The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-06-27
SUMMARY OF HAYEs'S LAST VETO
MESSAGE.

SUMMARY OF HAYES'S LAST VETO
MESSAGE.
ing is q summary of the Presidents
returning the judicial expense
bill to the House without his sigma
ture:
The President begins by reciting the
passage of the original legislative bill
title &c of Revised Statutes,
and its return to the House without his
approval. The object of the present
bill, he says, is not to repeal the cleo
ton laws, but to defeat their enforce
ment under existing laws. The failure
OF Congress to make the appropriations
required for the execution Of the pro-
visions of election laws would not pre-
vent their enforcement. The right and
duty to appoint general and special
Deputy Marshals which they provide
for would still remain, and the Execu-
tive Department OF the Government
requisite liability for their compcnsa-
ton. But the second section of this
bill contains provisions not found in
any previous legislation. Its design is
to render the election laws imperative
by refusing to appropriate money for
their enforcement, and by prohibiting
any officer OF the Government from in
curing liability under title twenty-six
of Revised Statutes authorizing the
appointment Of Deputy Marshals for
service on election day. The appoint
ment ofspecial Deputy Marshals is not,
he says, a spontaneous act on the part
of the Government, but is made by
section 2O2 of Revised Statutes, a popu-
lar right of cities and towns having
q, 600 inhabitants or upwards. The
present bill neither revokes this popu-
lar right nor relieves the Marshal of
the duty imposed by law, nor the Pres
ident Of his duty to sea that this law is
discuss again the wisdom and necessity
of the election laws, or what he re-
CARDS the dangerous and unconstitu-
tional principles of this bill-that the
power vested in Congress to originate
appropriations involves the right to
compel the Executive to approve any
legislation which Congress may see fit
to attach to such bills under penalty of
refusing the means necessary to carry
on the essential functions of the Gov
eminent. His views on these points
were, he says, presented in previous
messages, and he regards them conclu-
S1Ve. AS TO ms duty In respect TO the
present bill, this measure leaves the
powers and duties of Supervisors of
Elections untouched, but deprives the
National Government of the power to
protect them in the discharge of their
duty at the polls. The States may en-
ploy both civil and military power at
elections, but by this bill even civil au-
thority to protect Congressional cleo
tions is denied to the United States.
There are two lawful ways to overturr,
legislative enactments-One is their re-
peal, the ether is the decision of a COM
petent tribunal against their validity.
The effect Of this bill is to deprive the
Executi 40 Department of the Govern
| ment of rltans to execute the laws
which ara not repealed, which have not
| been declared invalid, and it is there
fore the duty of the Executive and OF
every other department of the Govern
| ment to obey and enforce them. He
closes by saying he is willing to concur
in suitable amendments for the inn
provement of the election laws, but
cannot consent to their repeal, or ap-
prove legislation which seeks to pre-
vent their enforcement.