The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-05

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per each insertion Special notices charged desee
rng the printing Of blanks for the Post onoe Depart
meat and that they have power sit during the recess,
~ sead tu reyous and papers and they shall report at
Tire rsxt scssi'th of Cons srvvs a, =. A n "a ~
orr,eK AUTHORIZATIONS nlIlsss.. .lss 20 saas q
A message received ftca the House of Rerfesen
tatiyas Informing the Senate that the Hoslse had agreed t
tine report Of the COMMITTEES OF conference on the Fest
once appropriation bill NsEf
Oa motion by MIR. STUART the Senate then proeeeded
- the consideration OF that subject; and Mr. b submit
ted report the part Of the senate COMMITTEES ihe
report states that the committee s'havng met after fai
and eo conference have agreed oliows that neither
House Is understood ca waive any constitutional right
which they may resects ely consider to belong to tel
aud that ID be recommended 10 the Houeu to pass con-
terence b and thai the Senate nourIn the when t
shall bs seat to them. Mi. s. explained that they
agreed 10 abandon both blls theone the ro OF the
Senate and the Other the table Of the House, sd report
which shosId be passed BY the Heuse and t'as
nitsed 10 the seaas who should pass il also II was
necessary 10 do something Ia order that the services OF this
Post Office Department might go until the nex ses-
sion without interruption They believed there
overwhelming pablic necessities which demanded q Q
passage OF bill making these appropriations and
they believed that their action being unanimous did
preserve the question Of constitutional light to eaeh
house uutoaehei and nnyieldeJ and BY dpHg they
adopted the only which could secure thsa&two
interests Substantially II the bill which
Senate returned with amendments. The committee hN
done as well as they could do ~ As little time a. Thea
had 10 do ID In. e ts oR
Mr. MASON remarked that although there was d Ias-
eryaon yet it manifest aoQ tho RESULT oi that com
ference that the senate was forbidden TO exercise ITS CON
stitutional right. @
Mr. PEARcE said he hai yielded to this report with
very great reluctance or he would rather the Po
Office appropriation bill st,icen ont of existence forever
than abandon constitutional right la the the
committee had pursued they had not given up any such
yi, .uf had
that any other bin could become law at this session
and then they had TO consider whether they would neak
up this important and useful interest and render Il
necessary for Congress To convene Ia mlsnmmer ob
lge the President To stop all the operations of that de-
partment and leave the country suddenly unproyidei
with any Of those facilities 50 important to commerce
fe yielded therefore, to sort OF necessity lie would
admit also that he had very great doubts whether the
committees not transctnding their powcrstheir ap
thory being to consider the resolution that oh
noxiolis to the Senate but having prcctet TO guido
them he thought they might be excused for stretching
their powers they did He would prefer the passage
Of this bill to its defeat but he would have peieired il
it were possible, 70 have had some other proposition
which would have thrown the responsibility papa
bly, and obviously upon the House OF Representatives
Mr. 1OOMBS considered this question of the greatest
possible magnitude. On the ono side is great constu
tiona question which no has right to surrender if
it exists the other is the reat inconvenience of not
having postal service performed during the year 1860
Between duty and expeliency he would not hesitate,
whatever might be the of other In his udg-
ment not only had the constitutional rights and prerog
ayes of the Senate been tramped BY the House, in
the first place. but they had also been surrendered by The
committee of conference and he wished rebuke both
the and the other The House had slyped the right
Of saying that the Senate not Coordinate branch OF
this government He proceeded to review the facts in
the case, and said this b which had just from the
House, must SO through the regular Of legislation
and should be considered by one senator at least
The bill was then read first time by its title
Mr. TO0MBS objected to its second reading TO day
Mr.. STUART observed that there not time to
discuss this question IT must be left for history to de
eide upon whom the responsibility rested Action in the
Hotse upon the original bill impossible at this stage
of the session, any member OF the House had right
to demand that each amendment which the Senate hal
made to the bill should be separately considered aa
ii the House to agree to take it up it would take
time than remained in the session to consider The
amendments. Then there the aitcrnnye Of taxing
up the second bill which sent to the Senate and
the committee thought the Senate onght not TO re-
code from it's position by adopting that cou'seao They
were left to choose between waving the copsttu-
tIonal right and taking that eou1A which woutN sub
stantialy preserve that right aid ives tho senAts
opportunity to say what they woulxA6 Had they isa-
greed and broken up the conference without doing any
thing the Senate would not havSd any Opportunity OF
deciding that question: They pesentc therefore, Che
only practicable mode OF getting that appropriation bill
through With every disposition to maintain their
sttuonal rights the committee had done the beat thing
they could by presenting new bill which contains
spch appropriations will keep this department. moving
Mitli the next session of Congress and it nov su
nitscnt to the judgment OF the Senate to say whether
they would act upon it or not ~ M Ass gS So.
Mr. SEWARD, in order to test the question whether a
single objection would prevent tho consideration pf tho
ill moved that 1t now have its second reading la
Mr. TOOMI}S renewed his objection. 81 MN&A
The VICE PRESIDENT decided that objection being
made, the bill could not its second reading to-
day. s e itae N' ,gfg aas eSs&fM1
Mr. BAYARD regarded the action OF the House Of Rep
resentayes as striking Mt the bas upon which our gov
ernment stands and this question OF peculiar in
terest to every State which desires have our form of
government perpetuated The Honse had refused to
slider its own bill when returned from the Senate
and this not the first time that II had done 80
In this manner the representatives of State Apver-
eighty deprived of that o-orditate equaf bover
which, by the Judgment OF the trainess
they intended to enjoy He.comd nSver consent to
that theagh IL should rcsulb ir
though the apfop tions bill should be osts the af
fairs of government deranged While believing that their
committee int1hdhftn do. all that right 10 sustain
the honor Of tho Senate, ha thought they had made
that IL imPracticableor the Mouse take up the
Senate amendments and they therefore, although
authority to do so had been coded to them reported
new bill Evenh they did find II neccsnwy neporta
BILL at least they might have imbohosi In tAat bill
something which tile SeDste desired and not av framed
precisely the same bill in substance that tbs House
sent here before without icding in it solitary pro
vision which meets the appreciation OF the Senate The
committee may have reserved tho right Iii Words but
they have yielded II in fact tho bill which they arort
MS new bill Is only SO in and no could not es,-
dorse their action. sa si 3a3 8 essf o.
MIR. FESSENDEN said his side Of the chambSr were q
ready for vote and would not be responsible II the bill