Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-01-28
Asking Reasons.

removals from Office. 1t may ask for
papers in case, but if the papers
make known no reason for change, but
consist only of formal and valueless rec.
concentrations of person nominated to
u vacancy created by removal. there is
an end. The Senate it is said. cannot
go step further to seek information as
to the causes of that removal, for that
would be trenching upoR the unlimited
power of the President to remove at
pleasure. This theory Is childish. There
is no such Constitutional distinction be-
tween the act of removal and the act of
appointment. The Constitution was not
framed by senseless and impractical the
Orists; it did not give the Senate power
to confirm or reject at pleasure, without
any power 10 ask reasons for confirming
or rejecting.
1t is not to be lightly assumed. on the
assertion of correspondents who would
be glad to get the President into war
with the Senate, that President Clever
land is going to refuse any reasonable
information, or to assert that the Senate
must vote on every nomination in the
unquestioning presumption that the va
cancy to be filed was wisely and propi
erly made. 1t is in the power of the
Senate, if it disappoves change, to re
fuse to confirm any nomination the Pres
ident may send. In that event, the re.
sponsibility would rest with him of fail
ing to fill an office at all in Constitu+
tional manner, or recoDSidering his
suspension. 1t is not to be presumed
that the Senate will be childish in the
exercise of its power, or that the Presi>
dent will go about with chip on his
shoulder trying to get up fuss. The
trusted, not to the President alone, or to
the Senate alone. but to both, and it is to
be presumed that both will strive in good
faith to work together for the public
good. If so, the President will not with
hold from the Senate any information
needful to the formation of a correct
Judgment as to the reasons for change,
and the Senate will not stand upon pune
tilio in demanding information where
none is needed.
The broad fact underlying this whole
business is that some Offices are political
in character and legitimate influence,
and others are not. The Presidents
right TO make changes in such offices has
not been challenged. He has not yet
asserted right to treat all Offices as of
that character, though clause in his
first message looked toward some such
idea. Some difficulty will naturally arise
as to whether this or tAat Office is prop
erly political. so that q removal for po-
litical reasons, in order to secure party
cooperation in the work of administra-
ton. is justiHsble. But if the President
is wise he will strive to make as little
controversy with the Senate on that point
as possible.-N. Y. Tribune.
W 4 BatAOO WIN PAOdouAO O BOOL 0cd1
of whining in the Doodle papers about
the action of the Republicans in throw
ing the Boodlers out of the House.
The people of Cincinnati were depriv.
ed of their right in the October election
by hired horde of scoundrels, bri5ed
with Doodle, to commit any crime, from
assault and battery to assassination, and
from switching tickets-which is taking
a Republican ballot with one hand and
putting a Democratic ballot in the box
with the other hand-up to the whole>
sale robbery and stufing ballot boxes
and the forgery of tally-sheets. These
things are true, and the half has not been
told.
The bene6ciaries of the worst electo-
raj frauds-the wicksdest, Vilest and
most desperate frauds ever perpetrated
in this country-bave been removed
from the House of Rspresentatives-not
too soon, but after unnecessary and un>
seemly delays. The same class OF men
have, however, fortified themselves in
the Senate.
This has been done in violation of the
rules of that body by the pretended
amendment of the rules. These amend
nents of the rules, in disregard of the
rules themselves, are q usurpation by
the fraudulent Democratic majority to
protect the representatives of forgery
and of offenses equally criminal and
more degrading.
The Democratic party in the Ohio
Senate has placed itself before the coun-
try as the last refuge of the representa-
tives of the ballot box stnffer and the
forger. They go further. They must
sustain man counted in not by the
actual forgery, but by the gall Of the
Clerk, who considered the omission OF
forgery in his case to be clerical error.
If we do not count Dalton's correction
of the omission to forge return Of two
hundred votes for Brsshears, out goes
Brashears, and with him the Democratic
Gang lose their gripon the Senate.
We are not without hope that the will
of the people may yet find expression IN
the Senate, by the displacement Of the
men who knowingly, but We believe DOT
without shame, represent an aggregate
of crime at the polls in this city unex-
ampled in electoral history, and the seat
ing of the Republican Senatorial candi-
dates who had majority of the honest
votes not less than nve thsusAnd.-Cin.
Com. Gazette.
It is said to be settled that General
Crook is not to be removed rs comman-
der of the Department Of Arizona, 10