The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-25

of Colfax, aud appoints nobody to snv Office
whom Colfsx might be supposed to favor.
C0lfaX is very much his superior in the arts of
demagogue; and resentment, ambition, and
the abundant leisure Of his present Office will
prompt and enable the Vice President 10
practise such arts with considerable effect.
Grant is destined to have no other friends in
the West than the dependents on whom he
bestows offices; and he will probably find
three years hence, that the outs are more
numerous, capable, and influential than the
ins.
The Proposed Compromise on the Tenure
Of Office.
From The ". Y. Herald
1t appears that the difficulty in the Senate
in reference to repeal or suspension of the
nure-of-Office law has been settled among
the Republicans in caucus in an agreement for
modification of the law. The main object of
Congress in passing the law was to keep Sec
retary Stanton in the War Office during john
sons administration. Johnson's policy of
Southern reconstruction was not the policy Of
Congress. Johnson was dead-set against this
policy, while Stanton was an active ally of
Congress and complete check upon Johnson
in the matter of those Southern military gov
erDments. Hence, when it was limited to Con-
gress that Johnson had resolved upon the
removal of Stanton, the two houses hit upon
the Tenure f-Ofice law, providing among
other things that the members of the Cabinet
shall hold their offices, respectively, during
the Presidential term of their appointment
and for one month thereafter, subject to re-
moval only with the consent of the Senate.
This section of the law the Senate has agreed
in caucus TO strike out, so that the President
may remove any member of his Cabinet at
discretion, leaving him subject here only to
the constitutional requirement of a concur
renee of the Senate in mis- appointments.
- HI lo,r -, w,s.N H. III Il.
Johnson otherwise might make in the alb
sence of Congress among the radical Office
holders, including Stanton, was framed to
head him off in the section providing that in
the absence of the Senate the President may
suspend any executive subordinate; but that
within twenty days after the reassembling of
the Senate he shall give his reasons for such
Suspension, and if voted uDsatisf sfactory by the
| Senate the suspended officer shall be rein
! stated. Under this provision Stanton was
| suspended by the President and reinstated by
| the Senate, the reasons given for the suspen-
sion being voted insult ;ient. The Senate
| proposes so to modify the provision that the
President may make removals from Office
during recess OF Congress, and that with the
return of the Senate he shall not be required
to give his reasons for removals made, but
| only to report them; whereupon, il the Senate
consent, the removal shall hold good, but if
otherwise the party removed shall be rein
stated Our Washington despatch states
that the Senate Caucus Committee on Tues-
day evening waited upon the President, and
submitted to him these notifications, and
that he expressed himself satisfied with the
| bill in its proposed form.
Here are some i'm portaut concessions to the
President; but the reservation of the power of
the Senate over removals from Office is still
the main question. The Copperhead organ of
the Manhattan close political corporation
enters a just complaint against the shabby
device of only suspending this ofice-holders'
law for the benefit of q Republican President,
in order that it may come into full play again
in the event of the election of Democratic
President. But this Copperhead organ,
through its party spectaclea, can see nothing
in General Grants desire to have the law re-
moved as an obstruction in his way except q
purpose to gain the power SO to manipulate
the Republican party in his appointments as
to secure another term in the White House.
Thus we are told that General Grant wants
q second term; he knows he can be reelected
only by getting the Republican nomination,
and the power of removal during the last year
or two OF his present term is his chief reliance
for packing and controlling the Republican
Convention
This is Copperhead view Of General
Grants policy. 1t covers, too, the old Demo-
cratic game which smashed the party into
flinders under poor Pierce and Buchanan; and
yet our Copperhead Bourbons will learn no
thing. They are firm in the fallaoy that the
President with the spoils at his command can
buy another term as President, and that
herein lie all the objections of General Grant
to this Tenure Of Office law. We presume,
however, that the Copperhead oracle which
has been Haunting these views Of the Man
haitian ring before the public will consent to
the reported compromise as agreed on by the
Republican majority Of the Senate because il
still denies to the President a decisive voice in
the matter of removals from Office; so the
Senate may still obeckmate him II they catch
him "paoking the Republican Convention" Of
1872 But dismissing this sbsurdity In re-
gard to General Grant, the question recurs
why is the Senate so tenacious of this appel
late jurisdiction over removals from office
There may be few Presidential candidates
among the oOnscript fathers who desire TO re
tain check upon General Grant as a dan
geIous rival, but we apprehend that the in
fiuences operating upon the radical majority
in behalf OF this proposed compromise hav
very little to do with the Presidential sue
cession.
General Grant contemplates searching dag
noss of retrenchment aud reform. He is evi
IDENTIFY in earnest in this business. But tn
! ! affiliations of the whisky rings, the Tobacco
ripgs, the various other internal revenue rings
the custom house rings, and the Indian treat.
= and railway land and bond speoulating ring
, and their mercenaries of the lobby, encom
7 pass the President on every side. This power
l ful coalition of Treasury leeohes have thei
a allies in office, who have we fear, their friend
5 IN the Senate, and if SO, General Grant mus
J, be careful in treading on the toes Of thes
|, isvorites, or the Senate may check him In al