New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-01
THE TEXT OF THE VETO MESSAGE.

THE TEXT OF THE VETO MESSAGE.
THE PRESIDENT DEFENDS "THE ONLY POLICE "
THE COUNTRY HAS AND REFUSES TO DE COM
PEELED AGAINST HIS CONSCIENCE BY CON
GRESs.
To the House Of Representatives 1:
l return to the House OF Representatives. In
which it originated the bill entitled, An act max
ing appropriations to pay fees of United States
marshas and their general deputies" with the fol-
lowing objections to it's becoming a law:
The bill appropriates the sum of 5000, 900 for the
payment during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1880, of United States marshals and their general
deputies The officers thus provided for are essential
to the faithful execution of tie laws They ere
ated and their powers and duties defined by Con-
gress at its first session after the adoption Of the
Constitution, in the Judiciary Act, which was ap-
proved September 81, 1899 Their general duties
as defined in the act which originally established
Them were substantially the same as those pre-
scribed ia the statutes in force. The principal
provision on the subject in the Revised Statutes is
as follows:
SECTION 7S7. 1t shall be the duty of the marshal
of each district 10 attend the District and Circuit
Courts when sitting therein and to execute through
out the district all lawful precepts directed 10 him
and issued under the authority 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 %, 1895,
and the amendment is now found in the Revised
Statutes in the following form:
SEC. 1885, The marshas and their deputies shall
have in each State the same powers In executing
the laws Of the United States as the sheritfs and
their deputies in such State may have by law in
executing the laws thereof.
THE VALUE OF THE MARsHALs.
BY subsequent statutes additional duties have
been from time TO time imposed upon the marshals
and their deputies, the due and regular perform
a. Al,
almost every branch of the public service. Without
these officers there would be no of executing
the warrants DEGREES other process of the courts
and the judicial system Of the country would be
fatally defective.
The criminal jurisdiction of the Courts Of the
United States is very extensive. The crimes
committed within the maritime jurisdiction of
the United States arc all cognlzable only in the
Courts of the United States. Grimes against public
Justice; crimes against the operations of the Gov
ernment. such forging or counterfeiting the
money OF sureties of the United States crimes
against the postal laws offences against the cleo
tive franchise, against the civil rights Of citizens
against the existence Of the Governments crimes
against the Internal Revenue laws, the neutrality
laws crimes against laws for the protection Of In
dams and of the public lands-all of these crimes,
and many others, be punished only under
United States laws-laws which, taken together,
constitute body of Jurisprudence which is vital TO
the welfare of the whole country, and which can
be enforced only by means of the mr.'hals and
deputy marshaIs of the United States. In the Dis
trict of Conmbia OF the process Of the courts is
executed by the .pticers in question. In short,
the execution of the criminal laws Of the United
Stites the service of all civil process In cases in
which the United States is party, and the execu-
ton Of the revenue laws, the neutrality, and many
other laws OF large Importance depend on the main
tcnance of the marshais and their deputies. They
are in effect the only police OF the United States
Government. Officers with corresponding powers
and duties are found In every State of the Union
and in every country which has a Jurisprudence
which il worthy OF the name. To deprive the Ma
tonal Government OF these officers would be dis
asrous 70 society as to abolish the sheriff. consta-
Lles and police officers in the several States. IL
would be deDial 30 the United States of the right
to execute It's iaws-a denial OF All authority which
requires the use OF civil force.
The law entities those officers to be paid. The