Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. *j %E. MARSHALL, - Publish**

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. _ u m Frederick White, a Wall street banker, died in Ms carriage on Staten Island, as be was starting for Ms office.... The second volume of James G. Blaine’s book has been issued. It begins with the administration of Andrew Johnson, and deals with that period in a particularly clear and interesting manner.' Mr. Blaine of this subject is a qualified defense of Johnson and a denial of the justice of the impeachment proceedings... .Samuel Brigham, cashier of the Wyndham National Bank of Norwich, Conn., has been held in $15,000 bail on charges of abstracting a $5,000 note from the bank, of misappropriating bank money, and of embezzlement... .James K. Winters killed himself at Reading, Pa., by fastening a rubber hose to a gas-burner, placing the other end in his mouth, and turning on the gas. General Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, has sued George Jones, the proprietor of the New York Times, to recover SIOO,OOO damages for alleged libel, it being charged that the newspaper published libelous statements concerning the plaintiff’s character as a signal-service officer, and also concerning his connection with the recent arctic expedition. One year ago, says a New York dispatch Gen. Grant signed a contract for the publication of his memoirs, by which it was agreed that he should receive 70 per cent, of the profits of the work, SI,OOO being paid in advance. An edition of 325,000 of the first volume has been printed, and less than 12,000 copies remain on hand, while forty presses are banging away turning out a complete book at every revolution of their cylinders. Last week Mrs. Grant received a check for $200,000 on account. The publisher expects to give Mrs. Grant a check for a similar amount before July 1, and is confident Mrs. Grant will receive in all $500,000 from the book.

THE WEST.

The Detroit lady who has charmed Senator Jones is Miss Frances Palms, whose father is reputed to be worth at least $12,000,000. She rejected his offer of marriage, and her father forbade him to enter the house. The Senator then asked Bishop Borgess to aid in bringing about a marriage, and received in reply a withering rebuke. .... Wm. N. Price has been arrested at Windsor, 111., on the charge of being responsible for the Georgia Aldridge outrage. Miss Aldridge is still very weak.... A trust company of New York has petitioned the Federal court at Indianapolis to appoint a receiver for the Chicago and Atlantic Boad for default of interest on bonds aggregating $11,500,000... .New Mexico, having fin*'* ished a penitentiary, took twenty-live of her convicts home from Kansas. A twelfth son of Carl Detloff, christened Grover Cleveland Detloff by permission of the President, was baptized at the German Lutheran Church at Detroit. Congressman May bury acted as sponsor for the President, and when the question was asked, “Do you, Grover Cleveland, renounce the devil and all his works?” Congressman Maybury responded “Yah” with die other sponsors, in deoidedly poor German. The child, after this ceremony, be- * gan to cry, and Maybury decided to leave the kissing of. it to the President himself.... Commenting on the recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court, in upholding the legislature’s right to control telephone rates, Mr. Edison says if the law is to prevail universally, the Patent Office might as well be closed, for capitalists will not take up inventions. He believes that the" doctrine is fatal to progress, and thinks the United States Supreme Court will declare the Indiana statute to be unconstitutional.... A schedule of the defunct Ritziuger Bank, Indianapolis, shows: Assets, $267,827.74; liailities, $455,868.53. There were 1,400 depositors, and the assignee says he thinks he can pay 45 cents on the dollajb- The live stock on Ritzinger’s farm will be sold March <,lO. Weibern Wartena, a Hollander, was hanged at Rensselaer, Ind., for the murder of a neighbor named Dregher in 1884. Wartena confessed his crime soon after his arrest, but upon the scaffold declared his innocence .... T. C. Dutro, a St. Louis capitalist, whiie examining the Col. Sellers mine at Leadville, fell into an eight-foot stope and suffered injuries which resulted in Ids death, y That fine actor, Mr. W, J. Florence, appears this week atMcVicker’s Theater, Chicago, as Bob Briefly in the “Ticket-of-Leave Man.” Mr. Florence was the original of this character in this country, and played it for nearly six months in the East when it was first brought over. Mr. Florence is probably the most versantic artist nojv on the stage; equally at home in high or low eomedy, an Irish brogue, a French or German dialect fits his tongue as well as his native vernacular. In English dialect parts he has also been successful/ The Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, preached three times, in Chicago, last Sunday. fifteen thousand people heard him during the day, and he seemed to hold the audiences spellbound.

