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Mr. SPEIGHT having called for the reading of the resolution and proposed amendment, they were read accordingly. After which,

[JUNE 13, 1834.

it was not his good fortune, nor was it his design, to be withdraw the amendment. He could not vote for it, what was termed a whole-hog political party man, upon because there was an examination proposed in it of a any side, yet he would acknowledge that he would at character very different and much more extensive than any time prefer a dish of the good old meat of the animal he had proposed to make into the State banks; and there so called, than banquet upon that dish upon which, for was a further reason why he could not vote for it, which some time past, the administration gentry had been feast- was, that he considered that was asked for which he did ing, viz: old glory. However, as he had no desire to not believe that the House had any right to demand. embarrass the passage of the resolution submitted by the And it was from this very line of conduct, adopted by honorable member from Massachusetts, [Mr. ADAMS,] or the House on a former occasion, that all their difficulties the amendment proposed by the honorable member from arose in relation to the bank. On that occasion, a reso Tennessee, [Mr. POLK,] and considering, on reflection, lution was proposed to the House to make inquiries of a that it was matter of very little importance to the public nature which they had no right to make. Well, what where the President or the heads of Departments kept was the result? Why, they adopted the resolution, and their funds, he would withdraw the amendment calling sent on their committee to Philadelphia to carry it into for the information to that effect. Mr. B. withdrew the effect. When that committee went on there, they followamendment accordingly. ed the example of the gentleman from Tennessee on the present occasion, and extended their inquiries beyond the limits fixed by the House, and into matters still more out of their proper province, and then what were the Mr. J. Q. ADAMS rose to express his sincere hope, consequences? Were they not such as might fairly have as the amendment proposed by the honorable member been expected to ensue? Their right to make them from Kentucky had been withdrawn, that the member was denied. They were refused. They came back, and from Tennessee [Mr. PoLK] would also withdraw that from this took upon themselves to report that the bank proposed by him, and that he would thus suffer the reso- had violated its charter, not on those grounds of violation lution, as it had been submitted by him, for an inquiry into which they were sent to inquire, but because the into the actual state and condition of these deposite banks, bank had refused, and properly refused, to answer such to pass without further opposition. This was desired by inquiries as they had assumed the right to demand. The him, because it was most important for the House to have gentlemen were sent to get information as to alleged the information to assist them in coming to a proper un- violations of the charter. They got no information at derstanding upon the bill before them, to regulate the all, for the reason he had stated; and then they came terms upon which these deposites were to be held by the back to those who sent them, breathing vengeance, talkState banks. He asked this with some confidence, be- ing of violations of the charter by the bank, of contempt lieving that the honorable member would concede so committed by it to the authority of the House, for which much, if from no other motive than that of courtesy to they must be brought to condign punishment. And, as the House, and because the honorable member knew a means to inflict it, they forthwith report a series of that, if he desired to have the information which he, in resolutions, that the president and directors should be submitting the amendment, appeared to be desirous of having, he could have it by making a distinct proposition therefor to the House. He (Mr. A.) said he knew that the honorable member could have such a proposition readily passed, because the House had already granted, at his instance, an inquiry much more extensive than that which he had proposed by his present amendment to make into the condition of the Bank of the United States: the House having evinced their readiness not to refuse their aid for such inquiry by an unusually large majority. It was therefore, he contended, perfectly in his power to But has not this been the honorable member's course attain all the information which he desired, in another for some time past? Has he not been for years coming shape, without its being necessary to persist in the amend to the House, asking them to adopt his resolutions for inment proposed by him, and which could have no other quiry, without solid foundation, or any good reason to deeffect than that of clogging, if not absolutely preventing, mand them? He has, in fact, been groping, groping, the passage of the resolution which he (Mr. A.) had groping in the dark for wherewithal to rest charges submitted as to the State banks: for it was one alto- against friends of his own, against members of his own gether of a different character, having no sort of simili- political party, against members of Congress voting along tude to that proposed by him. His resolution had no with him; and, after all this, what has he found? What reference, as the honorable member's had, to the private ground was there, he asked, upon which even for suspi affairs of any individual, but solely applied to the man- cion to rest, or upon which he could build charges of coragement of the State banks. His object was not to make ruption against either the president and directors of the any other inquiry. It was, as he had formerly stated, bank, or those members of Congress, whose motives he simply to ascertain what capitals these institutions really had so often assailed? But it appeared that the honorable had, or whether they had any. Whether, in a word, the member was not even satisfied with demanding informa condition of such institutions as were to have the custody tion as to these. He was disposed to extend his inquiries of the public treasure, was such as, being without funds into the private affairs of the members of the judiciary. and trading upon borrewed capital, placed them in that Ay, if it could really be credited, to the judiciary! situation which they, in language from high authority, Would it not appear to the House, the honorable mem. had heard ought to be the doom of such: "that they ber really had enough of this, and that it was time there ought to break." They had before now heard, that the should be some end to it? But, if he was not disposed best possible way to get rid of some disagreeable subjects, to put some limits to this inquisitorial conduct into the was by clogging them with amendments of a character so private affairs and private correspondence of honorable foreign to the original propositions to which they should men, perhaps he had better send his committee of in. be appended, that the movers themselves must be induced quiry at once to ransack the private correspondence had to vote against them. This he acknowledged must be with the inmates of a certain White House between the the effect upon him, if the honorable member should not Capitol and Georgetown; there, possibly, to find some

