Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-11
TO the two Houses of Congress was received by the
hands Of Mr.. Robt. Tyler, his Secretary, which having

Mr.. WISE said he believed that the House was
at present without a Committee OF the Whole, owing
to the want of rules and orders. ii there was such d
Commute il would of course be proper TO move the
reference of The message and the accompanying docu-
ments 10 il, but in the present case he would make the
same motion that had been adopted with regard To the
message of the last session. He would move that the,
message be laid on the table and printed, and tha.
10000 extra copies, together with the accompanying
documents, be also printed for the use Of the House.
MIR. MASON Of Ohio would ask the gentleman II
his motion contemplated the printing Of the prospectus
for the Congressional Globe and Appendix, which he
found on the back Of the copy OF the message which
was laid on his table.
Mr.. WISE said he would answer the gentleman
heard by The gentleman. MIR. w. would ask the Clerk
If there was any appendix or any thing else attached TO
the message just read by him.
THE Clerk replied in the negatire.]
IL was to print the Message Of the President OF the
u. s., which had just been read by the Clerk. AS the
inquiry had been made rather sarcasticaliy by the
gentleman, Mr.. w. said he would answer him that the
Message of the President had no Appendix OF the
Globe, or any other APPENDIX annexed 10 1t, and there
fore sarcasm or misre presentation, or whatever animal
versions the gentleman might please to make, would be
deprived of their effect by the answer of the Clerk.
MIR. MASON observed that some explanation was
necessary, and he was glad that the gentleman from
Virginia had had on opportunity of making it. lie was
ENGAGED with the printed copy which had been laid on
his table, in following the Clerk in reading it, and did
not observe from what message he read. On the copy
he held. ne fOunQ q document u D pdil dlu poA
eel of il, signed by Blair and Rives, recommending the
country to subscribe for their Congressional Globe and
Appendix, and the idea naturally suggested itself to
his mind that the same thing was on the message read
by the Clerk. These copies, said ne, were officially
laid on our tables by the officers of the House, and the
inference, therefore, was natural that the notice OF
Blair and Rives had been annexed to 1t by the fresi-
dents sanction. He accordingly had a right TO ASK
when the motion to print was made, whether - was
intended to include this notice. The gentleman might
coll this sarcasm, if he pleased; but he looked upon Tie
unprecedented act Of Blair and Rives. al annexing their
prospectus to the message Of the fresioeht' as al OUT
rage on the House. -.
Mr.. WISE replied that the document the gentleman
held in his hand was the private copy OF BLAIR and
Riyes, printed at their office for sale, and that they
had, therefore, the upioubted right 70 annex % II any
thing they pleased. II was not the ofac'a. copy Oh .he
House nor Of The Senate, done by their Printers, and
paid for by them, but it was the copy printed by the
editors of the Globe, at their own risk. Here, said Mr..
w, (holding up a printed copy OF the message0 is5I
document as printed by Gales and Seaton, The elem
Printers ofthe House; and on the back of 1t, tIput i
tleman will find no prospectus or appendix, had IN
10 the honorable gentleman from Ohio, if sent that
ferred that the President Of the U. S..nnexed to his I
notice Of Blair and Rives TO the Hopas an honorable
message. fe put that question toa of honor, Gid he n
man, for he knew that he was Old ask him how that S
infer it, and if he did not, hewhich would lead others
conduct is 10 be character I
TO make snch inierence2he gentleman ought, 10 thank
Mr.. MASON said Opportunity Of making the ex-
him for giving hirnust admit was highly necessary,
PLANTATION whiobceed:ng might go TO the country IN
otherwise Indifferent from that in which the expla-
an aspect I'd it. lie was asked if he believed that this !
nation \ was annexed to the message with the sane
docp the President, TO which he would answer that
tisnpposed it was surreptitiously placed there. lie
as surprised al these editors daring TO take such a IL
berry with the President Of the U. S and was not sure
but that they might have obtained the sanction OF some
one competed with him, who had connived al their {
conduct. lie was, however, not more surprised at ~
than he was at the strange connections which had lately
taken place between the President and his late oppo.
