FRIDAY, JTLY 13. President respecting the bill to recharter the In the SENATE, yesterday, a report was re- Bank of the United States. ceived from the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. CLAY then rose and addressed the Secontaining the information required by a resonate in opposition to the message, in a speech lution of the Senate of the 6th instant, relative of considerable length and argument. to the reduction of certain expenditures in 'cal Mr. BENTON followed Mr. CLAY, in reply to culating the sales of the public lands. that gentleman, and to the arguments of Messrs. Mr. MARCY presented the petition of Geo. WEBSTER and CLAYTON, of yesterday, and W. Featherstonhaugh, praying the patron-spoke until 3 o'clock, when the Senate took a age of Congress, to the Geological Journal, of recess until 5. which he is the editor: referred to the Secretary of War. At 5 o'clock the Senate again met, and Mr. BENTON, at the request of Mr. WILKINS, having consented to waive his remarks, On motion of Mr. SMITH, the Committee of Finance was discharged from the further con- Mr. WILKINS, from the Committee of sideration of all subjects referred to that com. Conference, on the disagreeing votes of the mittee and not acted on.. two Houses in relation to the Senate's amend On motion of Mr. KANE, a similar order ments to the tariff bill, reported that the was taken with regard to the Committee on committee had agreed to recommend that the Private Land Claims. On motion of Mr. HAYNE, a similar order was taken with regard to the Committee on Na val Affairs, and, Un motion of Mr. SPRAGUE, a similar order was taken with regard to the Committee on Pensions. The following bills were read the third time and passed: The bill for the relief of Joseph Camber; The bill concerning the issuing of patents to aliens for useful discoveries and inventions; Senate recede from their several amendments, and concur in the amendments of the House. Before any question was taken on this report, Mr. BELL moved an indefinite postponement of the whole subject. Mr. HAYNE said, that he considered this motion as premature, and he should, therefore, at this time, vote against it. He thought the proper course was to take up the amendments and dispose of them. Let us at least ascertain the sense of the Senate upon these amendments. After the principal amendments shall be gone The bill to extend the provisions of the act through with, he should make a motiɔn tʊ rerejecting the commercial intercourse with the commit the bill with instructions so to amend it Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, and to as to provide for a general system of ad valorefund the tonnage duties on the French ship rem duties, arranged on just and equitable prinVictorine; ciples. It would be time enough when all The bill making appropriation [for a custom these questions shall be disposed of, and the bill house in the city of New York, and for other shall be put into the shape which a majority of purposes; the Senate shall think proper to give it, to make The bill giving the assent of Congress to the a decision for or against it. For his part, howacts of the legislature of North Carolina incor-ever, he had no hesitation in saying now, that porating the Roanoke Inlet Company; neither in the shape which it had assumed in The bill for the relief of certain invalid pen- the Senate, nor in that which it came from the sioners; other House, couid he give it his support. He The bill to enforce quarantine regulations; believed that, in either form, it was a worse bill The bill authorising the entry of vessels or than that of 1828, and when the final question merchandise arriving from or beyond the Cape came to be taken upon it, if he could not get it of Good Hope into the port of Edgertown in recommitted, and eventually reconsidered, he Massachusetts; ould then vote for its indefinite postpone The bill extending further the right of dement. benture to the port of Key West, and altering After a few remarks from one or two other the limits of the district of Key West ; gentlemen, the vote was taken on Mr. BELL'S motion, which was lost; yeas 10, nays 38. The message from the House of Representatives stating its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate to the bill for the relief of certain invalid pensioners. The Senate then proceeded to consider the amendments, on the several items of which a long and desultory debate ensued, which reMr. Foor moved that the Senate insist on sulted in the Senate's receding from their sev the amendment, (which includes the name of eral amendments, and concurring in those of Russell Atwater.) After some further remarks from Messrs. THE VETO OF THE BANK. the House. After the loss of Mr. BELL's motion as abovementioned, Mr. CLAY rose, and congratulated the friends of the American system on the triumph of the protecting policy, which was about to be consummated by the passage of the bill. The southern Senators, by voting against the indefinite postponement, must be considered as fixing their approbation