The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-22

Inc Illuminating power In E'eQeral APP
pointments is vested by the Constitu-
, ton in the President. BY and with
the advice and consent of the Senate
he may appoint. 1t has been custo-
mary for the President to confer with
senators of the different states as to
nominations from their states
Frequently he and they differ as to
the proper persons to be appointed.
Occasionally senators become angry be-
with. They have perhaps pledged
their support to personal or political
friends for certain officesa nd, falling
to secure tht patronage" they are
vexed with the President.
Grover Cleveland is known to have
mind of his own. No one can lead
him by the nose or compel him to
swerve when his judgment has been
convinced and he has made up his
mind to do or not to do a thing which
he has fully considered. Is that bull
doing? We do not view it in that
light, but are of the opinion that de-
qualities to be admired in the Execu-
tive of the nation.
When any senator attempts to die
tate TO the President in the matter of
nominations, he steps over the line of
his rights. The Senate of the United
States may refuse to confirm nom
inee. That is the right of that body
Individual members have no author
ity to exercise undue influence over
the President in the matter of nomina-
tons. When they attempt to do So
that is bulldozing
The President is in duty bound to
consider the national welfare in MAX
ing national appointments. A senator
represents state He is apt to be
led by sensational influences and to
regard chiefly sectional and perso-
nal interests. He may suggest, may
urge the appointment of persons from
his state for Federal offices, but out
side of the Senate he can legitimately
and reasonably go no further.
Senators, whether Democratic or Re-
publican III politics, know the Presi-
dent of today to be honest, courageous
and firm, and when they admit that
he studies the whole nation rather than
their particular section of it, they
ought not to become enraged if he
does not adopt their suggestions or
seek their counsel when he has made
up his mind. If he confers with them
on nomination it is a matter of
courtesy. When he makes his selec-
ton it is matter of right, vested sole
ly in the Chief Executive.
Senator Vest sarcastically conveyed
the information that President Cieye-
land had intimated that his advice and
counsel were not required as to nom
nations from Missouri. There may
have been reasons for the Presidents
course in that respect, which he is not
called upon to explain. That is a mat
ter between the President and one
senator, in which the former at least
has the advantage of standing upon
his rights, whatever may have been
his reasons, and the latter has the ad-
vantage of showing temper over some
thing over which he could only claim
as a privilege.
In an endeavcr to distort the re-
marks made by Senator Vest on this
subject, the Salt Lake Tribune of Tues
day said in its common turgid. UNI
grammatical and vicious style:
What Senator Vest said about the
President, if he actually told him that
in order to carry out his personal ends
he wanted certain things of the SEN
ator, or that the senator need not any
more trouble himself about appoint
ments in Missouri, (and we suppose
there is not q man in the United
States who doubts Senator Vests word
on that subjecO, then President CIeye-
land ought to be iinpeached and turn
ed out of his office for his arbitrary use
of a power that was never intended in
that sense, and which, carried to its
legitimate conclusion, would simply
make the President of the United
States an autocrat more inSuffera bic a
long way than would be an out and
out king"
The answer to that preposterous par
agraph is: First, the eff is equiva-
lent to a Hfalsehood. Senator Vests
caustic remarks do not warrant the
inference that the President ever Of
fered any such implied bargain or in
timated anything touching upon it.
That is wholly in the vain magma
ton of the Tribune or rather is
groundless. imputation put in the form
of an 'sif."
Second, eff the President did in
form the senator from Missouri that
he need not trouble him about ap-
pointments from Missouri, whatever
may be thought about the Presidents
courtesy, there can be no doubt about