The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-03-24

kfSl LIS VI l III SIaNNlpN.
The second session Of the twenty fourth
Congress has closed, Bolh Houses cOu.
tanned an admitted and strong majority u
friends Vi the Administrator, anu TIE com.
plalut, or The excuse, u last year, that Al
least IN one branch the Composition OF tue
COMMITTEES Nus uniavordbIc 10 tue success
vi Administrator measures, has had no ioua
daliun. he committees we're al framed
with Underwriting regard to the slrcicss u.
functions Of party discipline.
VIZ. such ulaJ,. .i.ss, md ~ith Commit;
lee, 50 composed, WHAT mas ooNGRkss
DONE AZ rms SESSION
In more tnan Ib,ty years OF acquain
iauce With Congress, Ne have never known
a Session 80 barren 10 valuable results. -
with great difficulty, and At the NcfS last
moment, mos, bat not all) u the common
appropriation bills, 1t IS true, aefe got lhro
81 that the machinery Of Government vii
90 on. Aud this sAOr, sentence describes
almost the Whole OF the actual dOings Of the
session., Il We except The bill tor increasing
the number Of the Judges Of tie Supreme
Court by adding rSU members 10 that body
Congress has noi reduced The rcrtHLs, the
leading object presented to It's consideration
IN the Presidents message at the opening
I ot the session. Il has not reduced the du.
ties on ,nporiauous nor has 1t restrained
the sales OF the pubic lands.
/ The Treasury Order The Specie Clrcu
F.. lar) oil july llth, 1886, 50 u.ueh, ~ umser,
sally, aud 80 unIusty complained u, Is mol
rescInded, repealed, or superseded. Both
Houses, IT IS true, by very large maJorIIes,
/ passed an act, resembling AID supetsedmg
{ thus obnoxious order but the Pfcsldcu:
neither approved II nor negaused It. lie
pu, It 10 his pocket. |, vas presented To
him some days before the adjournment; but
these DAYS not being ten, be had right a.
he consirues the Constitution, to do neither
one thing nor another. lie did not even IN
/ TORN the ). nate, with whom the bill origt-
mated, that he had pDl time to consider the
7 bill. He had, doubtless, abundant tlme ;
/ but, as the bill had passed both Houses By
more than two thirds II each, lie probably
+ ioresaw, that # he returned the bill with hts
objections, II would still be passed by the
constitutional majority, aud so become a
/ law, without, his consent. lie chose, there,
1 fore, 10 hold It back from all further pro.
ceedlngs or action OF Congress, aud 10 that
way 10 defeat II. We bold this TO be the
most exceptionable Of all the modes OF eSef.
clsing the veto power, because It rs the least
responsible, and because II deprIses Con.
grcss Of an opportunity Of exercising lis
constitutional authority Of passing a law by
the votes of two.thlrds Of each House, with.
gu, the consent, or against the Will, al the
President. On this occasion, the strongly
expressed, undoubted, and notorious will ol
much more than two.ihlrds OF both Houses
has been knowingly and intentionally dlste.
parded. The will of one man has triumph.
ed over the will Of the People. THIS is the
unquestIonabe and unqueslIoued fact; aud
we leave commentary TO others, or 10 anoth-
or occasion.
| In speaking Of the measures which have
failed, we must not be understood, 10 all ca
SEES, as maniestIng our APPRECIATION Of the
measures themselves. We only say that
! with all It's ma lorities, and oil It's power, the