The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-04
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On ClsyolAnd'S MuEWump NoISass-Au
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Nav YoRE, March 3.-senAtor Warner
Miller, who hurried offrathsr unexpected
y to Washington this afternoon, said be-
lore his departure president Cleveland
s enaeayoring to assume unusual prcrog'
ptiyes by debating to the Senate, aud will
ind it difficult, | think, to bring every
thing round TO his peculiar views" ,
The general opinion, as reflected at the
Filth Avenue Hotel tonight, was express
Cd by prominent Republican, who said !:
aItis the beginning OF the end. President
Cleveland has assumed that, with the
lower House Of Congress at his back, he
can override the Senate, aud do as hs
pleases In all matters of appointments,
While II Ia rather curious that George +.
Eimunds, who a year ago would not so
much as lllt his finger to prevent the e.ee-
ton Of this man, should he the list to
opposs his present course. His relerelce to
Charles |, was perfectly correct. have
been talkirg with great many men
prominent in Ihe Republican party here
to-day, and they all believe that the time
has now come for s'm, recognized Rs
toguiz.d Republican Senator 10 make issue
6ilh the President OIL this subject. Uleve'
lands idea has been that this was an op.
poTtunity 70 make great personal vie
tory, He believed that N bstween one
mau q soulIess body like the Senate the
public would take sides with him. II is
the Republican opportunity, however,
and just as that message ol Char -
brought out Cromwell, 81 should this issue
ind embodiment in sonO Republican Sem
A,Or, fhs Republicans cGn not succeed
until this is done"
Joseph Msdill, editor OF the Chicago
7riJuGs, aald tonight; ut is worth while
70 uEderLand this case iu ly. The COust;-
Iution does not make the President Of the
United States the appointing power Of the
hnd. In fact, II very clearly states that
the President shall nominRts aud the Sen.
ate confirm and appoint persons for the
several Federal offices. II therefore re-
quires the action ti tho President and
Senate together, as two'halyes Of single
power, t0 select an Cllicer in the public
service. The President may send 10 u
name and the Senate refuse 10 appoint,
and thus 20 on for O hundred naules, ii
need be, before an official can DO chosen.
Che President, relying on the tenure'ot.
1jlics act, has made certain removals and
famed certain officers to succeed tham
tn order TO select proper persons, he has
relied on certain written statements con,
GerninH them. lie required light before
acting, and the Senate ls entitled 10 the
same light. They ask him Tor the papers
and hs declines to give them, as being his
personal property. From aserVant Of the
people, paid $50 200 year, given u horse
and carriage and flowers and what not
10 act as their agent, he assumes to be an
sutocrat Gs great as the Car Of all Rus
Ella,
Nov, let us pursue this interesting
state Of things little further. In two
days Mr.. Cleveland will have served one
quarter oi his term. When the other
lnree'quarters ars completed, and Mr
Cleveland goes back to Ills lodgings over
the iron warehouse ip Buffalo, which l
understand he has never given up, Is lie
going to take thess papers with hlm2 II
they are his personal papers, he certainly
ought to; or II, as We sll hope he
will not, he should die before
that time, and Senator Sherman would
become President Of the United States,
where will the papers go then2 He can
not leave them to his Widow-he has not
got one. Will he leave them 10 his sister
Mnot, they are OH the flies Of the deparL-
ment, and open 10 the publiC2"
"What do you think Is lhs real reason
for the Presidents rsluSalP
THE main cause no doubt, is that in
their anxiety TO get the oIliCes the Demo-
Gratis have written all manner Of letters
about the Republican olllCe.holdefs. Onv'
half Of what they have written Is doubt
less untrue. These men have appealed
TO Cleveland 10 throw in bis own per
sonality, and not make them public
they know what the result would be, and
fesr.it. With all his protestations Of be.
ing an humble follower Of Thomas Jetler.
son, 1t looks very much as though he did
not have the moral courage TO i've up to
hia lpnlaFationn ~