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u" Oh, Liberty! how many crimes are committed
in thy pane !"
IN SENATE--MoYDAY, Aug. 10.

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IN oENA E--NioNpAf, mug w.
The veto Of the French sroliation bill was read
! Mr.. J. VI. CLAYTON rose and said it was tn
first instance, ne believed, in the history t'thi
Republic. in which the President of the United
81 ties had intorposed his veto to the passage n
IN winch involved no CONSTITUTIONAL prlnClpln |
no question OF constitutional right, but which |
was founded entirely IN tne ground OF expcdion- |
cy Il was the first instance in which an En-
ecutve chief magistrate, after acknowledging
his import1 acquaintance with the subject after
ireoN c9nicssing tslat ne had not EXTENDED III,
, cAamnluon very minuteiy INTO the snblcct nae
V'htareu Tie opinion That measure o. TINS deF-
eruption, which had passed the two houses OF
, Congress- was measure OF doubtful character
ana ong'h not To- become Iaw, thu. rem erine
thy y pther appi!cat,on OF c'e part ot thoSe nv
ing cia'In7 "'tnn ING 5r!'is'ons oI Tue act uur
ing ms s,"nm@trtuon' utterly hoP'eas'
WI. .iaISon' IN siv.g nj ,nPres- r' ~ r.
, g'rd 70 ms power OF Wltilo,uIhg 'he LEec"1V"
assent from ohls which NAT passed 'ngresS'
aaciarfH I'll u ~ Pr,m'ryoocc, Wt7 70 eli 'ot ti'
| Gxrcni'e 70 detenu '''et ; ana ne oer"lru an,
ded, tha' unIesS II were lor tnI@ am 10 PF''e"'
thc Parsisc oi oliCohs,l'"l'oai MI vi li'
parl ol ihe congress, IL W9oia iie'er nave p,l'
I'' e, turing tle administration vi Mi'
'Gh'r7o!i 'h're was not s'h@'e ,''''a'ce ~
Wi'cn .''e VIto power Wa .MtfciSeu , i'' :" I,
u exercised curing 'he administration Of the eider
or OF the Younger ADAMS
t ~ must oe "o''huahliy eVlaeh' tnaI the ra'n'F
OF the constitution never Contemplated eAtehding
t,le EXERCISE VI 'le Neto power 20 rVcu ci-cs ~
4 the one now Dalore them II II coma properly
1 be EXTENDED % sncA cases, taen /, hlgn' DC nN-
tended to every case OF mere private claim. AND
II II were the dulY oi the Presld n, OF me
states to revise the action OF Congress m re'"f-
n cnce to al! private claims 1t must occur to every
r man that duty would devoive dpon nm winch
a 1t would be Impossible for him to perform.
4 Inc trainers OF the con Institution coaII never
i have intended to impose upon hin such duty
rs this--Baside>, none of the facilities which
: Congress possessed for understanding the cases
u were given to him. He had no power of send
-. ing for witnesses. or Of examining testimony.
- This the first instance, as he said before in
!, which this power had been wrested from it's le-
i gtimate uses and applied to case utterly for
\ eign to its applicaton--and he hoped it would
- be the last.
u The President Of the United States. in lis
n veto message, rested his objections, first, upon
:, the ground that the subject had been presented
: to the two houses Of Congress- at different times
:, for more than forty years and that there were
~ two occasions within that time when there was
; a surplus in the Treasury; AMI inferred from
this that the claims We're not lust or Tho govern
= ment would have recognised them a. those pc.
- RODS when there was a surplus.
y What sort Of plea in bar was tl=, to be SGT ur
~ BY the government against a claiman., that be-
Il cause they had not paid it when they had the
II money therefore i; must be presumed to be IN
~ just? How would such plea sound a. between
m individuals IN suit at laT ?---Supaose n maj
were to plead, not tnat he had pad ~, dent Ut"
that twice sinceit had accrued he had been au,
70 T. pay, therefore it must Lave been an GnE-
- d2Dt, OtherNlSe nc would nave paid Il. AM