The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-05-28
THE UNION.

available to the services vet was presented TO the
President for his signature until four days thereafter
That the ranks of the regular regiments were not full, is
no excuse for Congress not acting and furnishing the
recommended for filling them; but, on the con
rary is Just ground of complaint for withholding for
season at least, the recommended and urged Tor
the vigorous prosecution OF the war
How stands the case with regard TO the ten-regment
bill When was that bill passed IA bill earnestly
urged BY the Executive and the Secretary of War On
the It'll of February more than two months after the
meeting of Congress This was measure obvious,
that ii was not anticipated that il would nger in Con-
gress single week Was the Executive responsible for
this delay' Certainly not His recommendations were
most earnest and urgent for prompt action but day after
day and week after week passed away and nothing
done to carry out any one of the measures which
had been presented 10 Congress Fully impressed with
the dermen the public service must inevitably suffer by
this extraordinary delay, the President deemed il TO be
his duty again to urge these measures upon them in a
special message prepared the Goth OF December but
not laid before Congress until the 9TH OF January,
sequence of their not assembling TO do business after
was prepared, till that day The 'lntegencer' seems
to that until this day Congress had not been in
ved to ac on the measures IL chooses To forget
that nearly one.qnaer of the entire session had passed
since these measures had been senuousy urged upon
them for prompt and immediate action That which
might well be regarded repoof Tor an unreasonable
delay is by this fair and candid writer gayey put forth
the first ntmaton Tor action; Tor he seems TO think
that Congress moi in fault for not acting on the meas
ures presented and urged in the Presidents annual mes
sage and in the report of the Secretary of War, until the
recommendations were reiterated and pressed by special
message.
But if Congress had acted the recommendation for
The ten regiments promptly, they could not have been
raised, said in accompany General Scott to
Vera Cruz in January and therefore, Congress is not 10
blame for moi acting the until near the middle
of February Neither Gen Scott, the President moi
any one else, expected that these regiments would be
with him on his landing Vera Cruz but il Congress
had acted promptly it reasonable 10 expect they
should have done, the troops which would have been
raised under il, some OF them, would have been with
him in season to move with his column into the interior
of Mexico. Some OF these troops are now undoubtedly
with him; and had the law 10 raise them passed Gas Il
well might have been) six weeks it is far to say
tina, the troops raised under that law might have been
with him six weeks earlier. They would have moved
with him from Vera Cruz-fought at Cerro Gorio-ac
companied him to Jalapa, Perote Puebla-and probably
marched with him TO the city of Mexico II he is not at
this day possession OF the capital of the enemys coun
Try, it probably owing 10 the delay which took place
IN passing the Ten Regiment bill II that bill had passed
when il ought 10 have passed-when the administration
expected it 10 passwhen il would have passed, iftheir
efforts had been snocessfuwe repeat the troops author
lied by il would have been raised in season "to take
part in General SCOTS operations"