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WIN are the RevOlutiOnists 2

Admitting that the defeat of the Army Bill
is revolutionary. we ask Who is responsible for
this revolutionary act? Why, the Senate, most
clearly. lis TIE prerogative Of the House of
Representatives to originate appropriation bills,
and Of course the House can impose such con-
ditions on such appropriations as it sees it,
These conditions are Of yearly occurrence. Tn
fact, more appropriation bills are conditional
than are absolute. Every appropriation for
Custom Houses and Post Offices have been
conditional. Suppose the House should see. in
the yearly estimate for the Army as furnished
by the Secretary of War, an item Of $50. 900
for experimenting upon tomb-shells and be-
llieving such an expenditure extravagant,
should, In its Army Appropriation Bill, make a
proviso that none of the money thus apprOpria-
led should be used in experimenting upon
bomb.shells. The Senate, led by the nose by
the Secretary of War, who perhaps is interest
ed in new fashioned bomb shell, refuses TO
concur in the House proviso, and letting the
| VII ole Bill fail, cries out Revolution Revolu.
ton The claim that 1t is unusual to attach
la proviso to an appropriation B;ll, is ridcu-
lous.
But now how stands the matter at Wash
liupton I Gen. Cass has had an interview with
jefferson Davis, Secretary of War and keeper
| of President Pierce's conscience this Secre-
tary Davis, known to Cass and every one else
IS an ayowed pro.slavery seccessionist. coun'
sels Gen. Cass and the Senate 10 never yield,
but, taking advantage of the constitutional pro.
vision which says that neither House can ad'
Iiourn logger period than three days without
the concurrence Of the other, set uatl dooms
day, unless the House consents 10 an uuoondl
tionsl appropriation.
What opinion can just man have OF Gen
Cass, who takes such advice from such mao
when Cass knows that it is the refusal Of tht
House to enforce with U. s. bayonets the Law
of Kansas, which laws Cass. himself, has beef
constrained to pronounce disgrace TO tie age
that causes the matter Of difference be;weei
1.-The Senate and the House.
!, Rut MI. Cass is not the only administration
: Senator who has been forced to denounce thes
. laws. Senator Weller, than whom the Presi
dent has not a more devoted friend, on Monda
in the Senate, SPOKE OF these laws Of Kansas a
ia'thT0fllOUS u16Q QtFOCt0NS WHeU" CeINUtef' ~S'
y ator Bayard. of slaveholding Maryland, ais
said that these Kansas laws are shocking to II
local sense Of tie community" and that some
them invade "National Right.
= Senator Mason. Of Virginia, takes the revolt
= tionary ground that every proposition shoGl
he tabied Ia the Senate, until the House is 'r'
J, duced TO submission" And yet this Senate
= Mason was one who voted for the TOomb
y Douglas bill, which bill repealed some Of tbe'
= very laws as unconstitutional, which the Sci
ate now say sh all be enforced BY United Stat
or bayonets. -.
= Let the reader bear in mind, that the act pr
nOuneed against the House as revolutionary,
Il. refusal 10 appropriate money to enforce the
a laws By the bayonets OF the United States.
:. any country under Heaven but this, the act
~ the Senate in insisting upon enforcing the
" laws would bring on Revolution, = Clerela
Herald.