The Arkansas advocate., 1834-05-30

even :, ia Fe!asia e ePestts off tti ttie ,tiii,- l i'e money. Nerson this point are we left 10 any eqhiyoeal testimony. The docu- nents ot inc treasury department show tAnt the Secretary of the Treasury did annly to the President, and obtained his anpr..lsssste.ss and saaeton to the original tf;lnsier af th,
 pubic deposites to the present bank of the
 United States, and did carry the measure into effect in obedience to his ,leeisien.-- hey also show that transfers of the public l deposites from tie branches of the bank of the tinted States to State banks, at ChllE- cothe, Cincinnati and Louisville, ia 1919, were made with tho appreciation of the Pre- i sident, and by his authority. They show that upon ali important questions appertatn- ing to his department, whether they related to tho public dePosites or ether matters, ii was the constant practice of the Secretary
 ot the ireasiiry to obtain for his acts the approval and sanction of the President These acts and the principles on which they were founded, were known to all the de- partments of the Government, to Congress-
 and the country; and until very recently ap- pear never to have been called in Tiiestiof
 Thus was 1t settled by the constitution,
 the laws, and the whole practice of the Gov
 efnment, that the entire executive power is 1 vested iA the President of the U. S.; that as incident to that power, the right of ap-
 pointing and removing those officers who
 are to aid him in the execution of the laws,
 with such restrictions enly as the constit'l- ton prescribes, is vested i'll tho President lzthat inc secretary of tllc Treasury is ore of those officers; that the custody of the pub- lie property and money IS an executive func- ton, which in relation to the money, has al-
 ways been exercised through the Secretary of the Treasury and his subordinates; that in the performance of these duties, he Is sub- feet to the supervision and control of the 1 President, and in ali important measures having relation 10 them, consults the chief magistrate, and obtains his approval and sanction; that Ihe law establishing the bank 1 did not, as t could not, change the relation
 between the President and the Secretary
 did not reiease the former from his obIiga- ton to sec the law faithfully executed, nor the latter from the Presidents supervision and control; that afterwards, and before, the Secretary did in fact consult, and obtain the sanction of the President to transfers and removals of the public deposltes; and that
 all departments of the Government, and the
 nation itself, approved, or aequieseed in
 these acts and principles, as in strict conA formty with our constitution and laws.
 1 During the last year, the approaching ler-
 asinatien, aeeordiuEs fo the provisions of its. l charter, and he solemn decision of tLc 1 American people, of the Bank of the Uni ted States, made 1t expedient, and is oy- posed abuses and coriuptions, made it, in
 my opinon, the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to place the moneys of tue Uni- ted States in other Repositories. The Sec retary did not concur in that opinion, and declined giving the necessary order and d-
 rection. So glarlng were the abuses and corruption of the Bank, so evident it's fixed purpose to persevere in them, and so palpa- bic it's design. by it's money and power, to control the government and change it's character that l deemed it the imperative duty of the executive authority, by the eHef- ton of every power confided to # by the l Constitution and laws to check it's career, and lessen it's ability to do mischief, even in the painful alternative of dsmssing the head of one of the departments. At the time 1 the removal was made, other causes sulIi- cicnt to justify it existed but if they had not, the Secretary would have been dismiss sed for this cause only. His place l supplied by ohe whose opn- ions were well known to me, and whose 1 frank expression of theni3 in another situa-
 ton, and whose generous sacrifice of inter- est and feeling, when unexpectedly called
 to the station he now occupies, ought for
 ever to have shielded his motives from sus-
 picion, and his character from reproach.-
 in accordance with the opinions long before expressed by him, he proceeded, with my
 sanetiofs, to make arrangements for depos- ting the moneys of the United States Tn other safe institutions.
 The resolution of the Senate, as origin ally framed, and as passed if it refers to
 these acts, pre-supposes right in that body to interfere with this exercise of executive power. If the principle be once admitted, 1 1t is net difficult 10 perceive where it may
 end. If, by a mere depunciation Ike this resolution, the President should ever be ii,-
 d,1ced 10 act, in q matter of official duty, l e ntrary to the honest convictions of his
 own mind, in compliance with the wishes Of
 the Senate, the constitutional independence
 of the Executive Department would be as I efftetuaEy destroyed, and it's power as ei-
 fea...;sl!. transferred to the Senate. as If that
 end had been accomplished by an amend ! ment of the constitution. Bn1 t tho Sen
 ate have a right to interfere with inc Exec i ut:ve powers, they have right also to make that interference effective; and If the assef- t;on of she power implied in the resolution