-
| tai protection but this bill which was an alb
straction OF free trade. for which he had an
utter contempt, was so erroneous so wrong and
so bad that he was amazed that any man
could be found either ready TO report or to sup
| port such a Bill TWAS an act in which Con
! gresS had little or no interest. but which had
| been framed in the recess of the legislative
| Congress by a Congress of Custom House
officers and Agents, who We're called here in
the recess of Congress The whole bill was
war upon free lahor-upon the North-upon
the artisans and the mechanics
! The entire free labor Of the country was
nenaced by the bill before the Senate The
manufacturers might not be broken dows I'M
der the act, but they would be in peril and
severely crippled 1t was reduction Of thir
ty-three per cent. upon the labor the country.
! II the bill should become a law il would be
characterized a. an act o. confscation,--a bill
of pains and penalties what was it less than
this "a war upon the interests, the best inter
ests Of the country. How il would be 50,
Mr.. Niles showed by many important refer
cnces 10 the Bill and their practical operations
upon men engaged in these interests.
! Mr.. NILES cited the Edict of Nanlz as an
example like that which Congress seemed now
disposed to inaict spon this county. The
| former proved most disastrous to the people
( interested. and so would the bill now before
the Senate. Mr.. NILS addressed the Senate
until O'Clock, and closed with the the ex-
preston Of an earnest hope that the Bill would
/ be postponed 10 the next session Of Congress,
in order that in the mean time the public could
see it, aud pronounce upon it. Should it pass
he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had
seasonably warned the Senate against the act
and its consequences.