Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-01
NUMBER FIVE.
VETO OF THE MARSHALS BILL.
Another Rehash of Very Thin Reasons
Why the People Should Pay the
Salaries of Radical Election
Bummers,

| return to the House OF Representa- F.
tiycs, in which it Originated, the bill en- /.
titled, can act making appropria-
tions to pay the fees OF United .
States Marshals and their general
deputies with the following
objection to its becoming 4 law: The
bill appropriates the sum OF 100000
for the payment during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1850, OF United States
Marshals and their general deputies.
The officers thus provided lor are cs-
sential to the faithful execution
OF the laws. They were created and
their powers and duties defined 10y
Congress at lis first session. After the
adoption OF the Constitution in the ju-
dietary act, which was approved Sep
tcmber -, 17S9, their general duties,
as defined in the act which originally
established them, were substantially the
same as those prescribed in the statutes
now in force. The principal provision
on the subject in the Revised Statutes
is rs follows:
SEC. 7S7. 1t shall be the duty OF the
marshal OF each district to attend the
District and Circuit Courts when sitting
therein. and to execute throughout the
district all lawful preccpts directed to
him and issued under the authority OF
the United States; and he shall have
power TO command all necessary as
distance in the execution OF his
duty.
The original act was amend
ed February 2S, 1875, and the amend
ment is now found in the Revised
Statutes in the following form;
SEC. 7SS. Marshas and their deputies
shall have in each State powers
i'm executing the laws ul the
United States that shcrihS and
their deputies in such States may have
by law in executing the laws thereof
BY subsequent statutes additional
duties have from time to time been I'M
posed upon marshalS and their deputies,
the due and regular performance ol
which is required for efficiency oi
almost every branch OF the public
service, and without these officers there
would bc no means OF executing
warrants, dccrcCS or other processes OF
the courts. and the judicial systcmOi the
country would be fatally detective. The
criminal jurisdiction OF the courts Of the
United States is very extensive. Crimes
committed within the maratimc Jurls-
diction OF the United States are all cog
nizablc only in the courts OF the United
States, crimes against public justice,
- rimes against operations OF the Gov
rfnment, such as forging, CT counterfeit
ING money or securities OF the United
States, crimes against postal laws,
offences against the elective franchise,
against thee rights OF citizens, against
the existence OF the Government, crimes
| against the Internal Revenue laws and
| customs laws, crimes against the laws
! for the protection OF the Indians and
public lands. All OF these crimes and
MANY others can be punished only under
| the United States laws, laws which taken
together constitute body OF jurispru-
! dence which is vital TO the welfare Oi the
whole country, and which can be en-
forced only 10y means Of marshalS and
deputy marshals of the United States.
! In the District OF Columbia all the pro-
ccsses Of the courts are executed by the
officers in question. In short, the exc
cution of the criminal laws OF the
United States, the service OF all civil
! processes i'm cases in which the United
| States is q party, and the execution OF
revenue laws, neutrality laws, and many
other laws OF large importance depend
on the maintenance OF marShalS and
their deputies. They are, in effect, only
police OF the United States Government.
Officers with corresponding power and
duties are found in every State Of the
Union and in every country which has
Jurisprudence which is worthy ol a
name. To deprive the National GOV
crnmCnt Of these officers would hc rs
disastrous 10 society rs to abolish the
,herilfs. constables and police officers i'm
the several States 1t would be a denial
to the United States OF the right 10 eX
ccute its laws-a denial OF all authority
which requires the use OF the civil force
The law entities these officers to bc paid
The funds needed Tor that purpose have
been collected from the people and ar,
now in the Treasury. No objection
is therefore made to that part Of the bil
before me which apprOpriates none!
for the support OF the marshalS au,
deputy marshals of the United States
The bin contains, however, othe
provisions which are identical in tcno
and effect with the section Of the bill en-
titled. "An act making Appropriation
for certain judicial expenses which
on the 23l OF the present month, wa
returned to the House OF Representa-
tivcs with my objections to its approval
The provisions referred to are as fol
lows:
SEC. ,. That the sums appropriated II
this act, ior persons and public seryic
embraced in It's provisions, are IN tull 10
, such persons and public service for tn
/ ! fiscal wear ending June 30, 1850. and n'
DEPARTMENT or officer Of the Govern
mcut shall. during the said fiscal year
make any contract or incur any labi.t
ior the future payment Of money undo
/ any provisions oi title 20 mentonc
in a section of this act until an appr6
priation sufficient to meet such con
tract or pay such liability that shall nav
| first been made 10y laws.
/ Upon reconsideration in tn
/, House OF Representatives Of IT,
/ bill which contained these prov
J sions. it lacked the constitutions
: majority, and therefore, tai.et To- De
p come a law. In order to secure Us cr
= actment the same mya>urci j. a-aln pre-
, -cutcd for my approval. coupled IN
p bin before me, with an apprulraI2
for the support Of mar,hals and the
deputies during the next tisca. Yea
The object mauiicstly j. 10 place b,i"I
the Executive this alternative, either
r allow the necessary functions oi 'i
+ public service 70 be crippled or -u
i pended, for the want Of appropriation
T required to keep them in opcratio
or To approve the le-lsIatiu
j which. in the official communications
D.. Congress, he has declared would be
d violation OF his constitutional dut
Thus in tins bill the principa. Is clear
embodied that by virtue 0i the prov
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