New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-28
Nothing can be more destitute of basis, eithe

Nothing can be more destitute Of basis, either in
reason or in fact than the pretense set up by the
Administration party in the Senate, tha. the House
issuiIty Of Dsurpaton and gross abuse fits power
fret in having inserted into the Military Appropr
alton bill proviso that the army shall not be EN-
ployed to enforce the bogus Kansas laws, and Sec
ondy in refusing to allow the Senate to strike out
that prOvisO. TbOse who maintain this extrava
CANT proposition slegc that it belongs to the Exec
utve to enforce the laws, and to the Judiciary to
decide what the law is; and that the Kansas pro-
Wis, would, if enacted, be legislative usurpatOn.
To this, it is a sufficient answer to say that the
prOvso does not undertake to pass any Judgment
upon the bogus laws of Kansas, or to interfere with
any inherent Executive authority of his own which
the President may see fit to exert in their ayor,
but merely to provide that soldiers of the United
States, paid with money voted by the two Houses,
and over the employ ment of which the two Houses
have an absolute control, shall not be employed in
ally such service In fact the President has no
power to employ the troops of the United States to
enforce any laws, except in virtue of certain acts
Of Congress. SuppOsng, however, that the proviso
does amount in substance to legislative annulment
of the Kansas b, gus laws. it hardly Les in the mouth
of the Senate to object to that as a legislative
usurpation ard an intrusion on the duties Of the
Judiciary after having itself passed act one Sec
tioH of which does expressly nOllify several Of the
more afro cous provisions OF those same bogus laws
Even supposipg that the pretended laws OF Kansas
were the acts Of regularly chosen Territorial Leg
slature, they would still be subject TO repeal by
act of Congress- and that none the less because no
such power of repeal is expressly reserved in the
act for organizing the Territory, since the power
of Congress over the acts OF Territorial Legisla-
lures il power inherent in it, and which it cannot
ALLEVIATE. That question, however, does not arise
in this case 1t has been clearly pro7ed by evidence
AIKEN BY Q Committee Of the House, that the pre-
ended Legislature by which the bogus laws in
a., stion were enacted was q mere u.urp ,tion-
that body having been chosen, not BY The citizens
of Kantss, but by mob Of intrusive ruffia1s fcom
Missouri 1t is very true-as Senator Brown of
Mississippi said in Tuesday sdebate on Mr. welers
biD-"ihat the people who make their own laws
"are the best judges of what laws they need"
al it s on that very principle ard to protect the
reople of Kansas against laws which they did not
make, that the House has inserted into the Army
bill the proviso against which Mr.. Brown 50
lcudlv protests Mr.. Brown goes Oh to add,
II at after having given them, l. e. the people of
Kar .as, the right to make their own la Es, Con
gees has no right to Interfere to overthrow
"thsm." not even if they are, as Mr.. Brown him.
,,lf cun'e.ses many Of the bogus laws Of
Krsas to be, unjust and outrageous" Though
We cslrot ssstn, to this proposition let us, hcwev.
tr, reuipd Mr. Brown aid his brother Senators
that he House pio'i.o does not propose to inter.
'rre in any way with the execution Of an5 laws
de BY a Territorial Legislature of K.nsas,
wherever that Territory may be 20 fortunate IS to
taye such Le, .lsture. The Only objec. Of the