Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-09-01
THE TARIFF BILL AGAIN PASSED.

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the passage on Monday, through the House
of Representatives, of another Tariff Bill,
being the bill last vetoed with the exception
of the land clause. At IL O'Clock the House
resolved itself into committee Of the whole
on the state of the Union, and resumed the
consideration of the Revenue bilis,-the de-
claratory Act reported by Mr.. c. ]. Inger-
soils two year bill, on the basis Of 1910,
being the pending amendment
/ Mr.. Fillmore emphaticallY declared his
reasons for voting for the original Tariff
bill, without the 9th section or Gland
clause" Mr.. Ingersoll's was rejected, only
80 voting for it. Mr.. McKennan's amend
ment (the great vetoed Tariff bill without
the land clause) was then adopted, AYES SO,
Nays 81. The committee then rose and re-
ported the biTl-and the House concurred
in the amendment, Ayes 102, Nays 80. On
the engrossment there was tie vote. AYES
l0l, NAYS 1O1-the speakep defeated it by
his casting vote. A consideration was then.
moved and carried. Yeas 1OS. Nays 99-
and the question recurring on the engross.
ment, the vote stood Yeas 1O3, Navs 102.-
The point of order was now raised that I'M
der the rules the Speaker was bound to vote.
After consulting the rule, the Speaker voted
in the negative. (thus making Yeas LOB,
Nays 1O3-sand finally rejecting the bill, had
ting vote thus been permitted 10 stand.
Messrs. Andrews of XIV. and Stanley Of
N. G. now carne forward and offered their
votes in the affirmative, which after some
objection, were. received: the bill was then
ordered to be fngrossod, los to. 1O2 and f.
nally PASSED los to 103. The Locos to show
their spirit, moved, through Mr.. Roosevelt of
tect domestic manufactures" rejected 1O5
"a. The bin was then sent to the Senate
and the House adjourned.
In the Senate the Tariff bill was received,
and several other matters, mostly of pri-
vate and local character, were considered.
The Senate insisting. on their amendments
to the contingent Appropriation bill a COM
mittee Of conference was appointed:
The VEro PowER.-In introducing To the
consideration Of the House of Representatives
the proposition to amend the Constitution of
the United States. in relation 10 the Veto
Power, Mr.. ADAMS made the following re-
marks, illustrative of his views and his expe-
rience of the consequences which have fol-
lowed the exercise of this power, on the great
interests of the nation, since the foundation
necessity of some further check to power so
liable to abuse.
With regard is this particular amendment,
said Mr.. A., have always been, in theory.
in favor Of this veto power. was SO Mt the
time the Constitution was adopted have
continued 50 until very recently, but I cam
not stand the effect Of repeated experience
My faith in the establishment Of that princi-
pie as part Of the Constitution has been
greatly shaken, until am ready to vote for
this alteration, 80 far as it is now presented
to this House. :;
Mr.. Adams said no did not know that in the
whole number OF vetoes ESQ called) which
had taken place since the establishment Of
the Constitution, that one-he doubted en-.
ceedingly whether there had been one, the
effect Of which was better than that If the
law which was defeated by it,. He 6ou bted.
on areview Of tbewhole Of them, whether it
would not have been better for the Eation
that the power itself should not have existed.
AS part, indeedsof, great system, of n gov.
willing. for one, to leave I he people Of the
United States to experience the future exer.
else of it, limited and modified rs was pro-
posed by the resolution reported from the
committee. .....
The House, said Mr.. Adams. will merely
observe that the alteration proposed in the
Constitution is as small as it ca be-, to make
any alteration ut all. It pr opposes to suhsti-
tute a majority of the win ole House AS we'll
as of the whole Senate on taking vote on
the reconsideration a fter the Presidential OBJ
jections have been returned to the House in
which the bill origi mated. The reasons on
which the majority of the committee came to
this conclusion. are very briefly stated in the
report which was read yesterday on the part
of the majority. So far as relates TO myself
7 ~o mn hos 7 ho~ ,a haou fros, tho H;uoo ho
Constitution was adopted. particularly after
the additional amendments proposed in the
LIST Congress of the United States, generally
in principle against all amendments to the
Constitution. I have generally disapproved
of them, and do not know that ever voted
since have been in this House for any one
proposition for amending the Constitution
that has been made here. Ihave been general.
~ prejudiced against alterations Of so solemn
and sacred an instrument as the Constitution
of the United States, unless evils arise from Il
Of an intolerable nature. think il better for
the People of United States "tc bear the ills
they have. rather than to fly to others that
they know not Of"
When speaking of the experience of the
past. he need not 60 furthor back than to the
Administration under which this veto power
had been more frequently exercised than
before had been ever thought of. The vetoes
Of President jackson, were, all Of them,
among the most perhicious acts that could
have heea cpmmitted. in their effects upon
The people Of the United States and their
highest interests. This was, however. matter
Of opinion only on his part. If the exercise
of this power had been confined to him and
his administration. Mr.. A. might not have
been SO much shaken in his opinion in regard
to Il. -
az The ottennt IN exercise tho same mower