THE SOUTH.

Judge Jackson, of the Federal Court at Charleston, West Virginia, in sentencing George J. Williams for pension frauds, embodied an order for his perpetual banishment from the State, to take effect sixty days after his release from jail.... The Houston Savings Bank, of Houston. Texas, t has closed its doors, and D. F. Smith has <■ been appointed receiver. The total amount of money deposited with the bank is $250,000. Its failure is due to the heavy-run upon it at the time when the Houston* City Bank failed recently. The bank had a paidup capital of SIOO,OOO. The Missouri and Arkansas division of Che Texas and St. Louis Railroad has been i sold to representatives of the bondholders j for-$7,401,000... .The Louisiana Board of Pardons has refused to yield to the petition of 26,786 citizens to release Ford and Murphy, the murderers of Captain Murphy. The Governor fixed March 12 as the date for their execution.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Manning has written a letter to Chairman Morrison, of the Ways and Means Committee, in which he estimates that Mr. Morrison’s tariff bill will reduce the public revenue about $12,000,000. The clausM of the bill’limiting the maximum of duties to certain ad valorem fates will give £ rise to controversies over values which will have to be approximately ascertained by customs officers,

and he advises that the decisions of offioers in such cases be made finalJ The Secretary calls attention to the necessity of making definite classifications, so as to avoid troublesome litigation. Provisions fixing the rate of duty according to the component material of ejjief value leads to legation, he says, because of the uncertainty 6f the meaning of that term when applied tb a manufactured article. Attention kg/ also called to the uncertainty of the term “broken or granulated rice,” and a suggestion is made that a maximum size be stated, so as to avoid controversy. It is understood that the Secretary of the Treasury will recommend that Congress provide specific duties on silk. , Representative Sanburn has reported to the House Committee on Agriculture that he finds on thorough examination a strong analogy between cholera in the human raee j and the so-called Texas plague in cattle, in ! the manner of its mode of propagation and spread among cattle, as well as very many conditions and symptoms in common with yellow fever. He thinks that the disease, like cholera, is spread by the excretions of the infected eatte, and considers a board fence separating well from diseased or ex- 1 posed cattle a sufficient quarantine. Dr. Swinburne of the committee expresses the' opinion that the infected northern or west-' ern cattle do not transmit the disease one to the other, and recommends an appropriation for a scientific commission to investigate the plague, the enactment of laws governing the transportation of cattle, and the enforcement of quarantine. Congressman Lawler has%'%ill to present to Congress providing for the closing of the Chicago River, between the lake and Twelfth street.... A ship canal is proposed from the river at Sixteenth street to the lake. The House Committee on Indian Affairs has agreed on bills granting right of way through Indian Territory to the Fort Scott and Kansas, Fort Wortli and Denver, Kansas and Arkansas Valley, and Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Companies... .The House adopted a resolution empowering the Postoffice Committee “to ascertain whether ad-; ditional legislation is necessary to prevent the monopoly of telegraphic facilities, and to secure to the Southern, Western and Pacific StatesHhe benefits of competition between telegraph companies, and to protect the people of the United States against unreasonable charges for telegraphic servioes.”

POLITICAL.

The special election in the Fifth Wisconsin Congressional District to choose a, successor to the late Representative Rankin, resulted in favor of Thomas R. Hudd, the Democratic nominee. A Washington special says: “The Senators who attended the Michigan' Club banquet in Detroit called upon Senator Jones, of Florida, who has been absent during the present session, and .invited; him to return to Washington with them.,’ He replied that he was not yet ready to return, and did not see why he should, hurry back; He had devoted himself assiduously to his senatorial duties for ten years, and could not understand why ha should not now spend some time in reKion and recreation without tor Edmunds once went away with his family, Don Cameron went to Europe, and! Sharon was rarely ever in the Senate, yet nobody criticised them. Senator Jones admitted that he had received Florida papers condemning him for his absence, but he thought the criticisms were unjust. Mr. Jones is a poor man. The woman with whom he is said to be infatuated is enormously wealthy. Mr. Jones’ colleagues say that he is not losing his mind, as has been reported, but that there is method in his madness.” The Supreme Court of Ohio upholds the Governor in removing the Police Commissioners of Cincinnati. The Major alone has power to fill the vacancies.... The Senate Judiciary Committee at Washington has decided to report adversely on the nomination of Zacbariah Montgomery, of Califor-. nia, as Assistant District Attorney General for the Interior Department. The sentiments entertained by the nominee With re--spect to the public-school system, which were publicly expressed in a pamphlet issued by him several years ago, form the grounds for objection.

