Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-07-11

| Why talk Of the extremitios, when dsense is at
the very vitas Of your government? Sir said
he, II is political affection of the heart. your
President is the direct and immediate cause OF
this malady that rankes in the very central seat
of the system. Your President is the maIady
himself Yet gentlemen ask why we did not
legisaie? We did. Not as BETTING an indepen-
dent Legislature, consulting only their own pru.
deuce and sense of public duty but in bill aba
ted OF our own opinions, unnerved OF our own
purpose to avert the presidential dispeasure.--
Congress was reduced TO collect from the voice
of rumor, the motives and the causes that were
to shape its performance of its high functions.
And yet after all this degrading submission, what
! have we? fresh veto
Gentlemen decaim about the land BILL and find
in it topics for patriotic denunciaon. Yet is
there not here question of infinitely higher con-
sequence a question whether or not this Legls
lature is to be mere shadow of imperial villa
register OF imperial odlcs? appeal to honora-
| Bile gentlemen whether we have not, under these
unhappy circumstances, a higher duty TO perform
than this OF party attack or defence'
Mr. Simmons submitted report from the Com
ntee on Manufactures and the Senate adjourn
ed.
In the HOUSE,, MIR. Fillmore reported the Army
| Appropriation Bill with amendments.
Mr.. Casey offered II joint resolution that Con-
gress adjourn OIL the 18Th OF July.
Mr.. Fillmore. | object. We are not yet in
adjourn until tariff bill is passed.
MIR. Casey. We can adjourn on the day desig-
mated MS well as at any other time.
Mr.. Joseph r. lugersol said he hoped an adj
Journment would not even be talked OF until
i'll bill had been passed.
MIR, Casey moved TINT the rules Of the House be
suspended for the purpose of enabling him to Of
fer the resolution.
The question was taken aud it was decided so
to rs not to suspend the rules. So the Wing ma
jorly in the House will go on in the face of all
opposition, aud legisiaie for The good of The cOtm-
Fy-leaving the responsibility ut destroying all
their labors and crushing every effort to carry on
the Government, with the President, where it Of
right belongs.
SATURDAY, July 2
In Senate the bill nppropriating for the pay
ment to Massachusetts for the services of her mi
lita, &c. during the late war, was passed
The bill fixing the value of the pound sterling
at the Treasury Department at Sl,S4 was ordered
cngrossed
The remainder Ct the day was consumed in
the consideration Of private bills
In the House, MIR. Adams, Chairman of the Sc
Iect Committee on the Message of the President
on the Apporlionment bill, (Which is composed
Of Messrs. Adams Pope, McKennan, Hunter and
Profht) reported Resolution requiring of the
Secretary Of State the original paper of the Pres
ident deposited in the Department containing his
reasons for the signature of the Apportlonnent
bill.
Mr.. Gushing moved TO amend the Resolution
so to require an authenticated copy (instead OF
the Originally The amendment was adopted eas
"a Nays S0-and the Resolution ms amended
was adopted
The Ve.o Message was again taken up. Mr.
Smith OF Va. defended the President in his Veto
aud mpugned the course of the Wings in THEN
, opposition thereto. lie went into an examination
of the Compromise Act Of 1888, aud the Dlstr
button Act, conending that the bill violated botl
these acts, and eulogisng the firmness and patr
otism of the President in thus throwing himself it
the breach and preventing this violation of public
faith.
, Mr.. Payne of Ala. defended the policy of the
insertion ofthe veto power in the Constitution
and attacked with great fury the party (Which
however, does not exlst) who we've now clam
orOus against the veto power, Contending that II
this principle were crrred out, not only would
The Executive Department of Government he de
stroyed, but The Senate also under this cry o
popular omnpoience, and all power being con
centra;cd in this House, the scenes OF tyranny ant
+ bloodshed of the French republic would be Ell
f acted here.
, Mr. Walterson consumed his hour in an attemp
to show the Inconsistencies of the Wing party
It's entire want of principles, and the patriotism o
lie President and the Locoioco party.
. MIR. Howard of Mich. examined in candle
aud lucid manner, the reasoning of the Message
contending that il was composed of illogical an(
incongruous arguments and that after stripping
q of its unnecessary verbiage, the only reason tina
= appeared for this inlerpositon of the veto wa
the Presidents private opinion merely, against TN
eApedicncy of distribution, Notwithstanding his at
l tempt TO show that it violated the Compromise
&c.
f Mr. Arnold obtained the floor at the close o
this, and with his usual warmth was proceeding
4 TO denounce the Inconsistencies and treachery 0
. the President when the House adjourned.