The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-05-05

Po"er 10 put CHECKS upon one another.
The veto Of the President is the Execu
tive "break" upon the machinery of
Government, in so far as it is liable to
too much propelling force from Con.
gress. On the other hand the two.
third majority of both Houses of Con.
grcss is the Legislative check upon an
nnaaviscd use of Executive power.
Undoubtedly the design and scope of
this clause is to give opportunity for a
thorough manipulation of all measures
intended for general good, whenever the
Executive aud Congress are damctrl-
cally opposed in their views upon those
measures. And the presumption is
since what so large representation as
two.'hirds Of Congress believes to be for
the universal good is opposed by one
man, that If the President and Congress
do so differ, irreconcilably, that there is
less danger of error among a multitude
OF counsellors than with one man.
But no such contingency was dream.
ed off by the trainers Of the Constitution
as that anomalous condition Ct represen.
tatlon now existing in Washington
There is no provision made for adjusting
discrepancy between the Executive
and Congress arising from Legislation
by twenty-five States represented for
and against eleven States unrepresented.
If we were wrong IN declaring our.
selves ont Of the Uniou, how can the
Radicals be right in declaring us
not in 2
But the third period in this clause
provides also for the "spotting" of repre-.
senlauves. The record Of their votes
is not here left to the desire of one fifth
of the members, but their names ''shal!
be entered on the journal of each House
respectively" Herein is the remedy
in the hands Of popular and State Sover.
eigrty to rcadjnst their delegation if dis.
satisfied with their n cts, or to sanction
by re electing the same, ir satisfied.
OF course some limit must be assigned
to the time for the President to hold The
Bill, and hence ten days are given for
that purpose, as in that time it is rea.
sonable to suppose he can examine it
and frame his objections, or approve
and sign it. Hc could by default make
it law, but this could only be the re-.
suit Of mbecilty or querulousness.
In the history Of the Government.
since its existence under the present
Constitution, there have been many We.
toes, but not many that were overruled
by Congress, and no important one in
volving so many vast interests and bat.
tling so strenuously for Popular, State
and United Sovereignty, but this one
coming in our own day from ANDREW
JOHNSON.
The following is a list of vetoes
issued BY Washington 5 !, by Madi
son, G by Monroe, / by Jackson, 8;
by Tyler A; by Polk, 8; by Buchanan,
| by Johnson, 2.
There have been elk Bills vetoed and
overruled by Congress -Four OF these
we're local internal improvement Bills
vetoed by PIERCE; the fifth was Bill
relating to the revenue cutters, &C., We.
toed by TYLER, and the sixth is the
Civil Rights Bill vetoed by JOHNSON.
When one reads the Constitution,
and in the light Of that instrument
reads the current Of affairs in Washing.
ton it really seems.as if our country has
lost the sheet.anchor other hopes, and is
drifting upon the sea Of confusion, and
Iislleft at the mercy of the waves of dis.
order.