The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-01

Mr. BRIGGS was entitled TO the floor He gave
history of the bill down TO the period Of
the Veto The reasons assigned for the We
10 did not satisfy his mind. 1t objected
10 the bill because il suspended or even abro-
gated the Compromise act. Mr.. b. denied
mat so tar from the operation of the Compro-
mise act being suspended they were extended
The President thought that he could carry into
execution the provisions of the Compromise
act, without further legislation. The truth Of
this position, Mr.. b. also denied. That act or
daned that its provisions were TO be carried out
In such manner as subsequent laws may di
rect. The legal acceptation of the word may
he conceived, to be tantamount 10 shall. After
DEPRESSION on the question of distribution, in
favor OF which he expressed his hearty concur
renee, especially because if il were now stayed
the old States would lose all the advantages
they had expected from it, while seven new
States had already been largely benefited Mr.
b., In conclusion, eXhorted his friends to adj
here FIRMLY to a conscientious performance Of
their duty. The question at issue he main
tanned to Re not between Congress and the Peo-
pie, but between the President and the People.
MIR. STEWART, of Virgln asserted that the
Veto, so far from maintaining the Compromise
was an infringement of its spirit and fraud up
on one of the contracting parties. He went
into full history of the Compromise act, and
of the proceeds of the public lands. The dis
tribution, he said so far from being inconsist-
en with the Compromise, constituted an inte-
grail portion of it. The proceeds of the sales,
he thought, rendered the amount which ought
to be obtained from imports vacatng and, in
fact, so operated that the revenue which should
be so raised was extremely uncertain.
Mr.. TILLlNGHAsT followed in a course Of re-
marks similar in their general character to those
employed by several who had preceded him.
Mr.. PRorrrr said that il appeared plan had
been adopted by the majority of passing bills,
which il was known the President could not
sign in consistency with his own principles,
and which, therefore, he ould not sign That
such plan had been resolved on was implicitly
acknowledged. Ifthere was no other proof that
such a plan did exist, arguments employed
against the Veto sufficiently evinced il. He
then went into examination Of the nature
and effects of the Veto power. He showed, by
varied historical illustration, that it had existed
and been exercised in all well conducted Re-
publican Governments-hat in Republican
France il was not in force, and the exception
able character of its Republican legislation is
well known. The Veto power in England is
vastly different from that authorized by our
Constitution. In England the Veto is impera-
~ nd nd
CURED since the King possesses power equi-
vaent to it in the prerogatve to create new
peerages &c. &c Mr.. P. then indicated the
exercise Of the Veto in this particular instance,
as demanded by various cogent reasons
He commented on the objections made against
it. The gentleman from New York, (Mr. Fill
more) for instance, objected TO the Message
because il insured distribution, though he was
friend of distribution.
Mr.. LANE, of Indiana, followed in remarks
on the motives of those who defended the Mes
sage, on the paramount authority of the popular
branch OF the Legislature, the tyranny OF the
Veto power and the mode by which il should
be restrained.
Mr.. WELLER retorted by reference to facts,
the charge made against the Democratic party,
of seeking the spolls by referring to the nun
bers of oihce-seekers crowding to Washington
about year since, and to the zeal OF a certain
gentleman from New York in rewarding the
spoils-seekers Of his own sect. How many
heads had that gentleman cut off? Mr.. GRAN
GER was understood to reply about LOO, which
number would have been increased to LOO had
he remained in office. This, said Mr.. WELLER,
is specimen of the dlsinterestedness Of the
anti-spoils men but the gentleman himself was
beheaded too soon for the advancement Of the
spoils men. The warmth about Distribution he
could not understand. 1t had never, during the
Presidential canvass, been brought forward as
an essential principle of the Wing party. But
the President was now denounced for not con
sidering Distribution inseparable from the in
tegrily of Wing doctrines. Ii was high COM
pment, however, that The President had been
denounced as traitor, not to the country, but
to the universal Wing party.
In the Senate, on Thursday, a communion
ton from the War Department was read, sta
ting, in reply to the resolution of the 23d in
slant that double rations are allowed to officers
Of the Engineer and Ordnance Department
only where they are clearly authorized by law.
Mr.. BUCHANAN presented memorials from
Venango and Butler counties, Pennsylvania,
asking for protection to the iron interest, and
increased duties on wooen, cotton, and silk
goods
Mr.. PREsToN presented memorial from the
city of Charleston, South Carolina, asking the
imposition of tax on goods sold at auction.
The bill from the House entitled San act
making appropriation for the current and
CONTINGENT expenses of the Indian DEPARTMENT