nenls. He would not say that the President h'mseiI
had given his sanction to the proceeding to which he
adyerted, but he was not satisfied that some one else
had not given it. The late Printers had certainly taken
4 great and unwarrantable liberty in aPpending their
notice 10 the Presidents message, and he thought snch
conduct needed some explanation, and an explanation
could not harm any body. Indeed the gentleman from
Virginia ought 10 thank him for giving him an opportu'
nifty Of making one.
Mr.. WISE said that ne did thank the gentleman
from Ohio-hc thanked him sincerely-ior has prema-
ture and wsnton attack on the President OF the U. >,
not for giving him the opportunity Of explaining that
which required no explanation. He thanked him tor
his early manifestation Of a disposition 10 make an at
tack ON the President of the U. 8, and would want no
better proof of it than the state OF feeling when ms IN
suiry, and the mode of ii, exhibited.
Mr.. MASON. VIII the gentleman allow me TO ask
him a question
Mr.. WISE. Certainly, Sir.
MIR. MASON. WIN lie inform me how 1t happened
that these printers became possessed oil the Iiesi'
dents Message so early as to enable them to have tneir
copy of it in the House while 1t was reading ny the
Clerk?
Mr.. WISE would inform the gentleman that the
message 90. into the hands Of these printers precisely
in the same manner that the messages oil PRESIDENTS
Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison and Tyler, always got
into the hands Of the printers Of the city papers. Ihey
were all furnished with il. Gales and Seaton, as the
Printers of the House, and the editor OF the Madisonlan,
rs the Printer of the Senate, got the message from the
President, and Blair and Rives got it from one OF them
A. SO xf Ia rfu nanaFa eXttnQ tDGL
courtesy 10 each other. The paper the gentleman spoke
of was not the message of the President; II was Blair
and Rives' 8 private copy of il; and he would iurthertei
the gentleman how that copy came TO be iound on ,ie Ia
bles Of members. II was usual, as the gentleman Knew
Ms soon as the Clerk commenced the reading oil the
message, 10 lay printed copies Of 1t on the lablesof tie
members, TO enable them TO read IT with MN IL they
pleased. Now in this instance, there not being IN the
folding room a sufficient number OF copies Printeo Dy
Gales and Seaton, to give one to each member, the ae-
fciency was supplied from the copies printed at the
Globe Office. This was done by the pages as a matter
of accommodation to the members THIS copy OF BLAIR
and Rives which the gentleman adverted 10, was PRINT
ed on their own account, and not by order OF the House,
and was precisely such a one as will appear in the gen.
tlemaD's own village newspaper. The gentleman might
IA well get up next week with 4 village newspaper IN
Ills hands, containing The message, and complain tha'
il coniained also the editors remarks ana Inc aaVet.'se-
ments of private individuals. As to the strange .h'ngs
on the part of the President, which The gentleman a.
luded 10, he had no doubt there were some parls d ms
official conduct which had surprised him; but he would
gay 10 the gentleman that the charges Of treason and
per6dy to his party, which had so frequently been made
agains, that high functiOnary, were about Of the same
character with the impulations the gentleman mao
thrown out to-day.
rive published in yesterdays Globe the following no.
"THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
aWii be printed at this office in pamphlet form, IN
large type, making sixteen pages, al 81 per hundred
1--WE expect 10 be able to furnish every person who
NAV subscribe for it before ~ o'clock, m. to morrow,
with Gny or one hundred copies, within one hour after
i .hall have been read in Congress, aud as-nany CO.
pies as may be desired early the next day.
"a notice that we intend to publish the Congression,
al Globe and Appendix for the session, w'li be pr'n'eo
on the outside Of the last page oithe cover
a= nafino ua nrinipd the meSSape. lnQ