GENERAL.

Ex-Senator William H. Barnttm has retired from the position of general manager of the Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is: succeeded by John Abeel, of New York ■ Reports have reached Canada that six mounted policemen were killed by Indians near Regina, and that the police at Edmonton nnd Saskatchewan bid defiance to their officers. It is not true that the Chinpse Consul General has advised Chinamen to quit-' America and return home. The report orig-; inated from arrangements; being made with steamship companies to carry back poor,' sick, and unemployed Chinese at half rates. «.... The Circuit Court at Columbus, Ohio, affirmed the judgment in the Dalton contempt case, and the matter was at once referred to the Supreme Court of the State for final settlement. The Rochester American Rural Home i' has received crop reports from over five thousand correspondents, and, reviewing the situation, says: “Owing to strong, foreign competition and the decrease of ex-| ports, farmers who have been growing spring wheat largely ought to con-; sider very carefully? the amount of wheat they put out. The winter-' wheat outlook is uncertain, nltelnate freezing, covering, and uncovering being likely to injure the crop. The Pacific coast reports are favorable, The winter wheat crop coming out from under its' blanket of snow is generally reported to be in fair condition; but at the same time it will be subjected to the freezing and thawing weather which is due at this season of the year. Very little grain is moving, and; there is no prospect of any large increase. , The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers proposes to establish atj Pittsburg an extensive depot or store frqm which supplies of provisions, clothing, bacco, etc., will be distributed to subordinate shops throughout the country, either at minimum wholesale prices or on commission, to be resold at cheap rates for the benefit of organized labor,.. ,N. C.‘ Ford & Co,, distillers and general merchants at Simcoe, Ont., have failed for $100,060.

FOREIGN.

The British minister at Athens has telegraphed to London that Greece will snb-i mit to superior force and enter her protest against the demands of the powers.... Prince Jerome Napoleon has published a letter in which he protests against the contemplated expulsion from France of pre- ; tenders to the throne. At Monte Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had stopped fqr a few days at Monaco, committed suicide after mining himself at the gaming table... .The eable announces the death of the Rev: Hugh Stowell Bipwn,

the famous Baptist preacher of Liverpool,, who in early life ran a locomotive on the Lor&lon and Northwestern Road. An officer or the French army, named Poierier, went into the Chamber of Deputies, fired a revolver twice, and threw a letter toward M. Clemeneeau offering to give' to tho Government the names of the betrayers of Metz. Poierier claimed to have been refused justice by his superiors... . The Associated British Chamber of Commerce sitting at London have adopted unanimously the resolution recently offered to the effect that the grant of home rale to Ireland would prove disastrous to trade.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

J. V. Lewis, of Cincinnati, has organized a cotton-seed oil pool or corporation having a > capital of $20,000,000, to be known as the Cotton Oil Trust Company, and controling 60 per 'tent, of the mills of the entire country. It is said the syndicate is besieged by applications for admission of mills not yet in the p 001.... Explorers in Nebraska found within three miles of Chadron an ancient stone wall extending for seven niiles. It is over a foot in thickness, from three to four feet high, and laid in cement with great regularity.... The bursting of a boiler resulted in the explosion off 12,000 pounds of powder in the Miami Powder Company’s works near Xenia, Ohio, killing three men and blowing the dry house and its machinery to pieces. .... The Illinois Central Road, in its report • for 1885, shows an increase of $464,485 in the earnings of the Illinois and Southern lines, and a decrease of $34,054? in the lowa leased tracks. The gross earnings per mile were $6,108.00. .. .A masked mob expelled the Chinese working at East Portland and Albina, Oregon, displaying revolvers to menace the Chinese, who were driven to a ferryboat and then carried to Portland. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints for the week ended Eeb. 27 was 3 305,060. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 186,497. The shipments of fractional silver Coin during the month of February amounted to $230,089 The United States Supreme Court has sustained the decision of the lower courts in favor of the defendant in of the State of Tennessee against the Pullman Car Company, brought to recover taxes on the cars of the company passing through the State. The Canadian Pacific Railroad depot at Winnipeg, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $200,000, with insurance of but $40,000.

