The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-12
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DEBATES oF THY sENkrE
Mr.. BRIGHT submitted the following resolution
Resoce That the Secretary Of the Senate be- and be Is
hereby authorized and directed with the propre
tors Of the Washington Sentinel for the daily publication
be done on the terms provided for ~ the resolution Of tho
Senate passed nth August lsis directing the publication
lntellgencer and Union.
Mr. GwIN moved that the resolution be referred to the
Committee Printing; and, after debate the fur
ther consideration Of the subject postponed until TO-
morrow.
Mr. BRIGHT submitted the following resolution; which
lies over one dag under the rule:
Rosolred, That hereafter otherwise ordered bin,
resolution or other business requiring e pc 20
the Secretary until two days of actual session after that
which the shall have passed shall have interviewed but
he shall then communicate every such bin, resolution,
other business TO that House.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
Mr.. MALLORY submitted the following resolution
which considered by unanimous consent and agreed
to:
Rs.o'vsa Tha, the Secretary Of w be requested
port the Senate the erpedency Of promptly completing
the fortihcations at the Tortugas and Key West.
MEMORIAL PRESENTED.
Mr. NORRIS presented the memorial OF Edward Riddle
of Boston, praying the reimbursement Of expense incurred
by him agent OF the American contributors 10 The n
dustra Exhibition at London in 1851 which referred
to the Committee on Finance.
RECONSIDERATION.
Mr. BRIGHT submitted motion to reconsider tho vote
the passage OF the bill for the relief of David hycre
Mr.. BRODHEAD submitted a motion 70 reconsider Tho
vote ordering the printing Of additional copies Of the ag
cultural portion Of the Patent Office report
The further consideration Of both OF these motions
postponed until tomorrow.
rBs ISpcKSr nsAsr.
On motion by MIR. HUNTER the Senate proceeded 10 tho
consideration of the bill making grants Of public lands
the States Of the Union for the benefit Of INDECENT
insane persons which had been returned by The President
with his objections.
Mr. Badger addressed the Senate at some length there
lie remarked that the necessary inference 70 be drawn
from that clause Of the constitution which directs that tho
President Of the United States in case he shall not approve
bin which may have been passed by the two houses Of
Congress shall il TO the House in which II orgina-
ted with his objections thereto and that they shall proceed
TO reconsider the bill is TINT Il the purpose Of the cons
suon that the body rcconsdcring the bin should give
careful and respectful attention to the objections taken BY
President and in OF the constitution sent
that body The provision Of the constitution would other
wise be unmeaning 1t does authorize the President
merely dsapprovc bill and then require its reconsd-
Grafton but II makes II his duty, with the disapprova 90
communicate the objections which he takes tho
Mr. b said ths, il his purpose this morning to dis
charge far he able the duty which dev0yod upon
him. and to give that careful and respectful TO
the objections tho President has made aud in submitting his
views Of the suhtccmater embraced by that message he
should endeayor TO show what he thought the truth OF
tho case that the objections taken in message arc notwc
founded He proceeded 70 state that the President obccts
the passage of the bill for tho benefit Of the INDECENT In
upnn the ground FIRST that Congress has no conAu-
tonal power TO devote portion Of the public domain to
the specified in the bill ard IN the next place
that IL thu bill were free from that objection yet such
measure Ii obnoxious TO constitutional objection be-
cause subsidiary provisions of Che bill which In
dcrtaking carry the general object that Congress had
Ia view in passing H. interfere in improper manner with
those which under the constitution belong
cluvey TO the States These objections taken upand
replied to. He thought that with regard TO The first