brought to the bar of the House to answer for the same. What else resulted from this? The conduct of the bank was, to be sure, a contempt, a high contempt in the imagination of the committee, of the privileges of the House; and yet, notwithstanding all this, eager as these gentle. men of the committee were so to deem it, he had not seen that they were quite so anxious to bring up the sub. ject, that, if what they had alleged was a contempt, the indignation of the House might fall upon those whom they had described so forcibly as having incurred it.

JUNE 13, 1834.]

The Public Deposites.

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thing to substantiate the charge made against those mem- The Government had still in the vaults of the Bank of the bers of Congress who, being opposed to the bank, and must necessarily be, as they undoubtedly were, friends and supporters of the administration, but who were yet, nevertheless, stigmatized in that quarter as men that were ready to be bribed by the bank, &c.

United States some two or three millions of public depos. sites, which had not yet been withdrawn from it. The United States was, moreover, the holder of one-fifth (seven millions,) of its stock. Was it unreasonable, then, if such an inquiry as was proposed to be made was deemSuch a course seemed to him as just as the one he now ed necessary as regarded the State banks, to extend the proposed to adopt. It was as just to go after this private same or a similar inquiry into the affairs of a bank in correspondence with his own friends-with those whose which the people of the United States had so great a oily palms were described to be as ready to receive the stake? Inquiry into its condition, in this respect, was the wages of corruption as the president of the Bank of the more peculiarly demanded, when the antagonist position United States was alleged to have been ready to give which it had assumed towards the Government was con. them. There was a proper field for him to seek the sat- sidered. What had been its conduct towards the Execu isfaction of all his suspicions, if not his hopes: for, as tive, and towards this House? Had it not, in its official the charge there had been made, he was bound to pre- acts, and through its friends and advocates here and sume that there, also, would be found evidence to sus- elsewhere, openly denounced the chief Executive Magis. trate as a tyrant, a usurper, and a despot-as every thing

tain it.

