Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-03-08
POLITICS.

Mr. Boris. of the Virginia House Of Delegates, pre-.
sened in that body the following resolution when oy
nole he asserts is from ''the Globe OF 1884
"Be il therefore resolDed, That the main feature OF Ina'
hill lis dsorga nizng revolutionary, subverslve OF Inc
fundamental principles of the Government, and lis en-.
tire practice from l7eo down TO the present period and
that is papable the sum- that The effect of Inc
scheme will be In bring the public treasure much nearer
the actual custody and control OF the President than is
now and expose it TO be plundered by hundred hands
where one could not fnrmerly reach it.
We deny the existence of such passage in the Globe
of 1894 The phrases here drawn together BY Mr. Bos,
are from different paragraphs of The Globe OF 1854
Their ense is perverted by their distorted collocann
and we are mnde to condemn the main feature OF Mr.
Wrips bill by the strong denuncation ascrloed 70 Us
s anpcoble 10 that measure, when true citation OF the
n,ssaoe would show that the principle really laid down in
the passage in question condemnation of THE SUB
srlrurE before the Senate the antagonist OF Mr. Wright
bill
We give the passage from the Globe, falsely cited
in Mr.. Bolts resolution:
"But if Mr. Leigh mean that these Ireasurers should
10 appointed by Congress, and at The President ShoHd
not De auoosd far Msy are coneerned 10 take care
that The Lps bs faithfully erecuted,' by exercising orsr
them the po,cer of supervision and rtmocal then he or
opertureing the Constellation and establishing mao dp0ss
Of Executive p"tosr unknp,on to us ana
reDugaan is sp, TIE p pR0 i,0a IS 4is
VERSlvE OF TIE FUNDAMENTAL PRlNCl-
PIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT, and of its entire
practice from l759 down to this day. The people may
conceive how safe their money would be, IT. IN lieu Of
the present system superintendent by responsible Pre-
sdent elected by themselves tsccntyre or thirty sspa
rute Treasurers created responsible Congress-
amt durag large portion Of eUery year. 'ohte Congress
Is not in session, free fron n TesIdat or control 10
prevent the plumber of the Treasury OF untold Millions
Congress must either remain always in session. cluie
some commttee commission with power to SIT during
the recess and control suspend, remove their army
of Treasurers. The Constitution would then be sub
verted, and the practice Of the old Con'ederntIon IN
which Congress exercised Executive we'll Legisa
tive power, again restored. And this may be The III.
tended consusanstion Of that 'reUoluton which Mr..
Clay announced in the Senate last winter had aI'endy
begun.
The proposition cha.ged by rs Revolutionary and
d;sorpaniSias tine contemplated Transfer OF the
Executive the two houses OF Congress- Thrnugh
out the article reviewing Mr.. Leghs speech at Peters
burg contested his assumption that the President IN
his Protest. erred in claiming the custody Of The public
money as an Executive Mr. Leigh, to counterfeit
the doctrine of the Protest. asserted that the President
claimed right TO keep the public money in the "Pnck
cts desks trunks &c Of hitnse or persons OF his ap
pontlnent. This denied and insisted, in the language
of The Protest, lhe constitutional power of the Le
pisature to prescribe, by law, line place paces in
which the public money be deposited, and make
such regulations concerning it's custody removal or dis
position they may think proper to enact; and we in
sstpd then as now that the Secetary of the Tressu
~. the Treasurer Register. Comptrolers. Auditors
Clerks Receiving officers, Discussing officers. one and
ai The creatures ut the law and regulated BY
law :" but we added, the instant Congress create
officer for other than legislative purposes, bis appoint
in President, with the of the
Senate"
Having thus shown how Treasury officer 10 BE-
created and appointed used the language Of The Pro
test and said: The Legislative power may undoubtedly
bind him and the President by any laws they may think
proper enact and they may prescribe in what place
particular portions Of the public money may be kept and
for What reasons it shall be removed"
These views were taken to show the injustice of MI
Leighs suggestion that the President claimed the drpo
sites for the pockets desks, and trunks Of Executive
officers.
This was our doctrine then in regard 10 the State
banks-it is our doctrine now in relation 10 the 1nde
pendent Treasury. We held that the public money
in the custody Of the law aud in the public coers-hal
the Executive had right to the private custody sup.
posed, and such thing; and it only by TAX
ing Mr.. Leighs plan, according to his own explanation
of the custody in which it would be held by treasures
all over the Union that said it would be liable 10 be
plundered "by Hundred haads' 1t not said a,
ALL as will be by the contex above given, in
necton with the other view taken of Mr. Leighs scheme
as eucidaled in his Petersburg speech.
The sense in which considered his project ere
poIuiionary and designating" precisely that in
which THE SUBSTITUTE offered for Mr. Wrights bill mas
been condemned as contravening the Constitution.