Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-08-22

dare to express or avow. Audacity has
grown with indul gence. Corrupt exer-
else of power has increased the lust of
power, and emboldened you to claim as
Legitimate what less .practiced in the
vice, your silence admitted was usurpa.
tim. With what agonizing struggle be-
tween conscience and party has the gen.
tleman from Ohio Bingham] come to
see in this bill "American Magma Char.
ta," justice and liberty regulated by law?
What has brought him in harmony with
the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Ste-
vens aud the gen leman from Massa-
chusetts Butler?] How much more
harmonious and expeditions would have
been the action Of the central caucus d.
rectory of fifteen ifthe gentleman from
Ohio had have bowed his meek aud low.
ly lead at the beginning as he does now
If he could have seen at the first
"American Magma Charta" in a bill de.
claring the governments of ten of the
States Of this Union absolutely void, and
per consequence the States as such des-
troyed?
This is an extraordinary session Of
this Congress-an extraordinary occa-
sion, it is claimed, has called for this
extraordinary bill. This is the only
measure to be acted upon; the resolution
Of the House excludes all other legisla-
tion; ; and the necessity of this is charged
upon the President. Now, l ask what
has he done? He vetoed the bill, and
it was passed over his veto. But what
has he done to impede or obstruct the
purposes of the act Did he assign bad
men to the command of the several de,
partments, or even to any one Of them !
There has been no such complaint by the
majority of this House even up to the
present moment. What, then, has he
done to obstruct or hinder the accom-
plishment of the purposes of the act or
the purposes you had in view in its pas
sage? Has he made any order or pro.
mulgated any command calculated to do
any such thing? If SO, what is it and to
whom was it given?
But you say the Attorney General has
given a construction to the act which
circumscribes or limits the authority of
the commanders of the departments. l
answer the department generals had ask
ed for advice upon the act. You had
passed the bill as usual under the oper-
alton Of the previous question, thereby
prohibiting all debate and all proper con-
sideration of the measure, and these gen
tlemen had doubts about its meaning they
differed in opinion upon it, some constru.
ing it one way and some another. The
But the great wrong of the President
is found in the fact that he ordered the
time for the registration in the State of
Louisiana to be extended till the lst day
of August What if he has =? Does that
delay or impede or obstruct the execu-
tion of the act improperly or unwisely ?
The act provides for extension till the LIST
day of September, and this bill toany day
prior to the lst day of October. But
what has the harlequin Of Louisiana de-
partment done himself in the way of ex.
tension of the time for regitration? He
who claims the opinion Of the Attorney
General and the extension of time to the
lst day of Augustby the President opens
"broad macadamized road for perjury
and lrand to travel on"
A telegram from New Orleans dated
June 22d, after Gen. Sheridan had ex-
tended the time of registration to the 15t
of July and the President to the lst day
of August, is published or sent, or at all
events dated, the telegram of Sheridan
to Gen. Grant, which has been the real
cause of this session of Congress, and
which to this day has never been, as |
am informed, officially communicated to
the President, which is as follows:
Headquarters Fifth Military District,
New Orleans, June %, 1867.
GENERAL: am in receipt of telegram
from the President, through Brevet Mojor
Gen. Townsend, Adiutant General U. S. A.,
directing me to extend the registration in
this city aud State until Aug. lst, unless l
have some good reason to the contrary, and
ordering me to report success and such rea-