St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-13

whom all respected for his open and manly
way of dealing with all subjects. In re-
sponse to the popular demand Tor haste
and forgetting doubtless for the time
any question OF constitution In statute
or anything else, save the subserv-
iency TO laudahle purpose, offered In the
house the following amendment: provided,
that nll civil officers except those or judges
OF United States courts. that fail or appoint
ment by the president OF the United States by
and with the advice and consent of the senate
before the 4th day OF March, 1859, shall be-
come vacant on the 30th day OF June, 1869.
All civil officers except judges who hold by
constitutional tenure were 10 be stricken
down in day by this amendment. President
Grant was TO be overwhelmed In an hour by
she fact that hundred thousand offices
through whose incumbents nc was 10 admin
lister the public affairs were vacant Why,
Mr. kenna asked, did not the senate work
itself
INTO A PASSION,
and declared that II somebody did not furnish
certain information an certain topic, IL
would pass no law. This would be as sensible
rs the declaration that II the president does
not send TO the senate information touching
suspensions, IL will make no combinations
If the desires of the majority OF the commit
tee were carried out IL would make the COM
mittee-roOm what the senator from Ohio had
denounced as courts of asSiLes, court upon
the principle OF TO Z.
where's the president of the United
Statesg" asks an American citizen.
"Over before the committee on judiciary
prosecuting John Jones 10 get him out OF
Office as marshal"
''Where's the secretary OF the treasury"
"Over before the committee on finance with
his subordinates as witnesses making police
court Of that committee TO establish reason
able cause for the suspension of Bill Wright
as collector in West Virginia.
"Where's the postmaster generalg"
! "Over before the committee on postroads
l trying TO prove with the witnesses he has
summoned that Sam johnson, who is post
I master AT some place, ought 10 be removed
| forlarceny or some other sort OF rascality or
even because of perverting the position he
/ holds and antagoniZing the administration
under which he holds it," And thus the reso-
luton proposed 10 prostitute every Office OF
] the executive department into
MERE PROSECUTORS
/ and informers, 10 be called upon. examined,
held here, or sent back TO the discharge OF
! their proper functions at the pleasure of the
| senate. When President Cleveland assumed
| the function of the Office of chief executive
OF this government, 1 don't believe there is a
! citizen in the land who had any reason what
! ever 10 doubt that he came TO the discharge
! of his duties of that high office determined,
as far as In him lay, 10 devote conservative
and patriotic application to the discharge OF
/ hiSduueS. / believe that / speak within
bounds when / say that this whole country
knew that the one great idea of service to his
country in an accepta lie manner, in the high
| cap; city in which II had selected him for that
high service, was his only aspiration.
would fail TO express my own candid convic-
tion now if 1 did not say that
/ looking back from the long line OF his prede-
cessors in that high Office, and confronting
rs he may, the issues presented here, he viii
not be the first in surrendering its high pre-
l rogative. The senate may continue, as his
tn rNfEr md fruns
subordinate departments with harrassing and
embarrassing issues. II may defeat every
nomination that stands before it for consid
GRAFTON. IL may assert in any measure. arbi
trarily or otherwise. every prerog gativC
granted or not granted in the constitution
but mistake that man If he does not stanC
firmly TO his post, maintain his sworn duty
under the constitution OF his country. main
tain every prerOgative OF his high Office anC
transmit il unimpaired 10 his successor.
Senator Cullom obtained the floor, anC
after an executive session the senate adj
jOurned.