The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-18
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- the expeiiencv Of passing sfese-
moved the reconsideralNs residue of 1t.
motion to suspend for taking - -"Solopon inca
solution was lost
The motion to reconsider was carrl- NJ
of 1870 to TO-
On the motion being renewed TO suspend 81
rules, the vote stood-yeas l22, nays To-
So the rules were not suspended.
Mr. CUSHING moved suspension of the rules 10
go into Committee of the Whole and take up House
bill 3l2 being that reported from the Committee on
Manufactures.
MIR. JOHNSON Of Maryland, moved ~ 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 MIR 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 aDrogaton OF the distribution law unless
a wiser and better policy adopted he comment
ed the parts of the message relating to dstribu-
| ton
Mr.. ARNOLD after few observations, moved
| the previous question.
IL ordered
| On the question, Shall the bill pass the yeas and
| nays ordered
| Mr.. WARREN begged 10 be excused from voting.
He unwilling to vote IN the affirmative, because
| that act might be construed into an entire approba-
ton of a bill which he did not approve, and If he
ted i'll the negative, it might be thought he approved
entirely the grounds assumed in the veto message.
lie was not excused
| The roll being called, the vote stood-yeas 81,
| NAYS 81
So the bill not passed; and The bill vetoed by
the President was not passed after the reconsidera-
| ton.
| The special order, being the resolution submitted
by the ma jority of the Select Committee on the Veto
| Message, 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 means 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 a bill. Before the veto had been
sent to the House-beiore the fatal 3Oh day Of June
had expired, the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. Weller)
and himself had offered bills not retrospective but
prospective to the collection OF revenue, and
to the doubts about the construction OF tho
present laws. What had been the result Their POI
tcal opponents, in solid phaanx 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
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
proracted session, the majority had refused TO
der a 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 invidlous yet as now time was all I'M
portant and the people impatient for decision, Mr.
Roosevelt thought himself obliged to do act, the
performance OF which he would rather foregQ, and
move the previous question.
A call of the House was ordered-and l64 mem
bers answered to their names.
II motion then made TO suspend further pro-
ceedngs in the call On this motion, the yeas and
nays ordered The vote stood yeas 81, nays
e. SO the proceedings on the call were suspended.
The question required the modified notion
| which called for vote on the adoption Of the report
= | as well as of the resolution.
Mr.. Bolts called for a division of the question,
so that the might be taken the report first and
II then on the resolution
= Mr. BlDLACk moved to lay both report and re-
solution the table.
. On the motion the yeas and nays were ordered.
The vote stood-yeas S5 nays l0l.
, 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 right to pass Judgment on the
. President any other civil officer. Now the report
the President OF high crimes and msdelnean-
ors for which he deserves impeachment and tor which
Il. the House might move an Impeachment but it cannot
pass sentence. The question of adopting the report
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 sood-yeas
100, nays 50 the report adopted.
The next question was the adoption Of the Ieso-
luton. The stood-yeas 49, nays 80; the re-
solution was not carried-here being the majority
required by the Constitution
Mr.. MARSH ALL moved reconsideration OF the
: vote lust taken and addressed the House briefly on
the question of an 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 must from the fact that the President
would act always with the majority in Congress- not
from the circumstance of his vetong the acts OF tho
the majority.
In conclusion Mr. MARSHALL withdrew his reso-
luton. A itcr much confusion, and various motions,
Mr. WISE renewed the motion to reconsider. 1ic
had given his vote, he said with full consideration ana
for very dlssmIar from those urged by the
gentleman from Kentucky. 1t might be thought SIM
gular by some that vacIllatng obstinacy had some
time snce-only in the month of January-de
nounced proposition to change the Constitution as
a proposition TO dissolve the Union. But now that
vaciliatlng obstinacy makes the proposition OF
amendment Mr.. w Use SAID he could see from the
last census the orignatlon of the mo-
ton 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 tho
institutions of the South il for the equlva-
Hence of the veto to a two-thrd ma ority,
Before Mr. Wise had concluded his remarks the
House on motion of Mr. CUSHING, adjourned.
CORRECTION
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