Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States,
WEDNESDAY, April, 6, 1836.



....A motion was made by Mr. Wise, that the rules in relation to the priority of business be suspended, to enable him to submit the following preamble and resolution, viz:

Whereas, Since the custody of the public money has been under the entire control of the Treasury Department, the Secretary of the Treasury, by himself or his agents, has selected certain local State banks as places of deposite, without regulation by law; and whereas there is great doubt about the agency by which the said deposite banks are selected and regulated; and whereas said agency is alleged to be improper and corrupt, effected by some person or persons not officers of the Government, or appointed or responsible as such, or known in any manner to the laws, and who are secretly paid large stipends or amounts of compensation for procuring the custody and the use of the public deposites; and whereas the said banks, for which the public deposites are thus procured, are in possession of the public money without charge of interest, or other charge whatsoever, for the use of the same; and the said person or persons, their agent or agents, are alleged to be political partisans, wielding the public deposites for electioneering purposes, dangerous to the purity of the Government, and to the liberties of the people: Therefore

Resolved, That a select committee be appointed, with power to send for persons and papers, to inquire into the mode or agency of selecting the banks of deposite for the public money; the contracts with the Treasury Department by which they are regulated; the manner in which, and the persons by whom, such contracts are made; into all correspondence whatsoever touching contracts for the public deposites; into all connection or relation, official or unofficial, which exists or has existed between any person or persons and the Treasury Department, or between them and the deposite banks, or any other individuals or banks, touching the custody and the control and deposite of the public money; and into the amount and mode of compensation of all persons whomsoever in any manner whatever connected with the Treasury Department or the deposite banks, having any agency whatever in negotiating between said Department and said banks, or any banks or individuals touching the public deposites; and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

And on the question, Shall the rule be suspended for the purpose aforesaid?

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Those who voted in the negative, are

Two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the motion was lost.

A motion was made by Mr. Peyton, that the rules in relation to the priority of business be suspended to enable him to submit a resolution, that the bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means, entitled a bill regulating the deposite of the money of the United States in certain local banks, together with any amendments which may be offered to the same, be made the special order of the day, and that it have precedence over all other business of the House from the hour of twelve o'clock on the second Monday in May next, and on each preceding day from the same hour, Friday and Saturday excepted, until the same shall be finally disposed of.

And on the question, Shall the rule be suspended for the purpose aforesaid?

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Those who voted in the negative, are



It appears that We The People have been getting screwed for quite some time now, doesn't it?

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