Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-02-20
Tke Stanbar1,
RALEIGH, SATURDAY. FEB. lG, 1856.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.

THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
In the Senate on the 7th, the following resolu-
tion reported by Mr.. Hunter from the finance COM
mitttcc, was taken up for consideration:
" Resolred, That the Committee Finance be
instructed prepare and report such of the general
appropriation bills as they may deem expedicnt"
Mr.. Seward opposed thea resolution. lie said that
as the House of Representatives possessed the ex-
elusive right raise money, this right carried with
it the power to originate bills appropriatirg money.
He regarded the proposition all innovation on es-
tablisled usage and opposed to the spirit of the
constitution
Mr. Hunter advocated the resolution with much
carnestncsS. He denied that there was any real
difference between these bills and those that were
constantly originated in the Senate Only this morn
ing the Senate had passed tiK for the relief of Mr.
Marsh and if could relieve one, why not
hundred? If the Senate could originate and pass
pension bill for the relief of individual, why
could it not originate and pass general appropra-
ton bill for the relief Of all pensioners? Why could
it not originate and pass the civil and diplomatic ap-
preparation bill, which usually establishes many
custom houses If the Senate could originate and
pass a bill for the relief of sufferers from French
spoliatons-such bill having been originated here,
York himself-why could it not originate and pass
bills involving far less amount, such that for
the support of the Military Academy There was
difference, so far as the question of power was
concerned. If this power was denied to the Sem
ate, it would be robbed of more than half of its
usefulness and efficiency? On the contrary, for the
Senate to divide the labor of the House would give
each body more time to examine the various appro
priatons, and to decide with deliberation
Mr.. Toombs also advocated the resolution. He
deemed it necessary that the appropriations should
be subjected to a greater scrutiny than the
under the present plan. He had known a naval
appropriation BILL involving eight millions of dol
lars, to be passed by the Senate without being
read, because there not time to read it in order
to get itpassed before the close of the session.
N. Sumner followed, expressing views similar to
those of Mr.. Seward.
Mr.. Toucey maintained that the two classes of
appropriations were entirely different. One class,
which the Senate could not originate, brought mon
ey into the treasury, where it locked up; the
other class, which the Senate not prohibited
from originating, took the money out of the treas
ury for the of the government. He repudiated
all compromises which not to be found in the
constitution itself.
Mr.. Wilson, of Massachusetts, spoke against the
resolution, and in the course of his remarks, dis
closed the real purpose Of the aboltionists. That
purpose is, to originate the appropriation bills in
the House-pass them with obnoxious abolition
features attached, and throw Democratic Sen.
ate the responsibility of concurring with the House
of stopping the government.
The resolution agreed to without a division
and the Senate adjourned
The New York Express thus refers to the pro
jects which Senator Seward and his allies have il
hand:
"7Ae .tfrst-to fan a war passion about Centra
Amerca-in order, as he gives out, (sec his speech
to take that is, annex, Qree) Canada. CThe Caus'
Of Freedom demands, perhaps, that we and thu
British should cut each others throats)
The second-to keep the $7O0OO0OO appropria
tion bills in the House of Representatives (hat is
the only in of them therc) in order (our inference
this,) between the shuttle and dou6le-shuble of the
last night of the session, from 10 midnight to
York, is called, "The Cause of Freedom,"-bu
what, in Webster's Dictionary is defined to be jobs
plunder, and knavery in general.
We who in New York, know Senator Seward
associates and table companons-and we who Sc.
them in Washington and in Albany, throngnl
around him. better understand his zeal to start th
Appropriation Bills in the House, and better com
prehent his logic-than others, in other States
( not trained in the New York Seward and Weed Sc
minares."
The X. Ms OF The FIRST DIsTRIcT.-A X.
daylight convention held in Edenton, on tn
9th instant, to appoint delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention. The published proceedings show tha
just fifteen delegates were in attendance represent
ing thousands of voters and an entire Congressiona
District! Seven delegates, nearly one AalfMe Cos
~ Uer tod ~,
names OF delegates to Philadelphia. Mr.. John Pool
VI OF Pasquotank was appointed principal delegate
and David A. Barnes, H. A. Gillian, and Willie Gil
81 liam, Esquires, altcrnates. The Convention an
nounccd no principles.