New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-05

be not speedily done, 1t requile. ~ II, And when.
-, !, will not be done at all. AM wneh
70 see and necessary work shall be under.
- ,be single reform which IS here suggested
,.,ilI- ,rili accomplish half that is required.
| Another striking imPerfection OF the oonstltu-
ION az respects the executive department. IS
found in the veto power. The right to forbid Tue
neople 10 pass whatever laws they please Is Tue
right to deprive them of selt-governmeht. II Is
power which can never be entrusted TO one man
or apv number of men short of the people them
selres. without the certain destruction OF public
liberty. 1t is true that each. department OF the
government, should be armed with certain power
or selfprotecton against the assaults OF the other
departments and the Executive, probably, stands
most in need of such protection. But the vete
power. as it stands in the Constitution, goes Tar
beyond this object. It is, in effect, power IN
the executive department. to forbid all action IN
anv other 1t is true that, Notwithstanding the
veto of the President, law may still be passed
nravided l,ro-tk;rds of each House OF Congress
agree therein but it is obvious that the cases are
yery rare. in which such concurrence could be eS.
n.cted. In.cases Of plain necessity or policy the
veto would not be applied; and those OF doubtful
necessity or policy would rarely be carried by
majority so large as twothirds of each House
And vet in these it may be just as important that
the public Will should be carried out, as IN cases Oh
less doubt and difficulty. 1t may be, also that a
President may oppose the passage OF laws OF t,le
plainest and most pressing necessity. Ana II nc
should do so, it would certainly give him most
improper power over the people, to enable nun 70
prevent the most necessary Legislation, Win oihy
.pe.third of each House of Congress IN his favor.
There is something incongruous IN TINS union Vi
legislative and executive powers IN the same man
,aara l.,l,lI no y
somewhere, to check hasty and ill.consldered lie,
gislation and that power may be as well entrusted
10 the President as to any other authority. but
il is not necessary that he should be great enough
10 prevent all legislation nor to control IN any
rcspect the free exercise of the legislative will 1t
would be quite enough for the security OF the rights
| of the Executive and quite enough TO insure tenn
perate and wise legislation, to authorize the Presi-
dent merely to send back TO the legislature tor re-
consideration any law which he disapproyed by
thus afording to that body time and opportunity
for reflection, with all the additional lights winch
the President himself could throw upon the sub
iect. we should have every reasonable security Tor
the due exercise Of the legislative wisdom, and q
fair expression of the public will. Butif after all
this the legislature, in both its branches, should
still adhere to their opinion, the theory and me
souud practice of all oar institutions reqnerc
thai THEIR decision ShouM he binding and Fnai.
PAPER HANGINGs.-We saw in operation yes
terday at the paper hanging factory OF Mr.. w:
S. Birch, South Howard street, newly -invented
machine--the only one now in operation in this
coun,ry-fer printing thevarious figures oa paper
such as is used for the papering of rooms, &c 1t
is said to accomplish, with an expense OF Sd as
much work as could be done in the ordinary way
for $50. Since the passage of the late Tariff BILL
he has established his factory on more extensive
scale, and it is now in full operation, doing what
NAV be ter.ned thriving business, giving employ
to those who otherwise might have remained IN
dleness. bait attiot.