Mr. A. hoped, however, the honorable member would but a patriot and an honest man? Had it not, by itself not further oppose propositions which, under the circum and its friends, advocates and presses, in the progress of stances the country was placed in, he thought should be the present session of Congress, called upon this House adopted in the form that had been submitted. He ac- to join in the hue and cry against the Executive, for an knowledged that it was with much gratification he ob- alleged usurpation of power? When this call was made, served some of the friends of the honorable member come the bank and its supporters and advocates conceded that forward with manliness to avow that they themselves the institution was responsible for its acts to Congress, would not object to the inquiry which he had proposed and the full power of Congress over the whole subject to make into the condition of these deposite banks, but was admitted. The House had proved to be refractory, that they had felt it was a proper subject of "congratula- and, by its votes, had sustained the Executive, and in ef tion that no opposition to it was to be found on the part fect declared that the charge of usurpation, tyranny, and of the friends of the administration." But it seemed that despotism, against the President, was senseless as well as those honorable members were mistaken: for, hardly had false clamor, and wholly unfounded; and no sooner was the words fallen from their lips, when the proposition be- this done than the bank and its friends had come out in fore the House was made by the honorable member him- bitter denunciations against the popular branch of Conself, which was intended to defeat the object of the reso-gress. Yes, sir, this House, the immediate representa lution. However, as there was not time left now to pro- tives of the people, the true reflectors (when its mem cure the information before the adjournment of Congress, bers truly represent their constituents) of the popular and before which it was necessary to have it, he trusted will, had, since the return of the committee of investiga that the amendment, if not withdrawn, would be reject- tion from Philadelphia, as he would presently show, been ed by the House. denounced, with the President, as usurpers of powers Mr. POLK had not expected, he said, when he came which did not belong to them. Were we to endure all to the House this morning, that it would be nccessary for this from an institution whose strides for power were not him to engage in a further discussion of the subject before only rapid but arrogant, and yet be told that we had no them; but as the honorable member from Massachusetts right to exercise a power, expressly reserved to us by the had revived the discussion of a former day, and had been charter, of examining into the mal-practices or corrupt pleased to indulge in a course of remarks not very perti- conduct of its managers, or looking into its condition? nent to the immediate question before the House, he But, according to the gentleman, this immaculate and inmust advert to such of them as seemed to require from offensive Bank of the United States must not be looked him some notice. The gentleman repeats the request into, though the affairs of the State banks must be tho which he had made when this resolution was last under roughly probed. Again, he thought it more peculiarly consideration, a few days past, that he (Mr. P.) would withdraw the amendment which he had had the honor to propose. Mr. P. begged, in the outset of what he had to say, to state that it was not his intention to withdraw the amendment.

proper to carry the inquiry into the concerns of the United States Bank, because a committee of the House, appointed to investigate its affairs, by a vote of 170 mem bers, had gone to Philadelphia with the very inquiries which were now proposed to be made into the State banks, and had been insultingly repulsed.

The honorable member, by his resolution, proposes to call upon the Secretary of the Treasury for certain infor- The House, through its committee, had called for the mation relating to the State banks which had become very information which the gentleman now seeks from the depositories of the public money. He states his ob- the State deposite banks; and yet, what was the reply of ject to be to ascertain the condition of these banks, and the Bank of the United States? When the committee of more especially the state of the private accounts, and this House called, among other things, for the names of indebtedness of their respective presidents and boards of the lawyers and solicitors employed by it, and their indirectors, and to learn also the names of those persons debtedness to the bank, did the bank furnish the infor who were employed as their lawyers and solicitors-with mation? Did they determine to comply with the call of the view, as he states, to enable himself and others to Congress through its committee? No. They reply, by determine whether these banks are safe depositories of their official organ, that Congress was not authorized to the public money. The object of the amendment was demand it. That a committee, sent to the bank by Con to make the inquiry broad enough to embrace a call for gress for that purpose, had no power to call for such insimilar information as regards the Bank of the United formation. Would this be denied? If it was so, then he States; to extend a similar inquiry into the state of the held in his hands the proof. accounts of the president and directors of that bank also; [Here Mr. P. read from the documents appended to and to ascertain the names of the lawyers and solicitors the report of the committee of investigation the folof the Bank of the United States, and their indebtedness lowing resolution, adopted by them whilst at Philadel to that bank. To this the gentleman objects, and insists phia, viz. that it is proper the amendment should be withdrawn,

"Resolved, That the president, directors, and compa

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The Public Deposites.

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ny of the Bank of the United States be requested to fur- us, had conceded to us the power which this House afnish this committee with the particular items, and the terwards exercised, and had professed a willingness to aggregate of all fees and compensation paid during each yield obedience to our decision upon the great question year to attorneys, counsellors, or lawyers, since the es- which has occupied so much of our time, that yet when tablishment of the bank; stating the amount paid to each this House had condemned the bank, and sustained the person employed, together with their residence; the President, we had shared in its denunciations. This he times when the payments were made, and the particular happened to have it in his power very briefly to show. services rendered for each charge paid; also, whether A paper had this moment been handed to him by a genthe same has been paid at the parent bank or branches, tleman near him, which he had read some days ago. and at which, designating them; also, of all sums paid That paper (the National Gazette) contained an article as a general or annual fee or salary to counsellors for the purporting to be editorial, but which bore on its face bank, specifying the names of such persons, the amounts, evidence that it was the semi-official, indeed it might be and times, and places of payment; and, also, whether regarded as the official expose, issuing from the bank such sums were paid by the order, in each case, of the itself-because it contained an extract of what purported board of directors, or how otherwise paid; designating to be a private letter, addressed by a private citizen to such sums as have been paid in cash, and such as may have been passed to the credit of such persons or others, in payment of any debt or debts due to said bank."]

