Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-19
wasHIFaToE NEWS AND GOSSIP


ment that the messogs handed in by the Pres
idents secretary, Mr.. Sydney Webster, was
the veto of the spolistions BILL Nevertheless,
there was wailing and crashing of teeth, both
in and outside the bar; the claimants and the
assignees of original claimants for French
spoliations looked, some of them, disconsolate,
and the rest "dsggeru." They seemed de-
cidedly to coincide in the intimation of Gen
Bayly, Of Virginia, that the veto power had
By no means been conferred on the Executive
of the United States to spoil the contamination
of the French spoliation bill. Those among
the members most disappointed, or rather dig.
gruntled, by the veto, were certainly the Dem.
ocrats who had voted for the bill. They real
ize that the majority of their party in Con.
gress, for their own and the President justi-
fcation, are determined, if possible, to make
French spoliations' hereafter party issue,
holding up these particular claims as the type
OF the class, the payment of which out of the
national treasury is to be regarded as willful
extravaganza in the use of the public funds,
&c. The eagerness for the veto manifested
by so many of those who voted against the bill
Is thus to be accounted for. They desired it
Tor grave issue to BIO tried before the country
on every stump Their purpose bids fair to
damage the prospect for the eventual payment
of these claims greatly, inssmuch as it can
hardly be expected that the day will ever
come, when any anti-Democratic party will
have control Of the Executive chair, and the
House and the Senate combined
Vetoes are invariably popular, more espe.
cially when public money is saved by them.
Every veto, SO far, has been sustained by tho
people of the United States, and 1t has yerv
rarely happened, indeed, that many more than
the number interested in these particular
claims have not been furious for a season
against the veto power, Whenever exercised.
Il will be found that the Presidents views
Of his rights and duties under that power, as
granted to him under the Constitution. are
such as, week or SO since, We anticipated to
be his; basing that anticipation on the we'll
known doctrines Of the leading statesmen Of
the Democratic party, from the days of Jeffer-
son to the present.
As for the matter of the veto, we have to
say that those in Congress who sympathise
with its reasoning and conclusions, as we'll as
the Wings of both Houses, all pronounce it a
very able State paper, indeed We have not
yet conversed with one of either of those two
divisions who does not seem to regard it as the
strongest argument against the payment of
the claims in question, as ye. promulged The
Democratic friends of the bill seem to look at
i. in different light. However
''The man convinced against his will
lSoi the same opinion STILL"
So, it was not to be expected that they could
go soon realize its strong points We have no
space in which to lay it before the Stars read
erS. Nor is that necessary; for millions of
copies Of the document are probably by this
time spread before the American public. We
need hardly add that it rejoices us greatly.
for alone of all the journ ais published at this
point, we opposed the enactment of the bill.
The Last about Cuba.-From Maine to Lon
isisna, the press, stimulated by wonderful
stories transmitted over the telegraph wires
concerning rumored vast preparations for still
another fllibustering expedition from the
United States against Cuba, are commenting
upon the accounts in the most excited man.
ner, adding surmises for facts, which in being
transferred to second columns, rarely fail to
be insisted on as true.
Now, 1T strikes us that our contemporaries
in all directions are on wild goose chase in
this matter. We believe that the fllibusters
are doing less, likely to disturb the friendly
relations between Spain and the United States
at this time, than at any previous period in the
last three years
We were first to announce the great excite-
ment, and very much moro general, though
secret, dissatisfaction with the Government,
now existing in the islapl This we did three
or four weeks ago, on Information (priyate)
sent US by our vigilant and, 60 far, never in.
accurate Havana correspondent. In fort.
night or so after that publication in the Star,
'ome Of the % FAST journals of New York re.
,eived similar advices from Cuba, and com.
nenced wondering whether the fillibusters
were not preparing to take advantage of this
state of things on the island From such
'peeuiattons the current stories of the hour
:ook their shape Those sympathizing with
illibusterism in New Orleans, stimulated by
the newspapers, have doubtless held meetings
Tor copsultation-to see whether they can do
any thing Their allies everywhere over the
country are talking (predicting) about the af-
air at great rate Such, we have every
reason to believe is the sum and substance of
he vast preparations for the speedy invasion
If Cuba of which We now hear so much in tho
newspapers.
Tits well known that the prosecutions under
orders from Washington that took place not
ong since in New Orleans, the seizure of the
and one or two other vessels in
New York har6or, and tho selfevident deter.