El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-30
Powers Of PresidA Ont Great AS
Those OF Any Ruler In World
Courts Have Refused to Hamper Him d May Congress
CabneI DO
By FREDERICK HASKN
~HE president Of the United States !
By FREDERICK

~HE president Of the United States
IS the foremost ruler Of the
world. He is not a ruler by ac-
cident Of birth, but by virtue Of the
viii Of 80. ZOO. 600 people. who fight the
worlds greatest political battle every
four years for his election. and then
willingly and fully acquiesce IN the
verdict Of the ballot box
Election TO the presidency carries
with # a vast responsibility. The sue
cessfm candidate faces four years Of
Administering the laws of the great
est nation on earth, acting as the mas
ter mind Of a huge machine manned
BIZ nearly half a million men and
women. q machine which can patch
mail bag. study a plant louise, maneu-
yer an army or dig a Panama canal
Congress makes the nations laws,
the courts interpret them. and the
president executes them. Congress
may appropriate a billion dollars
year but the president must execute
the laws by which this vast sum is
raised. as we'll as those under which
# is spent. When he assumes the
presidency, he undll.al1es to carry out
laws which. during his=tas,. call for
the expenditure of nearly $s,eSS 000,-
600. Not only is it incumbent mon
the president to execute the laws, but
he must take an important part y
framing them. He must from time %
time. send messages TO congress, ad-
vising that body Of the condition or
the country and as to what iegisla-
ton is needed for the improvement OF
those conditions Through the secre-
tary OF the treasury he must also IN
form congress just how much money
viii be needed TO keep the government
going during the next year, and when
congress apprOpTiates these funds that
action is not completed until the preSl-
dent has scrutinized and signed the
appropriation measures
The Presidents Power.
The president has q cabinet to as
sist him in his supervision Of the exc
cutiOn of the laws Of the nation, under
the constitution he is solely respon-
sible for any official action any mem
Der of the body may take. AS col
Iective organization, the cabinet has
no constitutional standing, It's decis-
ions being in nowise binding upon the
president This is illustrated by q
fore his cabinet q proposition which
he favored and the cabinet voted
against it, He declared the votes to
be seven noes and one ave. There
fore" said he. the ayes have it." The
president with his attention demanded
upon every kind Of matter from the
appointment of a postmaster at POdunk
to the determination Of the proper
course TO pursue in a great interna-
tional situation, is a very busy man.
But he has so systematized his work
that he has almost as much time for
recreation as the average man Of af-
fairs.
For instance, although his mail is
the largest received by the head Of
any government on earth, it is so han
died that the task Of going through
it is not a very burdensome one. The
daily number of letters ranges from
500 to 1000, but less than g 100 OF
these require the personal attention of
the president. There is one clerk in
the executive offices whose sole duty
is TO classify this correspondence as