Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-02

A"enty-uiel ScnSresS'
Ut the business transacted in both Houses, an
account will be found in the preceding columns.
We shall shortly publish a complete List of
the Acts which have passed during the session.
Ut the bills which passed on Saturday evening
last, 1t will be observed, that the President put
his reto upon one of great Importance to this
District and to the upper part of the State of Ma
ryland and the whole Western country, and in
which, as a connecting link of the great Ma
tonal Road to the West, the whole Union was
interested.
1t will be seen, also, that the bill for making
additional appropriation for the Louisville and
Portland Canal, and the general bill concerning
Lighthouses. buoys, harbors, SC. have been
retained BY the President for fuller considera-
ton. This course is believed to be without a pre-
cedent, but is not on that ground Objectionable,
1t legal. We have looked into the Constitution,
and suppose that, from its phraseologv, if the
President shall at any time hereafter, during his
Presidency, sign these bills they will become
laws. Such was certainly not the intention of
the Constitutions; nor, we suppose, is it the inten-
ton of the President to retain these bills beyond
the time necessary for their due consideration.-
One of these bills is Of a description which has
annually received the sanction Of all the branch
es of the Government for these many years past,
and in which in the present instance, although the
aggregate amount involved is not large. tWenty
Of the States of this Union besides the Terrific
rics, are more or less interested.
The determination Of the President in regard
to these three last bills, produced more of a sem
sation than any thing that usually occurs at the
close ola session of Congress. The Admins
traton is considered, by the rejection of the
Rockville and Frederick Road bill to have taken
ground against Internal Improvement, much more
decidedly than was looked for generally.
A novel proceeding, yesterday, is the message
of the President, qualifying his appreciation of
one of the bills which he signed. 1t is supposed
BY some, that this qualification may affect the con-
struction of the part of the bill to which it refers.
This idea, however, must be erroneous; as 1t Is
p~alpably contrary to the genius of the Constitu-
ton that the President shall make (by construing)
the laws and Their execute them. The law must
be Judged by lis terms, and not by the Presi-
dents mental reservation in signing it.
The weather was fine Yesterday; and within
an hour after the adjournment, three fourths Of
all the members had dispersed North, East, West
and South, to their respective homes.
Nat. ht. Of Tuesday.
go
No bill concerning the District of Columbia
has become a law. recently. except the bill con-
corning the Judges of the Orphans Court, and
that to amend the Charter of Georgetown. The
labors of the Committees on the District of Co.
Iumbia, to whose disinterested zeal we are so
much indebted, have proved wholly fruitless.-
The two Houses have not deigned to second the
labors of their committees. The people of the
District are the slaves to the caprice of Those who
do not represent them, and appear to care very
little for the interests of those who alone, of all
the Union, are committed exclusively to the charge
Of the Congress of the United States.-B.
900
Although it is understood that in reply to the
invitation of the Executive, Mr.. RANDoLPH did
not say explicitly whether he would OF would not
accept the Mission to Russia. vet private letters
leave no room to doubt that he will accept the
appointment.-B
sxE9GSezs
The House OF Representatives very properly
restored, on Saturday evening. the Office of
DraughfSman. and thus destroyed the only me-
mortal of RetrenChment which the present Ad-
ministratlon has furnished. And this instance.
like the whole system of Jackson Retrenchment.
was fallacious. The office is mecessary; the s-
lary is $1,000, and the debate on abolishing it is
estimated to have cost the nation about $40, OO0!
Nat. jour. Of Tuesday.
$50
1t will be recollected that Mordecai Nj. Noah
was rejected by a majority of two votes when
erery member of the Senate was present. Gen.
jackson, with his characteristic indelicacy, re-
nominated him Wien he knew that two Senators
were absent. 1t was never contemplated, and
has never we believe, occurred before, except in
thecase Of Kendall, that the Vice President of the
United States. who is not a member of the Sen
ate, should exercise the casting vote on nomina-
tioas. or when baAoting is resorted to.-B.
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The Hon. Richard Rush, late Secretary of the
Treasury, is about to dispose of his household
effects at Washington. The York, Pa. Repub-
lican states that he is soon to become a residentof
that borough. and has Major Enmett's spacious
dwelling in the Southern limits Of the town, on
the Baltimore road.
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Raleigh, ". C. May 24.-The Rutherford
Spectator saws. that the Locusts have made their
appearance. in that county and the adjoining ones
to the east and south, in such numbers as have
never before been equalled. Every tree top has