President Cleveland sent to the Senate, on March 1, a special message declining to furnish unofficial documents relating to suspensions from office, and claiming the right to destroy them. When the message had been read Mr. Edmunds said it reminded him of the communication of King Charles I. to the Parliament. He also said that tho President, unintentionally, no doubt, hod entirely misstated the question involved between himself and the Senate, It was ordered printed. - The Senate, in executive session, rejected tho nominations of Messrs. Pillsbury and Chase to be Collectors of Internal Revenue at. Boston, Mass., and Portland, Me., respectively. The nomination of John H. Shaffer to.be Postmaster at Kankakee was confirmed. The nomination of Surveyor General Dement, of Utah, was reported adversely. In the House of Representatives a member from South Carolina introduced a bill for the distribution of the surplus moneys- in —the Treasury, during the next four years, among the respective States in proportion to their representation in the Senate and House. Mr. Brumm asked unanimous consent of the Hopse to have printed-in the Record a memorial signed by J. P. Brigham and others, asking for the impeachment ofDaniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, for high crimes and misdemeanors in the execution of the silver law. Mr. Beach objected.

The chaperon system is getting a foothold in the large American cities. In Paris this plan is used to the exclusion of all others; but in America it was almost unknown down to a quite recent date. A lady writer contends that the chaperon is becoming a necessity in the larger cities on account of the exclusion of so many young men from society through inability to meet the necessary expenditure of a society man. The larger the city the greater becomes the necessary expense. This state of affairs puts the society ladies in an uncomfortable majority *over the society men, and recruits the ranks of “wall-flowers” to an alarming extent. So the chaperon becomes a beneficent institution, and young ladies will enjoy a greater independence of movement than ever before. Richard Wjnehall, of South Egremont, Mass., recently sold his wife for three dollars. There appears to be a very gratifying boom in the wife market. Only recently a man sold his wife for five cents, ' and this sudden advance in price to three dollars shows that there is at least one industry that is not languishing.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YOEK. Beeves $4.50 @ 6.00 "Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. I White 96 @ .98 No. 2 Bed 93 & .93% Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 Oats-White ,40 & .46 Pork—Mess , 10.25 @10.75 CHICAGu. Beeves^—Choice to Prime Steers, 5.75 @ 6.25 Qood Shipping........ 4.50- @n5.00 C0mm0n.'’.....,,.....'... 3.50? @*4.00 .Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @4.50 ' Flour—Extra Spring 4.75 @ 5.25 Choice Winter 4.5) @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring. si @ .82 Corn—No. 2. .’A .30 @ .38 Oats—No. 2...1 .30 @„ .31 Rye—No. 2 4 . .58 @ .00 ' Barley— .*... 04 @ .«<.• Butter—Choice Creamery .23 @ .30 Pine Dairy 18 @ .22 Cheese—Pull Cream, new...... .11!£@ .12**, Skimmed P1at5........ .00 t @ .07 Eggs—Fresh ... s 17 @ .18 Potatoes—Choice, per bu .55 @ .52 Pork—Mess 10.50 @ll.OO MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2*..- 80.. @ .82 Corn—No. 2... i. 36 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 .........,, .28 @ *.39 11YK —No. 1 51 @ .00 Pork—New Mess 10.25 @10.75 TOLEDO. W heat —No. 2 i.......... .92 @ .93 Corn—No. 2 38 @fj*4o Oats—No. 2 i. .32 @ij.S3 , ST: LOUIS. Wheat-ANo. 2 Red , .91 @ .92 Corn—Mixed 35 @ .35 Oats—Mixed 1 29 @ .80 Pork —New Me55.......' 10.75 @11.25 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 3 > L .38 @ .39 t Oats—No. 2 i 32 @ .'S3 ■'Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.25 Live Hogs 4.26 @71.75 DETROIT. Beep Cattle 4.50 @ 5,50 Hogs... 3.50 @'4.50 Sheep 3.00 @ 4AW V Wheat—No. 1 White 90 @ .91 Corn—No. 2..: .38 @ -30 v.Oats—No. 2 ..j .33 @ .36 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red /. 91 @ .92 C0rn—New............. J. ~r,. * .36 @ .38 Oats—No. 2..i1l .29 & .31 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best..-. 5.00 @5.50 Fuir.lJ 4.50 @5.00 Common 3.50 @4.25 Hogs.... 4.50 & 5.00 Sheet 3.00 @3.75 » BUFFALO. v Wheat—No. 1 Hard 98 @,\ .99 I Corn—Yellow....Y.... 42*$@ .43)$ Cattle.i..... 4.50 @5.25 , S "

