Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-03-22
IN SENATE.

! FRIDAY, March 8, 1S4I.
At twelve o'clock the Senate was called to Or
der, Hon. JOHN TYLER, the President cleo
presiding.
Alter reading Journal of yesterday,
MIR. Rives presented the credentials of his col
League, Hon. WIN. s. Archer, elected Senator
from Virginia for six years from 4th March, lS4l
MIR. Archer was then duly qualified, and too
his seat.
MIR. Huntington offered the following resolution
Resolved, That committee be appointed tt
wall on the President Of the Uuted States anc
noiiy bin that the Senate is assembled and i.
ready to receive any communication he may be
pleased 10 make TO them
hich on motion Of Mr. H. was adopted. And
lnleSsrs. Huntington and Preston appointed by The
Il'res'dent 10 constitute that cuminluee
| PRIMER TO THE SENATE.
Mr.. Mangun moved thai The resolution which
he yrserda, had the honor ot Introducing be ia
ken up, viz:
Resolved, That Blair and Rves lie dismissed a.
iiin iers OF The Senate Tor The 9th Congress
MIR. Allen, OF OHIO, said there appeate,I a pre-
tssni ndry q,Ieson-wteheri it was in order 10 en-
teri; in HE resolution nj this iime the Senate be.
Ihg IN al Executive aud not Legislative capacity
lie resolution related 10, or rather had for lis
o,e CT, The undona OF that wlich the Senate did
ia it's legislative character
lie desired, therefore, preliminary question,
II Should he fist settled whether or not il he com.
an
ut've council for the President, 10 undo an act
which u did III Its Legislative character wine ther
1t he IN ordsr nnw to entertain the resolution?
| The President said The resolution had already
been received. The question now would be Oh
taking II mp.
| On this Mr.. Allen called the yeas md nnys
which were ordered
Mr., Clay, of KY, said he would make single
remark OH this question OF order.
lie SENATE was here organized with its Pres
ldent at lis head. IL miglI do any thing which
Senate can do. The election which was pfopos-
ed to be rescinded by the resolution was OF an OF
icer elected by the Senate, ana it could he no
more asserted that II was performed in lis Legs.
Iatiye than lis Executive character.
| In short, the Senate being convened might do
any lliing separated from the House which il was
competent for the Senate 10 do, aud nuouesllona
by might appoint their officers whose agency
may he necessary 10 the discharge of it's dulles.
hir. Allen SAID the election of mn uiiicer WAS mn
act neither Executive nor Legislative in lis char
acler, properly speaking But WAS an act done lIy
ne SENATE, whilst acting in its character MS n
d ranch OF the Legislative bodya The election of
II lis ohcer took place under the Joint rules of the
" 70 Houses, which made il their duty to comnu-
NJ cate The aei 10 The House OF Representatives,
Ia EN- III session. And now, when This body as n
br ancl of the National Legislature, acting under
ONT resolution adopted by the Two Houses, have
Gle cied public officer whose duties are connect
ell with both houses when they had done with |
up IN doors, not in their Executive but Legislative
cha IRA cler- could they now, when the House has
lis banded, nnnul this act, and bring the House
her next year, in total ignorance of the fact who
wa appiDIed printer 10 the Senate?
In itseli the act was neither Executive nor lie.
sitauVei but II derived lis character from the po.
SIMON The Senate assumed ut the time. In this
instance The Senate sat with open doors they
treated the act not ns executive, but Legislative
anal as such they informed the other branch thai
Ilny had so acted.
The Sc nate might with equal propriety rcscind
every reso luton which il passed in the Character
Ut legislative body. And as 10 he circumstan-
chs-he deemed that this was not nep Senate
u'at the ionndnlion of The argument so much re.
90 on ~ The discussion OF tins question, against
me election OF these printers unrue-ih that the
present was ne,o and The pas, an old Senate
There was no such Thug known TO The Constuu- ,
Il III, or the Republic you might us well speak
OF new Supreme Couri as Of new Senate