Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-15

W y Ao"SPoPct OtTcspOHueub EeScnsAy'
81 believe the most important benefit
that l can confer on the country by my
Presidency is to insist upon the entire in.
dependence Of the Executive and legisla.
tive branches Of the Government, and
compel the members of the legislative
branch to see that they have responsible.
tiles of their own. grave and we'll defined,
which their official oaths bind them sa.
credly to perform"
The Constitution directs him to make,
from time to time, recommendations to
Congress, and gives him the power to
veto bills, and he is determined to con.
fine himself strictly to these duties so
far as his relations with the legislative
branch 90.
That he should also require members
of the legislative branch to confne them.
selves strictly to their Constitutional
duties, and forbid them to interfere in
the Executive duties by soliciting or sug.
costing appointments to Office, seems to
follow as q matter of course, from his
declaration. If he follows this policy he
will relieve himself and his subordinates
Of q great deal of worry. Senators and
Representatives will no longer be per.
mitted to take up his and their time with
applications for Office for their favorites.
He will put a stop to the hitherto not
uncommon spectacle of q Congressman
demanding of the head Of a Bureau the
removal of ZONE subordinates to make
place for a man of his own, and some.
times making this demand roughly
and with threats. He will insist
that no member of either House
shall recommend either to him or
to his Cabinet officers or to any of
his subordinates any man for place. He
will, in short, require that the co-ordi.
nate and independent legislative branch
shall cease absolutely and entirely to in.
terfere with or attempt to influence the
Executive branch in the matter of ap.
pointments.
That follows logically from Mr.. Cleve.
lands declaration, and if he does that no
will make a very great change indeed in
Washington. Hitherto Senators and
Representatives have been freely heard in
applications for office. Not a hundred,
but a thousand times probably, Mr..
Cleveland and his Cabinet Ministers have
listened patiently and willingly and con.
sentingly to the appeals of Senators an
Representatives. "You must try e
help me in this matter; l must have my
men in, or else l cannot carry the dis.
trict," or the State, as the case may be.
There is no secret about this thing; it 10
seen and spoken of openly and daily.
and there have been few days since the
new administration came in that have
not seen men appointed to executive Of.
fees solely on the urgency and ~solicita.
tion of members of the coordinate aud
independent legislative branch.
If Mr.. Cleveland succeeds the country |
will for the first time in very many years
see itself governed strictly according to
the methods OF the Constitution. The
instrument clearly designs that Congress
shall make the laws and the President |
and his subordinates shall administer and
enforce them; that in order to hold the
President to q just and full responsibility
as the Executive he shall select and ap.
point and control and remove all his
subordinates, the Senate only having a
limited power Of advice and consent as
to . few of them; that Congress, which
grants money for the support Of the
President and his subordinates, shall
have no share or part in the selection of
these latter, and that the President and
his Cabinet and other subordinates, who
are to execute the laws, shall have no
share or part in making them. This is
the system of the Constitution. In &C.
cordance with it the Executive Mansion
was placed, not near. but at what was
then believed to be the greatest practical
distance from the meeting place Of Con.
gress. with a mud hole over a mile long
now Pennsylvania Avenue-making
the passage between the coordinate and
independent branches both difficult and
unpleasant.
1t is an excellent and a safe system Of
Government which the Constitution pro.
vides, but to be either meritorious or
safe it needs to be enforced as . whole,
and not in part. So long as members of
the legislative branch are allowed to rec
ommend, solicit. appeal for or dictate ap.
pointments. SO long the Constitutional
system is violated and muddled.
DEATH VALLEY.
A correspondent writes to the San.