The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-08-18

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rarely seen upon earth Such investigation, though
strictly within the scope OF the instructions embraced IN
the reference to this Committee would require voum
nous report which the scantness Of time will not allow
and which may not be necessary for maturing the udg
ment OF the House upon the document before them
ma reasons assigned by the President for returning
he Rouse oil Representatives with his objections the bill
provide revenue from imports and to change and mod
eAsuhg laws imposing duties and for other purposes
preceded by brief upon the painful
lions which any indiv idual with the voo power
eei IN exercising upon important acts of the
gnlaure The paragraph Is worded with extreme eau
oh ana with obvious intent avoid the assertion made
IN such broad and unqualified terms in the Letter read al
the Philadelphia Independence dav dinner marty that
Congress can enact no law without the Of the
1ere as IN this paper stu ious effort
any from the imputation of asserting the unaua
lined independence of the executive upon the
anu 'he OF congress to enact any without
him nat assertion, made in explicit and unoual6,d
terms, in the Philadelphia letter is here xir,naiix ai
claimed rnd dsavowed The exercise of SEINE indepen
dence OF Judgment in regard to all of legisaton NV
any Individual invested with the power r. here
tailed and narrowed downto the privilege of NOT
yielding his well considered most deeply fixed and renea
edy declared opinions matters great public concern
ment to those OF coordidate department
That seriously to subject ofher
difference The coordinate department to the Legislature
is no longer the coordinate branch of the Legislature
The power ofCongress ito enact law without the CO.
operation of any ndv dual Executive conceded
merely by unavoidable inference for the closing para
graph of the message recurring again to the trouble
"reminiscences observes that after all the effect of
what he does substantially call Congress recon.
slider the subject IT, on such reconsideration, majority
of two-hirds of both Houses should he in favor Of this
measure it will become law notwithstanding his objec
tons The rusm Of this remark may perhaps be account
ed for by the surmse that it discovery, made
since the writing OF the Philadelphia dinner party letter
and the modest presumption ascrbed to the Constitution
that the Executive commit of opinion unless
wohirds OF both branches of the Legislature
icwh him, pered by the amiable that in
that event he will cheerfully acquesce result which
would be precisely the whether he should acquesce
in it or not The aptitude of this hypothetical position
mhy be estimated by the calculation Of the chances that
the contingency which it supposes is within the of
possibility.
The assigned by the President for his objections
to this bill are further by narrative
dent opinions and on the suo iec
bung the proceeds Of the sales of the public lands He
admits that at the opening of the extra session he
mendation was expressly coupled with the condition that
the duties on imports should not exceed the of per
cent provided by the compromise act of 1888.
Who could imagine that, alter this most emphatic
coupling OF the revenue from duties of mpos with reve.
nue. from the ofthe sales of the public lands the
first and paramount objection of the President this bill
should be that untes two subjects which, so far from
having any affinity to one another wholly ncongru-
Gus in their subjects are dentically
the same with those which he had coupled together his
to Congress at the extra session. there
was no affinity between the parties why did he join them
togenerl II the union Legitimate who was the adj
ministering priest Of the unhaowed rtes2 Objected
to this bill thet is both and appropriation
bill What then? Is not the act Of Sept lS4l approved
and signed by the President himself both and an
appropriation bll2 Does enact that in the event of
insucency ofimpost duties exceeding twenty per
bent ad vaorem, to defray the expen,es Of the
Government the proceeds the sales of the lands she'll be
levied as part OF revenue and appropriated the
sales OF the public lands to deay the ordinary eypendi
lures OF the Government is believed be system of ifs
cal management unwise impotic improvident and I'M
Just and it is precisely for that that the bill now
before the House provides that they shall appro
priated The public lands the noble and nappreca
BILE inheritance of the whole nation The sale of them 10
individuals not tax upon the purchaser, but
change Of equivalents scarcely burdensome the
guarantee than he should receive gratuous do
nation To appropriate the proceeds Of the sales to deray
the ordinary expenses of the to waste and
trust Mr. Tyler speaks Of the distribution as il Seas
giving away the property II precisely the reverse It
defay the current expenditures IS to give il IN to dan
dalton and waste. II in political economy precisely the
same as if an individual landholder should sell off, yea
alter year. parcels OF his estate and its proceeds
in the payment Of his household expenses The first prn
cpeof political economy necessary for nation to raise
the expenditures of that year. Every departure from hi.
principle step in the path of national bankruptcy and
piled by the income derived from by the year
and not by the dissipation of the common property.
