Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-05-02
THE OREGON NOTICE, &c.
[rHoM oun DAILY PAPER OF THURSDAY. ]


PROM OUR DAILY PAPER THURsDAY.1
The government paper of yesterday furnishes the
following information Of the intention of the Execu-
tive to give forthwith the notice authorized by the
joint resolution concerning the Oregon territory
eve understand that the joint resolution Of Con-
: gress authorizing the notice to be given TO Great
: Britain to abrogate the convention of 1927, was
yesterday signed by the President of the Senate,
las il had been signed on Friday by the Speaker
Of the House of Representatives, and was approx
ed and signed by the President Of the United
States. This resolution has thus become the law
of the land, and presume that the President, in
the exercise Of his discretion will promptly give
Z the notice." NJ al.
Thus far, we presume, the statement Of the
I" Union is sanctioned by the Executive.
But, further on in the article Of which the above
is the beginning, we find the following:
1.-The notice being now determined on, we most
respectfully appeal 10 Congress to follow up lis
first great step Of the Presidents Recommendations,
Z by carrying out the other measures recommended
by him in relation to Oregon. The House Of
Representatives have already performed their du-
ty. They have passed bill, by vote of more
than three to one, for carrying out these
We venture, with all respect, to express the hope
that the Senate may also soon take them up and
pass them"
Can it be that this part of the "Union's" COM
mentary also is authorized by the Executive? Or
is it of those with which, like the curious
commentary of the government paper the final pas
sage of the Notice Resolution, I" the President and
Cabinet have Gas the Union" says no connexion
at all :" We trust that it is SO. II we were not
confident indeed, that it is, we should ask by what
authority the Executive addresses itself to Senators
and calls upon them to do " their duty = by an inn
pcit obedience to certain recommendations contain
ed in a message from the President! How and
where is it made the duty of the Senate " to follow
up the Presidents recommendations p And what
is there in the constitution of the Senate that makes
il their duty to follow blindly the lead either Of
the President or the House Of Representatives, or
both? We have said it is implicit obedience y
that the government paper now demands from the
Senate, and we repeat it: for, little lower down
in its editorial, the Union says:
The notice is but the first of the measures OF
: the Administration on the Oregon question. The
8 other measures embraced i'm the bill Of the House
: are alike earnestly recommended by the Execu-
I. tive. We trust that they will be passed with
out unnecessary delay, and acifhout being enlas-
culafcd by any anatcise or unnecessary AMEND
MENTs."
The Senate must not amend, nor is il allowed to
il TO hesitate in boiling down the medicine which
the President has prescribed, and the House o
Representatives administered!
Really, one would suppose the writers for the
e he IL,
the Senatorial feature of our Government plant
ed in the Constitution purposely TO establish an
adequate check upon both President and House OF
Representatives and that the highest and most
solemn duty of that body is to exercise that power
whenever, in its opinion, the public welfare requires
il 10 do so.