Litchfield enquirer., 1842-07-07


 Hon. SAMUEL L. sourHARD, Senator in Congress from New-Jersey-and late President pro tsmpOrs of the Senate-died on the 26th ut at Fredericksburg, | Virginia. Also, Hon. WILLIAM SoDEN HASTINGS, Re- presentative from the 9th Congressional District, Mass, died on the l7th ult. at Red Sulphur Springs
 Va, whither he had repaired for the benefit of his ] health Our late Legislature, not having attended to the
 important duty of dstricting the State for the choice of members of Congress- will be under the necessity of re- re-assembing in the course of the fall for that purpose. The coming together for this pur
 pose and for this purpose alone being attended with
 considerable expense.is seemingly wrong. We were
 in hopes, the legislature having this subject brought
 before them that it would have met with prompt at- l tenton at that time-but as it was not acted upon,
 another meeting for dsposng of this matter is doubt
 less indispensable. The Hartford Courier says that
 Sin dstricting the State, if division of counties
 is made the districts will probably be arranged fol-
 lows Dist. No. l, Hartford and Holland counties | No. 9, Middlesex and New Haven; No. 3, New. London and Windham; No 4, Ltchfied and Fair 1 field. To make the representation exactly equal, 1 however, about 5,ooO inhaba from No. must be
 annexed to No. 3; and nearly l3,0OO taken from No.
 1; 5000 of them to be annexed to No. 2 and the re.
 rnainder to No l. Though the ratio is fixed by Con-
 gress at O6sO our unrepresened fraction is 90 large 1 that Connecticut sends but one member for every
 77 800 of her federal population-and were the ratio raised .e S6 800 representation under the fraction. al provision would not be reduced from the number 1 now assigned us."
 WASHINGTON, June 20. The Senate have been engaged the most 1 of the day in the consideration of the Bill to 1 reduce the Army. The morning business was good deal in amount but not much of importance.
 The morning hours in the House of Re- presentatves were devoted to the Message of the President upon the subject of the
 passage of the Apportionment Bill. Mir. Adams addressed the House for an hour in reply to the remarks of MT. Wise on Saturday. He closed with motion to refer the Presidents Message to a select committee of five members. The Message ! was so referred after debate, but the motion 1 incorporated in it to send for persons and ! papers was not adopted.
 VETO OF THE PROVISIONAL TARIFF BILL. MT. Cushing moved that the House now proceed to the consideration of the Message of the President of the United States this day received.
 Objection was made by Mir. Andrews of | Ky, but not being persisted in The message was read by the Clerk as l follows:
 1 To the House of Representatives I return the bill which originated in the
 House of Representatives, entitled "An act to extend for limited period the present laws for laying and collecting duties on inl-
 ports," with the following objections: It suspends-in other words abrogates for the time, the provision of the act of 1883,
 commonly called the Compromise Act. The only ground on which this departure from the
 solemn adjustment of great and agitating
 question, seems to have been regarded as ex-
 pedient, is the alleged necessity Of establish
 ing by legislative enactment rules and regu- lations for assessing the duties to be levied on imports after the thirteth of June accord ing to the home valuation: and yet the bill
 expressly provides that eff, before the first of August, there be no further legislation upon
 the subject, the laws for laying and collect.
 ing duties shall be the same as though this act
 had not been passed" In other wOrds-that
 the act of 1883, imperfect as ii is considered, 1 shall, in that case, continue to be, and to be executed as law under such rules and regula- 1 tions as previous statutes had prescribed, or had enabled the Executive Department to prescribe for that purpose-leaving the SUD- pOSeu CH6SiH HI Iuo IeSSuu0 A0"S JuSt us u l was before.
 am certainly far from being disposed to deny that additional legislation upon the sub ject is very desirable. On the contrary, the necessity, as we'll as difficulty, of establish ! ing uniformity in the apprasements to be made in conformity with the true intention of that act, was brought to the notice of Con- gress in my Message to Congress in the ope- ming of it's present session. But, however, sensible may be of the endorsements to which the Executive, in the absence of all aid 1 from the superior wisdom of the Legislature, will be liable, in the enforcement of the ex- isting laws. have not. with the sincerest 1 wish to acquiesce in its expressed will, been able to persuade myself that the exigency of the occasion is so great as to justify me in signing the bill in question, with my present views of it's character and effects. The ex- isting laws, as am advised, are sufficient to authorize and enable the collecting officers,
 under the directions of the Secretary of the
 Treasury, to levy the duties imposed by the
 act of 1883.
 That act was passed under peculiar circum- stances to which it is not necessary that l
 should do more than barely allude. Whatever may be in theory, it's character, have al-
 ways regarded it as importing the highest
 moral obligation. It has now existed for nine years unchanged in any essential particular,
 with as general acquiescence, it is believed,
 of the whole country, as that country has ever
 manifested for any of her wisely established
 institutions. It has ensured to it the repose
 which always flows from truly wise and mo- 1 derate councils-a repOse the more striking,
 because of the long and angry agitations
 which preceded it.