Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-17
LANcAsrER, PA, October II. 1889.
ne senator and the Prcsiteot.

Eenator Quay has found his way to
A Washington, w here he has been for some
time overdue, the cause Of his detention
ut his home in Beaver county being
ascribed to his disgrr Ntlement ut the
purpose Of the president to appoint
man Of his own selection to Philadel-
phia Office, and now that he has reached
Washington 1t Is said that he is in
3 warlike frame of mind and disposed to
E read the riot act to the chief magistrate,
notifying him that he must make the
Pennsylvania appointments TO suit the
Pennsylvania senators and not himself
We say senators, because Senator Cam
eron Is said to be travelling along with
Senator Quay with apparently an earn
est desire 20 keep the peace with
him. This desire was very distinctly
shown in the filling of the collectorship
In this district, which Is Cameron's bail
iwick and where his choice should have
had the plum. The man he would nat
urally have selected did not get II, and
the understanding is that It was because
Senator Quay kicked against him. Sen
ator Cameron Is appearing as very neg
ative quantity in the discharge of the
Office filling duty Of the senatorial place,
and it may be that the pending question
Of his reelection may account fully for
his Tine too" amiability in waiting on
Quay and following his lead. Both sem
ators are advertised to appear now before
the president to protest against the ap-
pointment of Captain Walters, of Ches-
ter county, to Philadelphia office,
because he is not the choice of the Re-
Spnblican party Of the state or in other
words, their choice. Captain Walters
voted for Harrison at the nominating
convention, while Quay was working for
Sherman and the president has reas-
enable desire toreward him, nothing be.
ing alleged against his fitness. The act
which commends him to the president
is, however, his sin in Quay's eyes and
the simple question at issue is whether
Quay or the president has the choice of
appointments to Office in Pennsylvania.
The national constitution gives il TO
the president but the Republican party
constitution gives ii to the Republican
senator. II is the cardinal doctrine of
that party, in this state nt least, that the
Office Of SENATOR carries with il the con-
5 troll of the federal patronage. A con-
gressman Is allowed TO have something
tn say, as n matter of courtesy, about the
appointments in his district, but he Is
expected to get the final endorsement of
the senator. The fact that the senator
passes upon the confirmation of
the officer gives him power
over his selection which IL effectively
used with weak-backed presidents.
And the fact IL that il takes president
OF jackson fibre to resist this assumption
which has become SO deeply seated in
the constitution of the senator of the
Republican party. Upon the face of the
situation, the United States senator
should be barred from debating an ap-
polntment to the president by reason of
the very fact that it is his duty to con-
firm or reject 1t. The one appoints with
the advice and consent of the other.
The advice naturally runs TO dictation
with senators of the Quay stamp; and
the president who wants to keep himself
untrammeled in his appointments needs
to set out with the notice To the senators
that he does not desire their advice and
that they can take their innings when
he asks for their consent.