to the principle of protection which was embraced in it, he excepted, of course, the Sena. tors from S. Carolina, who had disclaimed it The SPEAKER said it was not in order. Mr. ADAMS-I am always stopped. formerly members of Congress from the State of Georgia, and who died in the performance of Mr. DRAYTON proceeded, and was again their public duties. called to order by Mr. REED, of Massachu setts. After a few further observations from Mr. DRAYTON, the discussion was continued by The amendment was agreed to. Several other amendments were proposed and adopted. The French treaty bill was next taken up, and the amendment of the Senate was concur SATURDAY, JULY 14. Mr. BURGES, who argued against the postponement, and in favor of allowing, as a mattered in. of courtesy, the privilege of not voting, in a case where a member had declared upon his In the SENATE, yesterday, a resolution offer. honor he could not conscientiously vote. ed by Mr. CLAY, giving an extra sum of fifty The resolution was ultimately laid on the ta-dollars to each of the messengers of the Senate, ble on the motion of Mr. WAYNE, by a vote of was agreed to.. 89 to 63. On motion of Mr. GRUNDY, it was ordered that the Senate take a recess to-day from 3 o' clock till 5. Mr. DANIEL, from the Committee on the Ju diciary, to whom was referred various communications on the subject of printing a stereotype The Senate considered the amenement made addition of the laws of the United States, pre-to the bill for the relief of certain invalid pensented a report. sioners in which the House had refused to concur, and determined to adhere to their amend ment. Mr. DANIEL said, he was directed by the committee to move to take up the bill now on the table to provide for the printing of a stereo type edition of the laws, and accordingly made the motion. Mr. FOSTER asked if the motion was in order. Mr. CLAY said that the effect would be to take up business out of its usual course. Mr. FOSTER moved to lay the report on the table. Mr. PoLK asked for the yeas and nays on the question, which having been ordered and taken, it was decided in the affirmative, ayes 72, noes 69. All the other bills returned from the House, The bill for the relief of Middleton McKay. The bill concerning invalid pensioners; Mr. HUBBARD, from the Committee of Con- The resolution concerning the mode of car ference, reported the bill from the Senate for rying into effect the act supplementary to the the relief of invalid pensioners, with a recom act for the relief of the surviving officers and mendation that the House adhere to the amend-soldiers of the revolutionary wars ments. The House then took up the bills upon the table. a A resolution concerning the biennial register; The resolution on the subject of appointing day for prayer, fasting; and humiliation, on ac-three commissioners to treat with the Indians, count of the progress of the cholera, was, as and for other purposes; amended by the select committee, ordered to a third reading by a vote of ayes 79, noes 42. Mr. LAMAR moved an adjournment, but withdrew it by request of Mr. WILDE, who stated that it was necessary for the public service to take up an appropriation bill. Mr. WICKLIFFE moved to amend by includ ing all the bills from the Senate, and the bills to which the Senate have made amendments. The amendment was agreed to without a division. The bill for the discharge of sundry judg nents against the former Marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J. W. Lippincott & Co. On motion of Mr. BIBB, the previous orders were postponed, and the bill for the relief of John Peck was taken up and considered as in Committee of the Whole,and ordered to a third reading. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the unfinished husiness, the message of Mr. NEWTON moved to include the light-the President, and the bill to recharter the house bill also; negatived, ayes 49, noes 61. The House then went into a Comittee of the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. WAYNE in the chair. Bank of the United States; and Mr. BENTON, who had the floor, continued his remarks, be gun yesterday, in reply to Messrs. CLAY and WEBSTER. The supplementary appropriation bill was After some further remarks from Messrs. considered, and the amendments of the Senate CLAY and BENTON, the question, “shall this were agreed to. bill now pass?" was taken by yeas and nays, Mr. WILDE offered an amendment appropri-Land decided in the negative, yeas 22, nays 19, ating $500 for the removal of the remains, from there not being two-thirds voting in the affirm Rock Creek church, to the congressional bu-ative. rial ground, of James Jackson and James Jones, The Senate, after a recess from 3 to 5 o* clock, passed a few bills, and then spent the Mr. DEARBORN adverted to the statements remainder of the evening in Executive session. which have appeared in the public journals in In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, reference to the subject of the resolution, and a message was received from the Senate with