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1
Month
July
Year
1844
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Both Houses adjuurned Jutte 17, aíter a long and tedious sessidn, ia which scarcely ny thing useful halbeen don. The Senate have voted not to abolish the rum rations aiid ftoggittg cüstome of the navy. The umform eleciiotï fixing a doy for voting for Président waslaftï the tablc by the Senate. 26 to 25. We fintf the followirjg items in' tHte Boston Chronicle. The House adopted the resolution distributing $158,000 worrh of books the rtew mem'■ bers. A tremen'douïf opbosltion Waó1 niade, believed to 6e chiefly for show and for effect at home, as not one-fifih coüld be found to cali for the yeoá ahd nays! This ia a monstrous abuse - eachj riiah getó aDiout $800 tfortb. of Dóoka ai the expense of the governmentl Put it to them at the polls. The appropriatioh bilis atfe all paased - mostly without any of the checkö and aafeguards which ihe present administraron has shoVrn to beeo necessnry. The House passed a string of resolutions denounéing a national Bank - nays 63. Thiá was to get the Whig party openly committed infaVbrofa nationat bank- which canoot but hurt them af the North. The Senate rejected Mr. Green of New Jersey ,as secretary of thé treasury; and the president in8tantly" noniinaied Jüdge Bibb, of Kentucky, whose merit of being n slavcliolder and having recently writ'ten an elabórate essay in favor of Texas', secüred his instant uváiúmons confirmation by a Whig Señale! N. P.Tallmadgé, ofN. Y., was" nominated and confirmed unanimously, asgovenjor oí Wiskonean Territory. Üe having jreat merita as aWhig, and havmg voted for Texas on all occasions, was allowed to pass. The nominationa of Chancellor Walworth, of New York, and Mr. King, of Pennsylvania, as judgeaof the U. S. Supremo Court, were Iaidon the table. The lat ter we suppose. wai a proper disposal of what appears too much üke one of Robert Tyler'sdinner arrangements. The former, ík connectiou with the previous refusai to confirm John C. Spencer, ought to awaken a deep ndignation io the State of New York. Only think that the whole central portion of the Union, including the two principal cilios, isthus to be deprived of ihe benefits of the U. S. Circuit Court for two full years, in hopes to secure to Henry Clay the opportunity to appoint aslaveholder, or to reward some servile partís.. The post-oflïce reform sleeps on tho table of the House, like a northern threshing machine on a Virginia plantation, laid aside because the overseer does not know enough to put it in operation. It is aaid tlftt the President has determined to cali an extra ession of Congress, to meet early in September, when he will again bring forward the subject of the annexation of Tex08. Ort the day of adjournment, Judge Walworth's name was withdrawn, and John' C. Spencer noxninated for the U. S. Court. Tha Senate not taking action on this nomination, the President vvithdrew the name of Mr. Spencer, and again nominated Mr. Walworth; this nomination was aid on the table.

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