Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-20
THE DEPOsITE QUESTION IN THE vtR.
GINA HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

THE DEPOSITE QUESTION IN THE ytR.
GINA HOUSE OF DELEGATES
Pursuant to notice, Mr.. Barbour, called IN
the Report the Select Committee on the De.
posites.
The first question being upon the first Resi-.
luton of the Commute,
Mr.. Gilmer moved to substitute it by the SJ
lowing:
Whereas it is deemed essential by the Gem
raj Assembly OfVirgnia, that the power to lew
taxes to appropriate money, and to control tho
public revenue, should be made to abide, in
practice where alone it has been confde3
by our Constitution, in the immediate ren.
resentatives of the people; and whereas all ex-
perience Of the actual operations of Govern
ments demonstrates that the assumption and
exercise by them, of unauthorized powers, be-
come precedents, if silently acquicSced in for
progressive, and still greater encTOachmentS
therefore,
RESOLVED, That the recent attempt Of the
President of the u. States to exert an indirect
control over the federal revenue by causing
the same to be removed, on his own respons.
bility, from the u States Bank, (where it had
been deposited under authority OF an act Of
Congress purporting to charter said Bank Is
in the opinion Of this General Assembly, an W.
authorised assumption and exercise OF EXecQ
tive power.
Mr. Gilmer's substitute was amended in SeYe.
raj particulars, and finally adopted by vote Of
76 to 53-the House voting without much refer
ence to party.
The I'd Resolution Of the Committee was then
adopted. 1t is in the following words:
"Resolred That, while this General Assem-.
bly will ever maintain and defend the President
of the United States in the exercise OF such
powers as the Constitution has clearly contded
70 him it nevertheless Contemplates with anX.
iety and dismay, the disposition evinced Of late
to extend those powers beyond the proper llni.
tations of that instrument disposition clearly
manifested in the recent subsection TO EXecU-
tive control, of the Treasury Department Of
the Federal Government in the exercise of an
important discretion, for which It was made
solely responsible TO Congress-deplorlng as
this General Assembly does that interference as
illegal and unconstitutional, and concurfmgl IN
the sentiment Of one of the most sagacious and
patriotic sons of Virginia, that no nation ever
long maintained its freedom, which sumendeI5
to or suffers to be grasped by the same hand
the power over the purse and the sword"
Patrick HENRY
This Resolution, to the word Congress, was
adopted, by a vote Of 81 to 49.-lt shows the true
sense ofthe House, upon the Executive conduct
in the removal Of the DepOsites.
The House Of Delegates thus showing de-
termned disposition to censure the remoyalo
the Deposites, and the conduct of the EXeco
tive therein, the friends Of Mr.. Van Buren, setto
work to break the force of a blow which they
could not altogether evade.
They succeeded in their plan of operations
and the House, by vote of IS to 3d. adopted
Resolution offered by Mr.. Stevenson OF Spots,
sylvania, declaring the Bank unconstitutional
Some of the friends ofthe Bank declared their
purpose, if this Resolution prevailed, to vote tor
an indefinite postponement of the whole subject
and a motion to that effect, made by Mr.. Col
ston, was under consideration, when the House
adjourned.