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

He Will Not Furnish Certain Papers Regarding Suspensions from Office. In a Message to the Senate He Maintains His Right to Withhold Them. The President sent to the Senate, on the Ist of March, a message stating hjs position in relation to tho suspensions of officials, und defending his action in refusing to send tb the Senate papers on file in departments upon which it is assumed by the Senate that the suspensions of certain officials oro based. The messago was read in tho open session of the Senate. It is as follows : To the Senate of tho United States : Ever since the beginning of the present session of the Senate the different heads of tho departments attached to the Executive bmnch of the Government have been plied with various requests and demands from committees of the Senate, from members of such committees, and at last from tho Senate itself, requiring the transmission of reasons for the suspension of certain officials during the recess of that bedy, or for the papers touching the conduct of such officials, or for all papers and documents relating to such suspensions,or for all documents and papers filed in such departments in relation to the management and conduct of the offices held by such suspended officials. The different ter.ns from time to time adopted in making these requests and demands, the order in which they succeeded each other, and the fact that when mado by the Senate the resolution for'that purpose was passed in executive session, have led to a presumption, the correctness of which will, I suppose, be candidly admitted, that from first to last tho information thus sought and,the papers thus demanded were for use by the Sen-; ate and its committees, in considering the propriety of the suspensions referred to. Though those suspensions are my executive acts, based upon considerations addressed to me alone, and for which I am wholly responsible, I have bad no invitation from the Senate to state the position which I have.felt constrained to assume in relation to the same, or to interpret for myself my nets and motives in the premises. In this condition of affairs I have forborne addressing the Senato upon tho subjoctlest I' might be accused of thrusting myself unbidden upon the attention of that body. * But the report of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, lately presented and published, which censures the Attorney General of the United States for his refusal to transmit certain papers relating to a suspension from Office, and which also, if I correctly interpret it, evinces a misapprehension of the position of the Executive upon such suspensions, will, I hope, justify this communication. The President refers to the resolution of the

Senate calling for tho Dustin papers and the reply of the Attorney General thereto, and says : Upon this resolution and the answer thereto the issue is thus stated by the Committee ou the Judiciary at tho outset of the report: “The important question, then, is whether it is within the constitutional competence of either house of Congress to have access to the official papers and documents in the various public offices of the United States created by laws enacted by themselves." I do not suppose that “the public offices of tho United States” are regulated or controlled in their relations to either house of Congress by the fact that they were “created bylaws enacted by themselves.” It must he that these instrumentations were created for the benefit of the people and to answer the general purposes of govemmentlunder the Constitution and the laws, and that they are unincumbered by auy Xian in favor of either branch of Congress growing out of their Constitution, and unembarrassed by any obligation to the Senate as the p<rice of their creation. The complaint of the committee that access to official papers in the public offices is denied the Senate is met by the statement that at no t me has it been the. disposition or the intention of the President or any department of the executive branch of the Government to withhold from the Senate official documents or papers filed in any of the public offices. While it is by no means conceded that the Senate has the right in any case to review the act pf the Executive in removing j or suspending a public officer upon official documents or otherwise, it is considered that documents and papers of that nature should, because they arei official, be freely transmitted to tho Senate ypon Its demand, trusting the use of the same for proper and legitimate purposes to the good faith of that body. And though no such paper or document has been specifically demanded in any of the numerous requests and demands made upon the departments, yet, as often as they were found in the public offices, they have been furnished in answer to such-ap-

