The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-08-23
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WAsHINGroS, Thursday, Aug. IL.
Ia The House. or REPREsEETATivEs, to day, the
Select Committee, raised on motion of Mr. Adams,
on the Presidents Veto, was announced TO consist
Of the following members: Messrs. Adams, Nor
row, Grangor Saith of Conn. Bolts, Peurce, Ray.
ner Cooper of Pa. Il. J. Cambel Of Tenn. GiImer,
w. w Irwin, Roosevelt and &. j. lngersoil
THE REPORT ON THE VETO.
Soon after the meeting of tho House this morn
ing, Glr Adams, from the Select Committee 10
whom was referred the Message of John. Ter,
assigning his reasons for Withholding his assent
from tho Tariff Bill, presented a Report, which
was ordered tn be read. The Report was sept 10
tho Clerks able-bnt, at the request of several
members, il wins returned TO Mr. Adams, who read
Y to the House himself TITS very grave, digni
ned and able paper--reviews the public conduct
OF Tyler with great severity and power-and
cludes with solemn resolution To modify the We.
To power OF the President SO as to enable a n0jo,i
jty Of all the members of both Houses OF Congress
10 pass Bill into a law notwilhs tanding the OBJ.
iectiOns of the Executive.
The Report commences with the declaration
that the Committee regard the late Veto as the last
of series of Executive dies gned 10 embarrass
the action of Congress and defeat those great
ures which rendered indispensable 10 relieve
suffering country. 1t then goes on to refer TO the
embarrassed condition OF the Government at the
close Of the late Admin stratiou--io the extra ses
sion called by President Harrison to relieve those
embarrassments-tu the death ol General Harrison
and the accession of Mr. Tylor--to the proceedings
OF Congress at The extra sessinn-the passage of
the two Bank Bills tho circumstances under which
they were passed, and the Two vetoos by which
they were defeated The committee declare that
the President formally pledged fimselfio a distin
gnished member ofthe House, tho Chairman of
the Commute which charged with the duty
of maturing the Dill, 10 approve the second Bank
and then, in The face of Ibis ledge, rejected the
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in dircc conhict with the reasons assigned in the
first veto message. A tier commenting, IN proper
terms, upon MIR ryler's conduct in relation To the
Bunk Bills, and noticing some other matters of less
Importance, The Report branches into a review
OF the Distribution policy and defends it with great
eioquence and power. IL then enters into an exam
lnation of the reasons assigned by President Tyler
for vetoing the last tariff BiIl-shows their weak
ness and ingutticiency--an proves them to be al
surd and self contradictory.
The Committee notice, particularly, what Mr.
Tyler calls his main objection the Bill, namely
hat coupled together two subjects which were
totally incnngruous, and which had no connec
ton with each other-and contrasts 1t with anoth
or paragraph in the same message, IN which he e
cares that his recommendation Of Distribution, at
The extra session, expressly coUPL ED with the
condition that il should cease whenever the tariff
duties should exceed 90 per cent. The Rep then
asks if the union OF those Two subjects he I'M.
natural, cgItjmate union ,toh0 the ninistering
Priest az the celebration Of the rltes$ The Comm
declare that the conduct nf he President is sufti.
cenily highhanded and arbitrary to Justify re.
sort 10 the constitutional remedy of impeachment,
bat other considerations induce them To reiTaiu
tiom recommending such course,
hen Mr. AdIms had finished the reading of
rho Report, Gilm"r, of Virginia, who is ore Of the
Committee, rose, ana read long and windy pro-
test against the proceedings of Congress, and dis
gus,iugly laudatnry Of the conduct of T, Ter. IL
was extremely weak and feeble thing-and
coming, il did, in Immediate contrast with the
luminous and powerful Repor, of Mr. Adams
sounded like the discharge off puny pop. gun
after the laundering broadside of seventy
( four
! When Gilmer had concluded, Charles J. Inge r
! soil the man who declared he would have been a
British Tory &c he had lived in the time of the
oiulion, and who is also OF the cnmmittee
presented minority Report, IN which he aiien nj
ed TO maintain the Democracy o { the vcioe power
aud defend the course of tho President in rejecting
! tho Bill.
! These Reports having been road, Dir Adam,
moved that all these reports, together with the
Tariff bill, and he We o. Message, be ordered e.
be printed, and made the special order OF the day
for tomorI ow. After one points of order had
been raised and ovorrnIed, the motion of Mr. Ad
ANS pnt and carried