to the fact of a vessel of the United States various bills, together with an announcement having been sometime ago attacked, and several that they had receded from the amendments persons on board of her murdered by the na made by them to the tariff bill. tives, on the coast of Sumatra. The Prest Mr. DRAYTON, from the Committee of Con-dent ordered the ship Potomac to proceed there ference appointed on this subject, presented a under the command of Captain Downes, for the report upon it. purpose of obtaining redress for this outrage Mr. WARD, from the Committee on Military They had attacked the principal town of the Affairs, submitted a report from Maj. General tribe, as appeared from letters stated to be from McComb, General-in Chief of the army in rela- an officer of the vessel, and from the circum tion to the enlistment of soldiers, and the esta-stances narrated, it was important to the honor blishment of schools, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. BRIGGS, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, made a report with various bills. Mr. CAMBRELENG moved leave of absence to Mr. WHITE, of New York, which was granted. On motion of Mr. ADAMS, the Committee on Manufactures, and on motion of Mr. CAMBRELENG, the Committee on Commere were severally discharged from the business remaining before them. Mr. SEMMES, by consent, laid upon the table, for consideration next session, a resolution on the subject of the previous question. of the country, of the naval service, and of the officer in command, that all the facts should be laid before the American people. He, (Mr. D.) was not acquainted with those parts, and did not know but that they would redound highly to the honor of the parties concerned; but he, nevertheless, desired to know them, from the deep solicitude which he felt on the subject. Mr. HOFFMAN concurred in the propriety of obtaining the information, and expressed his conviction that the facts would be found credi❤ table to the Executive, and to the officer commanding. He said this, he observed, for the temporary satisfaction of the gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr. DEARBORN,) and suggested The Committee on Naval Affairs was, on mo all the instructions given to Com. Downes, to a modification of the resolution so as to include tion of Mr. HOFFMAN, discharged from the bu-whose merits Mr. H. paid a warm tribute of ape siness before it, and the Committee of Claims, also, was discharged, on motion of Mr. WHITTLESEY, of Ohio. Mr. CRANE, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported a bill for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Wishart, which was read twice and committed. Mr. EVERETT, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution directing the clerk of the House to procure and furnish to each member of the House a copy of Elliott's debates on the federa constitution. Mr. SPEIGHT moved to lay the resolution on the table, upon which the vote was, ayes 43 noes 39. Upon the call of Mr. STANDIFER the aye, and noes were ordered, and the motion was agreed to, ayes 62, noes 55. plause. Mr. DEARBORN replied, and observed that no one could entertain a higher idea of the cha racter of captain Downes for honor and chivalry, than himself. His private friendship for that gentleman, as well as his knowledge of his professional and personal merits, was sufficient to show that he could have no intention in offer ing the resolution, to reflect upon one who had always shown himself ready to pour forth his blood for the service of his country. the publications which had appeared in the Mr. HUBBARD Considering it important, after newseapers, to act upon this subject at once, ly withdrew the motion, and the resolution was moved the previous question; but subsequentadopted without a division. Mr. CAMBRELENG submitted a resolution for Mr. ADAMS offered a resolution, which lies on the table one day, respecting an alteration of the rule of the House with respect to ques-sage, on the subject of the Bank. It lies upon the table one day. the printing of 10.000 copies of the veto mea tions of order. Mr. DEARBORN offered the following resolution: Mr. WICKLIFFE, on the part of the Commit tee of Conference, moved that the House re mendments to the bill for the relief of certain cede from their disagreement to the Senate a• invalid pensioners. Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to lay before this House, copies of the instructions given to the commander of the frigate Potomac, previous to [and] The House receded after a discussion of some since] the departure of that ship for the island length, in the case of one of the amendments, of Sumatra, and copies of such letters as may and refused to do so in respect to another. have been received from said commander after The House then went into the consideration of bills from the Senate. At 3 o'clock a recess was taken until 5, at which hour the House reassembled, and continued in disposing of Senate bills. It was exa pected to sit until a late period of the evening |