BANK OF THE UNITED STATES--BILL FOR THE RENEWED CHARTER PASSED IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The bill which had passed the Senate, after a long and arduous
contest, quickly passed the House, with little or no contest at
all. The session was near its end; members were wearied; the result
foreseen by every body--that the bill would pass--the veto be
applied--and the whole question of charter or no charter go before
the people in the question of the presidential election. Some
attempts were made by the adversaries of the bill to amend it, by
offering amendments, similar to those which had been offered in the
Senate; but with the same result in one House as in the other. They
were all voted down by an inexorable majority; and it was evident
that the contest was political, and relied upon by one party to
bring them into power; and deprecated by the other as the flagrant
prostitution of a great moneyed corporation to partisan and election
purposes. The question was soon put; and decided by the following
votes:
YEAS.--Messrs. Adams, C. Allan, H. Allen, Allison, Appleton,
Armstrong, Arnold, Ashley, Babcock, Banks, N. Barber, J. S.
Barbour, Barringer, Barstow, I. C. Bates, Briggs, Bucher,
Bullard, Burd, Burges, Choate, Collier, L. Condict, S. Condit,
E. Cooke, B. Cooke, Cooper, Corwin, Coulter, Craig, Crane,
Crawford, Creighton, Daniel, J. Davis, Dearborn, Denny, Dewart,
Doddridge, Drayton, Ellsworth, G. Evans, J. Evans, E. Everett,
H. Everett, Ford, Gilmore, Grennell, Hodges, Heister, Horn,
Hughes, Huntington, Ihrie, Ingersoll, Irvin, Isacks, Jenifer,
Kendall, H. King, Kerr, Letcher, Mann, Marshall, Maxwell, McCoy,
McDuffie, McKennan, Mercer, Milligan, Newton, Pearce, Pendleton,
Pitcher, Potts, Randolph, J. Reed, Root, Russel, Semmes, W.
B. Shepard, A. H. Shepperd, Slade, Smith, Southard, Spence,
Stanberry, Stephens, Stewart, Storrs, Sutherland, Taylor, P.
Thomas, Tompkins, Tracy, Vance, Verplanck, Vinton, Washington,
Watmough, E. Whittlesey, F. Whittlesey, E. D. White, Wickliffe,
Williams, Young--106.
NAYS.--Messrs. Adair, Alexander, Anderson, Archer, J. Bates,
Beardsley, Bell, Bergen, Bethune, James Blair, John Blair,
Bouck, Bouldin, Branch, Cambreleng, Carr, Chandler, Chinn,
Claiborne, Clay, Clayton, Coke, Conner, W. R. Davis, Dayan,
Doubleday, Felder, Fitzgerald, Foster, Gaither, Gordon, Griffin,
T. H. Hall, W. Hall, Hammons, Harper, Hawes, Hawkins, Hoffman,
Hogan, Holland, Howard, Hubbard, Jarvis, Cave Johnson, Kavanagh,
Kennon, A. King, J. King, Lamar, Leavitt, Lecompte, Lewis, Lyon,
Mardis, Mason, McCarty, McIntire, McKay, Mitchell, Newnan,
Nuckolls, Patton, Pierson, Polk, E. C. Reed, Rencher, Roane,
Soule, Speight, Standifer, F. Thomas, W. Thompson, J. Thomson,
Ward, Wardwell, Wayne, Weeks, Wheeler, C. P. White, Wilde,
Worthington.--84.