Litchfield enquirer., 1841-09-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
To the President.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.
Tho subject Of the Veto was taken up to-
day, and warmly discussed for about six
hours Mr.. Bolts commenced the debate by
saying that he had accused the President OF
perlidy and treachery. and that he would
prove his charges, us he was bound to do, or
bear the odium OF having made Il false us'-
cusation. He criticised the message very
severely, and said he was sorry tho Presi-
dent had not practised upon the theory he
SO warmly recommended, of extreme eau
| ton in the exercise OF the Veto Power. The
President objected to the title of the Bill,
| which rumor said originated with himself
and next that the Bill was consistent with its
title. He objected to the provision that no
other corporation should be established dur.
ing the continuance of the frst-would his
constitutional scruples be obviated by the
establishment of half dozen other banks
Perhaps this was I'm intimation of agreement
in the opinion entertained by some Of the
sky scrapers few years ago-,hat ii North
ern ard Southern Bank ought both TO be
established by the Government. After many
other similar remarks he said that If his boy
Of fifteen years, should write him letter as
full of tomtoolery as this Message, he would
put him to the plough at once and never pay
another days schooling for him us long as
he lived. He would not be surprised if the
document had been written by the cores
pondent of the New York Herald, who had
SO fully Swallowed it forth in his letter of
some days ago, before its sentiments were
known to any member Of the Cabinet. For
himself, he felt but little excitement about
the fate of the Bank Bill. He had anticipat-
ed that so long that it aroused but little feel
ing when it came-but his Indignation ut the
conduct of the President had only increased
with the lapse of time. The question Of the
currency had been the main subject Of diff
country since the year 1884. Why did the
President allow himself to be put forward as
the candidate of party whose views he
knew he could not support? He admitted all
that would be claimed by the friends of the
President as to his course in relation to II
bank, in former years-but there was great
reason to believe, and he did most firmly be-
love that those opinions had changed within
the last two years. The President. at the
Harrisburgh Convention, had been most
earnest in his support of Mr.. Clay, the
strongest Bank-nnan in the country-and it
was said that he icept when that man was re-
jected. This did not look like aversion 10 n
Bank-and he would state, upon his own re-
sponsibility, that he had heard the President
say twenty times during the last two years,
lluL Hc UclIcVcO u NuttusIOi !Ooi'N was SHutS-
pensablc TO sound condition OF the curren-
cy, and that the country could not get along
without such an agency. (Mr. Wise asked
if the President had ever said bank was
constitutional) He stated the fact. and gen.
tlemen would draw their own inferenccs.-
Mr.. Tyler had adopted as his own. the opin-
ions expressed by Gen. Harrison, at Dayton,
and had declared at Wheeling. shaking an
empty purse before the people, his prefer
ence for good United States Bank notes.
He quoted against the President his re-
marks upon Gen. Jackson's Veto in 1884.
where he reproved the obstinacy which per-
sisted in maintaining isl-advised and hastily
expressed opinions, nj whatever hazard 20
the country. and where he deprecated a
course which placed the purse OF the country
in the hands Of him who held tue sWord.-
Why did the President recommend Bank
at the commencement of the session. If he
intended 10 veto it! He did no: believe he
had such an intention Ut that time. II was
wholly an after thought with him. He had
told the Ohio delegation that he would sign
Mr.. Ewings bill, though that contained the