Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-20
Miscellaneous.
From tho u. S. Gazette

VETO OF THE REVENUE BILL
We las; evening received, in. an extra
from the Harrisburg Reporter Office, 6
|;copyiof the .nessag sSofs Governor ePnrtci
10 the Legislature, containing his reasons
for refusing to sign the Revenue Bill
We have not space for, the whole of the
message this morning, udstherefore give
our readers hasty abstract thereof.
The Governor commences by stating
" hat are the provisions Of the bill which be
disapprores-lhe most important part 0
which we gave 10 our readers last week
especially those parts relating to the loan
of three millions, The issue Of small noles,
the authority to The stockholders Of the
United States Bank, to make an assign
ment of the property Of the Bank, wi,hou,
requiring from the trustees an inventory OF
security, and the power retained in the
Legislature to alter or modify at pleasure,
the provision of this part Of The bill, with
the consent of stockholders. On the pas
sage of this bill, the Governor states 'de-
pends The successful prosecution of the
Common School System, the payment ol
donations 10 academies and female semi.
oarice, pensions and sratuities TO old SOL
diers, The repairs Of railroads aud canals
for The current year, payments Of debts
due for repairs made<prior to the first OF
November last, appropriations 10 orphan
asylums and house Of refuge, asylums for
blind, and deaf and dumb, 10 pay DANA
ges and the militia expenses, topay all the
expenses Of government, to pay ock-keep.
ers, weigh.masters, and other persons en-
ployed' on the public works, to pay certain
guarantees Of interest by the Stale, TO pay
debts due OH contract for work done
on the Erie division, North Branch ex,en-
sion, Wiconico canal, and numerous 9th
er specified public improvements. TO pay
the Canal Commissioners, appraisers aud
engineers, and, in fact, every operation of
the government in the execution Of which
appropriations Of money are required"
The Governor then states that this is the
first bill ever prepared by the Legislature
Of this State in which The expenditures Of
the commonwealth were connected with
subjects Of doubtful propriety, on which ir-
reconcileable difference OF. opinion existed !;
and though he does not charge that this is
done TO coerce him into an approval of
what he might separately condemn, yet he
deems it his duty to take his stand against
any such encroachment; and he has, be-
sides, opened his veto 10 bills that seemed
inlenled to reach objects of party policy
by means which he deems unjust. The
following are the objections of his Excel
Iency to this bill: = -.
"In the first place, ! consider the seven.
teenth section as giving 10 The Banks an
absolute exemption from the resumption
ofspecie payments for al least the period
of Eve years, mentioned in the first sec.
tion Of The 5iif. II is provided, among
oiher:things, III the seventeenth section,
that all laws imposing penalties Of interest
greater than six per cent. as also The for
feiiure oftbeir charters, FOR certain delin:
quencies, shall be suspended until further
legislative action; and until provision is
made .fof thepayment OF the loan ,aulhori-
zed by rte 6rst section oftbe.5ill. Now,
hadtbis subject Of suspension been LEFT en-.
tirely to5the further action Of lle legislature,
without coupling Il With The provisions for
the repayment oftiie ioaaffffs aaffff Of three millions
one m hundred ,,tho1saGd dollars, il wonld
have heen farsl ohjetiionablc.S B1l even