The daily gazette., 1879-06-27

no responsibility or duty connected with
the acts of the law-mahing power.
He executes the laws with the meaus
that Congress gives him, and Il is not
his province 10 complain Of or 70 resent
the exercise ofthat discretion. Adopt
ing his own false theory In the message,
It would be q sufficient answer to ii
Corners, If the Executive was reproached
for not "e' forcing all laws" active or
obsolete, that Congress bad not voted the
money for that purp' SO. The RESPONSE
bility belongs exclusively TO Congress,
and the Executive has nothing to do
with it. Mr.. Devens cannot be made 10
stand on crutches.
Everybody knows that from 1870 down
to 1878 these deputy marshals have been
nothing else but an organized partisan
free, maintained at the public expens', !,
and usually drawn from the worst por-
tions Of the community. They have
cost the taxpayers ALREADY about two
millions of dollars, leaving entirely out
OF view the pay for supervisors. They
may receive fifty dollars each for cleo
tiooeerlng services. This abuse was as
conspicuous last year under Mr.. Devens
As It vas under Landaulet Williams.
Now Congress says the plumber must
stop, and Hayes and DeveDs say 1t must
go ON, because these political agents are
| needed In California and in several Con-
eressional districts of other States this
fall. Herein is the marrow of the ques-
tion, stripped of the shams with which
the Fraudulent Attorney General has
| sought TO cover up partisan scheme.
| 4 to art harm that W.
arts declared without reserve, last Sat
urday, that this bill would be signed, be-
Cause veto could not be justified mere
ly on the ground that congress had re-
fused to vote for special item. Mr..
SchuIz has opposed all vetoes, on rule
adopted for his own guidance. Mr.. Sher-
man and Mr.. McCrary both concured
with Mr.. Evarts, and made no conceal
ment Of their opinions.
The cause aud the author of the veto
are united in the person OF Mr.. Devens.
The question was referred TO him for a
legal opinion, aud he gave 1t substantial
| ly in the form embodied in the message.
When he found that his col eagues radi-
cally differed from this view he took the
ground that, as the law adviser of Hayes,
his opinion ought to be adopted, after
having been invited, and it would be a
personal indignity to him il any other
course should be pursued. In the latter
contingency his resignation would al
once be handed in.
This threat had the desired effect upon
Hayes, and as the her Cabinet Minis
ters, as Schurz delights to be called, had
no thought of resiguiDg, they swallowed
tue pill without changing a muscle, and
are now defending the veto as great
State paperl There is a strong suspicion
that Devens is Grant man in disguise
and has been acting as a secret emissary
of the third term while sitting side by
side with John Sherman at the council
board OF the Great Fraud.
Hayes has made n record which will
return to plague the inventor before he
Is much older.
l. He vetoed an appropriation bill, for
the first time in our history.
2. He vetoed a bill repeating an OBJ
noxious statute, for the first time in our
history
8. He vetoed an appropriation for the
judi;'iar because IL omitted a particu
lar item, for the first time in our history
He sets up 70 make the Constitution
bend to arbitrary and selfish construc
tion, and he audaciously tells Congress
that the appropriations must be passed
to suit his caprices or they will not be
signed.