Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-17

rleroSdItVe-A ne house Believed
to Be Sure to Follow the Senate,s
Lead.
Special to the Register
Washington, D. c., April 16.-'What
will the House do?" What will tba
President do?" with the resolutions
passed to-day by the Senate. are the
questions that are now agitatins
everybody here in Washinston. and n
judge from inquiries making tonight
by newspapers and individuals else
where, it is the question uppermost in
the minds Of many others in the conn
try.
In the debate in the Senate TODAY
the statement was made, With every
show Of authority, by Senator Hale.
that the passage Of the resolutions
put the Senate into deadlock with the
President
1t has been intimated before that
that the President, in full sympathy
Will IiC PCINV- etliy JI ice IdcLlOn.
who have from the start been his adj
visors and closest friends, would strain
every point to render imperative the
part of the resolutions which calls for
the recognition Of the Cuban republic.
1t was printed here to-day in a
newspaper Of standing that the Presi-
dent intended to sign the resolutions
and then declare that since the part
referring to the recognition of the
Cuban republic was in contravention
with precedents, he would assert his
prerogative and refuse to follow the
! MANDATE OF THE CONGRESS.
All this, of course, was based upon
the presumption that the House would
adopt the Senate resolutions or others
which carried the same provisions.
That the House will do this there Is
no doubt.
The majority of the members of that
body are favorable that plan, and were
prevented from recognizing the Cuban
republic by the efforts Of the Speaker
and the committees, which no one disa
putes that he rules
The Senate has shown such ar over
whelming desire to recognize the re-
! public that even if the House dissented
and sent the resolutions to conference,
no conference report could we'll be
| adopted that did not carry recognition.
These things being known, the ques-
| ton practically resolves itself into:
what will the President do?"
Speaking on this subject this even
ing, a gentleman in official life who il
| known 20 have the Presidents conf
dence, gave the following statement:
"'What action will be taken by the
President cannot be stated with any
certainty, but the indications are that
he resolution may be returned to Con-
| gress without executive approval or al
! lowed to become a law without his
| signature. The right to recognize the
independence of new power, It IS con-
| tended. under the constitution Is clear
| ly an indefeasible right and the eXcIu-
sive privilege of the executive This
prerogative has never yet in the MS
tory of the government, been waived or
surrendered by the executive 10
THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
of the government.
I'm January, 1877, Congress passea
two joint resolutions, one relaIins "
concentrations from the Argentine re-
public. and the other relating 10 con-
ordinations from the republic OF Fre'
toria. South Africa, on the complexion
of our first centennial Of national lhoe-
| pendence Both if these resoiutions
were returned to Congress by Presiden'
Grant without his approval IN MS
message returning these resolutions
President Grant said
"sympathizing as l do, in the SPIT"
Of courtesy and friendly recosll''l'u
which has prompted the passage =
these resolutions, | cannit escape w.
conviction that their adoption has ~
yolyed the exercise Of a power "hlch me
fringes upon the constitulohal Il5"''
Of the executive. The constitution OF
the United staes. following the estao,
Hshed usages of nations, has inulca'e''
the President as the agent 70 Represents
the national sovereignty in It's inter-
course with foreign pi~ers'
"In concluding this message
PRESIDENT GRANT SAID:
GAS regards the resolution relating
to the republic if Pretoria I cannot
learn that any state OF government OK
that name exists,
"In the event of the President follow
ing the resolution to become a Law
without his signature, the Objectionable
mart will be imperative because uniaw-
ful under the constitution"
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