Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-09

4 MIR CUSHING wis:-.d to inquire Of the Chair
what was the direct question before the Housed
| The CHAIR said Il was on postponing The main
question Of reconsideration and printing tho mssS
sage.
MrEvERETT inquired whether there could be
any debate before the message had been entered al
i large upon the Journal OF the Housef
| The SPEAKER said he had ordered this 10 be
/ done.
Mr. CUSHING then proceeded. The gentleman
from New York ca, Fillmore) hal expressed ne
| opinion that unless this bill. now vetoed, should
| become law, there would be no law fot the co'-
lection oil the revenue; and in eonnexon with that
opinion had observed that the President, In his
| message had said that there was law enough. MIR.
G. should not 60 further that point than this;
which would atloCd a complete answer TO that pa
OF what the gentleman advanced; IT might possibly
be that, AFTER Tomorrow, there would be no legal
means o: collecting revenue, land the President
himself admitted the necessity for additional egis.
lalon.l What. then, was the duty Of Congress'
Was Il not obviously to provide a iawi Was this
bill the only form in which to obtain revenue1 IL
tho prog ncstics of the gentleman that side were
true he called upon the chairman Of the Committee
OF Ways and Means to introduce a bill for that
purpose; It would lie his frst duty. Such bill
could be passed this day, and in an hours tins, If
the committee chose.
But that was secondary question in comparison
with those great and serious and momenlous
questions which had been introduced into the re-
marks W hich had been made.
President was not professedly willing to allow the
distribution of the land fund for siasle day, hut
that TINS was mere pe,enec Tor issuing veto, which,
m effect, would produce distribution. The gentle
man went on the principle. that by the compromise
act distribution was 10 take place the st July.
But was this sol Did distribution necessarily take
place Immediately after the 30th Junel According
TO that act, distribution was TO be supposed by two
causes: ono was Wharf.-The other was the existence OF
duties over 20 per cent. Now, MIR e. asked, had du-
AIv xef1
Would such duties not continue till the 30ih June1
And was IL not the import of the psoviso in the
distribution act that f duties over and above 90 per
cent, should bc needed for revenue, then the pro-
ceeds oi the public lands 90 into the Trea-
sary, and continue part OF the means OF the Gov
ernmentl DUrinsthe whole time that duties should
continue over 90 per cent there was to be no dis
tr'bn,ion. The inference, then, OF the gentleman
from New York is not warrented 10y the terms of
the act, nor his impu,ation the President 10y the
language ot the message.
MIR TILLrseHAsr here asked MIR CrsHMc 10
allow him to correct m error, 10 the OF the
proviso, into which he seemed to have fallen. Mr.
g. deelintd, rs, he said, he might want all his
tine
The gentleman said it a most extraordinary
message, and that We had reached a great crisis in
the affairs Of the United States well rs in the re-
auons of political parties MIR c. cared not a straw
Tor the relation of parties. \ laugh "Oh no, by no
means.'l The People began to be disabuscd oi the
tyranny Of party, by which they and all their inter
ests had long been sacrificed 10 the aspirations Of
men. MIR c. said he did care, however, for crisis
which was material to the interests of tho People.
The gentleman from New York had said that in
every question between the People Of the United
States and tho President he 20 for the People
But what was the "eriss 2" The term was used so
frequently, and came so irppingly and fiippani-
ly of the tongue, that MIR c. had, in great mea-
sure, ceased to attach much weight TO il. Indeed
he began TO think very much with a certain French
gentleman, who, having survived the dangers OF
the French revolution and the scenes that followed
said that zone came TO bear himself about as well
IN crisis in the interval" The gentleman SEEM
ed TO refer to some hidden contingency which he
did not explain. Mr. c. wished to gather, if he
could, what the nature OF this terrible crisis was.