Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-24

i tnat Nnen No mooe MS Case lOf euspct
, sion he made his whole case and would b
. Judged by it. Now. may 20 to him, On
+. gentleman may go to him, and han
D him wagon-losd of papers. 81
} may wade through them from one end +
/ the other, he may discard them, send then
, to the Treasury, send them to the Postofic
, Department, the War or Navy Depart
ment, or put them in his own closet as IN
worthy of consideration, and the next dal
! you, sir, may 60 and upon your assurance
az an individual Senator be may make {
suspension. The Senate comes along anC
asks him for papers. lie sends those pa
pers down here, and the case goes to tn,
appropriate committe, to the Senate, and
to the country as one involving actor
upou evidence which was not even consid
cred.
Then what2 The committee in making
its report brings With it the report mad.
in the House in 1912, and brings
it approvingly. Let me call your stten
ton TO it, and through it to the attitude in
which the committee would place the Sen.
ate. Let US look at the report which ID
brought in here spprovipgly BY the Com,
mittee on Judiciary. The report states:
"Mr. Sylvester having been removed BY
Hon. John c. Spencer, Secretary Of War,
your committee thought 1t was proper to
notify him OF their proceedings and there
fore directed its chairman TO inform him
OF the readiness of the committee to receive
any communication which he might desire
to make TO il, 10 summon and take the tee.
timony ofany witnesses he might wish to
have examined, and to invite him to at
tend its meetings In reply, the honora.
bic Secretary informed the chairman that
be did not desire to make any communi-
cation to the committee, or to have any
witnesses Summoned BY it, or to attend its
meetings.'
There is where this report would place
the present Executive. he is asked to
furnish to the Senate papers touching q
suspension from Office. He knows, and
the head Of the Department that sends
them here knows, that
THOSE PAPERs CONTAIN NO FACT UPON WHICH
THE EXECUTlSE HAS ACTED.
They we'll know thnt the administration
must be misrepresented here, that it must
be misund srstood here, and misunderstood
by the entire country, or else the Execu-
tive must follow those papers into the re.
cesses OF your committee-room, bringing as
that committee suggested to Mr.. Spencer,
such witnesses as they wanted to examine,
and there create what the Senator from
Ohio denounces as courts Of assizs in every
committee.room of the Senate. The mis-
fortune would be that in every single in
stance OF the forty or fifty committees TO
consider these nominations the court
would be composed OF eight to seven,
Where is the President Of the United
States2' asks the American citizen when
he treads these streets Over before the
Committee on Judiciary prosecuting John
Jones TO get him out of Office as marshal
Where is the Secretary of the treasury
Over before the Com mittee on Finance,
with bis subordinstes and Witnesses max.
ing police court Of that committee 10
establish reasonable cause tor the sus
sension Of Bill Wright as collector in West
Virginia Where is the Postmaster Gen.
eralP' asks the American citizen as be
walks these streets Echo answers where,
a. lay friend Mr.. Voorhees, suggests:
Over before the Committe on Post
Offices ard Post Roads of the Sen.
ate trying TO prove by witnesses be has
summoned that Gam johnson, who was
postmaster at some place in the United
States, ought 10 be removed for larceny or
some other sort of rascslity. for drunken.
ness or even because he is peTvertipg the
position he holds srd satagoniziDg the sd-
minis,retion under which he holds it. So
would the committee by the resolution
prostitute every feature OF the executive
department Of this Government into mere
prosecutors and informers TO be called up.
on, examined, held here or sent back to
the discharge Of their appropriate tunc.
tions at the pleasure Of the Senate Mr..
President, that will net dol That will no,
dol
When
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
assumed the functions Of the office OF Chief
Executive OF this Government do not be-
lieye there is citizen in the land who had
any reason whatever &c doubt or did doubt
that he came 10 the discharge Of the duties
of that office determined, as far as in him
lay, to devote conservative patriotic sppli
cation 10 the discharge OF bis obligations.
| believe speak within bounds when ! say
that this whole country knew that the one
great idea OF service to the country in an
acceptable manner in the high capacity
in which it he'd selected him for
that service Was his fret, his only sspirs
ton. Iwould fail to express my oua can.
did conviction now if | did not cay that
looking back over the long line Of prede-
cessors in that Office, and confronting as
he may the issues presented here, he will
be the last to be first in surrendering its
high prerogstives. The Senate may con-
tinue, as his message indicates, to ply him
and his various subordinate Departments
With hsrsssiug and embarrassing applica-
tons and Issues. II may defeat every
nomination that stands before it for con.
sidera,ion. II may assert, arbitrarily CT
otherwise, it's forms Of assault upon every
prerogatiVe granted by the Constitution Of
the country. But | mistake that man il
he does not stand firmly to his post, main.
tanning, as it is his sworn duty under the
Constitution Of his country to maintain,
every prerogative Of his high Office, ard
transmit it upimpsirtd TO his successors
Like Alpine's oak on Alpine peak amid
ln;pa a,nrm UTha atronosy sha h,va ,hs