The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22

Congress, can you go, thus far agd no further, as laid down in this written doc umcnt
 We named an officer to execute the laws, called the President, conferring upon him certain powers to execute and carry out the provisions of Congress. His powers were conferred and limited by the written constitution: 1t had never been done before. What thenI Still q further check in, this new experiment To what tribunal or what umpire shal 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 a congress independ- ent of the President: we had created a President independent of the con gross, within the powers conferred by the written instrument. Then the fath- CTS decided that another check was necessary; this President and this Con gross, that we have set up, may go the way of the French republic. or the Roman republic, and of other systems of government that have been formed; even with n written constitution they may agree upon certain construction. We will set up here tribunal, far re- moved from political contest, the Su- premc court of the United States (ap- plause), with power to say to the public body and the representatives of the state and the Senate: "Thus far shall you pie, thus far and no farther, and we hold that you are forbidden to do these things by this constitution of the United States" (Applausc.)
 They said further that the President, occupying the office of the greatest po- tentate on earth. with these great pow CTS conferred upon him. he may trans; States. and there is no power to inter- fcre with him as it stands, except by way of impeachment before the Senate, and if the Senate and the President agree. that power would be futile, so that we will name this great tribunal. far away from partisan. politics, far away from the passions Of elections. far away from the dictation of party conven. tions. and the decision of this tribunal as to what may be done, or what may not be done. by the President or the Con- cress of the United States, that decision shall be final and binding on all the people of the United States. (Ap- plause) .,
  proposition made. We find the powers conferred upon the President of the United States to execute the laws of Congress in these two things: we find that by the law of Congress the Presi- dent must see to it that the mails of the United States, the communications be- tween our commercial people, shall be kept open; that the mails shall go at all hazards. (Applause)
 We find Congress providing, as be. tween the states, that the President shall execute the law regarding the free trans mission of freight and merchandise from state to state. We find this power re- sisted, and find in the declaration of the party platforms made at Chicago state mcnt in effect that the President Of the United States cannot execute the fed eral laws; cannot execute the power conferred upon him by Congress and the Constitution of the United States, except by leave of the governor of the state (applause), and this is declared, fellow citizens-mark it well-this is declared by body of people that came, together at Chicago and declared that they were Jacksonian Democrats. Laughter)
 Why, gentlemen, in 1892. John c. Cal houn advised that n convention gather in the state of South Carolina to con. slider the question whether President Jackson could execute the law for the collection of tariff, this high protective tariff, and to execute the tariff law in the state of South Carolina. That con ycntion declared that the federal gov ernmcnt, through it's President. had no power to execute that federal law in that state without the leave of the govern ment of South Carolina.
 What did Jackson do? These people call themselves Jacksonian Democrats, and speak by the card. Before the latter end of 1892, Jackson ordered Gen. Scott, then in command of the United States armies, to establish his military headquarters in the capital of South Car olna. in the first place. (Applause.) On the same day he ordered the two most powerful ships in the American navy to Charleston harbor. Next he or dered the troo/s of the United States available on the Atlantic coast to con centrate within striking distance of South Carolina. (Applause) And he sent word to John c. Calhoun, not by public proclamation, but in private-they had been good friends before; he said: "You tell John c. Calhoun that if he pcrsists in this reasonable advice to his state, by the Eternal, I will hang him higher than Haman. Daughter and ap. Dlausp.)