The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-05-02
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The question was taken by ayes and noes
Oh Mr. Aliens motion and resulted as follows
ayes 90 nays 81.
So the Senate refused to recedc from its a.
mendment ID .g..f .,..s....
On motion of Mr. Haywood il was ordered
that Committee circumference be appoint
ed.
Mr. Mangum moved that the Committee be
appointed by ballot, which was agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded 10 vote, and
the ballot having been counted, Messrs Ber-
rien, of Ga, Corwin. of Ohio, and Haywood,
ofN. O., were declared to be elected.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole, upon the bill for cultivating peace
and friendship among the Oregon tribe of
Indians. U..s H... ..r
The bill was amended in some of its most
important particulars. One halfolthe sections
were struck out altogether,and the Trainer of
the bill hardly knew his own progeny.
The bill was then reported to the House,
where certain defeat awaited it ifit had been
passed to a vote. No such motion was made
and Mr. Thompson proposed that the bill be
laid aside to the second Monday in May,whch
was readily agreed to by the House.
WEDNESDAY, April ~, In Senate, the
journal being read, Mr. Webster rose and said
that there had been frequenG inquiries about
the course likely to be pursued by the Com
muee on Finance relative TO the Indepen-
dent Treasury BiIl-sometilnes called the
>"Sub-Treasury Bill a..
He was no panic maker and rather, wanted
40 allay than create excitement. He would
ask two or three questions from the honora-
bic chairman of the Committee, which he
hoped the Honorable Senator could answer
definitely. -.
Mr. Webster then put several questions,in-
.,quiring whether the Committee had cOnsid-
ed the bill referred TO, whether they would
report any amendments, aud whether they
had fixed upon any time for calling up the
bill .t.
MrLewis replied that they had had the bill
referred to under consideration. That they
had resolved TO give precedence to bill from
the Senator from New York for the establish
ment of Warehouse system. The Com
mittee had also thought the establishment of
Branch MINIS at New York and Charleston
was necessary. They were not in favor of
Introducing the action ofthe specie'clause be-
fore January next.
The Committee were anxious to have the
bill go into operation Immediately so that the
collections might be made in the only consti-
tutional currency, hut at the same time they
were anxious to avoid any deragement in
business affairs.
After some unimportant business, the
resolution offered some time since by Mr. Jar
nagin, asking for information from the Presi-
dent relative to the expenditure of the"Secret
Service Fund, "came up in order.
MIR Webster rose, and read short state
ment with regard to the message ofthe Pres
idsnt in reply TO Mr. Ingersoll's resolnion,fo for
which see another column. -
After some Remarks, from Messrs Westeot.
Mangum and Allen the Resolution was put:
tue yeas aud nhys being ordered-Mr Turney
alone voting in the affirmative. -
The House of Representatives was occu-
pied all day with Mr. Ovens Smithsonian bill
Several speeches were made upon it,
SENATE. THURsDAY, April %. Mr.
Berrien made report in behaIfof the Com
mittee of Conference OH the part of the Sen
ate, recommending, as the unanimous result
ofthe conference, that both houses recede
from their amendments, and adopt the reso-
lutions presented by tile Committee, which
are precisely the same as Mr. Crittenden's adj
opted by the Senate save trifling change in
the phraseology of the preamble. The report
was adopted, ayes AZ, nays 10, .....l .r.
HOUSE. The bill to establish the Smith,
sonian Institute was taken up IN Committee
ofthe Whole, and Mr. Marsh of Vermont,
made sensible and learned speech on the
subject.
Mr. Chapman, (locofoco) to whom it partic-
uarly belonged to treat questions of this sort,
denounced the measure al disgrace to the
country and the ruin of all true Democracy.
What was education? The heaping up of
musty records ofthe thoughts and savings
and doings of gone-by ages-and the eleva-
ton of particular men above their fellows
No man would vote for this bill who was not
as deficient in patriotism as Benedict Arnold.
He had found, since he came to this House,
that modern Democracy was made of mighty