Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-01
RESTRAINING THE PRESIDENT.


RESTRAINING THE PRESIDENT.
1t is amusing to read the account OF Col
g. b. Corkhill's plan to sue the President
on account of his proclamation ordering
the cattlemen to remove their stock from
Indian Territory, and his talk about OBJ
tanning an injunction restraining the
President. Surely Col Corkhill knows
that no such order could be obtained,
and that if any Judge were to issue
such an order it could not be en-
forced. The idea involuntarily comes
to ones mind that Col Corkhill is talk
ing "buncombe" to aid General Butler
in the formation OF his Peoples party"
General Buffers name connected with
any scheme in the interest of law and the
rights of property is enough to throw
grave suspicious upon that scheme. 1t
is said that Butler himself is very largely
interested in the cattle business, and that
he and his clients and personal friends
represent many millions of dollars of
capital thus invested. The President
as the Chief Executive of the Nation,
whose special duty it is to enforce the
laws, says that the cattle must leave In
dian Territory, as they are there in viola
ton OF the law; and COL Corkhill saws
the cattle will not go. The most childish
and silly thing he said, was about there
being no autocrat in this country. Such
statements always SAVIOR of pothouse
politics and low demagogism, and always
lead one to the conclusion that the man
who utters them is either knave
or an idiot. 1t is much the
same style OF talk with which all |
are so familiar in this Territory |
when violators are brought before the
bar OF justice, and then they and their
friends cry out that the officers of the
law are naught but set of midnight |
marauders, and that quiet and peaceful |
homes are being raided in the interest of
plunder and not offaw. And these same
people talk about tyrants and such like
beings, and about how the Constitution is
being overidden and how they love it,
how some day they will pick it up
and carry it aloft that the op-
pressed of all nations may find shelter
beneath it and enjoy liberty and such
like things. Were Col. Corkhill and his
clients SO anxious to obey the law and in
fringe upon no ones rights when they
went into Indian Territory with their cat
tie upon leases of doubtful validity?
But Col. Corkhill talks loudly and with
great gusto about restraining the Presi-
dent. How would he proceed to enforce
his order, providing he had one, when the
President had the army at his back
% enforce his proclamation, and ,
he army would obey him as
is Commander-in-Chief? We have
never heard that moral suasion was
o be relied upon in such cases But the
powers of the President as the Executive
u the Nation are co-ordinative with those
II the Judicial branch or the Legislative
branch of the Government, and were
hey to come in conflict, there is no
method known to the Constitution bv
Which the conflict of powers could be
larmonized. This subject of the powers
+ the three branches of the Government
'eiongs to the domain of checks and
and is question that has ever
Xercised the minds of our great students
the American Constitution. No such
conflict of a serious nature has ever
risen, and possibly never may, but still
ne way for it is open if either branch
hall choose to tread it. Seeing that Col.
orkhill and his leader Butler were bent
n restraining the President, it would
ave been well for them to have studied
osely the cases of Mississippi .. John
'n, 4Wal., and Georgia T. Stanton, 6
Ial., where they would have found doc
ines laid down the very reverse of those
pom which they proposed to proceed.
oil. Corkhill talked more nonsense in n
rief period than is given most men the
over to do.
A telegram which came some time
ter than the one telling of the farrayo
nonsense which Col. Corkhill talked.
US that the cattle are being moved as
pidly as possible, and that the reserya-
IN will all be cleared within few davs
ter the expiration OF the time allowed
their removal by the Presidents pro-
lmation. Col. Corkhill would show
more sense and learning by restraining
; tongue, if he has nothing better to
y than what he did about the cattle
erests and enjoining the President from
forcing his proclamation.
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