plications. The letter of the Attorney General in response to the resolutions of the Senate in the particular case mentioned in tho committee’s report was written at hay suggestion and by any direction. There had been no official papers or documents filed in his department relating to the case within the period specified in the resolution. The letter was intended, by its description of the papers and documents .remaining in the custody of the department, tb convey the idea that they were not official; and it was assumed that the resolution called for information, papers, and documents of tho same character as were required by tho requests and demands which precedeedTt. Everything that hod been written or done bn behalf of the Senate from the beginning pointed to all letters and papers of a private and unofficial nature as, the objects of search, if they were to be found in the departments, and provided they had been presented to the Executive with a view to their consideration upon the question of suspension from office. , Against tho transmission of such papers and documents I have interposed n.y advice and direction. This has not been done, aH is suggested in the committee’s report, upon the assumption on my part that the Attorney General cr any other head of a department “is the servant of the President, and is to give or 'withhold of documents in his office according to tho will of the Executive aul not otherwise,” but because I regarded the papers and documents withheld, ajiil addressed to me or intended for my use and action purely unofficial and private, not infrequently confidential, and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department, hut as deposited there for my convenience, remaining still completely under my con’rol. I suppose, if I desired to take them into n>v custody, I might do so with entire propriety, and if I raw fit to destroy them ho

one 1 ould complain.:, The papers and d< oumsnts that are now the objects of the Senate's quest consist of letters and representations addressed to the Executive or intended for his- inspection; they are voluntarily writt n amfpreseated by private citizens who are not in the Last instituted thereto by any official invitation or at all subject to official control. While seme of them are entitled to executive consideration', many efthem are so irrelevant,w, in the light of other facts, so worthless, that tlev have not been given the least/ weight in determining the question to which they are supposed to relate. Are all these. sUnply'b. cause they are preserved, to be considered official documents, and subject to th'efiusnection of the Senate? If not, who is to deb rmino which belong to this class ? Are. the motives and purposes of the Senate, as they are dav by dav developed, such as would be satisfied with mv selection? Am I to submit to theirs at the riik . f being charged with making a suspension from office upon evidence which was not even considered? Arei, these pjqHfi to be regarded official because they have not only been presented but preserved iu the public offioes? The r nature and character remain t:ie same whether they are kept in the Executive Mi n-dou or deposited iu the departments. There is no mysterious power of trans‘mutation in departmental custody, nor is there magi 1 in the undefined and Bacred solemnity of department flies. If the presecca of these papers in the public offices a stumbling block in the way of the performance of senatorial duty, it can be easily.rimoved. . The papers and documents, which have been described derive no official'character from any constitutional, statutory, bt other requirement making them necessary to the performance of the official duty of the Executive. It will not be denied, I suppose, that the 1 , President may suspend a public officer [njhe entire absence of any paper*? or documents to aid bis official judgment and ' discretion. Arid lam quite prepared to avow that the oases orq not few in which suspensions fr.vm office have depended more upon oral representations made to me by citizens of known good rep Ute and bv m* m’urs of the House of Represents: 1 von and Sena or* of the United States, than upon any letters and documents presents*! for rpy examination. I have not felt justified in suspecting the veracity, integrity, and patriotism of Senators, or ignoring their representations, because they were not in party affiliation with the majority of their assomatep; .arid I recall a few’ suspensions which > pear the apuroval of individual members identified politically with tlia majority m-, the _ Senate. While, therofore, I am constrained to deny the right of the Senate to the papers anddocuments described, no for as the right to'the same is bwed upon the claim that they are in any view of the sub jest official, lam also led unoqtilv-

