New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-07
HousE OF REPRESENTATIVE.


HOUsE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
At O'Clock the House went into Committee OF
the Whole on the STATE Of tho Uoion, aud resumed
the consideration Of the Port Office Appropriation
bill.
Mr. CRowELL rose TO reply to the remarks Of
NJ. Green Of yesterday. TbGt gentleman had not
only denounced him Abolitionst, bat took o.
casion 10 denounce another as an AbOliIionst-the
distinguished statesman and Senator Col Bsnton,
vhoEe fame is so well known 10 the country, and
OF whom as neigbbOrng citizen ne would
well be proud. He denounced that Senator as
traitor to bis country. A man who fnds his way
iniotis Hall, and Ia capable of utteriDg such sen.
timent and induleing in such opprobri Jus epthets
was better fitted for inmate Of an insane Asylum
than for 4 seat that floor. He N ade an inquiry
ol the gent, man, in the most pectll terms and
| the gentleman tarned on him and commenced a
| course Of vituperaton and abuse unpr0yoked and
uncslltd for, and such as he had never before 70.
ceived from sny other Member.
The gentleman said that the Foreign Mail ser
vice vas unconstitutional and he denounced those
who supported It as having violated their solemn
obligation to support the Constitution. IL appears
from the records, no wever that the gentleman him
self il ls4s voted for the Appropriation Bill which
made the appropriation for the Foreign Mail Ser.
vice, and that he (Crowelll voted against il 90 it
appears that the gentleman voted for the unconsti
tulionAl appropriation OF money which taxed his
col sttueIts 800 900 for the benefit of the COM
merciel interests. Now let Us go home TO our con-
stituents and make our peace with them as bes. we
may.
Here the following Message from President Fill.
more was received and read
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT,
To the Senate and Hou,s Of Representatives..
herewith transmit! " the two Houses OF Congress
let,erirom his Ezcellency, the Governor of Texas
dated on the 18th day of June last, addressed to
the late President Of the United States which not
having been answered by him came to my hands
on bis DEATH and also transmit a copy OF the an
swer which felt it to be my duty TO cause to be
made TO that communication. Congress will per.
ceive that the Governor Of Texas Off cialy states
that by authority OF the Legislature Of that State
he dispatched Special Commissioner with fall
power and instruction to extend the civil jurisdic
ton Of the State over the unorgsnized counties Of
FL Psso, Worth, Preside, and Santa Fe, situated
on its Northwestern limits. He proceeds to say
that the Commissioner had reported to him in an
official form that the Military officers employed in
the service Of the United States stationed at Santa
Fe, interposed adversely with the inhabitants
to the fu ment ofhis object in favor of the estab-
tiihment OF a separate State Government east of
the Rio Grande and within the rightfO limits of the
the State of Texas These four counties which
Texas proposes TO establish and organize as be-
ing within her own jurisdiction extend over
the whole Of the territory east OF tho lilo Grande
which has heretofore been regarded as an essen
tial and integral part Of the Department of New
Mexico and actually governed and possessed by
her people until conquered and severed from the
Republic of Mexico by the American arms Ths
Legislature Of Texas has been called together by
the Governor for the purpose, as is understood, Of
maintaining her claim to the Territory east of the
Rio Grsnde, and of establishing over il her own |
jurisdiction and her own laws by force. These
ttf,ca rfT avo fha OBJ
ton of ell branches OF the Government of the Unit
ed States, and rejoice that they while the |
Congress is ct in session. Ii 10, fear, far from |
being impossible that in consequence Of these pro-
eeedihes Of Texas crisis may be brought on
which shall summon the teo Houses Of Congress,
and still more emphatically, the Executive Gov
ent, to an immediate readiness for the perform
ance OF these respective duties. BY the Constitl-
ton Of the U. g. the President 10 constituted COM
msnder in chiefof the army and navy, and Of the mi
a OF the several States when called into the actual
service OF the United States The Constitution de- |
clares also that he shall take care that the laws
be faithfully executed and that be shall from time
to time give TO the Congress Ia Or1 alton OF the state
Of the Union. Congress has power b. the Const
tuition to provide by calling for the militia to
cute the laws OF che Union, and suitable and appro
pirate sets Of Congress have been passed as well
for providing for calling forth the militia as for plac
ing olher suitable and efficient means in .he hands
OF the fresideut 20 enable him 10 discharge the
stituiionsl functions of his office. The second
ton Of the act OF the 2ssh Of February, 1885, de-
clares that whenever the laws Of the United States
shall be opposed, or their execution obstruotsd, Ia
any State, by combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by the ordinary course of Judicial
proceedings Of the power vested in the rnarshals
the President may call forth the militia so far
as may be necessary 10 suppress such cOmbi
nations and TO cause the Laws to be daily execut
ed By the act Of March Sd, 1907 t is provided
that in oil Of obstruction 20 the laws either of
the United States, or any individual State, or Ter
ritory where it is lawful for the President to call
forth the military, for the purpose Of causing tue
laws to be duly executed, It shall be lawful for him
to employ for the same purposes such part Of the
land or naval force Of the United States as shall
be judged necessary. These several enactments
are now in full force so that if the laws Of the
United States are opposed or Distracted 10 any
State or Territory by combinations too powerful 10
be suppressed BY the Judicial or civil authority,
nd il becomes case in which it is the d1y of the
President either to call out the militia, or to en-.
poy the military or naval force Of the United
States or TO do both, if in his judgment the ext
gepcy of the occasion shall so require for the pur
nose of suppressng So h combination, the Consti-
tutional duty the President is plain and peremp
Tory the authority vested in him by the laws for
he perform snce clear and ample. Texasisa State
10 maintain her own laws so far they
are not pugnabtto the Constitoton laws and trea
tics of the United States TO suppress instructions
eainsi her authority, aud TO punish those who
,onmt treason az aiust the State, according 10 the
orns provided by her own Constitution and her
Owl laws. But this power is local, and confined
entirely within the limits Of Texas herself She
q n possibly confer no authority which can be law
ully exercised beyond her own boundary. All
his is plain, and hardly needs argument or eluci
,a.ion. IL Texan militia, therefore, march into
INV one Of the other States or into any Territory
4 the United States, there to execute or enforce
ny law Of Texas, they become at that moment
are no longer under the protec
ion of any lawful authority, and to be regard
ID merely as intrudersi and if within such State
u Territory they obstruct any law of the United
states, either by power Of arms or mere power OF