Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856.

684 ABRIDGMENT OF THE lH. OF I.] Fortification Bill. [MARCH, 1835' Resolved, That the thanks of this House be pre- resentatives of the people. This body, which sented to the honorable JoHN BELL, for the able, was intimately connected with the people, and impartial, and dignified manner in which he has pre- might be supposed to represent their sentiments, sided over its deliberations, and performed the had unanimously agreed to a declaration wlich arduous and important duties of the Chair. would honor and distinguish this House in all time. We have (said Mr. L.) gone further, and Fortjifcation Bill. put the seal on our professions by making an A message was here received from the Sen- appropriation of three millions. Let the other ate, and the Speaker having resumed the chair, body now take the responsibility of defeating the House took up the anmendment to the fort;i- it; that body which was already groaning fication bill, appropriating $3,000,000, and the under the weight of a responsibility which it resolution of the Senate that it would insist on cannot much longer sustain. its disagreement. [Order! order! was vociferated from every Mr. GaoLsON expressed a fervent hope that part of the House.] the I-louse would recede fiom its amendment. Mr. LYTLE. What are the exceptionable He wa's conscious that no man, woman, or child, words? in the United States, who had any intelligence M3r. MERCER. I will repeat them. The of the matter, seriously believed that France gentleman says, the Senate of the United States would declare war against this country. The ap- is groaning under the weight, &c. propriation was, therefore, unnecessary, and the Mr. LYTLE. I said no such thing. I said the House miight with propriety abandon the amend- other body. mento He moved that the House do recede. Mr. MERCER appealed to the Chair to decide Mr. MCKExNNAN moved the previous question; whether the words were in order. which was seconded. The CHAIn decided that the gentleman was The main question was then put on the mo- not in order in alluding to the proceedings of tion of Mr. GuOLSONx to recede from the amend- the " other body." ment of thre House appropriating $3,000,000 for Mr. LYTLE. I have heard the allusion made the support of fortification —yeas 87, nays 110. here a thousand times, without interruption So the House refused to recede from its from the Chair or the House. amendment. The CHAIR. The gentleman can make use of Branches of the Mint, no language which is likely to lead to an interruption of harmony between the two Houses. The bill from the Senate to establish branches 5Mr. LYTLE proceeded. lHe had not, he said. of the mint of the Ulnited States, was read a departed from the courtesy due to the other third time and passed,-yeas 115, nays 60. body. All he had to say was, that he Mwished the responsibility to abide in the proper place. Amsaeortheficotllowing effect s r The House had sustained the sense and spirit A message to the following effect was re- of the Mlessage of the President, the wisdom and ceived fiom the Senate. policy of which had been verified by events. The Senate adhere to their disagreement to But, sir, another body has placed itself in oppothe amendmnent of the House to the bill making sition to the views of the Executive, and is now appropriations for certain fortifications, appro- heaping upon itself a responsibility which I unpriating three millions of dollars, &c, equivocally declare it cannot sustain. iMr. CAMBRELENG moved that the House ad- [Cries of order! order ] here to the anmendment. This House will have its full share of the Mr. MERCER moved that the House recede glory attending the successful termination of the from the amendment; which motion, he said, controversy with France, and the gentleman was first in order, from Massachusetts will have a, full share in it. Mr. POLK said the motion to adhere had The people of the country will sanction the priority to the other. action of this House, and award to it the glory The CHAiIn decided that the question must be of the action. I say, then, said Ml r. LYTLE, I first taken on the motion to recede. will not depart, as a member of this body, from Mr. A. H. SHEPPERD said, if the House ad- the elevated stand we have talken. I hold the hered, there could be no further intercourse appropriation to be the consummation of the with the Senate on the subject. If it was in proceedings of the last three days It will send order, he would move that the House insist, and out to the world irresistible evidence of a ask a conference with the Senate. national feeling on the subject, on the part of Mr. LYTLE objected entirely, he said, to any this House. It will leave no room for cavil or conciliatory proposition. The House had gone doubt; and, sir, the country will sustain us, as far as prudence and patriotism would justify while it puts the seal of its condemnation on them in going to conciliate the Senate. The those who resist us. If, then, the House only question was, where the responsibility of retreats now, it will deserve to be considered the loss of the bill should lodge. Let it be as the most pusillanimous body in the world. with that body which is determined to act, not Mr. HUBBARD said, if the House adhered, the only against the spirit of the executive reconi- bill would be lost, He moved that the House nmendation, but against this House as the Rep- appoint a committee of conference.

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