The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-12
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Final Passage 0fthe Smithsonian Bill.
The Defeat Of the Mexican Peace Bill in the
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WASHINGTON, August 10, ls46
The Fall Of the Curtain 7srmiraton of the Session
The Tsco Millions Appropriation Bill Defeated
The Course Of the Naturalization in Relation
to Mcrico-psto of the Eench Spoliation Bill
The Rirer and Harbor Bia-1he Discordam Ele-
memts IN the Present Congress, &C. &C.
The curtain has fallen. The grand national
Legislative drama has been brought to q conclu-
sion. The actors retiring to enjoy the COM
forts and composure of domestic quiet; some to
rehearse their parts for the next representation,
and Others to repeat to provincial audiences the
parts which they have played on the grand ma
tonal stage here.
AT IL M. to-day, the Speakers hammer in the
House, and the Presidents hammer in the Sc
nate, in the hand of Mr.. Mangum, the temporary
occupant Of the chair, respectively toed the
kne of the late session. The crowds that occu-
pied the galleries of both houses, from an early
hour this morning, poured themselves out over the
vast rotLnda and the ibrary-and the halls of
Congress were deserted.
The telegraph will have told you that the two
millions appropriation bill has fallen through in
the Senate. AS soon as it was introduced from
the House, Mr.. Davis, of Massachusetts COM
menced a speech against time lit was then after
eleven o'clock), and continued, Notwithstanding
the earnest and moving appeals of Mr.. Lewis, the
chairman OF the committee on finance The fos-
tering consideration of the Senate was thereby
prevented; and the bill, being deprived of the ma
tural sustenance which Mr.. Lewis, the dry-nurse
OF financial measures, was earnestly desirous of
atiording it, died of exhaustion.
regret that this measure has fallen through,
inasmuch as its failure will prevent the President
from carrying into effect those pacific negotiations
which have every reason to believe would have
Sal, a. r.
credit of both nations. Its failure will unavoida-
bly, proong the war, matter greatly TO be re-
GREETED. II is now the intention of the admins
tration to prosecute the war with the utmost vgor
until 1t is brought to a termination. Should an
opportunity occur for sending mission of peace,
the President will embrace it, and will carry out
such measures as in his own judgment, and that
OF his cabinet, will be necessary for bringing our
difficulties with our sister republic to an honora-
BILE adjustment, relying on the good sense of Con-
gress and the people to sustain him
The President is DESTROYS of retaining in the
Treasury every dollar for the expenditure ofwhich
there is not an absolute and craving necessty
He is aware that the Exchequer is already almos.
drained dry-that the expenses OF the war will
absorb more than can be spared-that the new
tariff will bring in for the first two three years
revenue not even remotely approaching the
snm necessary to defray the expenses of the Co.
vernmen; and he therefore thinks it the most pru-
dent course to withhold his sanction from all nea-
sures causing drain on the Treasury, that are
his veto of the River and Harbor bill, to which
his constitutional objections by no means of a
weighty nature, as had, in former commune
cation, an occasion to point out On this account
aIso he has fit to veto the French Spoliation
bill, thereby causing to the friends of that mea-
sure great deal Reconsideration and disappoint-
ment am confident in saying that the reasons
assigned by the President for his disapproval of
this measure are by no means Of so grave and
weighty character would have prevented
him from giving the bill his sanction under other
circumstances, and were the drain on the Trea-
sury not great as it is, and it is expected to
be. In fact, l may say that the President has
been obliged TO use little sophstry-I say it with
all imaginable respect-in order to render the
grounds OF his obec ions even specious But yet
must say that believe him to have acted under
a strict sense of duty in interposng his veto be-
tween the Treasury and the money, and importu-
nate, though, in my opinion, perfectly just de-
mands made upon it. To suppose that the Pre-
sident would have had resorted to the use Of the
extraordinary power of the veto a second time, on
frivolous pretences, or in the absence of weighty
and powerful reasons for his action in this respect
would be to charge upon him weakness Of cha
racter and an instability of judgment which can
not be imputed to him.
But while / concede to the President the best
possible motives, and the weightiest consdera-
tons for both vetoes, yet must express my regret
for the failure of the measures from which he has
withheld his sanction. Both possessed merits
and recommendations of no ordinary character
Their failure mas created grevous dsappoint-
ment. | know several members of Congress
who have spent a world Of time and trouble, on
maturing their respective appropriations, getting
Them through committee, and afterwards through
both houses-all whose efforts have been rem
dered unavailing. To give you an instance near
home. The successive representatives from the
fifth district of New Jersey, have been for num-
Der of years, believe since 1895, endeavoring to
obtain the passage of an appropriation for clear
ing out the harbor of Newark, and removing a
sand bar at the mouth OF the Passaic river. They
could never get the bill past second reading, I'm
til the present member, Mr.. Wright, came to
Congress three years ago, and by untiring exer-
That was vetoed by Mr. Tyler. The next session
he procured its passage again against great oppo-
ston (you will always find that small States like
New Jersey, Delaware, and Rhode Island, are
treated without the slightest consideration in
Congress, the delegation not being large enough
to make it worth while to court them)-and on
that occasion, the bill was pocketed by Mr.
Tyler. For the third time, it passed through both
houses during the present session and it has
third time failed to receive the sanction of the
Executive. The worst of it is, that il is an actual
loss to the people Of Newark, of not less than
fifty thousand dollars annually, as in consequence
OF the bar no vessel oil over three hundred tons
burthen can go up the liver.
The bill tn extend the territorial jurisdiction OF
the United States over Oregon also failed in the
Senate o-day-the Senate by a decisive vote
fused to take it up.
There never was a Congress in which there
existed so many opposing factions as at present.
have never seen at the close Of any session, so
much bite ness and i-feeling as exists between
the contending interests of the North and the
South-the East and the West--forty. nine men
and fifty neutrality-suspicious. who swear BIZ the
Administration and those who execrate it-Cay
wings and Scott whigs-ate-tariff men, and pre-
sent tariff men--such tumble of discordant and
antagonistic elements never before were congre-
gated under tie dome of the Capitol. trust that
before Congress re-assembles, this irritated state
OF feeling will have given way to that spirit of
forbearance and courtesy which should ever cha
racterize the Legislators Of great nation.
From news received from the Chicago district,
l understand that Mr.. Wentworth viii be re-
elected by about five thousand majority.
GALvIENsTs
RAILROAD DEPoT, WASHINGTON, 8 PM.
August 10, 1886. )