Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-03-17
WATCHMAN e. STATE JOURNAL
FRIDAY. MARCn u 1913.
THE REJECTED NOMINATIONS.

We give to day the proceedings Of the Presi-
dent and the SenaIe, in respect to Caleb Gushing
and Henry a. Wise The messages Of the Presi-
dent are pithy, aud the action of the Senate was
undoubtedly RS prompt rs it decisive. II will
be observed that the imam body oi both parties IN
the Senate ultimately concurred: and we onFe-
bend that their course viii be heartily approved
by the mnss of the people The administration
uresses-f,r there are few such--oi course com.
ph,n bitterly; and one of them The Boston Com-
Ter, goes 20 far hey oui the bounds of decercy as
to sl,rnalize lie course Of the Senate us neisri.
Gus and "pIoAgotc," Upon an examination of
the Coutirr's article, in which these epithets are
sransely misarplied, we find that the duty OF
tie Scnnie, promptly to confirm all cabinet nom
nations is substantially averred-and Ibis claim
of uncondi ionnl submission to the Executive will,
is considered rs established 10y usage, from the
foundation OF the government THIS, probablyis
jhe position which the Executive. AID all his
friends, will take. But is fake docrlne-antl-
constitutional and dangerous, and ought now to he
resisicd,'if it never mas been before Is custom
law superior 10 the Constitution Strange, il
il be SO. Is The Senate hound to confirm the III
compttput, The "pruhigate," The umprhcipled, if
so Iie he President happens 10 nominate such Tor
his advisers? That is The doctrine Of the Courier
embraced in The claim that the President must not
lie lhwared in the selection Of his Cabinet We
rel ice that the Senate has at last put au end to
the usage upon which is based such II doctrine.
llonur, say we, 90 those Senators who have thus
struu liis usage Of It's sauctiry, and acted W 10
The splri Of the Constitution and Of their oaths
such usage is we'll abandoned, for the purpose
Of rest ring the Constitution to righliui respect
aud of asserting the rights and independence of the
Senate, whirh were SO oulrsgeously insued by
the President ia this case We hope the time is
no' far distant, when every hucksering Office.
seeker will I've rejected, and when the House VIII
sGSlain Tie rights of that body, ny refusing sala-
res 10 every man appointed in the recess, "hen
Illus an onled purposey TO escape the ordeal Of
the Senne. The check OF the Senate was moi
tightly CT unwisey creuled hy the fathers of he
Repuhhc, ard that cheek must he niaintuiIed -
else the one-mau power will speedily override all
the other departments. The appointing power
the dispenser OF Offices and of salaries there is
the power to corrupt the lIouse-and has mol The
House been notably tempered with in the cuse Of
Gushing Wise, aud Irwin ?-theye, too, is the pow
er 10 corrupt the Judiciary.
tins nomination OF three men TO such Offices
who, as members of The House. had purchased
lhef nominations by base subserviency, is anolh.
er Iond testimony to the correctness I'll the Whio
doctrine HAT Members Of Congress ought not to
be appointed TO Executive Offices We rejoice
al thor relection because on this account their
nomination was improper MIR. Cushing, by his
coh'ihci, has justly forfeited all claims 10 conf
denre, and Wise is utterly unified by his temper.
ii 10y nothing else, for such post us the one Of.
'cfe" num- oh at these accounts we rejoice that
they were rejected.