And what (said Mr. P.) was the reply of the bank to this and other calls made upon them by the committee for information? Why, that "the board do not feel themselves at liberty to comply with the requirements of the resolutions of the committee of investigation," &c. He would, he said, read a part of the bank's reply. It was as follows, viz:

ed:

"BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, May 3, 1834. "At a special meeting of the board, held this day, the following resolution was, on motion, unanimously adopt"Resolved, That the board do not feel themselves at liberty to comply with the requirement of the resolutions of the committee of investigation of the 29th ultimo and 1st instant, and do not think they are bound to do so, inasmuch as, in respect to a part of the papers called for, the effect would be the same as the surrender of their books and papers to a secret and ex parte examination, which they have already refused to consent to."

the bank, and which could have been procured from no other source but the bank itself. From that expose he begged to read a paragraph or two, to show its general tone, and particularly what was said of this House. He would only further state that it appears in the paper of the 3d of June, and after the report of the committee of investigation was made to this House. Mr. P. here read from the expose as follows, viz:

"The House, it cannot be dissembled, has lost much of the confidence of the country, and has lost it by inattention to its own character. They have been much too servile-have permitted themselves to be the dupes of political jugglers. It is a fact perfectly notorious that a very large portion of the House, outside of the bar, ac knowledge the improper conduct of the Executive, yet step forward a few feet and vote to support the very measures they disapprove. The House ought to be ashamed of such conduct; there are really many honest and well-meaning men in that body, and they ought to revolt at the humiliation to which the kitchen cabinet subjects them. The present feeling of the country towards the House is one of surprise and pity. Surprise, that a popular body should seem so indifferent to popular rights; Under such circumstances, he could not conceive that and pity, that it should suffer the control of these political he was violating any rule of order or propriety, in insist-jugglers. If, hereafter, that body should be despised, it ing that, if the inquiry proposed by the gentleman from will only be because it has made itself despicable. If it Massachusetts was to be made, that it was equally due to be treated with contempt, it will be because it is conthe country and to Congress to have such examination temptible." made also into the affairs and management of an institu- Again, he said, this bank expose (for he held himself tion in which the Government had not only a large inter- justified in supposing that it had the sanction of the bank, est, in addition to the deposites still remaining with it, but for garbled extracts of the private correspondence of the which had resisted the authority of the House, and was bank formed a part of it) held the following language, bidding them defiance. which he read, viz:

He considered it most unreasonable to be asked to withdraw the amendment calling for it. He should hope it would be deemed much more reasonable for him to ask the honorable member from Massachusetts to modify his resolution by inserting, along with the State banks, that of the United States Bank.

He hoped that he would not be told, in objection to the call proposed by his amendment, that it was useless for him to press it, because the president and directors had already refused the same information when demanded by the committee; and that, therefore, they would refuse that demanded by his amendment. This was not a sufficient answer, although it was not to be denied that, from their previous conduct, such might be the result. Should it be so, he desired the House should know it. He admitted that it had so arrogantly set itself up to determine the whole public policy, dictate whether any or what powers properly belonged to the Executive departments and to Congress, that he knew not where it might be said that its claims were to terminate.

Mr. P. said he had stated that though the bank, through its organs and advocates, at the early periods of the present session of Congress, when we were appealed to to join in damning and putting down the chief Executive Magistrate, had lavished unmeasured praises upon

"The great contest now waging in this country is between its free institutions and the violence of a vulgar despotism. The Government is turned into a baneful faction, and the spirit of liberty contends against it throughout the country. On the one hand is this miserable cabal, with all the patronage of the Executive; on the other the yet unbroken mind and heart of the country, with the Senate and the bank; the House of Representatives, hitherto the instinctive champion of freedom, shaken by the intrigues of the kitchen, hesitates for a time, but cannot fail, before long, to break its own fetters first, and then those of the country. In that quarrel, we predict, they who administer the bank will shrink from no proper share which the country may assign to them; personally they must be as indifferent as any of their fellow-citizens to the recharter of the bank. But they will not suffer themselves, nor the institution intrusted to them, to be the instrument of private wrong and public outrage; nor will they omit any effort to rescue the institutions of the country from being trodden under foot by a faction of in terlopers."

