The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-02-18
The President and The Senate.

When the Attorney General was call.
ed on by the Senate Tor "all documents
and papers in relation to the manage
ment and conduct Of the office of the
United STATES Attorney, for the South.
err District Of Alabama he replied,
after acknowledging the receipt of the
resolution, that;
In response to said resolution the
President Of the United States directs
me TO say that the papers which Were in
this department relating to the fitness
Of J. ID Bennett, recently nominated to
@id office, having been already sent TO
the judiciary Committee OF the Senate,
and the papers aud documents which
are mentioned in said resolution, aud
still remaining in the custody of this
department, having exclusive reference
90 the suspension by the President of
George NJ Dustin, the late incumbent
OF the office of District Attorney Of the
United States for the Southern District
OF Alabama, il Is not considered that
the public interest will be promoted by
compliance with said resolution and
the transmission of the papers and docu-
ments therein mentioned to the Senate
IN Executive Session
This was on the Goth Of January,
The correspondence between the Sen.
ate and the Secretary of the Interior,
calling for papers touching the suspen.
zion of Henry Ward, Indian In
spector, seems to concede the right of
the Senate to request copies of all pub
lie documents on file in any Of the De-
partments, though they relate to the
suspension Of officials, II this be so
the President has modified his views on
The subject since the reply Of the Attor
ney-General to the request Of the Senat,
for the papers in the Dustin case.
We rather prefer Mr. Lamars state
meut Of the Presidents attitude, to that
of Mr. Garland Itis as follows;
DEPARTMENT OF rHE INTERIOR, J
Washington, ID. c., Feb 10, 1886 !
TIE President pro tempore Of he Sen
ate,
SRI have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of Senate resolution Of
the 9th instsat in words RS follows:
Resolved That the Secretary Of the Interior he az
rco,cd tuepmmpuloae to the Senate copies OF All
Whtpk hnVa hggn .4f a Fhp In IA.
darlmcnL and of at Papers ich have been present
81 q auy ohiccr 81 that department touching IN
Official and pc son-l condpct n Henry Ward tudt
an Inspector, during his continuance la said oth, g
! transmit III the official papers OF
file in the department which | under
stapd to be embraced by the resolution
The official reports made to this de.
psrtment by Henry Ward as Unite,
ststes Indian luspec or, are volumiuous
aud Ms the clerical free Of this depart
ment is limited and otherwise fully EN-
ployed, have deemed II best 10 ans
NIT the original reports. As they NJ,
frequently consulted in the transaction
of the business OF the department,
bavt the honor TO request that they b,
returned to the files as soon as :hey ar,
no longer required by the Senate.
| am directed by the President to say
that If the object Of the resolution is /,
inquire into the reasons for the suspen
sion of MIR. Ward, these papers are TO
a. he considertd as constituting all th
evidence submitted to him in relation
thereto. | am also directed by th
President to say, that he does not con