Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-13

that the act OF 1859 wasointendea TO be
expressly what Blaine deesage9 II 10 have
Deen--a practical repeal Oh the act OF
1901. The Senate might approve, Oh dis
| approve the suspension, J6ut it was as
/ poHerless as the stars u affect
| tnequestion. A man wsS ga nde0 un-
Els the end OF the next seeeiQF, and what
did IL matter IL az the end t0 the session
ne resumed his Office, since9lY aetrokc
of bis pen the PresideHt9 could suspend
htm again? Yet the proB0ntion was that
in8h these matters the President must
suhnit without law to eVWysd dagredatOn
apesaVery humility and every demand by
thH9Bnate. W
~ THIS NOMINATIONS,
F1areport Of the Judiciary Committee
sal0rh President, Notwithstanding his
civi5teervice utteranees,s9had sent in
wltA4Y 30 days after 1.-THE Sehgte met
643epgpensions. 1t wOdldohave been at
leastfair il the commtute9 b;ta stated
that fhese 6i3 suspensionsl ecyera period
OF eight months. BufinrlS59, when Gen.
Gram assumed the fanutioas oi the ex-
ecutiye Office, be sent9t0 the SenHte $50 re-
movais within seven9weeks, alid during
six weeks OF that timedhe original act Of
1857 was still IN force. In eiatt months
President Clevelandk had made 643 sus-
pensions. In seven 9weeks Gen. Grant
had made $50, and theyadid not so fast
enough.
RINGING HISTORY ON LOGAN.
The popular demandntp oarry out the
policy Indicated by M p. Blaine was so
overwhelming that9a gentletnan-now
memberOf the Senate, then = member of
the House offered an .aanendneut which
he wouldread as aamaEer q rhetorical
interest.
Mr.. LOGAN, of Tuinuis, whom all re-
spected for bis open and manly way Of
dealing wifb all subjeets, recognizing the
popular demand for haste and forgetting,
doubtless, for time apy question of con-
stitutiOn OF statute, or anything else save
subservlenog to a l1sndabls purpose, Of
fered in the House the f lowing amend
ment: EN
Provided, That All civil odises, except those
of Judges Of The L hBed States ourts, that
fail Of appointment byJ the President Of the
United states by aod with the advice and
consent of the Senate before March 4, 1860,
snail become vacant onojupe 30, 1869.
FHEEFFEcr.
All civil Offices except judges, who
hold by constitntio tenure. were to be
struck down Ia a day'by this amendment.
President Grant waste be overwhelmed
in an hour by the fact that 100, 900 offices,
through whose incumbents be was to ad-
minister public affairs, were vacant.
Mr.. kenna read iat 80me length from
speeches Of Senator Morton and Sonator
Sherman in support of his position. Why.
he asked, did not the Senate work itself
into passion aud declare that if some
body did not furaish certain information
on certain tonic. it would pass a new
law? This would. be as sensible as the
declaration that if the President does not
send to the Senate Information touching
suspensions, it will make no condrma-
tions.
AIM or THF MAJORITY.
ssWithOpt the ~ aud In violation of the
constitution the majority sought to place
the President in an attitude denounced
BY Mr.. Morton as that of common in-
former, The motion of the majority to-
day was not as fair to the Executive even
as the law of 1867. Then the President
knew when he made out his case for
Suspension that he made out his whole
case. Now one might, send to him a
wagon load OF papers which he might
wade through. He may send them TO
the department., and file them
in bis closet. The next day
upon assurance Oflau individual Senator
he makes a suspension. g The Senate
asked him for papers. ,fHe sends these
papers down hereand they 70 to commit
tee and the country has theevidence upon
which the action has been based.
NOT THE BASIS OF,ACTIoN.
But the President and heacls of depart
ments know that those papers Contain no
fact upon which The iEXecutive has acted.
They well know that the administration
must be misrepHssented here and misun-
derstOod by the, entire eountrygo or else the
Executive mustyfollow the papers TO the
crmmittee rOoH.i 1t. would, make the
faOrOFu fffon Tho dgdpa frr. fedr, nbso
had denounced oas courts of asslzes, a
court upon the principle of 8 toT
"Where's the President OF toe United
States ~ asks an Amefiean citizen.
cover before hhe C0hmitteaOn Judi
ciary prosecutipgi JohnyOnes to get him
out OF office as Marshall"
A vERITABLE POLICE COURT
uryY'
cover before the Committee on. H6ance
with his subOrdiaates as witnesses max
ing a police court of that Committee TO
establish reasonable cause Tor thesusben-
sion OF Bill Wight as collector in West
Virginia."
where's the Postmaster 6enersFss1
"'Oyer before the Committee ,On Post
Roads trying % prove with the witnesses
he has summofled that Sam JohnsoaL who
is Postmaster at some place, GUghttOibe
removed for lafceny or some other sOrtsoi
rascality, or even because pefgertinE tIe
position he holds and antagoniztng thead-
ministratlon tittder which he ,bolds int1
Thus the resolution proposedtO pEostf
tute every Officer OF the executive depafts
ments into mere prosecutors agd inform.
ers, 10 be called upon, examined, held
here or sent back TO the dischargeOf their
proper functl0nsa at the pleasure OF thb
Senate. D Si
THE FEELING or THE COUNTRY.
In conclusion Mr.. Kenna said -fsWhem
President Cleveland assumed the funo-I
ton OF the ofiiee f0f Chief Executive, of this
government, Dd6 not believe thera was "a
citizen in this9and who had any reason
whatever 70 d0h Dt that he came ~ dis
charge the duties OF that high ofiieelde-
termined as faP as IN him lay 10 devote
conservative and patriotic application "a
the discharge % bis duties. ! belieEe ~
speak within bounds when / say that this
whole country Knew that the one great
idea OF serviceto his country Ia an sc-
ceptable manner IN the high capacityan
which II hadseiected him for that kiRh
service was hiaionly aspiration.
WILL STAND FIRM. n lhI
81 would fail 70 express my own candid 4
conviction NOW n i did not say that, looi1- 4
ing back from the long line Of his pred6-i
cessOrs In thathigh Office and confronting
as be may the issues presented here. heo
will not be thenfrst ia Rurrendpring ita \