New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-17

maintain il de facto. and never allow the Senate
10 dictate 10 this House what the repr-eniartDn OF
he reople should be here.
He had attended a. much he csuld To thc
.0urse Of the srgu&cS used IN tie Senate ~ order
20 carry ihi. amendment. Tie did not know but
{ might be out Of order t. refer 20 Il here bat
,ne OF the main point which the amendment
sas carried in the Senate the argument that II
BIZ House should be too Numerous Il would be-
come too powerful i0r hem. and oGd Oscrw helm
the power of the senate. What was tie meaning
pf that The Senate chose to restrict The power
i the United States IN choosing their f'ePi"-
eria,,e> for fear the representatives ct ih'
peope would be too much aud too powerful Tor
hat body. and thus the interest Of The senate"
70 be- made the ie,t nad principle "H ""ieh 'l'
representation in tn. House was to be- formed,
Mr. \. did not thiak either that the senate had
40, ,.,.o,,l influence, on ms Subject or that thi-
Hon.e VA. unduiy inAuonccd by Per-ona. motives.
A.. AID no, believe that the House, IN sending to
me Senate the ratio VI %, ~. was moved by per
.op.l influence On the contrary, from the areu-
ncnt used in the senate to which he had inverted.
nat .his House Wa becoming too numerous, ard
would be too powerful for them, II appeared that
there WAS "a Great deal Of personal influence on
them
There wa, gong on ,and be wished now TO
speak withou, giving offence To any party, because
ne believed all pariic. having any power IN ul'
Iou.e were equally responsible on the 'u'Jec'
,ha, va. the very nature % things, a. proved d.
The listor, Of Government and all iree govern
meni>, and all other cOve rnments-iheIe va
perpetual struggle going on between the tiiiee
separate branches of thi. Government to encroach
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very one Of them to resist that encroachment.
He might lecur 10 the resolutions passed not a
week ago. Is an instance of what he conceived an
attempt on the part of Thu House to eucroach on
the Executive. In which the House undertook to
declare Misrepresentation of what the President,
acting under his oath of office. had done; from
which resolution bc (Mr. A. differed altogether.
II was not the province Of this House 10 pas
yo,c- Of appreciation Interpretation on the act"
# the Executive. 1t enough for the Hou,t
. approve Of what 1t did itself, and that he be-
lieyed lhey would fad. when ilIey came IL their
sober second thought they word not always
is. lie said TIN, in perfect sincerity and candor
ut he must say that. during the Whole history OF
our Governments ihls House had been lhhnlteiN
more snncd against than SHINING. Pre'isu, to
the adoption of the Constitution, IN reference 10
y hat this House would be under the present con-
slitutl0n Uf Government, II had been appr'h"ndc"
that tins body being the representative OF the Pc0-
pic would bc cOutiIually "ncToacblDs GA the Other
branches, The Executive or the Senate. and ibcs.
had been di,positlon on the part of some soto do
He remembered debate which occurred in q ..
House. in which "A very distinguished, though vcty
, eccentric, member from Virginia, said that, in all
the discussion, which took place hrtwccn This
Ilonsc and the Senate. hi- leaning was (witlout
meaning do any inJu-ice) III favor of this iiou,c
and so in all the discussions between til, House
aud the Executive; and in all the discussions be
fwecD the Executive and the Senate, hls leaning
was in favor Of the Senate because he had zeal
pusv towards the Executive, a compared WIFI THIS
louise or the other that made him favor the case
# those who were most numcr0u,ly supported fic
Mr.. Az wen, partly on that principle; but. IN
order to check and control it, he went on the doe
frinc thai this House and The other House OF Con-
cress ought "a cautiously 10 abstain from cncroach-
ing on the powers of the Executive, rs II was the
iutv of the Executive tn abstain from cncroachng
"a the powers of either branch Of Congress. In tie
history Of tins cUugtry since the Constitution had
,xisrcd, 1t had been surprising ,h'ns - h'm To
zee that thi, House generally had unaffected non,
II the disposition to cncroach on the other depart
nen,s while it had suffered the other departments
10 cncroach on II.
That was what was now attempting Ia bc done
On the very question before this House, and rs he
rclievcd it was the peculiar province al tins h5u>"
10 decide this. he hoped it would resist every at
tempt to cncroach on its powers as the represent
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