Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1802-02-20
OF THE UNITED STATES.
TUESDAY,, February 2. 1904.
JUDICIART ELL.

JUDICIART BILL.
MIR. BRacKgNRIDGs roi. and oblcrvcd,
that il would be recolleetcd he yeit:rday gave
notice. that he ihouid thi. day move 20 difchasge
the ieleet committee, 20 whcm the judiciary bill
was lat week committed. AS there are fome
gentlemen (conrinucd Ms. B. now in the Senate
who were nor preieat daring any part OF the diff
cufIion which thar iabj-et met with, deem il
proper TO Fay fcw words, as to its prosrc!s and
as TO the real htuation in which it now hands.
Early in January, this diicufion commrnc-
cd on aTefolaIioo going to the unqualified repeal
of the judiciary law Of rhc laft fsiiion. After
many days bcbste, and at the momens when the
queition wa. about 90 be put 90 the reiolu,ion,
a motion was made to transform il into rciol1.
tion for the aaendmcnr. initcad Of ,Iie repeal Of
the law. Thus was nesatived. The reiolotion
was then paaed bin brought iu, and carried
TO the fecond reading. when another motion was
made to recommt It to fcictt committee, for
the pnrpole of amending the fyaem. This was
ALTO negatived. The bill was then ordered to
It's third reading, and on the queiion for It's paf.
fage anothes motion was made for its commit.
nlent 10 aielett committee. and carried by the
calting vote of the chsir.--ln this iituat:on il
now TcAs.
During The whole OF the difcuf1ion, thole
who were in favor OF the repeal uniformly argu.
ed aud voted againa any thing like amendments.
They over and agair avowed il as their opinion,
that they would no, content 10 % into any a.
neadnenn in the judiciary fyfcm. until that
law wa, repealed thar they copGdered lis exiE
tcacc as an inluperable bar 20 all amendments |;
and that indeed the only great amend :nenr, which
they wiihed tor at this time, was repeal Of that
law, the obnoxious tendencies Of which were,
cancer-likc, TO be only certsialy removed by CO.
ing 10 its roots.
On the other hand the gentlemen in oppo-
Gsion consended, thar the lay was enacted and
made with great delib.ration aod ~ilioln; that
il was ehential TO ,h: due standardization OF iuf-
iicc. and the peace of the nation, and that even
admitting the courts and judges ereeied by that
law were ufeles and burheniome, We, CorgIcis
had not the power to put down ,hoie courts and
judges.
From this Rstc Of things. what can be ex.
peeted from the labor of thi, committee ! Can
they on the one hand. forward the views Of lhofe.
who carried 10 third reading bill to repeal
certain act which they conGdcred a. fundamen.
tally vicious, by attempting q amend thar set
On The other hand. can they forward the views
Of thofe Who think thia law the rcfuls of expe.
ri,nce and wifdom, and moreover faaened on
the nation by the conaitution, oy attempting to
make radical changes in il I Can they in fhort,
from two foch con,radiffory and oprofite opin-
ions, At variance 10 principle and not in detail,
ever hope 10 prodoce any thing that will be Fat.
isfattory 10 both Gdes l--Thcy cannot, and il
appears 10 me impo1lble that gentlemen can &C.
siouily expect il.
coniider il, Mr. PseGdent continued Mr..
d. az great contea on principle. and not on
detail. A committee cannot, and ought not to
fe,tle principles. On the Aoor Of this Hcuie
alone ought principles furniihing ,he ground.
work Of Iegi0Alion to he originated and fet,led.
Details only are proper from your ielsd commit
teea-wc cannot abandon this qosaion. IL
cannot be fufered to efcape US, or be entsngled
in -fwms.--lt muf he fcttled.--We mutt on
this aoof meet the piain unqualified queaion Of
repeal.
And in order that We may be enabled to do
10, now move you, that the committee to whom
the bill was referred, on Wednesday lsa, be dif-
charged from proceeding further ths,ein.--Thr
bill will then be ready for its psGage and the
whole merits Of the fubjca open TO difcufion.
Mr.. Dayton faid he would not have rissn
70 foon n the debate. had the member from
Kentucky been more corrctf in shc Information
given the Senate. IL muft be fecoIIcted by the
Senate. contrary TO the 9enslemsns aasement,
that neither the fra, fecoad OF third nosions
made on the fubjees were the fame. The 6ra
motion was to revife and amend, inAcad Of re-
pesi'she act Of the hR feiion. and was mega
tived she feccnd ~m for revi6ng the whole
Judiciary fYaem. and connecting sherewith a
proviiicn fcr the judges, which had bern difap.
proved Of hy one honorable ecnsIeman, aad alto
seessived; the third 70 far difEerd from the &C.
cond. - to Be- agreeable 10 that honorable mem
b:r. AID Naa a9reed 50.