Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-02
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CAUSES FOR REMOVALS. The Position Of The Presi-
 dent. A MESSAGE TO THE SENATE. Ordered To Be Printed And
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 THE PRESIDENT MAKES ANSWER | To the Senate,s Demand for Info rma- | ton Concerning Removals - He l Claims the Papers Asked for Are | His Private Property and Declines l to Give Them UP.
 l WASHINGTON, March 1.-President Cleve- | land in his message sent to the Senate today
 regarding the question of access to papers bearing on nominations takes the ground | that the papers regarding suspension not | official and says for that reason he has le- | fused to furnish the desired information. | Against the transmission of such papers l and documents" :" the President says, "I have | interposed my advice and direction. This l has not been done, as is suggested in the ! committees report (report of the Judiciary | committee in the Duskin case) upon the as- sumption on my part that the Attorney Gen eral or any other head of department is the servant of the President and is to give or withhold copies of documents in his office according to the will of the executive and
  the papers and documents withheld | and addressed to me, or intended for my &C., tion, purely unofficial and private. Not in frequently confidential and having reference to the performance of duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department, but as de- posted there for my convenience, remaining still completely under my control. suppose if desired to take them into my custody might do so with entire propriety and if saw fit to destroy them none could con- nlain.n Even the committee in its re- port, the President says, appears to con- cede that there may be with the President or in the departments papers and documents which on account of their unofficial character are not subject to the inspection of Congress. A reference in the report to instances where the House of Representatives ought not to succeed in call for the production ot papers l is immediately followed by this statement: The committee feels authorized to state after a somewhat careful research that wItiin the l1bi ore
 going limit there is scarcely in the history or ths government until now any instance of refusal py
 head of department or even or the freslael nl himself to communicate official facts and lnfoGna or ton distinguished from private ana unolncal M
 papers, Inotions views, & rgasons afittonaIiH @ d manded "
 To which of the classes thus recognized do | the papers and documents belong that are now the objects of the Senates quest! Ihey consist of letters and representations ad- dressed to the executive or intended for his | inspection. They are voluntarily written and presented by private citizens who are not the l least instigated thereto by any official lnVes- tigation or at all subject to official control. While some of them are entitled to executive consideration many of them are so lrrele- in 1iobt if Dt facts | less. that they have not been given the least | weight in determining the question to which they are supposed to relate. Are all these, simply because they are preserved, to be considered official documents and subject to the inspection of the Senate? If not who IS to determine which belong to this classs Are the motives and purposes of the Senate as they are day by day developed such as would be satisfied with my selections! Am 1 to submit to them at the risk of being charged with making suspension rom once upon evidence which was not even considered! Are the papers to be regarded official because they have not only been scented, but preserved in the public offices! Ihelr nature and character remain the same, whether they are kept in the executive man sion or deposited in the departments. There is no mysterious power of transmission III departmental custody, nor is there magic In the undefined and sacred solemnlty of de- partment files. If the presence ot these pa pers in the public offices is a stumbling block l in the way of the performance ot the senate | rial duty it can be easily removed. The pa pers and documents which have been de- scribed derive no official character from any constitutional, statutory other require mer z making them necessary to the perform ance of the official duty of the executive.
 It will be denied I suppose that the fresi- s! dent may suspend a public oh- | Ger in the entire absence of any | papers or documents to aid his | official judgment and discretion, and l am prepared to avow that the cases are not few l in which suspensions from office have de- l pended more on oral representations made l to me by citizens of known good repute ana | by members of the House of Representatives l and Senators of the United States than upon any letters and documents presented for my | examination. I have not felt justified ID
 suspecting the veracity and integrity and | patriotism of Senators or ignoring their rep l resentations because they not in party | afiliation with the majority of their assocl- ates; and recall few suspensions which | bear the approval of individual members | identified politically with the majority in the
 Senate. While, therefore, am con
 strained to deny the right of the
 Senate to the papers and documents described so far as the right to the same Is | based upon the claim that they are in any | view of the subject official, I am also led
 unequivocally to dispute the right of the Senate, by the aid of any documents whatev-
 CT or in any way save through the judicial
 process of trial or impeachment, to review or | reverse the act of the executive in the sus- l mansion. during the recess of the Senate, of l federal officials. I believe the power to re- l move or suspend such officials is vested III the President alone by the constitution 1 which in express terms provides that 'the ) executive power shall be vested in fresl , | dent of the United States of America and l &bo .El Sbo11 fala
 | faithfully executed"
 [ q think it will be found," the President
 | continues, ''that in the subsequent discus
 sions of this question there was generally, Ii , not at all times, proposition pending to II | some way cul tail this power ot the freslden bv leoislation. which furnishes evidence that
 to limit such power it was supposed to bt
 necessary to supplement the constitution by
 such legislation. The first enactment or th1s
 description was passed under stress of par
 tisanship and political bitterness "hlch cui
 minated in the Presidents impeachment
 This law provided that the federal officers tt
 which it applied could only be suspended
 | durinp the recess of the Senate when shoWl i. | by evidence satisfactory to the President t' ] l be guilty of misconduct in office or crime, O.
 when incapable or disqualihed to perforn 2
 1 their duties and that within twenty days aI
 | ter the next meeting of the Senate 1t should
 l be the duty of every President to repor
 l to the Senate such susPehsioi
 with the evidence and reasons for his aeflol @
 in the case. This statute passed in 1867 3 when Congress was overwhelmingly and lit . orally opposed politically to the President
 may be regarded as indication that evel
 then it was thought necessary by Congres
 | determined upon the subJugatlon or the exc
 cutive to the legislatiT Te will to furnish ltsel
 law for that purpose, instead of attemptin
 to reach the object intended by an invoea ton of any pretended constitutional right , The law which thus found it's way to ou } statute book was plain Its terms an it's intent needed no avowal.
 valid and now in operation it would justif
 the present course of the Senate and con
 mand the obedience of the el
 ecutive to it's demand. It may, hoy
 ever, be remarked in passln
 that under the law the President had u
 privilege of presenting to the body which B
 stunned to review his executive acts his re