In the same paper the inquiries made by the committee of investigation are denounced as a mass of arrogance," because they had called for certain correspondence with the bank, which the bank refused to furnish.

JUNE 13, 1834.]

Ohio Boundary.

The bank, he said, in this paper, which was evidently prepared under its own direction, defied and insulted the House of Representatives. After setting itself up in opposition to the Government, assuming to construe the powers of the Executive, and to dispute what authority he should and should not exercise, it now abuses and denounces this House.

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he supposed that a full answer would be found in an extraordinary ground of defence for the malconduct of the bank, to be seen in another document, (the report of the minority of the Committee of Ways and Means on the deposite question, at the present session,) viz: "In relation to all the operations of the bank included under the first head, it must be answered that, whether the bank has been right or wrong, her board of directors assert the

Mr. J. Q. ADAMS here interrupted Mr. POLK, and called on the member from Tennessee to state the evi-legal right to do whatever has been done." dence upon which he made these charges.

Mr. POLK held it in his hand. It is, as he had already stated, what purports to be editorial, but comes to the public under the sanction of the bank; if it was not written, as he believed it was, by the direction of the bank itself. The paper furnishes intrinsic evidence of its authorship; for it contains a letter which could not have been procured but from the bank. Yes, sir, the bank, which was so scrupulous in regard to private correspondence, has not hesitated to avail itself of a private letter, with a view to assail members of this House.

this?

There, indeed, it was openly asserted that the directors had full right to refuse compliance with what the House had so solemnly resolved they deemed necessary to have to aid them in their legislative duties.

Mr. P., after commenting with severity on the general conduct of the bank, concluded by asserting that he had no possible objection to any inquiry that could be instituted, to ascertain the condition of the State banks; but, if the present resolution was adopted, he felt it necessary to insist upon having the other inquiry into the United States Bank along with it. He could not think of voting Mr. ADAMS begged to know what proof he had of for a scrutiny of this character into the State banks, who had already voluntarily answered every call made upon Mr. POLK. The proof is on the face of it: it bears them by the Secretary of the Treasury fully; and were, internal evidence that it must have come from the bank. he doubted not, willing to answer any call which Congress He found in it, as he had already stated, an extract of a might choose to make; and yet not extend the same call letter addressed to the bank by a private citizen, and to that bank, which had, in refusing the same information which could not find its way into this, the bank's known to a committee, put at defiance the authority of the House, organ in Philadelphia, (the National Gazette,) without and put at naught its power. He wished to see whether the knowledge or connivance of the bank, or, indeed, it would again refuse to answer the call, when a similar without having been furnished by the bank. This is a one was made, by its friends upon this floor, upon the private letter addressed to the bank by a private indivi- State banks. He did not wish to evade the investigation dual on his private affairs; and we thus, notwithstanding into the concerns of the local banks, but he wished also to the bank's objection to disclose to a committee of the carry it into the affairs of the Bank of the United States House, when called upon for that purpose, the corres- -an institution which some regard as the sole agent of the pondence called for touching its "fair business transac- Government. The bank issues its bulletin, and declares tions," nevertheless does not hesitate to blazon forth, that you have no power; that they stand above your reach; under such circumstances, a garbled extract of what and you are now requested modestly to decline asking should, by its professions, be held sacred, for the base pur- the bank any more questions. He shrunk from no scrutipose, he must conclude, of blasting the character or af-ny into the affairs of the local banks, and had no objection fecting the reputation of a member of the committee.to the object of the resolution of the gentleman from He would now read on, to show the character of this im- Massachusetts. maculate institution.

[Mr. P. here read some other extracts.] After he had concluded,

Mr. J. Q. ADAMS rose to remark that, as the member from Tennessee had spoken of a letter to the bank in the article, he would therefore now be so good as to read it.

Mr. POLK declined, saying, "the gentleman can have it, and read it for himself, if he desires to do so."

Mr. J. Q. ADAMS. The honorable member stated that his authority for making this charge was proved by a fact in the paper he read. This fact was in a letter to the bank. I ask him to read its contents.

The resolution was further debated by Mr. WAYNE, but before he had concluded the hour devoted to morning business expired.

