The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-18

moved the reconsideration OF the vote by wnlcn Inc
motion to suspend for taking up Mr.. Mckennon's re-
solution was lost.
The motion to reconsider was carried by vote
of 100 to 10.
On the motion being renewed to suspend the
rules, the vote stood-yeas l22, nays ~
So the rules not suspended.
Mr. CUSHING moved a suspension Of the rules to
go into Committee of the Whole, and take up House
bill 3l2 being that reported from the Commltiee on
Manufactures
Mr.. JOHNSON, of Maryland, moved 10 take up
the bill returned by the President with his objections
Mr.. ADAMS said that the hour OF twelve having
arrived he called up the special order, which was
the consideration of the resolution offered by the ma
jority OF the Select Committee on the Veto Message
+ The SPEAKER said that the motion of Mr. john
son was privileged one.
On that motion the yeas and nays were ordered.
The vote stood--l23, nays II.
MIR. JOHNSON proceeded to address the House.
After observing that he thought the consideration
of the returned bill was, in his opinion business
that took precedence of all other and that he OPP
posed to an abrogaOn of the distribution law unless
wiser and better policy were adopted ne comment
ed on the parts OF the message relating to dlsrlbu-
ton.
Mr. ARNOLD, after few observations, moved
the previous question.
1t ordered.
On the question: Shall the bill pass the yeas and
nays were ordered.
MIR. WARREN begged to be excused from voting
He was unwilling to vote in the affirmative, because
that act might be construed into entire approba-
ton of bill which he did not approve, and if he vo
ted in the negative, it might be thought he approved
entirely the grounds assumed in the veto message.
He not excused.
The roll being called, the vote stood-yeas 81,
NAYS 81.
So the bill was not passed and the bill vetoed by
the President was not passed after the reconsdera-
ton.
The special order, being the resolution submitted
by the majority of the Select Committee on the Veto
Message, was called up.
Mr.. ADAMS made very brief speech, and was
followed by
Mr. ROOSEVELT, who remarked that the people
expected Congress to do something now, go home.
That something should be bill to raise the means OF
paying the appropriations which we are making. II
we do not provide the OF filling the Treasury,
we should not pass laws to take money from it. He
and his political friends would not be blamed for the
failure of revenue bill. Before the veto had been
sent to the House-before the fatal 30h day of June
had expired, tine gentleman from ONO, Mr. Weiler,)
and himself had offered bills not retrospective but
prospective, to the collection OF revenue, and
to remove the doubts about the construction OF the
present laws What had been the RESULT Their POI
ltical opponents, in solid phalanx, had voted against
the consideration of these propositions. The bills
presented if considered, could have been amended,
if not satisfactorily to the majority, in the shape In
which they were presented But the majority refus-
ed even to consider them Even, this day, the gem
tleman from Pennsylvania mir. Brown,) had moved
that the House should go into Committee of the
Whole at once, and take up the BILL proposed by the
Judiciary Committee for regulating the collection OF
| the revenue. But even now, at this late day of
protracted session. the majority had refused to consi
der bill which might have been moulded into
shape to suit themselves but the consideration was
refused Though the call for the previous question
might appear invdious yet, now time was all inn
portant and the people impatient for decision, MIR.
Roosevelt thought himself obliged to do an act, the
| performance of which he would rather forego, and
| move the previous question.
| call of the House was ordered-and 164 men,
| bers answered to their names
motion then made to suspend further pro-
ceedngs in the call. On this motion, the yeas and
| NAYS were ordered The vote stood, yeas 81, nays
| g. So the proceedings on the call were suspended
| The question required on the modified motion,
which called for vote the adoption OF the report
| as well as of the resolution.
| Mr. BOLTS called for division of the question,
that the vote might be taken the report first and
| then on the resolution.
Mr. BIDLACK moved to lay both report and re-
| solution on the table.
On the motion the yeas and nays were ordered.
! The vote stood-yeas 49, nays 1Ol.
The question recurring ON the adoption of the re-
port of the majority,
| Mr. WISE asked to be excused from voting The
House, he said has no right to pass judgment on the
President any other civil officer. Now the report
accuses the President Of high crimes and msdemean-
ors for which he deserves impeachment and for which
the House might move an impeach ment but it cannot
!
was question whether the House should usurp the
| powers of the Senate. With this view he could not
vote at all, and asked TO be excused
| He was excused.
On the adoption of the report the vote stood-yeas
| 100, nays 80; 30 the report was adopted.
The next question was on the adoption of the reso-
luton. The vote stood-yeas 49, nays 80; so the re-
solution not carriedthere not being the majority
required by the Constitution.
| Mr.. MARSHALL moved reconsideration of the
vote just taken, and addressed the House briefly
| the question of amendment of the Constitution.
He did not approve the act of the President, but
though he would change the President, he would not
change the Constitution. The danger in this Gov
eminent arise from the fact that the President
would act always with the majority in Congress- not
from the circumstance of his vetoing the acts OF the
| the majority.
! In conclusion Mr. MARSHALL withdrew his reso-
luton. After much confusion, and various motions,
Mr. WISE renewed the motion to reconsider. lie
had given his VOTE he sad with full consideration and
for very dssmar from those urged by tho
gentleman from Kentucky. 1t might be thought sin
gular by some that vaciating obstinacy had some
time since-only in the month of January-de-
nounced proposition to change the Constitution as
proposition TO dissolve the Union But now that
vacaling obstlnacy so soon makes the proposition OF
| amendment. Mr.. WISE said he could see from the
last reason Tor the orgination OF the mo-
ton to destroy the conservative power of the veto in
the quarter from which it had sprung. Not even the
admission of Florida into the Union could save the
institutions of the South it not for the equiva-
Hence Of the veto to a two-third majority,
Before Mr.. Wise had concluded his remarks, the
House, motion Of Mr.. Gu St4lNG, adjourned.
CORRECTION.
In our editorial of yesterday supplies" for
"The king too rarely if has occasion to the
veto, because his ministers recommend and Parlia-