Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-19

Hewitt and Hale represent the House. At 30
pm. member of the committee informed
STAR reporter that there seemed to be no like
hhOOd of an agreement being reached by 6 p.
m, the hour set for the adjournment of Con
greSS.
Executive Session of the Session.
The Senate went into executive session
almost as soon as il was called to order this
morning with the intention of clearing the
calendar of appointments. The three COM
missiOnerS appointed recently by the Pres-
dent to represent the United States at an
International monetary conference, MeSSrS
Wm S. GrOeSDeck, of Ohio: Reuben +. Fen
ton, of New York, and Francis Walker, of
Connecticut, We're reported to the Senate from
the finance committee without recommenda-
ton. At p. N. the Senate was debating these
nominations. The corridors of the Senate wing
were crowded with residents of the District
anXiOusy waiting the result of the action of
the Senate on the District Commissioners.
DISTRICT NOMINATIONS AND OTHERS CON
FIRMED.
During the session the Senate confirmed the
following nominations:
{, C27I"iSst21eers o. District Of C0lumbia-
Seth L. Phelps, for the term of two years from
July l. 1878: Josiah Dent for the term of one
year from July /, 1873.
Samuel NJ. Wilcox, Simon Wolf, A. S. Taylor.
John How OF Montana, to be Indian agent
1oT & the Western Shoshonee agency, Nevada.
Samuel G.. Reid, of Ala bama, to be U. S. mar
sshal for middle and southern districts Of Ala
bama: and Thos. Cumming to be postmaster
at liackenSack, Nj.
Mr.. Groesbeck was also confirmed as a men,
Der of the International Monetary Confer
ence. The other two nominees will be taken
up and disposed OF IN executive session later
i'll the day Mr.. GrOesbeck's confirmation was
not placed on the regular list, and will not be
officially announced until the others are acted
upon.
THE PRESIDENT went to the Capitol to-day
to approve bills passed to. day, and was accom-.
panied by his Cabinet:
TIE SARATOGA, training ship, Lieut.. Com
mander r. d. Evans, commanding, will drop
from the Navy Yard down to the Arsenal
wharf tomorrow, where her guns will be
taken on board When this work is completed
she will 90 10 Norfolk to be dry-dOclled for re
cOpUering She then starts on her summer
cruise.
TWENTY MILLION FOR TENsIONS-The
HOuS". under a suspension of the rules, today
passed bill to pay arrears of pensions, which
provides that all pensions hereafter granted
Shall commence from the death Of the person
on whose account the claim is paid. IC will
take between fifteen and twenty million dol
lars out of the Treasury. Only three northern
members voted against the bill,i being good
bid Tor the soldiers vote.
The Presidents Title.
GEN. BUTLER DON'T BELIEVE 1T INvIOLABLE.
Gen. Butler, as an individual member of the
judiciary committee, has submitted to the
House of Representatives his reasons for dis
Senting from the resolution and report of the
majority in regard to the inyiOlability of the
Presidents title. He says: The resolution If
the majority is simply an expression of opinion
that the two Houses OF the Forty fourth Con-
gress, having counted the vote cast for Presi-
dent and Vice President and declared the re-
suit OF the election there is no power in sub
sequent Congress to reverse that declaration.
Certain am that an opinion on this question
was not asked by the state of Maryland, either
by the resolution of the state or by the BILL
Both sought only remedy through the courts"
He argues that this contention is clearly with
which is specifically vested with this judicial
power by the constitution. After further
argument Gen. Butler says: But the cOnSti-
tuition, does not impart to either of the three
branches of the government any such indie
pendence OF the Others as the argument of the
committee assumes. Congress cannot try a
case, but the proper powers of the judiciary
are, for the most part, inexecutable without
suitable provisions OF law on the part of Con-
greSS.'
Gen. Butler concludes as follows:
" Let us state the question and see what is
ana what IS not revolutionary. 1t is claimed
by amalority OF the committee that if by force
or fraud, by forgery and perjury, by corrup-
ton and bribery, a man may buy or defraud
a congress into counting forged electoral Icer-
tifcateS OF fraudulent votes, and be allowed
to usurp thereby the office of the President of
against his exercise OF the high duties of that
Office and welding all its great power for four
years within the power of our constitution. |
Will not admit that our fathers have made auy
such constitution or frame of government for
the welfare OF the people. cannot admit that
there is nOremedy for so great wrong known
to republican form of government guarded
Dy constitutional checks and balances and
legal and judicial remedies. If So then our
republican form of government IS failure
and Will go out in night and darkness, to the
ha
ceeded by government in which the army
bidder. the right to exercise supreme
executive power, as was done in the RO
man Empire. Then, indeed, is no remedy
left us but revolution, instead of the peaceabIe
one through the action OF the judicial courts
acting under the constitution in a legitimate
manner, to which all from the highest to the
lowest always have bowed, and always will
bow, and to the DEGREES of which all will quiet.
ly submit SO far as l understand the term
MeXicanlZe, military usurpatiOn Is the Mexi.
can mode of determining who is rightfuIiy
mode OF determining that question, reverence
for laws and submission to judicial Tribunals
L do not discuss the question whether auy
other remedy exists by the action of the two
houses OF Congress on the subject of the recog-
milton OF the Presidential acts of an officer who
has lntruded himself wrong ully into the gov
ernment, because that question was not be-
lore the committee and it is not before this
House. am Sad too it passes from nv hands
10 De dealt with whenever 1t arises by ADLER
and stronger men who may occupy the seats
which we occupy, to deal with that Question if
ever 1t may unhapply arise.