Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-27
THE PEOPLE APPROVE.
ACTION OF THE ADMINISTRATION
ENDORSED.

HSitON SF t1E AOMlNlo IA tON
ENDORSED.
Idea of Impeachment Of Attorney
General Olney-Opinions Of Lead.
Ing Democratic Lawyers and
Statesmen.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 13, 1894.
President Cleveland and his Cabinet
are almost swamped with kilograms
from every section of the country con-
graduating them on the courage and
promptness with which they have
brought order out of chaos and pre-
vented what at one time looked like it
might be revolution, and volunteer
ing aid to any imaginable extent, in
both men and money. The President
and his advisers believe that the worst
is over, but they none the less feel
proud of the confidence reposed in
them, Congress and the people, and
will continue their efforts to deserve
that confidence.
1t is Speaker Richardson now, if
you please, Representative Richardson,
of Tennessee, having been elected
Speaker pro tenn of the House during
the absence of Speaker Crisp, who has
been called to Georgia by the serious
illness Of his brother.
Had the situation not been entirely
too grave and important to be laughed
at, the silly talk OF Messrs. Hayes, Nc
Guire and French, members OF the
Executive Committee of the knights
of Labor, who are in Washington this
week, about beginning impeachment
proceedings against Attorney General
Olney because of the arrest of Debs,
would have been regarded as a good
joke. As it is, it merely gave the
intelligent public an opportunity to
gauge the caliber Of the men who con-
troll q once powerful and influential
organization and to wonder how they
ever managed to get their authority
and how long the organization can
stand the use they are making of it.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, in addi-
ton to being States rights Democrat
of the staunchest sort is known among
lawyers as an authority upon consti-
tutional law. His resolution Offered
as substitute to the semi-anarchist
resolution offered by Senator PETER,
of Kansas, and supported by the
Populist Senator in one of the most
outrageous speeches ever made in the
Senate in which the abolition OF Con-
gress and the transfer OF authority
to committee composed OF one men,
ber from each State was advocated),
endorsing President Cleveland and his
administration for the prompt and
vigorous measures taken to " repulse
and repress by military force the
interference of lawless men with the
due process Of the laws of the U. S.,
and with commerce among the States"
and declaring that "the action OF
the President and his administration
has the full sympathy and support of
the law abiding masses of the people
of the U. s., and will be supported by
all departments of the government
and by the power and resources of the
entire nation" would have been i'm
medistely adopted by a nearly unani-
nous vote Of the Senate as it was the
next day-only PETER voting against
it-had not Senator Gallinger, of N.
H., for some unexplained reason,
caused it to go over a day under
the rules by objecting to vote there
on and refusing to withdraw the OBJ
lection although he was begged to do
so by his Republican colleagues.
Speaking Of the situation, Senator
Daniel said: "I am a States rights
Democrat, and would be the last man
TO stand idly by and see the authority
of the State encroached upon, but
fail to see anything here that en-
croaches upon the authority of the
State of Illinois in any way. The
President is acting entirely within the
lines OF the Constitution, and his &C.
ton is to be commended by all law
abiding citiz ems, regardless of their
political prediction or partisan feel
ing"
This is the way the situation looks
to Senator Davis, of Mimi, the Re-
publican whose raking down of PETER
will not soon be forgotten: "I have
looked into this matter as a lawyer,
and my judgment is that the Presi-
dent has gone about this business as a
lawyer. He has considered his ground, =,
become acquainted with his authority
and powers, and then gone in to exer-
else them in righteous cause and for
the good of the general public. He
has not exceeded his authority one
whit; on the contrary, he has not as
yet exhausted it. If the Federal troops
are not sufficient for this emergency
the State militia is at his command.
The President can swear the militia Of
the various States into the service of
the u. s., and then send them to
Chicago or any other point where
their mobilization may become neces-
sary. The Constitution is broad
enough in this case, and the President
is entrenched upon it," Dem.
AYERS Hair Vigor has no equal, in
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