Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11
ANOTHER VETO.
The President Returns the Bill Maxi
ing Appropriations TO Pay the Fees
OF United states MarshaIs and
their General Deputies.

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WASHINGTON, June 80,
The following is the text of the veto
message received from the President
to-day:
To the House of Representations;
return to the House of Representatives, in
which it originated, the bill entitled 9 An act
making appropriations to pay the fees of
United States Marshals and their general
deputies" with the following objections to its
becoming a law
The bill appropriates the sum of 5000, 600
for the payment during the fiscal year ending
June 80 1880, of United States Marshas and
their general deputies The offices thus pro
vided for are essential to the faithful eXecu-
tiOn Of the laws They were created and their
powers and duties defined by Congress at its
first session, after the adoption of the Consti-
tuition in the judiciary act, which was
approved September oath, 1889, Their
general duties as defined in the act
which originally established them, were
substantially the same as those pre-
scribed in the statutes now in force. The
principal provision on the subject in the Re-
vised Statutes is as follows: Section 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 precepts
directed to him and issued under the author
ity of the United States; and he shall have
power to command all necessary assistance in
the execution of his duty The original act
was amended February 2Sth, 1875, and the
amendment is now found in the Revised Stat
utes in the following form:
"SEC. 7SS. Marshals and their deputies
shall have in each State the same powers in
executing the laws of the United States as
Sheriffs and their deputies in such States may
have by law in executing the laws thereof
Bysubsequent statutes additionalduties have
been from time to time imposed upon Marshals
and their deputies, the due and regular per-
formance of which are required for the eff
cheney of almost every branch of the public
service. Without these officers there would
be no means of executing warrants, DEGREES or
other process of the courts and the Judicial sys-
TEN Of the country would be fatally defective.
! The criminal Jurisdiction of the courts of the
| United States is very extensive. Grimes com
mitted within the maratime jurisdiction of the
| United States are all cogniZable only in courts
| of the United States. Grimes against public
| Justice, crimes against the operations of the
| Government such as forging or counterfeiting
money or securities of the United States,
| crimes ag ainst the postal laws, otfenses
| against the elective franchise, against the
| civil rights of citizens, against the existence
! of the Government, crimes against the inter
| nal revenue laws, the customs laws, crimes
against the laws for the protection of Indians
! and the public lands; all OF these crimes and
many others can be punished only under the
| United States laws
The laws, which taken together constitute
| the body of Jurisprudence, which is vital to
the welfare of the whole country and which
| can he enforced only by means of Marsnals
and Deputy Marshals of the United Stat es.
| In the District of Columbia all OF the process
! of the courts is executed by the officers in
| question. In short, the execution of the
criminal laws of the United States, the
service of all --civil process in cases
in which the United States is a party
and the execution of the revenue laws
neutrality laws aud many other laws OF large
| Importance depend on the maintenance oi
| Marshals and their deputies. They are II
effect only police of the United States Gov
ernment officers, with corresponding powers
and their duties are found in every State oi
the Union, and in every country which hai
jurisprudence which Is worthy of name. TC
deprive the National Government OF thes'
officers would be as disastrous to society as tC
abolish Shertfs, constables and police Ofiicer
in the several States. 1t would be denial I,
the United States of the right to execute III
laws, "a denial of all authority which requires
the use of civil force. The law entities thes'
officials to be paid. The funds needed fo
the purpose have been collected from thi
people and are now in the Treasury, No OBJ
lection is, therefore, made TO that part OF tn
bill before me which appropriates money TO
the support of the Marshas and Deput
MarshAls of the United States. The bill con
tains, however, other provisions which ar
identical In tenor and effect with the secon
section of the bill entitled An ac5 makin
appropriations for certain judicial expenses,
which, on the 23i of the present month, wa
returned to the House with my objections Z
its approval. The provisions referred TO ar
as follows:
"SEC. 2. That the sums appropriated I
this act for the persons and public service en
braced in its provisions are in full for sue
persons and public service for the fiscal yea
ending June 81, 1850, aud no department {
officer of the Government shall, during sal
fiscal year, make any contract or incur an
liability for the future payment OF money ul
der any of the provisions of title "a mentionc
In section - of this act, until an appropriate
sufficient to meet such contract or pay sue
, liability shall have been made by law.n
Upon reconsideration in the house Of Rel
resentatiYes OF the bin which contained thel
provisions 1t lacked a Constitutional majorll
: and therefore failed 10 become law.