Mr. CLAY called for the order of the day.

Mr. MILLER thereupon rose and moved a suspension of the rule, to enable the House to dispose of the resolution.

The House having refused to suspend the rule, the subject stands over.

OHIO BOUNDARY.

The bill to fix the northern boundary of the State of
Ohio coming up as the unfinished business-
Mr. POLK moved that its consideration should be post-

motion at the suggestion of

Mr. VINTON, who said that he believed that the questions pending on that bill would be disposed of without debate.

Mr. POLK could not feel that he was called upon by any rule of courtesy or propriety to read, for the amuse-poned until to-morrow; but subsequently withdrew this ment or edification of the gentleman, any thing which did not pertain to his argument. The gentleman can read the letter himself, if he pleases. I choose to proceed with my remarks, in proper temper, I hope, having read enough of this bank bulletin. Right or wrong, sir, continued Mr. P., whatever the bank does, the board of directors assert the legal right to do what has been done. As an answer to my objection to the course of the bank, it is said that the board of directors approve it.

Mr. J. Q. ADAMS. Oh! pray read on.

Mr. POLK said he would proceed with his remarks. He had read thus much to show the arrogance of its tone, and that all who did not fall down and worship this aristocracy of money fell under its anathemas and denunciations.

The bank, then, had refused to answer the calls for information made by this House through its committee; but VOL. X.-280

Mr. LYON, of Michigan, said he had now no objection to comply with the former proposition made by the member from Ohio, [Mr. VANCE,] to refer the subject to a select committee.

Mr. ALLEN, of Ohio, remarked that, as his only objection to this course arose from his fear that delay would prejudice the passage of the bill at this session, he should rather have it postponed until Thursday week, and have it made the special order for that day.

The question on the motion to this effect, which was pending from the former day, was then put and negatived. The motion to commit the subject to a select committee, to consist of seven members, was agreed to.

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Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the reasons communicated by the Secretary of the Treasury in his report to Congress of the 4th of December, 1833, for the removal of the deposites of the money as follows: of the United States from the Bank of the United States and its branches, are insufficient and unsatisfactory.

tion on the table.

The question on the motion was then put, and decided

YEAS-Messrs. John Adams, William Allen, Anthony, Bean, Beardsley, Beaumont, Blair, Bockee, Bodle, Boon, Mr. POLK rose and moved that it be laid on the table. Bouldin, Brown, Bunch, Burns, Bynum, Cambreleng, Mr. WHITTLESEY, under the impression that the Carmichael, Carr, Casey, Chaney, Chinn, S. Clark, Clay, object of the honorable member in submitting this mo- Coffee, Connor, Cramer, Day, Dickerson, Dickinson, tion was for the purpose of proceeding with the appro- Dunlap, Forester, Fowler, William K. Fuller, Gillet, Gilpriation bills, suggested that that object could be effected mer, Joseph Hall, Halsey, Hamer, J. M. Harper, Harriby the joint resolution being simply laid aside and taken son, Hathaway, Hawkins, Hawes, Henderson, Howell, up in its turn. Hubbard, Abel Huntington, Inge, Jarvis, Richard M. Mr. POLK persisted with his motion to lay the resolu-Johnson, N. Johnson, Cave Johnson, Seaborn Jones, Benjamin Jones, Kavanagh, Kinnard, Lane, Lansing, Mann, J. K. Mann, Mardis, Moses Mason, McIntire, McMr. CROCKETT rose and asked a call of the House. Kay, McKim, McKinley, McLene, McVean, Miller, Henry He proceeded to say that his colleague [Mr. POLK] had Mitchell, Robert Mitchell, Muhlenberg, Murphy, Osgood, been dodging around this question all the session, and Page, Parks, Parker, Patton, Patterson, D. J. Pearce, F. now he asked that it be laid on the table. I had a hope, Pierce, Pierson, Plummer, Polk, Pope, Schenck, Schley, said Mr. C., that we had a chance to meet the question Shinn, Charles Slade, Smith, Speight, Standefer, Stodfairly, and let members stand up to the rack and say to dert, Sutherland, William Taylor, Francis Thomas, Thomtheir constituents, that we have supported the laws and son, Turrill, Vanderpoel, Van Houten, Wagener, Ward, constitution. This question is to test that fact, and I Wardwell, Wayne, Webster, Whallon, C. P. White-114. hope to meet it upon its merits, and say to the country, NAYS-Messrs. John Q. Adams, Heman Allen, John by our votes, whether we have a Government or not. J. Allen, C. Allan, Archer, Ashley, Banks, Barber, BarMr. C. was called to order so repeatedly that we could nitz, Barringer, Baylies, Beaty, James M. Bell, Binney, not hear distinctly what he said, as it was not a debatable Briggs, Bull, Burd, Burges, Cage, Campbell, Chambers, Mr. C. concluded by asking for the yeas and nays Chilton, Choate, William Clark, Clayton, Clowney, Coron the call, which were ordered; and the roll having win, Coulter, Crockett, Darlington, Warren R. Davis, been gone through, 211 members answered to their names; Deberry, Deming, Denny, Dickson, Duncan, Evans, and excuses having been made for some of the absent Edward Everett, Horace Everett, Ewing, Felder, Fillmembers

