Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-12-19
limos, an, price, when bu! low year. since they

falmo,. any price, when but few years since they
were in demand at par.
7th. That while we ask no legislation on the
part OF Congress to increase the value Of the
Bonds Of the States, we deprecate the course by
that body, or any fits members, which has a ten.
dency to deprecate the value Of American Secu.
rites, or nure the credit OF any OF the States at
home or abroad.
9Th. That there is no evidence before this Gen.
Assembly, that it is in the contemplation Of Con
gress 10 pass q law by which the United States
will assume or guarantee the payment Of State
Debts and the adoption Of any resolution antici-
pating an occurrence not likely to happen, is de-
rogatory to the dignity Of this Legislature, and
uncalled for by the actual condition Of affairs.
The substitute of Mr.. Coater, being called up,
Mr.. Smith, of Lincoln, offered The following pre-
amble and resolution:
WHEREAS, the amendment of the gent, man
from Saint Charles, to the resolutions offered by
the Hon. Speaker relating to the Bonds of the
State, &C., are highly disrespectful in their char
acter and insulting in their language to the men,
bers who voted for said resolutions, as well as to
our Senators IN Congress who advocated the prin-
ciples of said resolutions, during the last session
of Congress; therefore, be it
Resoired, That the amendment Of the gentleman
from saint OHHIlGS, OH5I6u W Sulu ibsOtubOHS'
shallrot be entered upon the Journals Of this House.
Which was ado pted-ayes 49, noes 43.
1t is not surprising that sufficient number
should have been found to vote down Mr.. Coalter's
substitute but, says the Republican, that "a sufli-
cient number of the members should have been
found so reckless of their duty and unmindful of
their official GA ths in the face of that clause Of
the constitution which requires them to spread upon
their journals their proceedings 10 refuse to place
there a set of resolutions, upon the rejection Of
which thep had taken regular vote, must excite
the Indignation OF every one who has proper re-
gard for the involability of our constitution 1t is
indeed high time to enquire of what value is the
constitution and what force is its requirements when
they can thus be set aside dsregnrdcd by parii
ian Legislature. Look at the true position Of the
case. Upon the final passage ofSpesker Prices re-
solutions Mr.. Coalter offered ssTies of resolu.
tons as subititute. Upon the adoption of the sub
sttute vote was taken and they we're rejected
No objections were made at the time Of Offering
thcm to the language or style, but they were reject
ed because the principles they avowed were IN op
position to that embraced in Mi. Prices resolutions
Mr.. Conlter's resolutions having been thus submit
ted and voted upon, it becGmaa part of the action
of the House, and as such, " the constitution
should have been spread on thajournals
The little partzan trick in this case, is nothing o
itself, but when it is accomplished at sacrifice Of
the provision of the constitution 1t assumes new
and most alarming character. The minority are,
the doctrine of the majority suspined, completely
; gagged and manacled--;hey can neither INTRODUCES
nor put upon the Journal any thing but what par
tiznn majority may approve of--te Journals vii
become, not the record of the acto of the Legisla
ture, but the mere tablet Of what he party may
j. think proper to permit to be spread here. Betwee
expunging and refusing TO let go onthe record, tn
. journals are likely to show but iitlef what is don
in the Legislature.