Phenix Gazette

CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.
In The Senate—The bill to authorize the legal Representatives of the Marquis de Maison Rouge, and those claiming under him, to institute a suit against the United States, and for other purposes, was under discussion the whole day. The bill was reported by the Judiciary Committee, and gave rise to a good deal of desultory debate, on the details of the bill, in which Messrs. Van Buren, Randolph, Tazewell, Johnston, Berrien, Holmes, Brown, and Eaton participated. Mr. Randolph opposed it as novel in its principle, and one, as extraordinary, as to pass a law establishing an order of Nobility, or an exclusive Church. If this rat, said he, should burrow through the dyke, through the levees of the Mississippi, the whole country would be inundated. It introduced a principle not only unknown, but incompatible with a free Constitution, which meant equal justice to all men. He was opposed to the mode of settling such large cases by judicial tribunals.