Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-01

'fhe Minority Report 81 the Senate
Judiciary Committee Submittea To.
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THE PRESIDENTS DECISION IN THE pUsKrN
CASE CORRECT, AND IT MUST bE ACCEPTED
senator Pugh has presented the minority is-
port Of the judiciary committee on the Duskin
case. 1t Is three or four times as long as the
majority report II embodies no resolution.
MI. tush asked that the report be printed and
be placed on the calendar. The report was not
read In the Senate. The report says that when
President Cleveland came into office he found
about 80 per cent of the offices filled by repub-
licans appointed as q reward tor party services.
The party to whom the President owed his
nomination and election had been exiled from
all participation In the civil administration Of
the government for nearly quarter OF . cen.
fury. The friends ana supporters of the Presi-
dent made application for a redistribution Of
the public trusts. No other President had
even been subjected to such severe trial or had
70 meet so many grave difficulties, and no
reasons and causes urging him 10 q free exer-
else OF his power OF removal from federal Office,
ana no other ever resisted with more fairness
the Just claims of his supporters used his
power of removal more couscientiously, eau
tiousiy and sparingly.
Notwithstanding these facts the $50 nomina.
tons sent to the Senate In the suspension cases
had been allowed to remain before the commit
tees without consideration and final DISPOSE
judiciary committee, the President or the At
torney General that he was wronged by the
sSsp The committee was fully informed
gent py all the members OF Congress from Ala
bama on personal knowledge of his high char
any special pleading the case made for the Sem
ate on their resolution and the answer of the
Attorney General is whether the Senate has the
right to demand OF the Attorney General the
transmission against the order OF the President
OF the only paper or document of the descrip-
IN m m tf<>v>
paper or document Is stated in the refusal to re-
late exclusively to the removal OF Duskin by
the President, and for that reason alone Is not
The President holds that 1t is not public
document, and there can be no doubt about the
correctness of his decision, and that il must be
accepted as conclusive. 1t is an undeniable
truth that every right, power, privilege, and
prerogative created by law or granted in the
CONSTITUTION, has some just reason, use, neces-
sity or foundation, for its existence and sup
port. The majority of the Judiciary committee
Attorney General or request the President to
transmit any paper on the tiles of the depart
ment, CT in possession of the President if such
paper relates to an official act of the President
or the head of any department. The minority
deny that the claim OF the majority, where the
paper Or document relates exclusively to re-
movals or suspensions, has any foundation or
rec ignition in the Constitution or valid law.
The minority admits that any and every
department. or In the possession OF the Presi-
dent relating to any subject whatever, over
WHICH elIQeF mouse Oh congress mas any power.
jurisdiction or control under the Constitution,
is subject to the call or inspection Of either
house tor use In the Constitutional powers and
It's jurisdiction. But if all the power granted
In the Constitution over the subject-matter Ia
vested in the President exclusively, the only
rightful custodian of all such papers, is the
chlef executive officer, why was the possession
or inspection OF papers relating TO the making
ana ratifytng OF treaties refused TO the House
For the plain reason that the House of Repre-.
sentatiVes has no power over treaty making.
IL would be unreasonable to conclude that the
trainers OF the Constitution had declined to
divide the power of removing federal officers
between the President and the Senate and
after vesting it in the President alone had
given to the Senate by implication, or as a
necessary incident of another power, the right
OF advising and consenting TO removals. Ii
would compel the Secretary OF State to trans
NIT to the House OF Representatives, on its
order, all papers and documents relating to the
making and ratifying of all treaties in the
State department..
| Without circumocution or evasion. or gene
raliZing or dealing in subtle:ies or refining on
irrelevant and misleading cases cited in the
| majority report the minority, after making as
dilIgent a search as time and opportunity al
| lowed, feel satisfied that from 1889 to 1867, a
period OF 7S years, not single case can be
| found in which the Senate in executive session
directed the head OF any department
quested the President to transmit TO the Senate
| i'll executive session documents relating eX-
ciusively or materially To removals of
federal ,S Officers by the President
| OF the Senate, and such direction was obeyed
| by any head of department or the President.
was ever obeyed. Every precedent cited in the
| report OF the majority has for its foundation
| the constitutional power OF the Senate to parti-
cipate with the President In the official act TO
which the papers called for related
The demand in the present case upon the
Attorney General necessarily implies that in
the judgment Of the majority OF the committee
the Senate has the power over removals that it.
has over appointments. There is no escape
from this crucial test OF who is in the right in
this controversy, the Senate or the President.
In seIf-defense the President and the friends Of
his constitutional prerogative in the Senate are
forced to meet and answer the question:
from federal offices reside?' "Does the Consti.
tuition answer this question:"
A Protest Against Penitentiary Work.
The Harness and Trunk Makers Assembly,
No. 1898, K. OF L., have issued an address in
| which they say that in the last few years this
city has been flooded with a class OF harness,
&c, which is being sold at auction rooms horse
bazaars carriage repositories and commission
| houses, and which is represented as the over
atty is simply machine and convict
work, produced in northern and eastern
penitentiaries; and, as this class of harI is
bought and used by many business men in
this city to such an extent that it is daily de-
of gaining an honest living, and therefore they
earnestly appeal to the business men and all
citizens using harness to shun the above class
| OF work, patroniZing only union shops, and
buy none but union-made work, thereby en-
cOuraging home industry.
THE PUBLIC Observation-Disclosures the
| fact that about S12 ,OOO, 900 was paid out OF
the Treasury during February on account Of
pensions, the public debt statement for the
month will show decreace in the debt Of
about 81, 5OO,OOO.
RESTITUTION ORDERED.--Louisa Henderson,
| q young woman, was before Judge Smell to-day,
charged with robbing Miss Annie Totten, OF
l7OS street, of quantity of clothing valued