Ido not believe that we are to make a reciprocity treaty valid by the consent of the House. Can the House give away its constitutional rights and privileges I The present House might give away its constitutional power for the time being. but it could reassert it at any moment. and it could not grant or give away any power of a coming House of Representatives. The power clearly and legitimately belongs to the House of Representatives to originate revenue bills. and the entire Congress alone has control of the subject of regulating commerce as much as Congress has the power to coin money or to pass naturalization laws. If the Senate and the President may take this upon themselves. they may take it upon themselves to coin money. to regulate the naturalization laws. or almost anything else. I decline. however. to go further into this subject now. but I think so far as the resolutions of the State of Vermont go. they were intended to apply to reciprocity tfeaties. and so far as that is concerned. I shall hope to satisfy a iftajority of the Senate that the State of Vermont is entirely right in the ground it has taken.
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