The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-07-18
LATE CONGRESSIONAL
THE
STRUGGLE.

sion. From first to last their course wa:
marked by s.olid stupidity and obstinate
indifference to the high demands of states
manship. With the country just emerg-
ing from period of unparalleled finan
cial prostration, and striving to adjust its
industries and trade upon fixed and per.
manent basis, the Democratic managers
have, at every opportunity, introduced
new elements of disintegration and dis
cord, thus destroying public confidence
injuring the public credit, and delaying
the restoration of business prosperity.
Refusing to recognize the logic of the
Civil War, they revived the doctrine Of
the supremacy of States, undertaking to
subordinate the authority of the Federal
Congress to the sovereignty ofindividua
commonwealth as to matters of vital con
Germ to the whole people, over which, un-
der the Constitution, Congress has right
full control, and absolutely refusing to the
National Executive, except upon humili-
ating conditions, the means necessary for
the enforcement of the laws which he is
sworn to execute. Warned by the Presi-
dent, in the very last hours of the session,
of the mischief which must follow from a
failure to vote an Appropriation for the
support of United States Marshals,
through whose agency alone the laws for
the detection of smugglers and other Of
Tenders can be enforced, they stubbornly
persisted in their refusal to vote dollar
to that end, and thus the Government is
left with its hands tied in the presence of
the criminal classes who, even with all
the machinery of justice actively en-
ployed, often successfully defy the ma
tional authority.
The Republican party during the ses-
sion just concluded was not always wise
or sagacious in its action its fillibuster-
ing, for instance, in opposition to the
very proper bill prohibiting the perni-
cious practice of imposing political as
sessments on public officials was utterly
and there was an unneces-
sary insistment upon some exploded is
sues but in the final hours of the pro-
longed contest it certainly recovered
something of the ground it had lost by
earlier follies. The President having in
q special message called the attention of
both houses to the fact that all appro-
priations for the United States Marshals
expired June Both, and urged that such
provision be made for these officers as
would enable the Federal courts to trans
act the public business properly, bill
was offered in the House appropriating
$500, 600 for this purpose, and for this
every Republican voted, while every
Democrat cast his vote against it. In
the house like bill was similarly dis
posed Of Thus the record of both
parties was distinctly made up-the Re-
publicans favoring and the Democrats
opposing and defeating an appropriation
declared by the President to be de-
by the public interest, if nut,
indeed, by the public safety, There can
be no question ut all as to the judgment
IF the country on the issue thus made
up between the hostile parties.
As to the attitude of the President. no
right thinking citizen eau regard it 9th
srwise than with approval. He has
carried himself through with just moder-
alton and infexible fidelity to the obi
cations of his hig Office. With every
possible temptation to play the partisan,
ne has recognized only the claims of pat
riotism, and in everything he has done
in all this hot and stubborn controversy,
las placed country before party, duty
before expediency. The last words adj
dressed by him to Congress, distinguished
alike for their temperature, spirit and
timely candOr, show conspicuously the
quality of the man who, SO long misin-
has come at last to be rightly
understood. Addressing especially the
majority, and evidently de-
that the exact issue shall be
considered he says:
"Undcr the law prohibiting public officers
rom involving the Government in contract lia
Dilitics beyond the actual appropriation, it is
apparent that the means nj the disposal of the
DEPARTMENT for executing the laws
O-day, be lett inadequate. The suspension of
he necessary functions in the ordinary admins
ration of the first duties of the Government for
he shortest period is inconsistent with the public
interest, and at any moment may prove incon-
,istent with the public safety. 1t IS impossible
Or me to look without grave concern on a state
lnprovided for, and the public interest thus nm
protected; and earnestly urge upon your atten-
ion the necessity Of making immediate apprO-
,riation for the msintenance Of the service OF the
which commences Tomorrow, July LIST.
President Hayes can we'll afford to 60
% the country upon the record he has
made on this issue. But who cannot see
hat the men who, having failed in an
lttempt to strip him of his constitutional
,ower and coerce him into compliance
With partisan demands, then resented
lis appeal with contempt, and defed
he claims of duty in a blind rage of
PARTISAN prejudice, have invited sharp
at the hands of all fair.
minded men of whatever party faith p
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