ocally to dispute the right of the Senate, by the aid of any documents whatever, or in any way save through the judicial process of trial on impeachment, to review or reverse the act of the Executive in the suspension during the recess of the Senate of Federal officials. I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vesttd in the President alone by the Constitution, which in oxpress terms provides that “the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America," and that “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." The Senate belongs to the legislative branch of the Government. When the Constitution by express provision superadded to its legislative duties the right to advise and consent to appointments to office, and to sit as a court of impeachment it conferred upon that body all the control and regulation of executive action supposed to lie necessary for the Bafetv of the people; and this express and special grant of such extraordinary powers, not in any way related to or growing put of general Senatorial duty, and in itself a. departure from the general plan of our Government, should be hold, under a familiar maxim of construction, to exclude every other right of interference with executive functions. ,r In the first Congress which assembled after the adoption of the Constitution, comprising many who aided in its preparation, a legislative construction was given to that instrument in which the independence of the Executive in the matter of removalsi from office was fully 1 Busstained. I tniuk it will be found that, in, the subsequent discussions of this question, there was generally, if not at all tivpes, a proposition pending to in some way curtail this power of the President by legislation, which furnishes evidehce that to limit such power it was supposed to be necessary to supplement the Constitution by such legislation. The first enactment of this description was passed under a stress of partisanship and political bitterness, which culminated in tjttae President's impeachment. Tho law provided that tho Federal officers to whom it applied could only be suspended during the recess of the Senate when shown by evidence satisfactory to the President to be guilty of misconduct in office* or crime, or when incapable or disqualified to perform their duties, and that, within twenty days after the next meeting of the Senate, it should be the duty of the President “to report to the Senato such suspension, with tho evidence and reasons for his action in the case." This statute passed iu 1807, when Congress was overwhelmingly and bitterly opposed, politically, to the President, may be regarded as an indication that even then it was thought nesessary by a Congress determined upon the subjugation of the executive to the legislative will t i furnish a law for that purpose, instead of attempting to reach the object intended by an invocation of any pretended constitutional right.

The law which thus found its way to_our-sta-tute-book was plain in its terms, and its intent needed no avowal. If valid and now irpoperation it would justify the pi-esent conrse'of the Senate and command the obedience of the Executive to its demands. It may, however, be remarked in passing that under this law the President had the privilege of presenting tb the body which assumed to review his executive acts his reasons therefor, instead of being excluded from explanation or judged by papers found in the department. Two years after the law Of 1867 was parsed, and within less than five weeks after the inauguration of the President in political jcoord with both branches of Congress, the sections of the act regulating suspensions from office during the recess of the Senate were entirely repealed, and in their place were substituted provisions which, instead of limiting the causes of suspension to misconduct, crime, disability, or disqualification, expressly permitted such suspension by the President “in his discretion," and completely abandoned tho requirement obliging him to report to the Senate “the evidence and reasons” for his action. With these modifications, and with all branches of the Government in political harmony, and in the absence of partisan incentive to captious discussion, the law, ns it was left by the amendment of 1869, was much less destructive of executive discretion ; and yet the great General and patriotic citizen who, on the 4th day of March, 1869, assumed the duties of chief executive, and for whose freer administration of his high office the most hateful restraints of the law of 1867 were, on the sth day of April, 1869, removed, mindful of his obligation to defend and protect every prerogative of his great trust, and apprehensive of the injury threatened the public service tn the continued operation of these statutes, even in their modification, in hiß first message to Congress advised their repeal and set forth their unconstitutional character and hurtful tendency. lam unable to state whether or not this recommendation for a rqpeal of these laws has been since repeated. If it has not, the reason can probably be found in the experience which demonstrated the fact that the necessities of the political situation but rarely developed their vicious character. And so it happens that after an extension of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth, apparently the repealed as well as the unrepealed, and put in the way of an executive who is willing, if permitted, to attempt an improvement in the methods of administration. Tho constitutionality of these laws is by no means admitted. But Why should the provisions of the repealed law, which required specific cause for suspension and a report to tho Senate of “evidence and reasons,” be now, in effect, applied to the present executive instead of the law, afterward passed and unrepealed,- which distinctly permits “suspensions by the President” in his discretion, and carefully omits the requirement that “evidence and reasons for his action in the case” shall be reported to tho Senate ?

