The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-03-14

hat day the President may designate any
,fficer Of the United States to go there and
pay the money on that day.
Bu; such designation shall not be for a long
er time tLan twenty days.
Now, as to the bond, it is not LETT 10 the
OF the Interior:
And such officer so designated shall give
bond il required by the President
Ii he appoint some officer to pay the
money on that one day he may trust him
without bond, but it rests upon the Presi-
dent
For The faithful discharge of the said du-
ties.
IL will not be a bond Of a very large
amount il the person has only to pay out
one of the quarterly payments. As was
suggested in the early part OF the debate,
before many OF the Senators took part in it |
who afterw ard spoke, il the President should |
select an officer Of the Army to go there,
taking the money and paying it out, he |
might not require bond at all. This pro- |
posed legislation covers the case in New |
York. 1t is doubtless urged to-day, as l
urge it to-day, to include this case but it
covers all future cases where, as has been
said has happened in Louisiana, the agent
had commenced paying the people their
peusions and resigned and there was no one
authorized, and the President will have
power to direct another officer to go and
continue the payment. believe this to be
wise legislation. There may have been
some fault somewhere that this particular
case must be provided for, but this case does
exist. 1t seems pretty clear without such
legislation these fourteen thousand people
will not get their money on the 4th day oil
March.
The money is ready and think it ought
to be paid to them, and think for this case
and for all future cases where there is va
cancv as.there is here, that has not been
filled for some cause or other, those who are
to receive their pay should not be required
to wait. but that the President should be
SLOWED to designate any fit officer of the Uni
ted States. in his discretion, to go there and
nav the pensioners their money, taking a
i bond. il the President thinks il necessary or
letting him go without bond if the Presi-
dent thinks it is not necessary.
Mr.. BLAINE. am after information.
| understand the chairman Of the Judiciary
Committee to say that if you use the Ian
guage "the Bureau of Internal Revenue or
auy officer thereof" it does not mean col
lector of internal revenue.
| Mr.. EDMUNDS. 1t does not include a
collector, in my opinion.
Mr.. BLAINE. Nor an assessor Of inter
nal revenue?
Mr.. EDMUNDS. | should say not an
assessor.
Mr.. BLAINE Nor general agent sta,
toned in San Francisco, or Boston, or New
York?
Mr.. EDMUNDS. / cannot say about a
general agent. / should have to look W
the law.
Mr.. BLAINE. l only wanted to get al
what the Senator means. He does not seen
10 know with exactness and accuracy wha
he means himself, and therefore, OF course
| cannot get any more precise information
than the Senator possesses.
Mr.. INGALLS,. Mr.. President, / thinl
, some critic described Lord Brougham ono
! as man of vast apd varied Information
! and great legal requirements. =.
Mr.. CONKLING. brilliant disqualifl
e cations and prodigious moral requirements
Mr.. INGALLS,. think that same desie
r nation might be properly applied to som
= critics on the subject which has lately bee
under discussion. With all due Difference I
It the Senators who have spoken upon thi
subject, the question involved is not who ar
e officers of bureau, but what vacancies Oe
e curing temporarily in bureaus or heads q
II Departments the President Of the Unite
1t States is vested with authority tempOraril
r to fill under the Revised Statutes. The powe
II that he posses in this regard will be foun
4 in three sections of the law upon page q {
l. the volume before me. The first arises upo
the case of the death, resignation, abscenc
. or sickness of the head of any Department
: In that case
The first or. sole assistant thereof shall, III
,e less otherwise directed by the President
perform the duties Of such head uhtli SUI
- cessor is appointed.
~ Second
y In case of the death, resignation, abscenc
a or sickness of the chief OF any bureau or
II any officer thereof
ar And now mark the words Of Limitation
N | call the attention of the Senator fro
at Maine to that point
>, or of any officer thereof whose appointmei
e is not vested in the head of the department
u These are the words Of limitation tn
y prescribe and define the officers Of the b
'e reau, a temporary vacancy which may
y filed by the President under his discretio
le ary authority conferred by the statui
Z Now, whether pension agent
Is an officer of the Pension Bures
n or not, he is not an officer who
IN appointment is made by the head OF the d
Us partment Therefore when vacancy o
OF ours in d pension agency, inasmuch as he
not an officer who is appointed by the he;
60 of the department, he does not come und
ne the provision of section LIS. Hence Il
objection of the Senator from Maine falls
m the ground, whether his criticism IN rega
IN In the relation ofthese officers to the bure:
be correct or not, because the statute has
n the words OF limitation defined those once
m who are the subject OF its provisions.
Mr.. BLAINE. l did not take tn
ground at all.
or Mr.. CONkLING. | wish to say o
Of word in reply to my honorable friend ire
~. Kansas. Some time ago, speaking TO
NO. speaking at one of the Senators from Mas;
= chusetts, he suggested that under exist
:" law if a vacancy occurred in the office OF
y assistant treasurer, as for example the su
" treasury at New York, the President cou
~ ~ designate person Il think use his wore
wto could go on and execute te
We porarily the duties of th
-, ~ place without giving bond.
~ ~ sny Senator has made himself singular
disputing that proposition, want TO ia
- INV place by his side l have heard the Sci
.n. M tor from Vermont read statutes which
~ yery familiar to all of us, and were ma
- so by a very noted impeachment tr
-, which took place ,ome years ago. l "
~, not undertake to be certain because l ha
';a @ not looked, that the importation OF those ST
S.s. S utes in epitomes into the revised edit
NAV not have varied in some technical
spect their ancient import; but will b