Staunton vindicator. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1858, 1858-01-16

States Bank and what | supposed was
gone my friend from Ohio is trying to re-
surrcct and get upon its legs again
Mr.. CAMPBELL. | am giving Mr.
Buchanan the credit of resuscitation.
Mr.. LETCHER. 1t seems to me a
strange way to support q man by marching
under the flag Of his opponent. While his
language is for him, his hand is against
him.
My friend called on me to know whether
| was ID favor Of Pacific railroad. | do
not mean to discuss that now. Perhaps |
shall have az opportunity to do SO hercaf
ter. But tell him now am opposed to it.
Mr. CAMPBELL. Then your hands
are against the President, and am dcfcad-
ing him against your assaults.
Mr.. LETCIIER Well, sir, am going
against that measure Ny friend from O.
hio calls upon me to say in what solitary in
stance an item Of appropriation Was passed
by the last Congress which was not recon-
mendcd by the President Of the u States
Mr.. CAMPBELL. Or by the Depart.
ments.
! Mr.. LETCIIER have sent after the
documents, and while they are coming, |
will give him, to begin with, the appropriate
ton Of $40, 900 to commence the Kansas
investigation, aud the Incidental expenses
growing out Of it. Neither the President
nor amy member of the Cabinet rccommen-
dcd anything Of that sort
Another fact the gentleman will recol}ect:
! When the President sent in his veto upon
the river and harbor bill, there was no gem
tleman in the House more absolutely shock
ed at the enormity of such an outrage upon
the part of the President in seeking to con-
troll the legislation Of the country, than the
gentleman himself In fact, | never saw
! The gentleman, usually SO cool, so much ex-
cited He said there was revolution 60
ing on, and when suggested that it was
'bloodess as yet" | thought he was about
to make it personal matter with me.
| Again, there was the bin approprlating
| $500, 900 for a ship canal at the Southwest
Pass. When the veto came in it was over
ruled by this House, and [ am inclined 10
think that my friend, then chairman of the
Committee Of Ways and Means, voted for
everything it, too.
Mr.. CAMPBELL. am against We
/, toes, and on the occasion referred to Dem
ocratic Senate and House were with me.
Mr. LETClIER. Then there was an APP
preparation for deepening the ST. Clair flats
in the State OF Michigan, which the prosi-
dent vetoed.
Mr. CAMPBELL. Yes and about the
sametine he approved another bill of SIM
liar character fer the Improvement of a creek
down South, called the Cape Fear"
Mr.. LETCIiER. The gentleman cannot
change the issue with me now. He asked
me to point to an appropriation of last Con-
gress which was not recommended by the
Administration, and said that | as MEM
Der of the Committee Of Ways and Means,
could not meet the issue successfully. Now,
when inject the issue, what follows? The
gentleman turns round and says the Presi-
dent did sign some things. Did not the gen
tleman vote for those river and harbor bills?
AIr. CAMPBELL. Nearly all Of them,
| | believe.
Dir. LETCIER The amount of those
bills thus vetoed, as handed to me by my
friend from Mississippi, is $7S5, 900.
Mr.. CAMPBELL. My friend is mista-
ken in saying that the river and harbor inn
proyement was not recommended by the De-
partmcnt.
Mr.. LETCHER. Who recommended it !?
Mr.. CAMPBELL. The Secretary of
War, | believe, sent in the estimates.
Mr.. lETCEIER. should like to see
the recommendation. According to my re-
collection, neither Of the improvements was
recommended by the Cabinet. There may
have been inquiries addressed to the De.
partment by individual members as to the
cost of particular improvements, and the
Department may have furnished the esti-
mates upon application. But as to recon-
mcndations, give us the recommendations,
and let us see where they ask the Congress
Of the United States to pass such bill, and
apply tho money Of tie Government in that
way.
| might go on and instance other acts
passed over the Presidents veto, and each
Of those bills, though bearing the ccrtif
Gates Of the Secretary Of the Senate and the
Clerk Of the House. to give them binding
force, is destitute Of that significant word,
"Gpproeed."
Mr.. CAMPBELL. say to the gentle
man again, that every single appropriation
that was reported by the Committee of Ways
and Means was predicated upon the recon-
incubation Of the Executive Departments
With regard to the internal i'm provement
bills, | am not SO thoroughly posted, for the
gentleman knows full well that we had c.
nough IN our own committee room to keep
US busy; but do know what [ witnessed
with my own eyes. know that these river
and harbor bills were voted for by the gen
tleman's own party, in this House.
Mr.. LETCHER. Some of them, to be
sure, were voted for by gentlemen on this
side of the House. do not pretend to
galnsay that. And take pleasure in say
ing here now, in regard to the action oftAe
Ways and Means Committee in the last
Congress, that there was harmony in that
committee and that when our bills were re-
ported to the House, they conformed to the
estimates but they were shingled over af.
forwards by amendments put on here, by
one and another, that we could not control
Some were put on here, but vast maiorit,
were put Oh il the Senate.