The Camden Journal

THE CAMDEN JOURNAL

CAMDEN, S. CAROLINA:

WEDNESDAY MORNING: JULY 21, 1841

CONGRESS

The business before this body proceeds but slowly. In the House of Representatives, but two questions have been disposed of, the one that of passing an act to distribute among the States the proceeds of the public lands and the other an act authorising a loan of twelve millions of dollars. Both these measures of course have yet to be discussed in the Senate.

In the Senate, but one question has been disposed of—that of repealing the Subtreasury law, and that is not yet taken up in the House. The Senate were engaged at our latest dates in discussing the Bank bill, without any immediate probability of taking the question. There seems yet to be great doubt whether Mr. Clay's bill will pass the Senate.

A friend (who is, by the by, no politician) on his way to the North, writes us and says "while at Washington I visited the Senate Chamber and heard arguments for and against the new Bank. It would be difficult to determine which was the right side, as both were very conclusive." This, we presume, is about as satisfactory an account of the doings in the Senate, and as near a guess at the result, as a mere looker on could be expected to make.

Mr. Buchanan gave notice that if the bill was passed he should raise the standard of Repeal; he was ready to show that Congress had the right to repeal the law, and declared that it would be repealed.

Some talk of an adjournment has been held, and the 14th August spoken of as the day, but unless business progresses much more rapidly than it has yet done, an adjournment need not be expected before the first of September.