Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-22

Congress-, can you go, thus far and no
further, as laid down in this written doc
ument.
We named an officer to execute the
laws, called the President, comforting
upon him certain powers to execute and
carry out the provisions of Congress.
His powers were conferred and limited
by the written constitution; it had never
been done before. What then? Still a
further check in this new experiment
To what tribunal or what umpire shall
it be referred to decide upon the question
whether Congress goes beyond its writ
ten license under this constitution of the
United States, and to what umpire shall
it be referred if the President shall go
beyond the powers conferred upon him
by this constitution of the United
States?
We had created n congress independ-
ent of the President; we had created
a President independent of the CON
gress, within the powers conferred by
the written instrument Then the faith
ers decided that another check was
necessary; this President and this Con-
gress, that we have set up, may go the
way of the French republic, or the
n Ssauhlic and of other systems
e .osT agree nnon NJ gQnnnuhGsn tormed;
We will set up here a tribunals Iar .,
moved from political contest, the gu
nreme court of the United States zap
rpIonsel with mower to say to the public
bodv and the representatives OF the state
onJ tho Senate: '"Thus far shall you
CO in dealing with the rights of the, peo-
SIe thus far and no farther, ana we
hold that you are forbidden to DO tn iS
things by this constitution OF the Ohl'eu
they said further that the President
occnnying the office of the greatest po-
tentafe on earth, with these great pow
ers conferred upon him. he may trans
eress this constitution OF the Oniteu
| States. and there is no power 10 M IT,,
| Fore with him as it stands, except Dy
1eae , W IN ;mnea chment before the Senate,
oni If the Senate and the president
on,oo that mower would be futile, SO
| fiat we will name this great trlDuli f
far away from partisan, politics, Ear Ear
away from the passions OF elecuons jus, "a, Ia
awoy from the dictatiOn of party conVeh,
fions and the decision of this tribunal
os t0 what may be done, or what may
not no done. by the President or the Con
lre If the United States, that deGlslQr
Shall be final and binding on all th'
people of the United States. zap
pipN% Now, what have we, today? In tn tn,
. e. Ma 20 we have this eXtraordinar!
i nror made. We find the power
; ppoUforred upon the President of tn
: Tinted States to execute the laws
: Congress in these two things; we LII
fhot =
d dnS must see to it that the mails OF IN
t TTnited States, the communications, OF
S tween our commercial people; shal
5 tnnt omen; that the mails shall go at
e hazards. (Applause9 .,.. .. =,
: We find Congress proyidlng; as %
e +vnen the states, that the President sha
:, ewecnte the law regarding the free tram
e mission of freight and merchandise tro
g state 70 state. We find this power =
S sisted. and find in the declaration OF u
e Marty platforms made at chicago sta II
n ment in effect that the Presideht Oh Co "
e United States cannot e%GGu't Tho a now
h Conferred upon him by Congress ana u
4. Cnnstitution of the United States, exec
l. nv leave of the governor OF the sIu
10 1onnIause), and this is declared, 1ello
% citizens-mark it weii-thls Is aecda tb
w. ~ chicago and declared that they we
re- Jacksonian Democrats; (Laughter.)
20 WIZ gentlemen, in 1882, John q. q
10 boun advised that a convention gain
is in the state of South Carolina 10 C
or slider the question whether fTeslut :
Collection of tariff, this high protectl
toriff and TO execute the tariff law
n tba state of South Carolina. That c.
ran+ion declared that the federal g
eminent. through it's President, had
mower TO execute that federal law IN u
at state without the leaFe VI III" eO'~
ar ment of South Carolina.
m S What did Jackson do? These PEG
LA call themselves Jacksoni9n Dem 9ooc
la and I speak by the card. Before
lb- latter end of 1882, jackson ordered "
Mt, Scott, then in command of the Uni
of States armies, to establish his milit,
hadquarteFs in the cq n6ea of SSg5h
Fp: 0 most the eow sa%S s ships in the Amsr
pie Il Rn ,bs United Nsdt s Sc
est available on the Atlantic coast to
er- centrate within striking distance
'la; south Carolina. ApplauseD And
all sent word to John G: Calhoun nriIs 10 not
sed baJ been good friends before, he s.
oil you tell John c. Calhoun that If
en- persists in this reasonable advice bSnG TO
ana higher than Hannah. daughter ana
,ers plause.)
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