The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-11-29

MonE FEDERAL FALsEnoop.---Of course
any thing which may contain false charges
and mis- statements respecting the admins
,ration, will most nssuredy be found in the
coumns of that vcracious print, the g Her
aid of the Times" We aludc, ut present,
to the speech Of Mr.. Fletcher, of Massa-
cllusetis, published in that paper last week.
Speaking of the Committee of Ways and
Means, and speaking also of the business
projects" from that committee, on which
the House of Representatives was called 10
ac, during the last session, Mr.. Fletcher in
his reported speech is made to say;
"The chairman of The committee steps up to the
White House. and there receives from the PreS-
dent or the Secretary of the Treasury, such bills
as they wish 10 have passed by the House. The
chairman puts the bills into his pocket, takes
them to the committee; without any examination,
the majority of the committee approve of them, the
minority can do nothing the bills are presented to
the House, and received as the doings oil the COM
mittee."
The following ample refutation of this
salschood we copy from the New York Eve.
| Post -
ave have taken the pains to enquire into
| this matter, and find that there is not the
leas, truth in this statement. Mr.. Cambre-
leng never consulted the President abou,
any one of the bills rcferredto to by Mr.. Fletch-
err He never visited the White House on
any such errand. 1t is usual for the Chair
man of the various committees, whether
Friendly or not to the administration, to con-
suit the Head of the Department whose du-
| " it may become to execute the law which
it is proposed to enact, about the form OF
the bill To be proposed, in order to avoid
misconstruction. The bill! is sometimes
drawn here MS every where else, 10y the
Head Of the Department. This is general
ly n safe course, but there was one memoir
able exception. Ii wps when John Quincy
Adams, then Head Of the Department OF
State, furnished to the late Rufus King, the
celebrated West India trade bill, containing
( that unfortunate little word elsewhere
which kept us out Of The trade for so mauy
years. 1t is to be regretted that Mr. Adams,
in his late speech on nouns, pronouns,
verbs aud adverbs," had not remembered
that little adverb, " elsewhere" which, as all
the world knows, was the subject of long
diplomatic correspondence, and much de-
bate in both Honses of Congress.
But to show in stronger light if possible
the outrageousness Of the misstaicmcnt Mt
,ribu,cd to Mr.. Fletcher, we aver that the
bills referred TO hy him originated in the
Senate, aud not in the House of Represen-
ialives. In consequence Of the uppoini-
,nent of the committees Of the Senate be-
fore The committees Of the other House, the
Finance Coumittce Of the Senate matured
the bills before they were considered by the
Committee Of Ways aud Means in the
House of Representatives. The latter ccm-
'nittec, to avoid unnecessary delay and coli
Iision with the Senate, adopted the bills,
so,nc with and some without amendments"
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