Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-11
o. PRESIDENT
Grover Cleveland Delivers Second
Lecture on Independence Of the
Executive.
He Reviews His Famous Controversy,
With the Senate and the
Outcome.
.Congratulates Himself That He Pre-
served the Presidents rreroga.
tives From Congress-

Princeton, n. j., April 11.--Former
President Cleveland delivered the Sec
ond of his lectures on THE Irdepend-
ence of the Executive in IniNersitsi
Hall last evening. The audience was
large and listened With much interest
to the lecturers discourse on his eSpe--
rience.z as. president.
Mr.. Cleveland began by speaking Of
the pressure for the removal Of public
office-holders Immediately after the
change of administration in 1855 and
the substitution OF democrats in their
places.
While i Claim he said, ITO have
earned a position which entities me 10
resent the accusation that either
covertly favor swift official:
decapitation for partisan purposes, i
have no sympathy With the intolerant
people who. Without the least appre-s
cation OF the meaning of party Work.
aud service superciiiousiy affeGtBte de-.
sspise all those who apply for office as
they Would those guilty OF a fragrant
5inisdemeaier.
s.Whs should We indiscrilninately
not have entirely e.nancipated them
selves from the belief that the Offices
should pass with party victory. but
even if this Is charged against them it
can surely be said 1f.at in all otherie
spects they are IN veiY many Instances
as honest as eapapie and as Intelligent
as any Of US.
There may bersasons and consider
ations which properly defeat their as
.pirations, but their applications are not
always disg,.aceful. l have an idea
that sometimes the greatest difference
between them and those who needless
~ abuse mem and gloat OVER their dis
comiiture consists in the fact that the
offiGe- seekers desire office, and their
critics, being more Irofitably employed,
do not
Mir. Cleveland then passed y, a dis
cussion OF his controversy With the sem.
ate oyerstlle question of transmitting
sthe reasons fog suspensions from Office
and the papers retatins thereto.
~ could net avoid the conSiction,f he.
said. that compliance with such re-
quests would be To that extent a failure
TO protect and defend tbs constitution.
as wellsas a wrong 10 the great office i
heldin trust for the people, and which L
Was bound to transmit uhitnpaireds to
my successors. nor could be untmnd y
full of a constant tendency IN certain
quarters to encroach upon executive
functions or of the eagerness With
which executive concession would be
Mr.. cleveland then quoted at length
from the report of the senate committee
on the Judiciary, o which the question
had been referred, and also from his own
Eilles sa ge8 to- the senate After, IfNiewlnS
the debate iii the senate upon the queg-
3tions presented by the report he COM
:nented upon the passage BY ltt senate
of the resolution cnndamntng the attor-
ne;;;5 general for Withholding the papers
and documents Which the senate had de-
fnantisd.
He then pointed out that in December.
1850 prior3to the first request on demand
upon an executive department. relating
ito suspensions and before amy contro-
verss upon the subject arose. a bin Was
introduced in the senate for the total re-
peal OF the Law Of 1889.
This bill! slumbered IN the senate com
lsmittee on the judiciary until June 1856
NEARLY three months after the Close OF
1.-THE controversy. 1t was then returned
Ito the senate with a favorable report
land passed both the senate and tn.
house OF presertativess
Thus, declared Mr. Cleveland, ii
CLOSING, was an unpleasant controNer-
i ST happily followed BY an expurga tiot
4 of the last vestige of statutory sanction
Y to4an eneroachment upon cons tituiio,la
executive prerogatives. and thus wa.
4 a -honored interpretation Of tht
constitution restored 70 us, The presi
sNdent. freed from the senate's claim O
dtutelage. became again tra inIependeil
4 ageat of the apls-reEresen ting a 90
i o.tlinates branch of their government
4Echarged With spGnsibilities which uti
ftder hts oath he ought not TO avoid o
Il share
Turnout the lecture Mr.. Cleveland wa!
! Frequently Interrupted by applause. am
lat its close the big haIlrang with cheer
3Eef enthusiastic students and other:
jtpresent.
DR.. Patton expressed the thanks o
4 the university TO MIR. Cleveland for de
8l5liyering the lectures. ard surprised th
i'audience by announcing tina: Mr.. tleve
Hand would deliver he Stafford Littl
8llectures again next year. and, he hoped
flor as many more years as Mr.. tsleve
Hand would have strength to delive
them.