South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-03-14
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most important bill, supported in the
Senate by men of all parties.)
| The bill Indemnifying Claimants
for French SpoliatiOns before 1900.
| These half dozen (not to speak of
the bill for the relief Of the Cities of the
District Of Columbia; the bill proyid.
ing for the increase of the Corps of
Engineers; the bill to carry into effect
the Convention between the United
States and Spain; and the bill TO i'm.
prove the navigation Of the Mississip.
pi in the vicinity Of St. Louis are a.
mong the bills which were sent from
the Senate to the House Of Represen.
tatiyes, Sand never heard of more"
The fate of two of the appropriation
Bills, however, originating, as such
Bills always do, in the House of Rep.
resentatives, is still more remarkable.
Hitherto it has been usual to make
the appropriations for the Military A.
cademy at West Point in the same bill
which contains the general appropria.
tons for the Army. This year an in.
novation was INDUCED. The Army
Appropriation Bill was sent to the Sem
ATE with no appropriation whatever for
West Point. This circumstance was
noticed, at the time, in the Senate, and
its attention called to it, as an extraor-
binary omission. A separate Bill,
however, containing the usual appro.
priations for the Academy, was brought
forward in the House, but suffered to
sleep. Up to the last day for sending
bills from one house to the other, il had
not passed. The house took no step
whatever to pass the Bill, by suspend.
ing the operation of the rule, as to the
time Of sending bills from house to
house, or 10 any other way. In this
predicament, individuals of the house
besought the Committee of the Senate
TO interfere, and, in some e1fraordina.
ry~way, help to pass the ordinary ap.
preparation ,hro' Congress. The Sen.
ate, accordingly, attached the whole
Military Academy appropriation bill
to the bill! making provision for the
Civil and Diplomatic Expenditures of
the year, and in this form it passed in.
to alaw; and, but for the adoption Of
this mode, there could have been no
appropriation at all, and the school
would have been broken up. We may
add, that, when this bill for covering
Civil and Diplomatic Expenses went
back to the house, with amendments,
the occasion was eagerly seized to add
to the Senate's amendments other a.
mandments respecting totally different
matters, thus giving the bill a tail as
Icing as that Of comet. Thus the bill
pending in the house, making provision
for the repairs of the Capitol and the
Presidents House, improving the pub
lie grounds, paying the Presidents
gardener, &c. &c. was tackled on to the
bill, as being among the Civil and Dip
lomatic expenses Of the Government
The bill, however, and we rejoice
at it, had the goodness to pass, with all
its length of trail, and (thanks to the
Senate, and no thanks to the House of
Representatives the West Point Acad-
envy, was kept alive.
Not so fortunate was the other of the
two appropriation bills to which we
have alluded above. The FoRTIFI-
CATION Bill is TOTALLY LOST Yes,
in this very critical moment of affairs,
not only has any new measure of de-
tending the country been adopted, but
the bill for the usual annual appropri-
alton for Notifications is totally lost!
We can hardly credit ourselves when
we write this paragraph. Yet such is
the fact; not dollar is appropriated
to Notifications, and we doubt whether
il be not the bounden duty of the Pre-.
sident to call the new Congress at the
earliest day possible. Certainly-most
certainIy--such is his duty, if he has
any reasonable apprehension whatever
of hostility with foreign nation.
The Intelligencer then proceeds to
give history of this bill--occupying
better than column of that paper.
Among other things which the house
of Representatives left undone, was e.
lection of Printer TO that body for the
next Congress. That election would
have been made, but for the attempt to
introduce, in connection with it, a pro-
vision, directly contrary to law, that
the election should be made vica ooce.
This illegal innovation was OF course
resisted, and its opponents proved too
many for those who were afraid to trust
them to balloting. So the election
| lies over. How i. would have result
I'd had the elscfinn come ON or come