The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-05-09

tioD and revenue biIls gone together
hut IN eases without number IL has beer
the habit Of that Parliament TO checl
the power Of the crown by annexins
conditions 90 their appropriation o.
money Does he not know that the on
~ mode In which our ancestors oi
Massachusetts checked the powers oI
their royal governors was by granting
money only on conditions The powel
'of supply and the power OF snnexinp
conditions TO supply have always gone
together in parliamentary history and
their joint exercise has never been de-
Donnced As . case OF revolution. or call
ing for revolution. or tending to pro-
duce revolution in any shape or form
whatever. II il = power essential 10
the preservation Of our liberties
Ben. Wade said:
Has IL come To this. that If the Honss
OF Representatives do no; think il proper
to frame bill for the support of The
army Of the country apprc Grating IL
oO0OOO in . WAY TO satisfy the majority
in this body, revolution shall follow.
and the responsibility BE- upon the
House! Pray. cir. how: Because they
will not agree TO do As the Senate tell
them they shall DO.
The question under discussion was
precisely the ssmc-w whefher the presi-
dent should have the right 70 use the
army in Kansas. and whether the Re-
publican House of Representatives had
the right 70 prohibit such use oft army
bv an amendment TO the appropriation
bill.
Senator Seward said:
Civil liberty and standing army for
the purpose Of civil police have never
yet stood together, snd never can stand
together II I am to choose, sir, be-
tween upholding laws In any part or
this Republic which can not be main
tained without standing army. or re-
linquishiug the laws themselves. I give
up the laws 1t once. BY whomsoevefi
they are made and by whatever suthori-I
~ for either our system Of government
70 radically wrong, or such laws are uE-l
just, unequal and pernicious.
So much for Republican authorities
upon the wrong Of using the army inL
politics- Let us now examine the right
Of the president's veto.
There Is no prefense OF q violation or.
the constitution. The bill itself Is reallsI,
no Law In the broad, general or cousti-I
tutional sence Of the term. II does noil,
carry out . new provision OF the con-
stitution. II does not establish positive.
Affirmative or creative legislation. There
is partically nothing new. novel or
legislative In Il q al. II simply grants,
the usual appropriations. and accom-
psnies that grant by repeating q clause
In previous appropriation bill.
In the whole history Of this country
not . single instance can be found Of .
veto Of any such bill.
There IL not single instance OF the .
veto Of . bill which is not creative, only
repcaling.
American history of = veto not based
upon constitutional grounds.
Washington vetoed two bills. sndl.
both, - be said in his message. only be-
cause they were mot in harmony with,
the constitution"
Madison vetoed i've bills. and all be-;
cause Of their antagonism 10 the consti-
tuition. As one Of his veto messages /.
reads: II am constrained by the in
difficulty feel in rcconciiingi
the bill with the constitution OF the
United States to return IL. with that OBJ
lection. 10 the House OF Representative
Ia which il originated
Monroe vetoed in eight years onl,i
,ue bill. and his message read: .Hav-.
ng duly considered the bill. entitled.
stc-, Il IL with deep regret. approving
y do, the policy. that am compelled
o object 70 it, passage and 10 return the Y
bill 10 the Honse Of Representatives ipl
which it originated, under convicfiont \
nat Congress does not possess the power.t
inder the constitution, TO pass such af
aw." n
Jackson vetoed i've bills, and al OFT
hem solely upon constitutional grounds. h
lie historic message IN vetoing The bank Il
bill was written. - he said. with thatt
'olcmn regard 10 the principles OF thrlf
which the day DULY ronrth).t n
was calculated 20 inspire, and the beliefit
vas reached that some Of the power.c
md privileges possessed by the bank h
vere unauthorized by the Constitution. Ii,
Tyler vetoed i've bills. Polk three =
fierce four, Buchanan one. but all onlp
purely constitutional grounds. n
No president has before vetoed an ap- o
'ropriation bill and blocked the Govern ID
nent. y
Even stubborn Andrew johnson. wbo'i.
'scd the veto power more freely than.b b
ny other president. signed reallytl
Objectionable bill on the I'd or March. .c'
SIS, under protest, 'lest BY withhold Il
ng his signature necessary appropri.' n
tions should be defeated a
Judge Story, In his famous Common .Y
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