Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-01-18
REMOVALS FROM OFFICE.

REMOVALS FROM OFFICE.
We take the following from the National In
lelgencer's report of the Senate's proceedings
on Tuesday
On motion of Mr.. Bradbury, the Senate proceeded to
consider the following resolution, submitted by him
the Oath December last:
Resolped, That the President be requested to cause
be laid before the Senate all charges which have been
preferred or filed in any OF the Departments against in
divduals who have been removed from Office since the
4th day of March last with specification of the cases
il any, in which the officers charged have had opportu-
nifty be heard and statement Of the number of re-
movals made under each Department
Mr. Bradbury modified his resolution by adding the
following:
"Including subordinates in the custom houses and
other branches OF the public service"
Mr. Mangum: AS regard this resolution in its prin
clpe as total departure from the former practice OF the
Government. and as, in my Judgment gross invasion
OF the constitutional authority and rights of the Execu
tive Chlet Magistrate move, sir, test VOTE that
the resolution lie upon the table, and upon that motion
L ask tor the yeas and nays.
MIR. Bradbury Mr.. President
| Several Senators. The question is not debatable.
| The yeas and nays being taken, were as follows
YEAs-Messrs Badger, Baldwin, Bell Berrien,
| Clarke, Clemens, Cooper, Corwin Davis of Massa-
chusetts, Dawson, Dayton, Greene, Mangum, Miller,
Morton, Phelps, Seward Smith, Spruance, Underwood,
! Upham, Wales, Webster-23
NAys-Msssrs. Atchson, Borland, Bradbury Bright,
Butler, Chase Davis of Mississippi, Dicknson Dodge
| OF Iowa, Dodge OF Wisconsin, Douglas, Downs Fech,
Hamn. Houston, Hunter Jones, King, Mason, Norris,
| Rusk, Sebastian Shields, Soule, Sturgeon, Turney,
Walker, Whltcomb, Yulee-29.
| So the resolution was not laid upon the table.
Mr.. Bradbury then addressed the Senate at length in
support of his resolution
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of
Executive business and in few minutes the doors
re-opened, and
| The Senate adjourned
| We gather from sketch of Mr.. Bradbury's
remarks in the Republic, that he justified the pro-
posed call upon the President by referring to Gen.
Taylor's expressions in various letters, written
before his election, and to his declaration, in the
Inaugural Address, that honesty, capacity, and
fidelity should be the requisites to holding office;
and Mr. B. argued that the removals which have
been made by the present administration are tam
tamount to charges that the former incumbents
were wanting in those requisites. The Senate, he
said, was bound to presume that the President had
not violated his pledges, and it So he must have
been imposed upon by libels upon the persons he
has removed from Office The number of remo-
walls, he asserted was greater than the whole num-
Der under Gen. Jackson.
=" Mr.. B., in conclusion, declared that if any Senator
would rise and declare, in behalf of the Administration
that the pledges made by the President had been vio-
lated that the removal from office OF Democrats by
the President had been account of their political
faith, and from desire to reward their own adherens
and not because those removed were wanting in honesty
capacity, or fidelity and that the present Administration
mad adopted the spolls systemhen he would press
his resolution"
Mr. Bradbury, of course, did not obtain the re-
Spouse he invited, but we doubt not, in the pro-
gress of the discussion, he will be sufficiently
answered.
1t will be observed that Mr. Clemens, of Ala
bama, voted with the Wing Senators for laying
the resolution on the table.
The Republic and Wing make very justifable
merriment over the following curious paragraph,
which appeared, few days since, in the Wash
ington Union;
Let the ship but weather this tempest, and it NAV
DEFY epery other breaker. But this breaker is there
The pilot has not yet been able steer the ship As
Tor General Taylor he never calculated play the
Paltnmus IN the Storm. He wants experience-he
meet the crisis before him.
The identity here made out between the tempest
and the BREAKER and the mysterious locality of the
latter, are crudities odd enough in all reason, to
come from pen notyet dry from its verbal criti-
cisms on Gen. Taylor's message But the classic
allusion to playing the Pazinmus in the storm, is
only surpassed in the annals of authorship, by the
celebrated injunction of the Richmond Enquirer,
of former days, to its Democratic adherents, that
''Hannbal-like they must carry the war into Afri-
Ca" Palinurus was, indeed, the pilot of the ship
which bore Eneas, but the most remarkable event
OF his history, was his falling asleep and falling
into the sea. Gen. Taylor was certainly "never
calculated to play the Palinurus," after that fash
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COLLECTING THE REVENUE