Martinsburg Gazette

Congressional.—[It will be remembered by our readers, that during the past winter, the Secretary of the Treasury issued an order for the removal from the Bank of the United States, of the pension fund, the custody and payment of which to the veterans of the Revolution, was intrusted by the laws to the Bank of the United States. The Bank resisted the order of the Secretary and denied his authority, whereupon the President sent a Proclamation to Congress, denouncing the conduct of that institution, relative thereto. The following are the closing proceedings on this subject in the Senate, which, by an oversight, we have not published before.]

IN SENATE.
MONDAY, MAY 26.
The special order of the day was resumed, being the report of the Committee on the Judiciary on the Pension Books: and Mr. Kane concluded his remarks, and was followed by Mr. Bibb, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Clayton.
The question was then taken on agreeing to the following resolution, (moved by way of amendment to the original report,) as follows:
Resolved, That the Department of War is not warranted in appointing pension agents in any State or Territory, where the Bank of the United States, or one of its branches, has been established; except when specially authorized by act of Congress.
And decided as follows:
YEAS—Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Forsyth, Frelinghuysen, Kent, King of Ga., Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Preston, Robbins, Shepley, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, Waggaman, Webster—28.
NAYS—Messrs. Benton, Brown, Grundy, Hill, Kane, King of Ala., Linn, McKean, Morris, Robinson, Tallmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins, Wright—15.
So this resolution was agreed to.
The question was then taken upon agreeing to the following resolution:
Resolved, That the act of Congress "for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Revolution," passed on the 15th of May, 1828, and the act supplementary to that act, passed on the 7th June, 1832, are properly acts providing for the payment of Military Pensions.
And decided as follows:
AYES—Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, Kent, King of Georgia, Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, Waggaman, Webster—26.
NAYS—Messrs. Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Grundy, Hill, Kane, King of Alabama, Linn, McKean, Morris, Robinson, Shepley, Tallmadge, Tipton, White, Wilkins, Wright—17.
So the resolution was agreed to.
The question was then taken on agreeing to the following resolution:
Resolved, That no power is conferred by any law upon the Department or Secretary of War, to remove the agency for the payment of pensioners under the said act of the 7th June, 1832, and the funds, books, and papers, connected with that agency, from the Bank of the United States, and to appoint other agents to supersede that Bank in the payment of such pensioners,
And decided in the affirmative without a division.