The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-09-11
yesterday between Me..n Wise and s,.ply, . foI.

GREETED incident which occurred IN this House yss
terday, between the gentleman rom sHB,n@ ~
i Wlsel and the ge ntleman from North Carolina thf.
Stanly) both members OF this body has been ADJ
through the interference Of friends, in manner non
! orable to themselves To say that both gentlemen
deeply and sincerely regret the Causes ieaons
| this explanation l am sure would but weak ex-
preston OF their regret Each gentleman Teuaes any
! remarks which have been deemed offensive by the
her-in the order in which they were sPoken'-ana
are restored 10 their pre- existing relations
Mr. POPE then called up the joint resolution rea-
ting 10 water-rotted hemp, and on his motion The
House resolved itself into COMMITTEE Of the whole,
| Mr. Barnard in the Chair, when, no amendments ne
ing offered the Committee without debate imme-
diately and reported the BILL which accoFdin ely
passed by the House.
Some conversation then took place between Messrs.
/ BARNARD and CUSHING as 10 the proposed re-
newa of the act to prevent breaches OF the neutrality
i laws.
| Mr. CUSHING stated that the act had not been
referred 10 the Committee Foreign Affairs
Mr. MCKAY presented a resolution calling on the
Postmaster General for information to the amount
Of postage received letters and also upon papers,
| &c Passed
| Mr.. OWSLEY'S resolutions fr the amendment, Of
the Constitution limiting the eligibility Of President
to one term andaresricnng the Veto power were Ia
4 ken up.
| Mr.. PROFIT objected to their being acted on
| Mr. OWSLEY moved TO suspend the rules
Mr. A. BLOWN asked for division OF the motion
to suspend Many might be willing TO vote 10 receive
tie first part who would object TO the second part
| The SPEAKER decided that a decision Of The
question would be in order until after the motion
of suspension were disposed Of
| The rules were not suspended less IMAM tWo-.hius
voting for -s7 to 81.
i Mr. A. BROWN then moved to suspend the rules
to take up the resolution offered by him al The begin
ming Of The session to amend the Constitution as 10
| the re-eigibty Of the President
On the motion 10 suspend, the vote was yeas ~,
NAYS So and as two-thrds did not in the afirma
| tive the motion to suspend was lost.
DEBATE ON THE VETO
! MI Bolts moved the House proceed 10 the or
deis of the day The bill for the Fiscal Corporation
as returned by the President of the United States with
his objections being taken up at ten minutes past ~
| o'clock
Mr. Bolts began by referring to his own pecu-
| liar position in reference TO the President and the
country-but for which he should have been content
10 let The subject pass without any remarks from him
But that pee uar position compelled him TO place him
| self right with the country lie had been charged
by the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Cushing)
and others a few days since, with having applied
harsh and unjust eplthes To the President and on
that occasion he had pledged himself 10 make good
his words whenever that second veto should conc
He would now make good his charges against the
President if not cut OIL by the zone hour rule" de
would take all the odium attaching to the failure, and
if any disinteresed friend would say that the proof
was u OF complete he would take back every word
He had on the occasion referred 10, pophesed inns
Veto but he then at loss for the reasons which
the President would assign for such an act tie has
now given what he calls his objections, but he has
not assigned solitary reason which could weigh
with one reasonable man in the country.
Mr. Bolts then proceeded briefly TO enumera'e
and review the principal points in the Veto Message
First he dwells bis extreme regret at being com
PEELED 10 differ from Congress. Then he states thst
he has objections to National Bank per Mr.. b.
said that AZ he had formerly confessed, he was HIM
self no lawyer but he had learned Latin al school
and if be remembered rightly, he hal learned that
per meant ''of itself" and he did not understand
k,,u nal Rank alld he AID q
bot of itself Next, the President says that the eio
power be exercised only IN opposition to the WIZ
Of majority This was very clear, and no one
would DENY it. Next, he objects to the title OF the
, hlI ON this he would refer only TO Tumor, not
the 'two-legged rumor which had been formerly re-
ferred to this House, bot the thousand tongued ru,
mor) which said that the title of this bill as reported
hy the Currency Com Intee TO the House was IN the
r--urr srures t,ar PROVISIONS 81 the b do moi moi
contradict its title !" and this they ne- was
one of the reasons why he could not sign it. Again
he says, the bill prohibits Congress from establishing
any similar institution for twenty years Perhaps il
they had him bills to charter halfa dozen such
institutions at once, he would willingly sign them
$ Then "the Bank l. to deal in bills OF Exchange, but
excludes local discounts" The President says that
all other banks deal in bills of exchange as well as
local dlsconnts and therefore this Bank should no,
These are bis constitutional objections to the bill
But he also finds fault with the etals 1t does not
regulate the price of exchanges 1t does not autho-
rize discounts the District of Columbia where it il
nominally located And so on with other particulars
in the auctoneers phrase, rather numerous TO
mention" Suffice j, to say, ii without eompeii-
tor He Mr.. b } had heard few years ago Of a
proposition to establish TWO National Banks at once
one for the North and for the South but had not
supposed that had been seriously contemplated
except by some of the skv-scrapeIs OF Virginia
Moreover the President says, he Z" has not had
tine He, the President of the United States hav
ing filled almost every high office his own Stae
and in the National Government, now tells the Nat
ton that he has not yet had time to consider this sub
ject He talks too oil the peculidrity OF his si,ua
ton w hat peculiarly of situation Elected by
the great Wing party, and pledged TO their measures
the high Office Of President devolves upon him He
comes here and throws himself into the arms of the
Opposition whom his party defeated and turns
against those who elected him. And now he "begsn
us not TO be too hard upon him but to remember he
has signed every other bill but those for the creation
of a National Bank
"He talks of our " god like ancestors Z" Who are
they--if not Washington jefferson, and Madison who
signed bulls for the charter and extension of Banks
As TO the style of the Message, it was production
wholly unworthy of President. He should Judge
from certain condolences that il might be the pyoluc
ton OF the correspondent OF the New York Herald
he MIR. Bolts, had boy Of fifteen at school
whom he did not believe capable Of producing com
position with 80 much tom foolcry in He meant no
dlsrespect; he felt no excitement now, no indirna
ton but he had watched over that Baak bill as one
friend would watch the death.bed of another
until his mind had become too much hmili arzed with
excitement to be thus affected on this occasion.
\ IL message was here received from the Senate in
forming the House that they had reccdei from their
amendments TO the Diplomatic Appropriation hli. =
had passed tho bill TO repeal the Act authorizing the
investment of 5. trust funds in State stocks with
an amendment,--a had appointed a committee of
conference on the amendments 10 the Revenue bill
(The conclusion of Mr.. Botts's speech and tn,
whole OF the speech Of Mr. GtLMElt, who followed
MN IN reply, are excluded for OF aud space
Full notes were taken; but the late hour OF the adj.
Journncn prevented tho reporters from giying even
an abstract OF any hui the speeches here partially