New-York tribune., 1866-05-05
THE RIGHT AND WRONG OF TT.

The n. y. Times thus sets forth the prospective
difference between the President and the Senate
respecting appointments TO Office
THE WAR UPON THE PRrsDESr-Thc war of word,
which Congress hss waged from the commencement against
tie President Is taking another form The Senate has SO
amended the Post Office bin deprive all officers appointed
by the President from compensation This aggression IL Is
wen 10 remember was wholly unprovoked 1t l. wanlon as
slu upon the President Party feeling In ITS most excited
Senate highly exssperaied with Gen Jackson
hus encoache or attempted to ncroacb upon the Executive
Mangum and other eminent statesmen that the Executive
could ignored that Congress could usup auhoy
Parties like individuals squander their estates Senator'S
with or without iness or popn,y who have been
all attention will be called to account sitting
awaits them They cannot a. hereoior secure In thsir
mpuDty Seats that have known them 80 long Will sooa
know them no more forever
Surely foreigner would infer from the above
statement that the Offices in question the private
patrmony or official perquise of the President. or,
at the very least that he vested with the absolute
disposal and control Of them, as the King in a mon
archy is :" the fountain of honor" Yet our Federal
Constitution Cart l., Sec. % expressly says:
He shall nominate by ard nth the Of he Senate
all officers OF the United States whose appointments not
otherwise provided for"
Here il is seen that the adrioe as well consent of
the Senate is made essential. Say what we may Of
its wisdom or fitness, this is the paramount law of the
land.
The President and the Senate were elected by the
same party To that party belong the great body Of
our present Federal ofiice-heders. The Senate is in
full and hearty accord with at least nineteen-twen
tieths Of that great party If what is termed - the
Presidents policy" contradisinguished from that
of Congress- shall prevail, it will be carried almost
entirely by the votes of those who mmeasurably de-
nounced the nomination Of Andrew johnson for Vice
President as National disgrace, and opposed his
election as one utterly nnft to be made These are
notorious facts-as wellknown to The Times to u.s.
The attitude and composition of parties in Congress
accurately reflects and represents the division and all
subdivisions Of the People.
Now, then, the great mass of the Federal Office
holders are notorously in sympathy with the party to
which the President, Congress, and themselves are
alike indebted for their places and for this they
threatened with prescription and removal The Pres.
dentia rod is shaken over their heads and they are
told that they fail to support the President they
shall no longer "eat his bread"-that they shall be
pitched out neck and heels TO make for such
will respond to the declaration that the great majority
Of Congress are disnnionsts, and much traitors as
ever jeff Davis and Beauregard were
Ought hs Senate 10 submit 10 such a use Of the Offices
,eheh the Constitution says to be filled mh its adree
and eonsent7 We say it should not. And we say
further, that appointments by the President in the
recess of the Senate which ho knows the Senate, if
in session, would not "consent" to, would be in
clear palpabe violation at least Of the spirit of the
Constitution.
In saying this, We do not assume that the President