Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-11

l to the Senate in executive or pub | ic session on the order of the | Senate. MT. Pugh endorsed all that the Senator from Vermont had said about MT. Thurman and added: ''Yes, MT. President, Allan G. Thurman is the greatest, wisest and | the purest American statesman now living. :" This allusion to Mir. Thurman was followed by a loud burst of applause in the galleries such as had greeted the mention of his name yesterday. MT. Pugh continuing said he was surprised that the great Senator from Vermont should invoke the authority of MT. Thurman to sustain the claim now made on the Attorney General. He then read the letter signed by MT. Thurman as chairman of the Judiciary committee which was read yesterday by MT. Edmunds calling for papers relating to the removal of Judge Shaffer of Utah. MT. Edmunds knew, MT. Pugh said, that it still an open ques- tion before the Judiciary committee whether territorial judges were subject to the power of suspension. MT. Thurman sent this request under section 1, ,767 of the 1e- yised statutes which make territorial judges subject to removal, but only by and with the consent of the Senate. MT. Pugh read from speeches of MT. Calhoun and MT. Clay to show that the views of these public men sup ported Mir. Edmunds' view that removal from office was 8 legislative function under the control of Congress. He also had read what he considered a luminous conden-
  tion, prepared, Mir Pugh believed, by Chief Justice Chase and embodied in a speech which Senator Sprague delivered in the debate on the tenure of office act and in which the conclusion is reached that the only function of the Senate in the cases involved in discussion was merely one of assent or dissent and not a legislative function. From whatever brain this opinion originated be de6ed the Senator from Yer mont 10 answer the argument. He read from the report of the minority as bearing on the message of President Grant in 1869 calling attention to the embarrassment likely to occur from leaving on the statute books the tenure of office act and asking what faith the President could put i1I subordinates forced upon him and how such officials would be likely to serve an admins tration knowing that it had no faith in him. The information sought of the Attorney General by the resolution, he said. was to enable it (so said the majority report) to de- eide whether they would advise and consent to the removal of the suspended off cers, so that if they did not advise and consent to the suspension or removal these officers might, by the opera ation of the tenure of office act, go back into their offices when the Senate should adjourn. What was that, MT. Pugh asked, but exer- cising the power by the Senate of selecting the agents of the President to exercise his dutys What was it but compelling him to take into his trust man whom he had suspendeda NIT. Pugh concluded his speech by saying his object had been to define the character of the conflict of authority between the President and Senate and to fortify the view that had been taken by the Democratic party, and to fortify it by authorities commencing at the first Congress and running to the latest period. MT. Cleve- land had no fear of an appeal to the people. He was responsible to them. He supposed the majority had no fear of appealing to the people in favor of the omnipotence of the Senate. He knew the minority had none in appealing to the people upon the omnipo- tence of the constitution and the integrity of MT. Cleveland's administration.
 When MT. Pugh finished his speech the de- ficiency bill was taken up The item of $1S5, ,000 deficiency in the department of jus tice gave rise to some debate. MT. Edmunds, MT. Ingalls, and MT. Plumb commented on the fact that the deficiency was greater than under Republican administrations, and MT. Voorhees,, MT. Beck and MT. Cockrell de- fended the administration and insisted that extraordinary expenditures were necessary in connection with the laws in Utah. MT. Tel. Ter said the reason why deficiency bills came before Congress was because. Congress did not do it's duty in mak- ing appropriations in the first place MT. Edmunds had heard that many of the new district attorneys had in their zeal for reform brought suits without sufficient foun- dation and that this probably increased the expense. Mir. Beck wanted the bill held over until tomorrow so he might look into it, but the majority of the Senators wanted it passed and it was accordingly passed.
 The Senate then adjourned, leaving the Edmunds resolutions the unfinished business for o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 HoUsE.-In the morning hour Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, on behalf of the Committee on Invalid Pensions called up the bill repeating the limitation of time within which the pen sion claims of militiamen who were disabled when acting under the orders of United States officer must be filed.
 Messrs. Rogers of Arkansas, Reagan of Texas and McMillan of Tennessee spoke against the measure.
 The morning hour then expired and the House went into Committee of the Whole, MT. Townshend ip the chair, on the Indian appropriation bill. Pending discussion of the bill the committee rose and the House at 5 p. m. adjourned.