The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-17
THE VETO.

II1E V bIO.
THE President yesterday vetoed the new Fir eed
mems Bureau bill. The bill had been framed
with specific reference to avoiding the main
objections urged by the Executive to the former
one. 1t failed, however, to secure his approval
The message is in the main repetition oil that
of the 10th of February last.
The bill, upon being returned to the House of
Representatives, where it originated, was imme
diately passed over the veto by vote of 104 to
33-tbe entire Republican strength present,
except RAYMOND, of New York, 'ng for it.
The bill was at once sent to the Senate, where,
after few characteristic remarks from Mr.
HENDRICKS and Mr.. SALISBURY, it was also
passed by a vote of 80 to IL, the Chairman de.
ciaring it to have received the constitutional
majority, and to be Law not withstanding the
objections of the President.
But two OF our New York contemporaries
refer to the matter Speaking of it, the Tribune
says:-
''The prompt action of Congress in passing
the Freedmen's Bureau bill over the Pres sidental
veto makes tina: document mere expression OF
Presidential opinion The bill is u law OF the
land, and beyond any argument OF ours. We
think Congress acted wi h wise mtrepidlty, and
we see no argument OF the President important
enough TO have delayed the measure a single
day; -.
than most OF his publications. He makes the
objection that this bill Is unnecessary by reason
OF the Civil Rights bill, which, although not
pleasant TO the Pres dent, was even more so
than the present measure. The dangers OF mill
tary law and military tribunals are dwelt upon
with an emphasis that seems strange when we
remember that the writer found warrant enough
in military JUDGMENT to summarily hang five
men and one woman. The Presidents dislike
TO military tribunals receives certain amount
our sympathy We trnsG are ,nta anxious to
shares and pruning-hooks, and our gaily
apparelled soldiers doing good work IN
the open farm LANDS ard forests of the
Northwest. We think the President could
have done this by giving the negro his
only weapon of selfdeiense-the ballot A
voting citizen IS not often oppressed. The tails
man of suffrage has a strange influence over
politicians and public men. Impartial suffrage
would have made the negro the equal of the
white, abundantly able 10 defend himself aud
fight his way in the world. The President has
refused this. We charge him with having para
lyzed the cause of impartial sutfl age and made
new contest ior its realization necessary. He
has thrown his Admin stratiJn against 1t, making
an ignobe test among his followers, an carry
ing out if possible in more offensive way, Mr..
BUCHANAN's policy towards Lecompton. He
made the negro helpless, mel her free nor slave,
but the Dondescript freedman. He placed him
in the condition of dependence that demanded
the protection given by the Freedmen's Bureau
ell.
"Ihe evil that PRESIDENT JOHNSON laInenCS Is
an evil OF his own Great on. We do not say that
the people of the South, as body, are the op-
preesors OF the black race. We have had too
many conspicuous examples OF humanity and
kindness, on the part OF leading Southern men,
10 permit ourselves to make this charge. But
We have also seen-and the President is wit
ness-a spirit OF caste, of enmity, race warning
upon race, and laborer upon laboIer, ending in
murder and Iapine. There are classes in the
South who show towards the negro the envy
that cannot bear to see Its fellows rise, and
the chagrin ct disappointed mastery. Because
they cannot own the negro body and soul,
they would either slay him, or make his portion
miserable upon the earth. If this were other.
wise, does the President regard it as good
democracy tor one class to 1--we only upon the
generosity of another2 Is it consistent with
republican institutions for the negro to have no
hope OF advancement but what rests with the
charity OF his former masters? How long would
it have taken ANDREW JoHNsoN-pD Dor laboring
nan-to have become President il, because of
his poverty and LABOR, he had been turned over
to the kindness OF rich nelgheors? 1t was be
cause he received Justice that he rose. Give the
black man Justice and he will advance himself.
''The crime OF the Presidential policy lies IN
his cowardly surrender to the slave spirit the
fruits OF our victory over the slave power Tals
one step was the easy, fatal descent We
can think OF Eothing more aptly illustrating the
Presidential policy than that OF the, swine in
Holy Scripture, who found themselves pos
sessed with devils. The evil spirit would not
depart, and they rushed into the sea. The
President has been heading towards the
sea with mad velocity, and this message Is
another sad but unmistakabie step"
The Herald says:-
''The Freedmen's Bureau bill, extending the
jurisdiction of the law for two years longer, was
vetoed by the President yesterday, and upon the
same grounds that he objected to the original
law OF last February, adding, however, as an
additional reason for vetoing the present la Y,
the testimony furnished by the reports OF Gene
rails STEEDMAN and FULLERTON that the freed.
men were grossly abused by the agents Of the
Bureau, and tnat the operations OF the law
generally proved failure. Under these cir
cumstances President JOHNSON decided to veto
the bill; but as might be expected, the radical
Congress almost instantly, with Indecent haste
passed it again over his Veto The bill having
come originally from the House, the veto mes
sage was sent to that body by the President
and was there overridden b. vote OF one hun
dred ana four to thrty-three. 1t was then sen
to the Senate without moments delay, ant
the veto was there set aside BY a vote OF thirty
three to twelve-three Senators not VOTING
The Freedmen's Bureau, there ore, with all II
extravagant expenditure, its wholesale iobbine
and cruelty 10 the unhappy negro, is to RENAL
in operation, despite the honest protest Of tn
President and the general conde nnation OF tn
people,"