The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-01
TEE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, NAY ! 1879.

the fifteenth amendment until the State, BY .
formal exercise Of power, had attempted to
deny or abrIdge the right assured In the
amendment.
Hayes takes care to say nothing OF all this,
and. In go doing, he deliberately perverts TO
his partisan purposes the solemn enuncla-
tions OF the Supreme Court. What sort Of
resnect can honest and Intelligent men enter
taIn for a President who Ia capable OF such
shameless prostitution, such perversion and
suppression Of the TRUTH
The third reason urged In this message In
justification of this extraordinary abuse Of
the veto power is that this section contains
extraneous matter, and that the practice OF
lacking to appropriation bills measures not
pertajninR to such bills has become an abuse
which the fraudulent Executive Is moved, by
n delicate and exceeding virtue, to correct.
Mr.. Hayes is too pure 10 remember that he
himself. as a member OF Congress, voted for
the very measure that Is repealed In
this section as q rider on an army
anproprlation bill. If 1t properly
"pertained" to ail appropriation bill
then TO enact this law we see no reasonable
objection that can be raised on that score now
to repeal It, But, then as now, this was o
matter to be considered in q bill making an
appropriation for the support Of the army.
| AS Mr.. Bayard said In the debate on this bill
| You cannot appropriate money for nm ex-
pense without measuring and estimating the
cost Of executing The duty proposed; and there
Bill regulations for the use Of the armies Of the
| United States must be framed, and In our his
tory Of Legislation have generally been found.
| Mr. Wallace, In this same debate, disclosed
| the fact that nearly all OF the general and
permanent provisions Of law regarding the
army and Its legitimate uses were enacted
upon appropriation bills, during period ex-
tending from 1889 TO 1873. To use again the
moderate but eloquent language Of Mr..
| Bayard.
| How idle then, is Ii In the face Of history,
and how unworthy and untrue is the cry OF
revolution raised for merely party ends to alarm
| the anxfeties OF the country. when such amend
ments SO Thoroughly germane to the sub ject.
80 indissoubly connected with the execution OF
the appropriations. In the course Of the regular
to It's parliamentary rules and unbreken GUS
| tom, are now proposed to be enacted into law.
| [ do not believe that the American people are at
| all In humor to seek for unrealtieH, or that
they will not resent In their good sense Oil such
hollow and insincere alarms. | believe they
4 will be resented by the country. and that they
will reeoil upon those who would eek to make
| them causes OF discord and contention, and de-
prive the country Of that rest and opportunity
i for renupsration which ws oil feel to be 30 much
| needed,
| Equally unjust and absurd IL the pTetense
with which this message concludes. that the
exercise by Congress Of Its right to prescribe
the uses to which the supplies fgranted by 1t
shall be applied, Is an assault upon the pre-
negative OF the Executive, and tends to de-
i 49, fhr.i pIn tn
er Of the several departments OF governm emit.
Upon this question we can add nothing to the
conclusions reached by Mr.. Bayard In his
great speech. He said:
AS have shown, Congress III Its sphere Is
| plies, To raise armies. and regulate and control
them. The President Of the United States. the
chief Of the executive branch of the govern, q,
The armies; but he can neither abridge nor
interfere with any of the powers OF Congress
this ssb ss neo,s a s the q
different hand from that which was g command
Of the constitution that gives to the Com.
mander- In Chief of the armies of the United
States legislative control over their existence.
the great rule OF liberty Intended to be secured
by the subdivision and distribution OF powers
Take 1t all In all, this message is . disgrace
to American craftsmanship. II Is, from be-
ginning to end, q shameful perverslon OF law,
authority and tradition to the meanest and
basest Of partisan purposes. Certainly the
Democratic Congress will not be shaken In its
original determination to force compliance
with Its just demands, Or hesitate for ont
moment to go before the country on the is
sues presented In this document.