The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-02
c,,reland's Reply to the Sen
VIZ ate'S Request.
., ,rGHT TALK FROM GROVER
...u, not Accede to the Senate
IL s.d is Not to be Deferred
by Threats.
SENATE.


M uiica-y, submitted the views OF tie
,a:.ority on the resolution referred to
ut committe, concerning the office of
district attorney for the southern dis
lot of Alabama. it was ordered
nriptei in the Congressional Record, and
siso IN a separate form. The report Is
80 mr. four times as long as the ma
;n-i+v report. 1t embodies no resolu-
;1,s Pugh asked that the report be
,+r;rted and placed on the calendar. 1t
Tss not read in the Senate. The report
ssrs. When President Cleveland
csme INTO Office he found about 80 per
can't of the offices filled by Republicans
snnointed as a reward for party service.
The marty 10 whom the President owed
his nomination and election had been
eKiled from all participation in the civil
administration ofgovernment for nearly
q 0uarter OF q century. Friends ana
supporters of the President made appll-
cation for redistribution OF public
trusts. No other President had ever
been subjected to such a severe trial or
had to meet so many grave difficulties,
and no other had such an abundant
supply Of valid reasons and causes
urging him to the free exercise OF the
and no other resisted with more fairness
the lust claims of his supporters or
used his power of removal more con-
c..ntiously, cautiously and sparlngly.
Notwithstanding these facts the $50
nominations sent to the Senate IN sus-
PENSION cases have been allowed to re-
main before committees without con
sideration and final disposition. Dustin
has made no complaint to to the judi
cary committee, the President or the
Acknowledgement that he was wronged
by the suspension. The committe was
f1ly informed that Burnett was recon-
mended to the President by all mem
hers of Congress from Alabama or per-
sonnl knowledge of his high charac .er.
stripped to the, naked truth, without
any special pleading, the case made
;or the senate on their resolution, and
the answer of the Attorney-General Is
whether the Senate has the right to de-
mqnd of the Acknowledgement the
Transmission, against the order of the
President, or the only paper OF docu-
ment Of the description mentioned in
the resolution. Upon that paper or
document, it stated, is the request re-
lating exclusively to the removal OF
Dustin by the President, and for that
reason al0neit is not transmitted.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The following
is the Presidents message:
To The Senate of the United States:
Ever since the beginning OF the
present session of the Senate, different
heads of departments, attached to the
executive branch of government have
been piled with various requests and
demands from committees of the Sem
ste, from members of such committees
and at last from the Senate itself, re-
quiring the transmission of reasons for
the suspension of certain officials dur
lag the recess of that body, or for all
papers and documents relating to such
suspensions. or for all documents and
papers filed in such departments, in re-
latlOn 10 the management and conduct
OF offices had by such suspended Of
hclals. The different terms from time to
time adopted in making these requests
and demands, the order in which
they succeeded each other, and the fact
that when made by the Senate a resolu'
ton Tor that purpose was passed IN
executive session, have led to the pre-
sumption, the correctness of which will
| suppose, be candidly admitted, that
nom first to last the information thus
sought and the papers thus demanded
Tor use by the Senate and Its cam.
mltteeS, in considering the proprlety OF
suspensions, and referred to, though
these suspensions are my executive acts
based on considerations addressed to me
s,one, and for which 1 am alone wholly
responsible, have had no invitation
trom the Senate to state the position
which l have felt constrained to assume
IN relation to the same, or to interpret
Tor myself my actions and mo
uyeS in the premises. In thi;
condition of affairs, I have fore
born addressing the Senate upon
the subject, lest might be accused oil
ihrusting myself unbidden upon the at.
tention of that body, but the report OF
the committee of Judiciary of the Sen
ate, lately presented and published
Taich censures the Acknowledgement o.
the United States for his refusal to
transmit certain papers, relating to the
suspensions from Office, and which also
correctly interpret it, evinces mis-
apprehension of the position of the ex
ecutive, upon the question OF such sus
pension, will, hope justify this com
munication.
Il will not be denied, 1 suppose, tina
he President may suspend q public
officer in the entire absence of any pa,
perS or documents to aid his officia
Judgment and discretion, and l an
quite prepared to avow that cases ar
hot few in which suspensions from offic
have depended more upon oral repre-
sensations made to me by citizens know
10 De of good repute, and by member
OF the House OF Representatives ant
Senator's Of tho TTOjfad States than nm
% any letters or documents presente,
.or my examination. I have no
.e.t justified in suspecting the veracity
integrity and patriotism of Senator:
Vt Ignoring their representations, be
use they were not in party affliatio
Ti'h majority of their associates. an
recall few suspensions, which bea
'ne approval Of individual member