The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-04-08

Tuesday night, 1t was not disposed of before What
time was there, then left, for fair adjustment, and
IN the usual way of the disagreement between the
two Houses to the Fertilization Bl If ,ber,
was not time, and who can pretend there was,-
who was in fan the House or the Senate Who
had the bill in their hands more than one third of
the whole session before they passed upon it l-TnE
SENATE.
We find a great display made in the Providence
journal the occasion of which is that eight men in
Newport ofthe most redoubtabie respectability wrote
to Mr. Robbins and requested him to state the facts as
to the loss of the Fortification Bill They first be-
gin by telling him that the Senate was right and
the house wrong, but not relying on their own pom
derO"s respectabihty they ask him to confirm it.
These eight men it should be borne in mind are all
Bank men, all aided the panic, all worship Henry
Clay as their common idol in fact they are par
ty men of the most cast, and SUCH rs in
our opinion, whatever may be their respectabihty in
other respects, still not very respectable in mat
ters OF common sense and judgment, more especial
y IN the political department. But as some ofthem
always go dressed up, and wash their faces once a
day and their hands twice, that portion are easily
oyerrated when they get as far from home as the
imperial city of Providence, which accounts for
their having been exhibited there instead of where
they were better known.
Now we will take the liberty of asking Mr.. Rob-
bins some questions ourselves and as we presume
he Is desirous of convincing the Republicans more
than he is the FcdcraIists, who are already convin
ced by instinct, presume he will be glad of nm
,,t,ity
Robbins facts as stated by him in his reply for our
text. Ii the bill came from the House on the 2Ist
of January appropratng 139 OOO for Notifications
almost one quarter of which, say 100000 was for
Newport why did you, Mr.. Robbins, let it slumber
IN the Senate until the 10th of February when was
reported to the Senate Could not your friend Web
ster have been urged to make his report in less than
twcnty-siX days When the bill was reported could
not the Senate act upon it until the 23d period Of
seven days more Could not you Mr. Robbins in
the course OF the first twenty-sx days have moved
the passage of the bill it came from the House,
especially rs 1t then contained all the grant for New
port that was asked either before or afterwards
Could you not as well have concurred with the
House IN their bill which contained all that was ask
ed, tor the fortliicaous already commenced, and
have sent another bill to the House for the appropr-
atoms tor new works, rs well as to cngraft them on
the bill from the House; by which addition the orip
nal bill, you must have known, might be endancer
ed, and as 1t has since proved finally lost You
ask why the House could not have agreed to the
bill as amended in the Senate. with the addition Of
@l30,O00 for new works, and then if they wanted
a further sum of S3,00000O to meet the contingent
cy OF war, have sent bill to the Senate for
that purpose, and not have hazarded the s439 900
for old works, and 100000 for new? We answer
that you set them the first example of hazardng the
grant for old works, by adding the grant for new
ones, and the House hazarded both for the purpose
of providing the means of common defence.
We ask first why you did not secure the 800, 900
for Newport in the first instance, when the House
has done so, and the bill was only to be concurred
IN by the Senate; in which the house had no
power to retract! We ask why you allowed the a
mendments to be made without an effort to
prevent them, by such an effort your
constituents would have had all they ask
cd tor-say the Sl00,000' Having lost that
opportunity why did YOU not vote for the bill as it
saved the 100000 for Newport! We ask if the
Senate, as you say, in the midst of other impor-
tant business then under discussion " required from
the 2lst day of January to the 23d of February, a
period of thirty-three days to add S43O,O0O, how
long should 1t take the House in the midst of other
more important business to add S3 ,0O0, 900 Here
is sum in the Rule of Three for YOU Mr. Robbins.
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