Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-08-25
CONGRESSIONAL,

CONGR ESSIONAL i.
Repon on The Presidents Veto. Mr..
Adams, from the select committee on the
subject. made an elaborate report. 1t
commences, as might be expected, in Or
der 70 produce An erroneous impression
upon the eniads Ut the creduious, By I'M
7"3ag to the administration of Gen.
lar l2on's immediate predecessor ex-
trarasauoe IN expenditures, e.. Then
comes tire tde Of Gen, Ilarrisou's cleo
..0-.fe Extra sessiou-the Development
~ aa ae~ end most unfortunate con
did, - the general Government--the
+ajoes on me national bank bills-the de-.
feat OF tie great purpose for which tie
- ex'ra session was called--a compari
I've view Of The four several 'vetocs the
presidents reasons for using them-the
public lands, sales Of, money held sin
trust" by congress, belongs to the whole
nation, S-c.-the first principle of poll
teal economy necessary fora natisa is
to raise, by taxation, within the year, the
whole sum required for the expense of
that vear-the sale of the lands $50 midi
v'duals is not tao npon the purchaser.
but an exchange Of equivalents, scarcely
more burdensone to the grantee tiian if
lie should receive it as sratuitous dona-
tion"-''ihe daily demands Of the treasu.
~ must be supplied by the income deriy-
Ell from taxation by the year, and not by
the dissipation Of the common property"
Yes, the people mast be tared, to raise re-
venue that which is raised in any other
way does moi belong to the government: i!
1.-THE whole legislative power Of the
Union has been for The last rs mon tbs,
with regard to the action eff congress
upon measures of vital Importance, in a
state of suspended animation, stsansted
by the fee times repeated structures OF
the executive corG."-" The power of
the present congress to enact laws essen
tial to the welfare of the people has been
struck with apoplexy by the executive
hand. Submission 10 his will is theron
iy conditionupon which he will permit
them TO IT," In the meantime the
abusive exercise Of the constitutional
power Of the president to arrest the ac-
ton Of congress upon NJ easures vital to
the welfare of the people, has wrought
conviction upon the minds Of majority
of the committee, that The veto poaver it,
self must be restrained and modified By an
amendment Of the constitution itself: A
resolution for which they accordingly
herewith respectfully report" Here
follows the resolution
7esoired kv he Senate and House Of Repre-
sesttattces -ofMe United States of .4merica Ia
Congress assembled, GIRO thirds of both Houses
d, concu'ring herein.) 1hatthe following amend
ment Of the Constitution of the United States,
in the seyenthsecten of the first article, be re.
commended to the Legislatures Of the several
States, which. on the adoption of the same by
three-iourths of the said Legislatures, shall be-
come part and parcel of the Constitution
Instead ofthe words "two-thirds," twice re-
peatcd in the second paragraph of the said
seventh section, substitute, in both cases the
words "a majority of the whole number"
Report ofthe Minority -lIessrs. C. ].
Ingersoll and Jas. I. Roosevelt, made a
report also from the same committee from
which weannex few extracts, merely
to EXHIBIT TO the people the different
lights in which the message is viewed BY
the reporters.
Free governmeet depends on constitutional
checks otherwise, democracy is despotisn.-
Each House of Congress has an absolute neg
alive upon the other. The American iudci-
airy exercises power to annui laws. The u
Mon and TIE States, respectively, in some in
stances, nulfy each others legislation; the
sovereign arbiter, being the people, never yet
in more than fifty years of prosperous expe-
rience, failing, to interpose their political om-
impotence, peaceably, intelligibly, and for the
al weelre. In alliton to these fnnda-
Il principles, winch are the conservative