Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-08
House OF lsepresen tatfrea.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE house wen
into committee on the sundry civil appropri
alton bill, general debate to close at Q O'Clock
Mr.. Butterworth (Ohio) made speech IL
reply to Mr.. BaYne's criticism of the presen,
administration. The execut tive, he said
needed no champion. 1t was its own cham
pion and its own defense. His friend from
Pennsylvania (Baynes) in the exuberance oil
his soul, to criticize admins tration had com.
menced by lauding and cry properly, the late
president Of the United States, standing by the
tomb of one "the deep damnation OF whose
taking of" oppressed every one, criticized
ana pursued on The one hand by men praying
that he might be unsuccessful and on the
other by men who hoped that he would at.
tempt to achieve success by dubious means.
The present executive had walked forward to
the performance OF his high Office in man,
ner which ought to command and did com.
mand the admiration of all right thinking
men. (Applause on the Republican side.l
Neither swayed from that direct lire bv
those Who would have him incline to their
personal opinions nor moved by the unfriend-
ly criticism of those who seemed to regard
him as the ungenial hand which snatched the
sceptre from their grasp, he had conducted
himself periodically, in the honest and sincere
discharge OF the high duties devolving upon
him. The people would Judge of the course
OF the administration as 1t left its impression
upon the country's history, rather than by
the degree in which it happened to interfere
with the public or private ambition of any
man or set of men. The gentleman from
pennsylvania had said truly that President
Garfield was law abiding and then the present
occupant OF the presidential chair was the exact
autipOdes of that which Gen. Garfield would
have been. If that is the truth the president
should be impeached for malfeasance in his
high Office.
Mr.. Butterworth passed on to the question
OF the presidents removals and appointments
and incidentally culogized the administration
Of President Hayes. 1t was the freedom of
that administration from corruption that had
given the house Of representative to the Re-
publican party. 1t was this freedom from cor
ruption that had swept the Republican nomi
nee triumphantly into the presidential chair
in 1880. The gentleman from PENNSYLVANIA
(Bayne) had complained Of the exercise of the
appointing power OF the president in Pennsyl-
vania. There were in that state 1875 presiden.
tial appointments. How many had the pres
emit executive made? One hundred? No.
Seventy five? No. Fifty? No. TWENTY
five? No. Ten? No. he had made five
out Of 1856, two of them for cause. Three
postmasters were removed, two of them for dis
honesty. lApplauee on the Republican side.
New York has been presented before the
country as state containing the mass of
officials. 1t holds psf presidential appoint
ments in the state. The president had made
i've changes and two OF those removed had
been for cause. Never in the history of any
from that of Washington to
his hour, had there been more considerable
'egard for the public service, so far as dis.
closed by the public record. and yet the presi-
lent had been arraigned as if he only lived for
he purpose OF perpetuating the designs and
chemes Of some maicontents.
Mr.. Bayne inquired whether single presi-
ent before jackson had made single re-
aoval from Office, except for cause.
Mr.. ButterwOrth-Oh the question is "a tn
THAT was sufficient cause.
Mr.. Fisher (Pa.) called attention to the re.
aark In Mr.. Bayne's speech OF yesterday
Senator Pendleton's bill because x |
xed no tenure Of Office, and contrasted that
eminent with his action in opposing the bill
hitting the tenure OF internal revenue COL !
.ctors.
Mr.. Burrows (Mich.) asserted that in ever