The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-03
THE VETO.

We lay before our readers another very importan
message from the President of the United States TO
turning the river and harboT bill with his oil lection,
TO It's passage We do not hesitate to say that this
admirable document furnishes a new claim 10 the
confidence Of his country. II is one Of the strong.
est yetoes which ever emanated from the executive
department on this subject, and ID calculated ar
rest the entertainments the constitution, and the
lllmable expenditures Of the public money, which
this bill would introduce Where would there be in
fact an end to the system, if so many small i'm.
provements, and Of interior harbors almost unknown
TO the maps, permitted TO absorb the public rs-
sources and to expand the powers Of the govern
ment TO an indefinite extent. OF the forty odd ap-
new ones-entirely new to the system-and nsver
contemplated, far as we arc advised, in any est-
mates which have been hitherto made.
We have time to dilate upon this subject at
presents but to show the perfect consistency Of this
message with the Presidents previous and long
established and deepy-cherished principles we shall
lay before our readers tomorrow evening long and
able report written by his own pen and made to the
House of Representatives in JAM 1884, on the part of
WnOIT BuOInltteu 30 buCn OF
President JackSons message related to distribution
and Internal improvements. We accidentally met
with it in the old Enquirer of that period occupy
ing more than four and half columns Of that pa
per. 1t is worthy of its writer Of the present veto
message and let add Of the palmiest days of the
republican party.
With what satisfaction we hail the present mes
aafth !, l..
cessary to state to any person who is in any degree
conversant with our own established opinions. One
evidence Of this to be found in the Richmond En-
quirer" of March, ls45-four days after the close of
Mr.. Tyler's administration:
From the Richmond Enquirer, March 8, ls4S
THE HARBoR AND RIVER BlLL-THE LAST NIGHT
OF THE SENATE's SESSION
The few last days astisfy US that "hs danger is
not oper" lfw mistake not the signs of the times
the time is approaching when shall require that
ndomltable spirit and mistaken devotion to the
true, limited principles Of the constitution which
distinguished the republicans Of Virginia in 1929
The man of the "ron nerve" then stepped in TO our
rescue and by his veto arrested that Tremendous
food Of internal improvement which would have
swept like torrent over the constitution, and sub
jected the United States to expense of more than
one hundred millions Of dollars.
The passage of the harbor bill or the last night of
the Senate's session, warns US IN part of what we
to expect For one, we say again, in the full
Of our heart, thanks to John Tyler for the en-
crgy he has shown in pocktting" that bill, and thus
arresng the immense system of expenditure and
encroaChment, of which it about to lay the
foundation. We feel ourselves to be fighting al
most upon the same ground on which we bat(,ed
with few editorial associates, in 1924, when the Hero
Of the Hermitage came TO the relief of the Virginia
doctrines. The last act of John Tyler is in the
spirit of the republicans Of 1929. We ;;nank nm
for IT, The Living extracts from the dsLa;a -,
me Senate on Monday night, the I'd OF March, will
explain the character of this transaction.
Here tottors The proceedings Of The Senate,
The harbor and river bill contained appropra-
ton of more than million six hundred thousand
doars-a large proportion for harbors, but more
than 100000 for rivers, the Hudson, Savannah,
and western rivers-and 1925 900 for the CUmber.
land road President Tyler did not return the bill to
Congress, so That il is lost.
We are indebted to Mr., MGDutfe for his strong
speech aRa'"s, =. =. and, with him. are startled
tnat so many democratic votes were given for it.
But we differ with him about the constitutionality
of the powers which they profess to exercise. We
deny the power assumed over Internal improve
ments and for one we will resist it, let others desert
the old republican banners as they may.