The second reason Of the President for Directing to the
passage Of this bill not more ponderous than the first
is the destitute and embarrassed the Treasury and
the impolicy if not unconsutionolty of giving away
irutiu! source OF revenue which retained seiz
ed by the Government and applied meet its daily wants
But the President had told that this fruitful source
OF revenue was subject wholly dssmilar in its charac
ter from that Of revenue raised by duties Of impost-so
dissmlar that the union of them formed in his mind an
nsurmountable objection to the passage of the bill q"
most respectfully submit says the message whether this
IS time to give away the proceeds of the land sales
the public lands constitute fluid which Of all others may
be made most useful in sustaining the public credit And
how could it be made thus useful Precisely by giving
them away BY giving them away forver yor # the
principle be once established that the proceeds of the sal
Of the public lands shall be substituted the place of re-
venue by taxation to defay the ordinary annual expenses
oil the National Government will the people of
any State in this Union have the benefit of one dollar from
this richest of mines of inexhaustible wealth. bestowed
upon them by their bounul Creator for the improvement
Oh their own condition BY giving away-yes the last
cent given away for ever p,mper the reckless extrs
vagance Of Government forever preaching retrench-
men and economy and forever heapng million upon mil
lion OF annual expenditures o suckle armies and dry
nurse the land.n
The committee submit to the House their unhesia,inq
opinion that the appropriation of any part of the pro leeds
ofhe sales Of the public lands the ordinary annual ex
pendtures would be the only eectual and rrelrievabe
giving away OF that great and nestmable inheritance of
the American People That il once that growing and in
eNhauble fund shall be doomed form the whole or any
part OF the ways and means for the annual of the
recesps and expenditures of the National Government
the People may bid farewell, long farewell to every
OIL ever receiving dollars useful improvement from that
GIT OF God to them thus cruelty and perfdously wresed
from their hands.
Nineteen Of the States of this Union in the ardent per-
maps IN some cases nconsideraely ardent pursuit of this
improvement of their condition. have become in.
volved some of them heavily involved in debt. The
greatest portion OF this debt has been contracted for the
complement of stupendous works to expedite and facil
tate the intercourse of travel and Of trade between the
remotest extremes OF this great Republic swarmng from
year to year, with redoubling millions of population. II
no exaggerated estimate of the value Of these works
say that the saving of time labor and of to in
dividua citizens of the Unon enjoying the benefit Of
these public works more than repays in every single
year, the whole cost of their construction.
But, while these immense benefits have been thus
cured to the People, community of individuals the
States which authorised them have contracted burden
liabilities heavier than they able to bear They need
the assistance Of friendly and powerful hand and where
should they find but in the sympathies of the National
Government in their fidelity to the trust committed to
their charge in this immense and almost boundless public
domain The application of the proceeds Of the public
lands to alleviate the burden of these debts pressing upon
the people OF almost all the States is if not the only
most unexceptionabe mode Of extending the mighty arm
OF the Union to relieve the People Of the States the
pressure Of the burden bearing upon hema relief con-
ssng only Of the distribution among them of their own
propertyarelef furnishing them the means Of paving
tsthe United States themselves nconsderable portion
OF the debts due from the States them so that by one
and the same operation Of the People the States will be
relieved from the ntoerabe pressure of their debt and
the common Treasury Of he Union will back in
payment of debt no small part of the allotted
to the States as their respective portions of the dstr
button.
The committee regret that the shortness of the time
which they have allowed themselyes the