Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-26
AdJOurnmont of the House Of Ropresenta-

Adjournment OF the House Of Representa-.
lllJlI tt r tives. r.
WASHINGTON, June 25.---The House acceded
to the request of the Senate TO appoint
another Committee Of Conference on the
Postoffice Deficiency Bill.
The President sent in a message notifying
the House that he signed certain bills ine
Guiding that making appropriations for civil
expenses, with protest against the clause
designating Captain Meigs as superintendent
OF the expenditure of $500 900 for the conn
pletion of the Washington Aqueduct. He
does not believe it was the intention of
Congress to interfere with the Constitutional
rights Of the President, as Commander-in-
Chlef OF the Army, to order Captain Meigs
elsewhere, and send him away to superintend
the erection of Qualifications, or other work.
1t was evident to him that Congress intended
nothing more than to express decided
opinion that Captain Meigs should be con-
tinued In employment to .superintend the
Aqueduct. Is the appropriation constitti-
tional, and will it fail If he should not think
proper and expedient to regard this desgna-
tion? are questions which shall receive his
serious consideration, because all this would
depend whether the Water-works shall be
arrested for another season. tF Ar -,
He now desired to express no opinion, but
the question shall be carefully considered
necessary. Another message from the Presi-
dent recapitulated the grounds of his protest
OF March last, against the proceedings of the
Covode Committee.
Fhe charges against him being vague, and
expressed in equivocal terms, he did not for
a moment entertain doubt as to the result.
he DID not believe it possible that there ex-
listed man who could basely periure him
self. The proceedings of the House, he re-
peats, are violative Of the rights of a co-or-
dinate branch of the Government, and which.
II enforced would establish dangerous pre-
cedent. The House had acted without
constitutional warrant, and in a manner
tending to degrade the Presidential Office,
and render it unworthy Of acceptance by an
honorable man. ,ir
d The accusatory resolution was nothing
more or less than that the President has used
corrupt means to accomplish certain pur-
poses. BY what authority did the House
undertake to investigate the Exicutiye's
course as to the Lecompton Constitution, to
pry into our foreign relations, assailing our
Mexican Minister as to the Tehuantepec
Route, to investigate removals from office,
Notwithstanding the power of removal be-
longs to the President under the Constitution
ana was 80 decided by the first Congress, ac-
cordingly has ever since been 80 exercised.
There was no authority for the Committee to
investigate the subject of printing the Post
once blanks, because that question had pre
vlously been examined by two other Com
mittees. The President objected to the vim
dictive manner in which the witnesses were
examined. The first information he received
OF any testimony that would or could iniuri-
ously effect him was published in New York
journal, but which was disproved by most
respectable witnesses.
=, The telegraph, however, was silent as to
tne contradiction. He says that only such
dispatches were published as would reflect
on his character thus inf1icting most haQraut
injustice, and that different versions were
given OF private conversations, when there
was no opportunity to refute them. Mem
oers OF the Cabinet and others were sum-
moned to discover, if possible, something to
Disappointed applicants for Office. becop-
ing hostile to the Administration, appeared
before the Committee. These were most
dangerous witnesses. The Committee spread
drag-net over the whole Union to catch
disappointed men, willing to malign his
character.
The tyrannical star chamber was not worse |
han this sur has been, nothing like it since |
he revolutionary days of Robespierre.
,nouid the proceedings of the Committee be |
anctioned by the House the Constitution |
will have been violated, and the Executive |
,e no longer an Independent branch of the |
government and the worst fears of the early |
'atriots and statesmen will have been re-
.lized. -,I
In the name of the Representative of this
'reat people, and standing on the ramparts |
# the Constitution which they organized
nd established, he protested against these |
unconstitutional proceedings.
After some debate, including remarks by |
ir. Stanton against the message, it was re-
erred to a select committee
The House refused to suspend the rules to
AXE up the Post Route Bill, and it is conse-
uently dead. --..
AT noon the House adjourned sine die in
ood humor.