Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-08-22
THE DEFERRED BILLS.

Inc ln,elilgencer complains that the Presl-
dent did not return bill handed to him at the
last hour of the session, appropriatng more than
hall million OF dollars for the improvement OF
certain rivers and harbors. The Intelligencer
speaks of this bill as strictly CONSTITUTIONAL being
for the improvement Of national obiects-"H ar-
bours and Rivers" Il may be that the bill was
untitled the "Harbor Bill, to enable the worthy
National Republican Editors to practice decep-
ton upon The public We find among the items
Of this bill, however, appropriations to some oil
The most unimportant local objects. For instance,
we have "For the improvement of Bank Creek,
twenty thousand dollars" and various other SINH
lar appropriations, some Of which we beiie, c
were included within the bill formerly rejected
BY the veto of the President.
In permitting Ibis bill, and another providing
for The payment Of interest on CLAIMS of the
States for advances during the war, to lay over
to the next session, to take time to examine into
their merits, the Editor insists that the Presiden!
exhibits "ano!her case of assumption by the Exc
cuiIve OF authority belonging properly to Con
lgress''
With what propriety the Executive exerted his
constitutional rights, in the instances alluded to,
the public will decide from the reasons assigned
by him 20 the committee that waited upon him
preliminary to the adjournment Of the Houses.
We learn that he observed to the Committee IN
relation to the bills in question-that he had
withheld Tor consideration, the bill entitled an act
Tor the Improvement OF ceriain harbors, and the
navigation of certain Rivers-that some of the
items Of its appropriations conficted with the
principles laid down in his message returning the
Maysvile Road Bill, and also with those stated
In his annual message to Congress OF December,
hate Of
peared to be for objects of local nature, and
that time sufficient for examination of their true
character had not been allowed.
He also withheld for consideration, Che re-
marked to the Commltlee) an act providing for
the final settlement of the claims of the States for
interest on advances 10 the United States, made
during the last war, which he conceived intro
duced new principles In relation to those claims.
lie stated that 1t was supposed the bill would
draw from the Treasury upwards Of three million
|dollars-that II had been passed hastily at the
close OF the session, ITO members, barely quo
rum being present, and IS only, out OF 2i3 men,
bers of the House voting for it-lhat' the new
principle contained in the bill, and the circum-
stances under which 1t had been passed would
require more Consideration than the short time
now allowed would permit-lhat he, therefore
would tor the present, retain the bill, intending to
draw the attention Of the next Congress to the
important changes it would introduce.
| He remarked, in conclusion, to the committee
that he had not received the journal of the Sen
ate, and was not advised whether all the nomna
tons made to the Senate of offices which were
to be permanently filled during the session, or tc
become vacant at the close of 1t, had been ap
proved or rejected.-GIobe.