Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1832-12-20
ANOTHER VETO.

In the Senate or Thursday the President laid
before the Senate the following Message, received
from the President Of tie United States
WAsHINdToN, Dec. G, 1882.
To The Senate ofAs Omitted SUITES;
avail myself of this carly opportunity to return
to the Senate in which il originated, he bill enti-
lied An act providing for tho final settlement of
the claims Of States for interest on advances to
the United States, made during the las, war;" with
tho reasons which induced me to withhold my APP
probation in consequence Of hch it has tailed to
become law.
This bill was presented 10 me for my signature
on the last day Of your session, aud when ] was
compelled to consider q variety Of other bills Of
greater urgency to the public service. 1t obviously
| embraced principle in the allowance Of interest
different from that which had been sanctioned by
the practice Of the accounting officers, by the pre-
vlous legislation of Congress, in regard to advan-
ces by the States. and without any apparent,
grounds for the change.
Previously to giving my sanction to so great an
extension Of the practice Of allowing interest upon
accounts with the government, and which, in its
| consequences, and from analogy, might not only
call for large pay ments from the Treasury but dis
t,rb the great mass of Individual accounts long
since finally settled, deemed i, my duty to make a
more thorough investigation Of the subject than il
was possible for me to do previously 10 the close Of
yuur Inst SEES sion adopted this course the more
readily from the consideration that as the bill con
| tanned no appropriation, the States which would
have been entitled to claim its benefits could not
have received them without the Further leg station
| Of Congress.
The principle which this bill authorizes, varies
| not only from the practice uniformly adopted by
many Of the accounting Officers in the of ind
Yidur counts, and in tn s. Of the States finally
settled and closed previously to your last session,
but also from dat pursued under the act OF your
F, Ias session. for tie aips,ment and settlement Of
! lie claims of the State OF South Carolina, This
! last act prescribed particular mole for the al
lowancc ofiatcrest, winch, therefore, in conldrmi-
ry with the directions Of Congress in previous ca
SIS, aud with the uniform practice Of the Auditor
by whom Tue arcoun, was settled, was computed
on the suns expended by the State Of South Caro-
E, lima ion tn use AM bcoedt OF the United States,
! and which aad been repaid 10 the State, and the
payments made by the United States were deducted
| from lie principal sums, Exclusive Of the interest
thereby stopping future interest on so much OF
lhe isriacipu as had been reimbursed by the pay
m,.i,,
! ieem il proper, moreover. 10 observe, that
loa der the act of August, 1870 and that Of the
.sih OF February, 1873, authorizing the settlement
| o. the accounts between tbs United States, and the
| adiyl3aal States, arising out The war OF the
! r, VOCATION the interest on these accounts was
computed III conformity with the practice already
aiger,ed to- end from which the bill! now roturncr
is departure
VIII these reasons and considerations, return
TIE bt!i 10 lie Senate.
ANDREW JACKSON.
psccn,he' g. 1892.
On motion of Mr. SMITH, the Message was or
dcred To be lad on the table, and printed.