The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-22

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The tariff viii be essentially modified by the sub
stitule of specific for ad vaorem duties thus making
Il in consonance with the Views of merchants and
other practical men. II will also be made snbstan-
italy protective 10 the ron coal and other interests
of Pennsylvania, and the labor and industry Of the
country generally. The thrice condemned sub-reas-
ury law will be repealed modified TO make 1t
capable Of being put into practical operation without
injury TO the business community. Lancaster, Pa.
Tribune, Feb. II.
We regret to see that some Of our friends,
in predicting what will happen under Presi-
dent TAYLoR's administration, talk as though
the executive was the maker OF the public
laws. The above extract from that sound
national Wing Journal, the Lancaster, Pa,
Tribune, is a specimen of the manner in
which the blessings Of the new administration
are recounted as surely to come to pass--
Our contemporaries, we presume, have been
50 used 10 seeing the power Of the federal
executive exerted to pass laws, that they can
not divest themselves Of the idea Of its con-
stitutionality, and hence they seem involun-
tarily to fall into the error Of predicting that
such and such acts Of Legislation will take
place under the new administration, as If
President TAYLOR had the passing Of them,
or would go into Congress with party at
his back to force, Them through.
President TAYLOR has iterated and reitera-
ted that he win not interfere with Congress in
the exercise Of its exclusive powers the
powers Of legislation He will recommend,
as the constitution requires, but he will not
insist that bis recommendations shall be en-
acted into laws. Congress win be left to
exercise its exclusive powers Of legislation
without let or hindrance or permission Of the
executive, When the acts Of Congress
shall come to him Tor signature he has said
that he will deal with them according to the
obvious limitations Of the constitution and
the laws upon the executive power. Ques-
tons Of policy regarded as settled, he will
not disturb. He will exercise his power
over bills presented to him for signature, not
with view o. advancing party interests and
party opinions-the sole source hitherto Of
the abuse Of the veto powerful with no
other object than the promotion OF the public
Now, the Lancaster Tribune must have
forgotten, in its enumeration Of what will be
done under President TAYLoR's administra-
ticn, that, even if the friends Of the new adj
ministration should get and keep working
majority in the House Of Representatives,
who would send to the Senate bills modify
ing the tariff and the sub-treasury agreeably
to the programme it sets down, there is no
possibility Of their passing the Senate in
which there will be a positive opposition ma
jority. The Tribune will at once see, from
this view Of the subject, that, by promising
the country that this thing or that will be done
under President TAYLoR's administration,
j, promises an impossibility, and lays the
foundation Of injustice being done to the
President il what is promised may not
be realized. If the Tribune meant to
say, that these measures, il passed, would
not meet with President TAYLoR's opposi-
tion, it has rot accomplished its purpose Its
article from which the above extract is
taken and the extract itself, leave the i'm
preston that President TAYLOR will con-
tinue the beaten track of the last twenty
years, and go into Congress and force
Legislation through that body by the inaa-
ence Of the executive power. II is against
such an impression as this, that we must be
permitted to protest with all our might, be-
cause it is in direct conflict with the princi-
Piles upon which President TAYLOR will adj
minister the federal executive.
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