Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-22

oomnainns that the for judicial expenses were
exhausted and calling upon Congress Immediately pass
bill in order that the courts Of The country could continue to
be holden And he now told those who in the minor
ty perfectly powesss If they believed that there appo
prialions already sufficient he and gentlemen who acted with
him were content that the bill should be lost, although they
responsible for the passage OF all the necessary approp
atoms 10 carry on the Government
Now he would tell gentlemen what they on his side OF the
House willing to do was well known to all the old
members herehe appealed to thfm all he appealed 10 the
gentleman himself who the head OF the
Committee Of WAYS and Means, whether the Of the
twenty years and over in which the gentleman had been
member Of this House. he had ever seen single civil and
diplomatic appropriation bill In winch an Item like the present
for the Improvement Of the Savannah verwhch formed the
only obstacle to the passage Of this blhad been included
He asked the gentleman there was any precedent that would
at all Justify Il During the seventeen years which he
(Mr. Mex had been member Of the House he had never
known such an instance This itern as friend on his left
suggested had been placed in the bill in violation Of the posi-
tive rule Of the House. The rules expressly provided that
there should be different bills they did not like the British
Parliament in single act make appropriations for all the
different departments Of the Government The civil and
diplomatic appropriation bill provided for all the objects Of
civil expenditure the army bill for the military expenditures
and Of the Indian bill the navy bill the pension bill
the forfcaion BILL and the West Point Academy blthey
all intended provide for their peculiar departments Of
the Government. There here the most minute subd
visions and this familiar fact only the chairman
Of the Committee Of Ways and Means but every gene
man in this House. They had their harbor and river
provement bills ao and if the purpose Of the majority
pass during the present session bill making appropriations
for objects Of internal improvement why had the Savannah
river alone been selected and placed in this bill with the civil
and diplomatic appropriations Of this Government Had it
been recommended
The gentleman had told them that every single item in this
bill except the appropriation for the District OF Coumbia for
the custom-house Charleston 100000 and $780, 900 Tor
the Savannah river upon the recommendation OF the
Executive Department They inerposed objection how
exceponsbe many Of them considered great many Of
the sections in this bill yet they all disposed to give up
and fort he
these appropriations which had been put in out Of place
Was there any precedent all for involving grave consu-
onal question, upon which the two parties Of the country
divided, for pressing into this bill for which all were
disposed vote, items which many Of them believed to be
unconstitutional If gentlemen chose to take the response
biy they disposed prostitute the rules of the
House to party purposes let the responsibility rest on them
He proposed to hem that there might be delay upon
the passage of this bthere should be inerposed
the part Of bis endsthat they should agree reconsider
the the passage of this bill and ordering to be
engrossed ard that should be ecommtted to the Commit
tee of the hole the of the Union, with specific in
structions report forthwih-t could be done twenty
mnutesa bill containing every single section which the
majority of the committee had put in. leaving out the single
item relating the Savannah Could any gentleman OBJ
ject to that
The gentleman from Ohio had told the House that the action
of the Committee of Ways and Means had been affirmed by
several successive votes OF this House. His friend from Mi
chigan Mr.. McCLELLASp) had well reminded the gentle
Of the action of the Committee Of the Whole the
Of the Union. What that action When the
motion made by his colleague (Mr. VESABLE to strike
out this item, what the vote There not more than
thirty odd who stood against striking out the committee
nearly unanimous and when it brought into this
House, upon the yeas nays the action Of the Com
of the Whole concured and the item excluded
1t true, succeeding day it asceaned that there
clerical and by the casting vote of the Speaker
the amendment rejected, and the item restored by the
aordnary nlerposon of the power, about which
gentleman talked much BY this alone the appro
priation saved.
The SPEAKER infernosed and wished IN he allowed
that the Speaker had voted according the rules of the
House, and not by any extraordinary proceeding.
Mr. MCKAY concluded by saying that he would now, or
when il in order propose 10 recommit the bill TO the
Committee of the Whole the Of the Union, with
stIuctons REPORT the back the House with the
cepton Of the single paragraph relative to the Savannah river
The question ll remaining the motion to reconsider
Mr.. HUDSON remarked that the gentleman from North
Carolina had told them that this whole proceeding very
extraordinary in its character and had appealed the chair
Of the Committee Of Ways and Means whe-
ther he bad ever known parallel case He (Mr. H Of
acquainted with the proceedings of The House
the extent his friend He could therefore speak
Of the gentemans experience But be could speak Of his
experience and observation, and far they extended
he ventued say they coeponded with the experience and
observation Of gentlemen who had been three
long He admitted that this extraordinary in lis
character In the first place rather extraordinary
Circumstance that by somewhat fortunate unfortunate cir
cums,ances his party should happeno have majority Of the
House merely nominal when the minority (f minority il
were) the friends of the Administration, and when they
in fact had majority in every other branch OF the Govern
but the House Of Representatives The proceedings
this extraordinary other respects He had
minority here whether friendly opposed TO the Ad-
minsation, throwing themselves in solid phaanx, gen.
temen the other side had done this morning, against
appropriation bill which they knew was necessary be pass
ed in order to carry on the Government
Mr. STUART, of Michigan desired to correct the gentle
mans statement There gentlemen his side Of the
House-and he among the number-who had voted for
this bill and against laying the motion reconsider the
table, and had given every they had been called upon
give for passing the appropriations necessary TO susn the
Government
Mr. HUDSON wished to do justice TO The other side Of the
House As body, as party, almost in solid phalanx,
they had voted as he had expressed and there
Of the gentlemen, who members Of the Committee Of
Ways and Means who had given their with the msor
y that side He did intend say there NOT
cepons and the gentleman from Michigan doubt
The gentleman from North Carolina had also excused the
pursued by his friends on that side Of the House by
saying that this amendment relation to the Savannah
had been introduced INTO the bill contrary the rules Of the
House. and that although the rule required them TO confne
themselves in The general appropriation bills 10 appropriations
already authorized by law, and refrain from any thing like
general legislation. Now he presumed well known
all those who bad paid any attention all the subject that
his friend from North Carolina when chairman Of the Com
mee Of Ways and Means had introduced provisions OF
general character, Of general legislation into the gene
raj appropriation bills, than all others which had been intro
duced the establishment OF the Government and he
knew that during the present session the gentleman had been
advocate for the policy and instead Of differing from
the committee In wishing to 60 beyond the sppropria
tons Of money the gentleman had In The Uouse and every