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SENATE. ...WAsHINGTOS, Dec. u 1907.
TuE COTTON TAX BILL.
AIr SHERMAN REP. ONO reported from me Com,
mttee on Finance the 6i ~ regard 10 he Togo A "Nu
THE WEST BANK HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD.
Mr. HOWARD GRep Mich J. from the Military Com
r61eb the West Bsmk Hudson River Company which
was passed without amendment
CoNrRACr F0R STATIONERY.
MI. PATERSON d;ep. y. H., from tue Committee on
Retrenchuent, reported resolution that contracts Tor
euts sh1uld not he made n the present unsettled
ditiOn Of the country aud sla not be made Tor period
posas shall be notified OF the aid place Tor olenug
bids and allowed to be present In person The resolution
! TIE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
Mr. NYE rep, Nevada Introduced al TO amend ne
| various acts establishing tho Navy Department, which
was referred 10 the Committee on Naval Affairs
| PROCEEDS or cAPTURED AID ABtNDoSED PROPERTY.
On motion Of Mr.; SHERMAN diep.. onto the senate
took up bin under discussion yesterday IN regard 10
the proceeds Of captured and abandoned property The
A discussion followed but 10 vote was taken. .-.
| The morning hour having expired, SIR. JOHNSON
Dem, Md rose te speak on Mr. brakes resolution Ia
regard % the Presidents Message.
Mr.. TRUBBULL rep, NJ desiring TO speak On The
pending bill on motion Of NJ. SHERMAN, It was post
PO"0O va ~ CfNsrRE or THE PRESIDENT.
The Senate then took up Mr. brakes reFoluton
Mr. JOHNSON Dem, Md proceeded 60 discuss ~ NJ
Length. Replying 20 The assertion that no sovereign
rights existed IN any STATE o. me Union hpt that INC
alone, he said reference 10 The Convention which had
sTcumeEt; ana lie detailed the circumstance which
caused TIC formation OF rs Constitution ana ig adoption
The Supreme Court Of the United States had always eid
that certain rights did Undue IN the States ChefJus,
tice Marshal, in bis opinion OF Tic matter ~ the United
States Bank holding IN precise terms aud denouncE the
contrary doctrine fatal to the objects OF tho trainers o
the Constitution. referred The Senator from
Missouri Alr Drake surely agreed that there Were
such rights, since he had been member Of the state
Convention Of Missouri which framed Constitution
reity IN the most absolute sense. Undertaking 10 step
between ministers Of The Gospel md tie exercise % their
holy functions demanding an oath from them az lre
nmrary condition, 70 which, IN the spirit Of tho
tyrs, they had refused TO submit
Mr. DRAKE Interrupted Mr.. Johnson 10 cay that III
that Convention lie had opposed the provision referred
with all HE might IT adopted IN spite Of his efforts
FOR which lac had referred The matter namely That
that State exercised sovereign aud independent powers
TO the charge that the President had exceeded his pre-
rogatye and ucltod 10 ress.cnce aRn!nat law IN cali
ing It unconstitutional, he replied at length, quoting
clothed with al executoiy and some legislative power.
While The nOwels OF Tie Legislative and judicial Ocunrt
ments were expressly limited those functions lie had
m opeirleG nv tmoird Vote a. CopgresS Mat hay
President done TO call for his impeachment lie had
vetoed the Reconstruction measures. he bad right 10
zci,s and Of States Congress lad oycrruitd him and
be then GOpiuatcd 10 govern those States Of the
most gallant soldiers ~ the army believing The pedic
tons " Congress that he would not execute those laws
No could point 10 an act showing that De did not
attempt 10 carry them out though Ina some rcspects he
might have honestly nisnpprehcndcd their meaning. He
had taken the grounds merely In the Message that
safety or the peoples rights Let II be known let IL lot
be- vilhcd but shown 10 be unconstitutional, aud then
the people not Congress would Censure hin Congress
lad no more right 10 cesure him than he had cesure
them He believed the senator from Missouri respected
Andrew jackson.
Mr. DRAKE--I was not supp0rtcrof Andrew Jackson,
although, had 4 known much in those days do
now ucrhaps might have been.
Mr. Johnson j was gong 10 say that. lIaughtcr.l
MIR DRAKE-Bnt 70 would nave been because he Was
an luvincblc champion az the Union, aud the deadly foe
Of the very doctrines which The Senator's now advocating
upOn this floor. I.auglterI
Mr. JOHNSON learn thnt for the first time. The
reading OF the Senator from Missouri has been more
effective than mine has been, II tlat s. 49,.
Mr. DRAKE-D0cs thrSeuato or remember MS pTocana-
ton iu regard ~ unlncahOn
Nj. JOHNSON Perfectly.
Mr.. DRAKE faid thnj WIS what he referred 70.
Mr.. JOHNSON rctortei that be- also remembered Jack
sons veto ~ tie United States Baak J, and hs protest
against tho authority ~ the United states scuate 10 cen
sure him for net d0Ie y hn, and the CicA rHd the
protest 40 Mr Juhtul'- request io asked n ihHt ""b
Do "ccoGiancc with tlc sgiHlors views ~ Constitutions"
dottflut. ~ certainly tUirt with | resolution
Tic supreme Court hndderlcd ngaiuft tHr constitutions
AMY 0i President Jncla0Ir view; lille no such Tribunal