Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-01-21
Correspondence Of the Journal Of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Jan. D, 1916.

TIE Lisutenau,- Gsneraiship RspHdiated,
The House repudistes the measures recommended
by the Administration, Just as fast they are pre-
sented- So much unanimiiy on important questions
is unusual in the House. Ii BODIES good to the coun-
try, as | hope, though the Administration may be
embarrassed and personal interests and political
combinations be crushed by it.
The Military Committee Of the House reported
this morning unavoably upon that part Of the Presl
dents Message which relates to the appointment of
General officer to take command Of all our military
forces in the ield with a resolution that the same
lie on the table.
There was a general shout of laughter and approx
al, and the report concurred in
So the House decides that the President shall not
be relieved from any responsibility properly belonging
to him in relation to the conduct Of this war.
The effect of the appointment OF Lieutenant
General would have bcen 1t was considered here,
to nerpose that officer, In the person of Mr. Benton
between the President and Congress, and relieve the
President from portion Of his just responsibility
Congress cannot desire that Mr. Polk shall take the
field in person himself and it follows that they
pect him to carry the war or make peace by aid
of military diplomatic officers known to the
laws.
We have every hour additional evidence of the
utter and unc0mpromsing hostility OF the House To
duty on tea and coffee. What plan for meeting the
known deficit in the of the treasury for this
and the next fiscal year will be adopted cannot be
foreseen. The loan viii fail unless Congress author
ize one at seven per cent and will allow even that to
be negotiated below par, and this Congress will not
do Revenue adequate to the payment of the interest
the loans, and the ordinary expenditures also OF
the Government must be raised, and the question Is,
what new tax shall be imposed!
! 1t seems probable that the only mode that the
House Will agree will be increase of the rate Of
duty on the articles dutable, up to the highest
revenue standard, and the imposition of excise on
distilled spirits. The reduction and graduation bill
may add a million and half to the revenue; but il
is vet uncertain whether it will become a law. The
Senate have made it the order Of the day for Monday
next.
The next subject of Importance is the exclusion o.
slavery from the territories to be acquired from Mex
| ico On this point the House will be inexorable.-
There symptoms that this question will shake the
present foundation of things in political parties.
The next important question is that relative to the
improvement of rivers and harbors, and here the Ad
minisiraton is in fearful minority and the ques-
ton is gathering so much strength that it alone
destroy an adverse party.
On the first or second day of the session referred
in brief paragraph TO this state of things predict
ing that it would soon become apparent. The pre-
dIciOn said in some prints to be idle and it
asserted that on the contrary, the democratic mem
bers of the House were united IN support OF the
measures of the administration, &c. But what dc
we see! The Administration is in minority OF
every purely Administration question. There Is NJ
Polk party-no Administration party, properly speak
/ ing, in the House.
Mr.. Preston King, by way Of making known his
position the slavery question, asked leave thi:
morning to make personal explanation. In refer
ence to the article of the Union of last night The
sebject of his BILL he explained, that the Mexican
war must necessarily end in the cesson of territory
to the U. s.: and that it was fixed principle witt
him and with all his constituents and with all the de
mocracy of the morrill, that slavery should not be
tended into any territory thus acquired