The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-15
Correspondence of Crescent.

WASHINGTON, July z, 1913.
The two Houses of Congress make but little progress in the
public business The Presidential question the absorbing
one and is debated with zeal than its Importance
merits in the two Houses of Congress. What is novel
that in the Senate the debate has been upon resolution
naming day of adjournment, begun by MI toote' anu
rosecued bv Others with marked zeal Mr. Clayton of
Delaware made able vindicaton of General Iaylor on
Wednesday answering all the questions OF MI Foote-de
carng that General Taylor would like General w ASH
ingon the President OF the people rather than Vi '
He smoke of the veto power and of the disposition OF Gen
Taylor not exercise it wantOny He would not lnterere
with the authority of Congress but do all that he could do 70
allow Congress to egslae The will OF the people he would
seek conform and not to make his own VIII the law OF
the land The Allison letter from Gen. Taylor was much
commented upon and admired and the position OF Gen.
Cass upon this question strongly contasted with that OF the
wing nominee. The veto power was treated as highly
federal power so defended by Hamilton and Wilson, the
great federa in the convention of 81 which framed the
constitution This power, it said by Gen Cas-, was
now defended by the Baltimore convention and the demo
cratic nominee and it clear this Government was fast
tending TO monarchy The subject of tariffs banks internal
improvements subreasury important as they all were, were
secondary compared with this of aeng the progress Of the
Government its tendency towards mOnarchcal principles
There was brief rejonder from Mr. Foote who continues
TO insist that Gen Taylor without any fixed princi
pies and that the wings in supporting him, grossly in
consistent The Senate finally to the conclusion that
all this debate grossly out of place and time, and IN
sisted that while should be said something should be
done upon the resolution The day named by the House for
the adjournment OF congress was Lle OF
proposed 10 substitute the 18th of August and lost and the
Senate by of 80 to 49, finally agreed that the 3s Of
July should be the day named The resolution thus amended
was laid upon the table.
The temper ofthe Senate is very high upon the territorial
questions and the Southern Senators generally object to
naming day for adjournment, until is known of the
probable action of Congress upon the great questions con-
neced with the extension of slave territory In the
time the Oregon bill is down for Wednesday OF next week
and the Mexican treaty already laid before Congress-
ratified Inv he interested the result.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in report yesterday morn
ing laid before the Senate denies that the Sub Treasury law
has been violated in the payment OF interest The contrary
however positively asserted in Congress The Secretary
saws that agents have been appointed pay the interest
the debt of the United States in specie and that this has beer
DONE should have been done There several OF thet
agents. and some said dismissed on the LIST OF July
Most of the agents Presidents of Banks, and the true
state of fact appears be that the interest money was palt
| in bank notes instead OF specie.
The House. in committee ofhe whole upon the civil ant
diplomatic bill, have made material amendment to th
mileage law by inserting clause that member shall re
ceve more than $780, any session. for mileage Th
pay now received by the Texan Senate and Members,
for 28OO miles or s24OO The amounts of all from the ex
tremes of the Union will be greatly reduced if the Sena
concur in this provision.
The House nave also vote upon the report OF th
Committee on Commerce. concerning the of Conges
TO improve rivers and harbors. The House ams the RICH
of Congress make these Improvements by vote OF l2S
So Only the list resolution acted upon during the day
tenacious the members in resisting all acton upo
the question: but the vote is overwhelming one, an'
| strongly indicates the Representative feeling.
bill has also been passed for extending the pension list
so as to embrace the wounded i'll Mexico, and the survivor
| of the families of the slain.
The city has been of uninterrupted gaety and eX
element since the 4th The military have gone home, AM
the crowds of strangers with them The ceremonies on lay
ing the corner stone of the Washington Monument wen
most imposing throughout and have left lasting impression
here particularly upon the minds of all who heard the splen
did address TO the Speaker of the House All represent
noble and startling production, and tears coued from
many eyes as it delivered. ORLEANS,