The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, March "a.
SENATE,

Mr.. Trumbull, from the committee on
the Judiciary, reported substitute for
the bill to repeal the tenure of Office
act, as follows:
To strike out all after the enacting
clause and insert as follows: That the
LIST and I'd sections of an act regulating
the tenure of certain civil offices, passed
March 2, 1869, be and the same are here
by repealed, and in lieu of said repealed
sections the following are hereby en-
acted:
That every person holding any civil
Office to which he has been or may
hereafter be appointed by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and
who shall have become duly qualified
to act therein, shall be entitled to hold
such Office during the term for which he
shall have been appointed, unless soon
er removed by and with the consent
and advice of the Senate, or by the ap-
pointment, with the like advice and
consent, of a successor in his place, ex-
eept as herein otherwise provided.
SEC. 2. Ind be IL further enacted, That
during the recess of the Senate, the
President is hereby empowered in his
discretion to suspend any civil officer
appointed by and with the advice and
counsel Ofthe Senate, except the Judges
of the United States Courts, until the
end of the next session of the Senate
and to designate some suitable person
subject to be removed in his discretion
by the resignation of another to performs
the duties of such suspended officer III
the mean time, aud such person so deS-
ignated shall take the oath and give the
bond required by law to be taken and
given by the suspended officer and
shall during the time he performs
his duties be entitled to the salary and
emOiuments of such officer, no part OF
which shall belong to the person sss.
pended; and it shall be the duty of the
President, within thirty days after the
commencement of each session of the
Senate, except for any Office which in
his opinion ought not to be filled, to
nominate persons to fill all vacancies in
office which existed at the meeting of
the Senate, whether temporarily filled
or not; also in place of all officers Sus-
pended, and if the Senate, during such
session, shall refuse to advise and con
sent TO an appointment IN the place of
any suspended officer and shall also re-
fuse by vote to assent to his suspension,
then and not otherwise such officer at
the end of the session shall be entitled
to resume the possession of the Office
from which he was suspended and after
wards to discharge its duties and receive
it's emoluments as though no such sus-
pension had taken place.
Mr.. Grimes stated that he could not
vote for the bill.
Mr.. Morton said the report of the com
mittee preserved the shadow rather
than the substance of the tenure of Of
fee act. 1t was merely bad photo.
graph ola dead body, and, therefore, he
did not feel called upon to argue against
it or oppose it actively in any way, but
he could not vote for it because by
preserving the veto power of the Senate
it violated the theory he held on the
subject.
Mr.. Harlan argued in favor of the
existing law.
Mr.. Ross followed in an argument
against the tenure of office act.
Adjourned.