Mr. EVANS called for the reading. It was read ac-Laporte, Lea, Lee, Leavitt, Loyall, Lyon, Lytle, Abijah cordingly; after which,

case.

Mr. CROCKETT moved that the Sergeant-at-arms should be despatched to bring up those members for whom excuses had not been made.

Mr. ANTHONY, however, opposed this motion, and having moved a suspension of further proceedings on the

call,

Mr. HIESTER called for the yeas and nays, which having been ordered,

Mr. CROCKETT suggested the propriety of sending messengers to the absentees, whilst the yeas and nays on this latter motion were being taken.

The House finally suspended further proceedings on the call: Yeas 107, nays 76.

The question being on the motion of Mr. POLKMr. WARREN R. DAVIS rose to ask the honorable member from Tennessee, [Mr. POLK,] whether the object of his motion was to dispose of this subject finally, or merely to have it laid on the table for the present?

Mr. POLK declined answering. The question before the House was not, he presumed, debatable; and it was for the House to say what the final disposition of the resolution should be.

After a remark from Mr. FELDER-

Mr. CHILTON said he rose to propound an inquiry to the honorable member.

Mr. POLK said he must object to this; and rose to a question of order, whether it was in order to propound inquiries on a question not debatable?

The SPEAKER intimated that, although the question was not debatable, the honorable member had a right to propound an inquiry simply.

more, Foster, P. C. Fuller, Fulton, Gamble, Garland, Gholson, Gordon, Gorham, Graham, Grayson, Grennell, Griffin, Hiland Hall, Hard, Hardin, James Harper, Hazeltine, Heath, Hiester, Jabez W. Huntington, Jackson, W. C. Johnson, Lay, Lewis, Lincoln, Love, Martindale, Marshall, McCarty, McComas, McKennan, Mercer, Milligan, Moore, Pinckney, Potts, Ramsay, Reed, Rencher, Selden, Aug. H. Shepperd, William Slade, Sloane, Spangler, Steele, Stewart, P. Thomas, Tompkins, Turner, Tweedy, Vance, Vinton, F. D. White, Fred. Whittlesey, Elisha Whittlesey, Williams, Wilson, Wise, Young-101. So the said joint resolution was ordered to lie on the table.

RESTORATION OF THE DEPOSITES. The following joint resolution from the Senate then coming up, viz:

Resolved, That all deposites of the money of the United States which may accrue or be received on and after the 1st day of July, 1834, shall be made with the Bank o the United States and its branches, in conformity with the provisions of the act entitled "An act to incorporat the subscribers to the Bank of the United States," ap proved the 10th April, 1816

Mr. POLK moved that this resolution also should b laid on the table.

Mr. CHILTON called for the yeas and nays; whic having been ordered

The question upon the motion to lay it on the tabl was then put, and decided as follows-118 to 98:

YEAS.-Messrs. John Adams, William Allen, Antla ny, Bean, Beardsley, Beaumont, Blair, Bockee, Bodle Mr. CHILTON then made a few remarks; upon which, Boon, Bouldin, Brown, Bunch, Burns, Bynum, Cambr Mr. POLK rose in objection, and made a point of or-leng, Carmichael, Carr, Casey, Chaney, Chinn, Sams der thereon; upon which,

Clark, Clay, Coffee, Connor, Coulter, Cramer, Day, Pi

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