The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-08-24
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is.
Monday Evening.

The city has been deeply excited during
the day by the message of the President of the
United States and the return of the Bank Bill.
1t is, as you may well imagine, an excitement
of Joy on the part of the opponents of the adj
ministration, and of profound regret on the
| part of the friends of that administration
With the one it is regarded as an unqualified
veto of a Bank, and with the other so little
qualified that it leaves no hope that the Pres
ident will sanction any institution that will
meet either the uses or the purposes of a fiscal
agent of the government. The senate cham
Der, therefore, presented upon the introduce
ton and reading of the message, pretty MUCH
the state of public feeling. The opposition
Senators came to the rescue Of the President;
Benton, Walker, Buchanan, King, and Clay
of Alabama, among the number, while the
men whose untiring labors had contributed so
much to the elevation of the President to his
present post of honor, were dumb. They could
not approve the act which defeated their own
cxertions, and which had been so %anxiously
considered, nor could they, from the respect
due to a coordinate branch of the govern
men!, risk in immediate public condemnation
of Il measure which no one of them could
sanction. Demonstration would have been
construed into q mere ebullition of feeling,
and therefore the bill returned by the presl-
dent is postponed until tomorrow, then to be
considered with all the candor and calmness
due to 4 measure SO important.
1t is useless 10 disguise the fact that the
Wings here feel that they have been wrongcd
and injured by the act of the President, and it
is as useless to deny that the wings are blame
less for the selection Of mar even for the
Vice Presidency whose opinions il reference
TO one great measure, were not in harmony
with their own. The President pleads con-
s%istency in his message, but in the zeal with
which he supported Mr.. Clay for the Presidcn-
c%y--hnown 10 be an upright and downright
bank man-for a bank with branches, the
power of discount, of circulation, and all other
powers-the llarrisburgh delegates believed,
and had q right to believe, that upon a qucs.
ton so vital as this, the opinions of Mr.. Clay
would be the opinions Of his most ardent
friend and supporter.
No less then 70; the exercise of the veto
power itself, than for the opinions in reference
to the bill under consideration, there Is a pro-
found and heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS
and notification. The feeling IN some IN
stances may extend TO hostility to the Presl-
dent, and perhaps to Il determination TO resist
the man as well as the veto power, until the
one is blotted from the constitution, and the
other retires from the station to which chance
and not the people has elevated him..
The feeling extends no further in the Sem
ate and House of Representatives.. The true
Wings are onc-of one heart, Of one mind,
and resolved so far as in them lies, to accom-
piish all the great measures of the session.
lne currency question excepted--as much IN
deed as if the President had not defeated the
will Of the legislature by disappearing the act
which they had sanctioned.
The session, therefore, from appearances
this evening, viii be prolonged long enough 10
attempt at least the passage of all the bills be-
fore Congress. If they can be passed they
will be passed, and no effort which will con-
tribute to their success will be left unexerted
by either the wing Senators or Representa-
tives. The representatives of the people if
possible, will not disappoint the people. II
look therefore with more confidence to the con-
summation Of the important measures of the
session.
The Bankrupt Bill will, in all probability be
voted upon tomorrow. The chances of sue
cess are doubtful. Many amendments will be
proposed. and among them one to postpone the
operations of the bill until January 1912, for
the the purpose of improving the act at the
next session of Congress. The Land Bill lies
over the senate until the Bank Bill, now ve-
toed. is reconsidered within the meaning of
the constitution.
The wings of the Senate and the House 4,
have both been in session this evening, and, /
of the veto, are sesolved like pa ,
:riotic men to meet the crisis by every person. !
Il sacrifice for the public good. With such !,