Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-09
NO MORE SPoILsMEN.
lie Demands That tho Legislative
Branches Attend 20 their own
business.

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an interview to-day said VI believe tho
most important benefit that can confer
on The country by my presidency Is 70 TO-
sist upon the entire Independence Of the
executive aud legislative branches OF tho
government, and compel the members d
Legislative branch TO sec that they have
responsibilities Of their own, grave and
well defined, which their oaths bind then
s9ciedly 20 perform"
The constitution directs the president
/ Co make, from time 10 time, recommends
fions 20 congi css, and gives him the power
to veto bills. aud he Is determined 10 con.
fine himself strictly 70 these duties 20 far
4 as his relations with the legislative branch
I 20 That he shOu also require
members Of the legislative branch 20 con.
| fine themselves strictly TO their cousti.
tutional duties, aud forbid them 10 utter
fere In the executive duties by soliciting
or suggesting appointments 10 office,
seems 10 follow as q matter Of course
| from his declarations. II he follows this
| policy he VIII relieve himself and his sub
ordinates Of great deal OF worry Sem
ators and representatives, sill no longer
be permitted to take up his and their time
9TH applications for Office for their IA
vUrites. He will put a stop to tine NTH
ertO not uncommon spectacle Of Il con-
gresham demanding Of the mead of
bureau the removal vi some SUD
ordinate TO make room for man
of his own, and sometimes max
Ing this demand roughly and
with threats. He will insist tnat no mem
Der Of either house shall recommend
either to him or 10 his cabinet Off ers, or
10 any OF his subordiuates, any man for
place He will, In short, require that the
coordinate and independent legislative
branch shall cease absolutely and entirely
10 interfere with or attempt to influence
the executive branch in the matter of APP
pointment. That follows logically from
Mr.. Cleyeland's declaration, and If he
does that he will make a very great
change indeed, here in Washington.
Hitherto senators and representatives
have been freely heard in application for
Office. Not 100, but 1000 times,
probably, Mr.. Cleveland and his
cabinet ministers have listened patiently,
and willingly, and consentingy to the
appeal Of senators and representatives
lyon must try TO help me In this matter;
must have my men in, or else | cannot
carry the district" or the state, as the
case may be. There is no secret about
this thing; IL Is seen and spoken of open
~ every day, and there have been few
days since the new administration came
In that have not seen men appointed to
executive Offices solely on the urgency
and solicitation OF members Of the CO.
ordinate and independent legislative
branch. Such an isolation of the execu-
tive from the legislative branch
rs the president proposes will be
an uumi2ed good In many ways.
No one but u man of great deter.
mination and high and conscientious
sense of duty would be capable of UNI
dcrtabing it or OF carrying IL ont II any
one can do il Mr.. Cleveland Is undoubt-
eddy the man. He has probably already
instructed his cabinet to give no time to
congressional interviews about offices,
and to bundle congressman out the
moment he begins: Cant YOU help
meT' Perhaps the most effective way
possibly the only effective way-would
be to instruct his own doorkeepers and
| the dOorkeepers at the departments to
refuse TO admit members OF the iegi,la-
tive branch except on the solemn assur-
ance lhrt they do not mean to ask for
Offices or talk about places. The dinl-
culties In the way are so great that only
summary methods and strict orders can
overcome them.
SO clear-headed a man as Mr.. Cleveland
sees, OF course, that 10 fail u rcpress the
hitherto iuepressinle legislative branch
will be TO fail utterly in his praseworthy
policy. To refuse 10 interfere with or in
iiuence the legislative branch and vet per-
nit the legislative branch TO interfere
with and Influence the executive would be
not only Unconstitutional but ridiculous
II would he for the president such a one
sided arrangement as he could not live
under. II would be for strong and rich
man to open his house doors, tie his own
hands and feet and invite passers-by to
come in and help themselves to his goods.
MIR, Cleveland Is not the man 70 do this.
If Mr.. Cleveland succeeds the country
VIII for the first time in yecy many years
see ITSELF governed strictly according to
the methods Of the constitution. That
instrument Clearly designs that congress
shall make the laws, and the president
aud his subordinates shall administer and
nforCe them; that in order 10 hold the
president toa Just and full responsibility
as the executive he shall select and an.
point, and control, and remove all his
subordinates, the senate only having n
limited power of advice and consent
as TO few of them that congress,
which grants money for the support
OF the president aud his subord.
mates, shall have no share or part
in the selection OF these latter
and that the president aud his cabinet
aud other subordlnates, who are to exc
cute the laws, shall have no share or
part IN making them, That Is the system
OF the constitution. In accordance with
10 the executive mansion was placed, not
near but at what was then believed 10 be
the greatest practical distance from the
meeting place OF congress, with a mud
hole over mile long-now Pennsylvania
avenue- making the passage between the
oo-ordiuate and independent branches
both difficult and unpleasant. II isan ex-
cclient AMI a safe system OF government
which the constitution provides, hut to be
either merilorious or safe il needs 10 be
enforced as whole and not In part. So
long az members OF the legislative branch
be aliowed to recommend, solicit, spptal
Tor or dictate appointments, SO long the
constitutional system is violated aud
muddled,