Kentucky Gazette

The Observer, and most of the Whig presses are pouring forth their Jeremiads that Messrs. Clay, Webster and Calhoun have neither been elected by the Senate as chairman of a responsible committee. Every whig voted, we have no doubt, for each of those gentlemen: yet we have no complaint of the tenacity with which that party adheres together. If all the Whigs, like one man, voted for them, is it strange that all the Republicans should select another? We have witnessed this proscriptive course on the part of the Whigs, whenever they had an opportunity of exercising it, from the vote for President down to State Representative. Then why make such bitter lamentations, that their adversaries play the same game?

We have often remarked, that the inventors, or discoverers of valuable things, always received the benefit of their inventions or discoveries. For instance, he who invented gunpowder, was blown up by it. He who invented the guillotine, was reduced a head shorter by its knife. Now, if we recollect aright, it was formerly the custom, for the Vice President to appoint the committees, but some individual made the discovery, that as he was not an elected Senator it was not his province to appoint, but that the Senate should elect. Now, we ask, for information, who has received the benefit of this discovery.

Senate Committees
Elected by Ballot Dec. 13.

Foreign Relations--Messrs. Buchanan, Tallmadge, King of Ga. Clay and Rives.

France-- Messrs. Wright, Webster, Cuthbert, Nicholas and Benton.

Commerce--Messrs. King, of Ala., Davis, Linn, Brown, and Ruggles.

Manufactures--Messrs. Niles, Morris Black, Hubbard. and Preston

Agriculture--Messrs. Page, Morris, Kent, M'Kean, and Clay.

Military Affairs--Messrs. Benton, Preston, Tipton, Wall, and Ewing, of Ill.

Militia- Messrs. Wall, Hendricks, Swift, Ewing, of Il.

Naval Affairs--Messrs. Rives, Southard, Tallmadge, Cuthbert, and Nicholas.

Public Lands--Messrs. Walker, Ewing, of Ohio, King, of Ala. Ruggles, and Fulton.

Private Land Claims--Messrs. Linn, Porter, Bayard, Preston, and Sevier.

Indian Affairs--Messrs. White, Swift, Tipton, Linn and Sevier.

Claims--Messrs. Hubbard, Tipton, Preston, Crittenden and Ewing of Ill.

Revolutionary Claims--Messrs. Brown, White, Hubbard, Crittenden. and Niles.

Judiciary--Messrs. Grundy, Crittenden, Morris, King, of Ga. and Wall.

At this stage of the balloting, the Senate adjourned.