The requests and demands which by tho score have for nearly three months been presented to the difierent departments of the Gove.nmsntjj whatever,may be their form, havo blit one com? piexion. 'They assume the right of the Senate to sit in judgment upon the exercise of my executive function, for which I am solely responsible to the people from whom I have so lately received the sacred trust of office. My Oath to support and defend the Constitution ; rny duty to the people who have chosen me to execute the'powers of their great office, and not to relinquish them, and my duty to the Chief Magistracy, wliich I must preserve unimpaired in all its dignity and vigor, compel me to refuse to comply with these demands. To the end that the service may be improved, thy Senate is invited to the fullest scrutiny of the persons submitted to them for public office, in recognition of the constitutional power of that body to advise and const nt to their appointment. I shall continue, as I have thus lar done, to fumish,-»at the request of the confirming body, all thb information I possess touching the fitness of the nomineos placed btf iro them for their action, both when they are proposed to fill vacancies and to take the places of suspended officials. Upon a refusal to confirm I shall not nasume the right to ask the reasons for the action of the Senate, nor question its determination. I cannot think ..that anything more is required to secure worthy incumbents in public office than a careful arid independent discharge of our respective duties within their well-defined limits. Though the propriety of suspensions might be better assured if the action of the President waß subject to review by the Seimte, yet if the Constitution and the laws have placed this responsibility upon the executive branch of the Governmeht it should not be divided nor the discretion which it involved relinquished. It has been claiinv d that, tfie present Executive having pi edit*! himself not to remove officials except for cause, the fact of their suspension implies such misconduct ou tho i art of a. ] /suspended official as injur< s his character and reputation, and therefore tue Senate should review the case for his vindication. I have said that certain officials should not, in my opinion, be removed during the continuance of the term for which they were appointed solely for the perjose of putting in their place those in p litical affiliation 5 --w ith tlje appointing power; ana this declara* lon was immediately followed by a description of official partisanship wh#ch ought nut to entitle those id whom it whs exhibited to lonaidevation. It is not apparent how an adherence to the course thus announced carries with it the consequences described. If in any degree the suggestion is worthy of'Consideration it is to be hoped that there may be a defense against unjust suspension ip the justioe of the Executive.

Every pledge which i have made by which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise of Executive power has been faithfully redeemed. Of course the pretense is not put forth that no mistakes have been oommitted ; but not a suspension has been made.exceptit appeared to my Satisfaction that the public welfare would be improved thereby. Many applications for suspension have been denied, and the adherence to the rule laid down tq govern my action as to such suspensions has caused much irritation and impatience on the part of those who have insisted upon more changes in the offices. . The pledges I have made were made to the people, and to them I am responsible for the maimer in which they have been redeemed. I. 1 nm not responsible to the. Senate, and I am unwilling to submit mv actions and official conduct to them for judgment There no grounds for an allegation that the fear of being found false to my professions influences me, in declining to submit to the demands of the Senat3. I have not constantly refused to suspend officials, and thus incurred the displeasure of polit cal friends', andyet willfully broken faith with the people for the sake of being false to them. Neither the discontent of party friends nor the allurement constantly offered , of confirmations of appointees conditioned upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone, nor the threat proposed in the resolutions now Ik sere the Senate that no ..confirmations will bi made unless the demands of that body be complied with, is sufficient to disoonroge or deter me from following in' the aray which 1 am

convinced leads to better government for the people. Grover Cleveland. Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., March 1, 1886.

THE MESSAGE IN THE SENATE.

Edmunds Likens It to One of King Charles t I.—Referred to a Committee. When the message had been read in the Senate, Mr. Edmunds arose and said that it reminded him of the communications of King Charles I. to the British Parliament. The Pri sident, he said, had, unintentionally, no doubt, entirely misstated the question involved between himself and the Senate. Continuing, the Senator said: I think I am safe in spying that it is the first time in the history of the Republic that tiny President of the United States has undertaken to interfere with the deliberations of either House of Congress on questions pending before them otherwise than by messages on the state of the Union, which the Constitution commands him to make from time to time. This message Is devoted solely to a question for the Senate itself, in regard to itself, that it has under consideration. That is its singularity. I think it will strike reflecting people in this country as somewhat extraordinary, if, in these days of reform, anything at all can be thought extraordinary. The Senate of the United States, in its communications to the heads of departments—not his heads of departments, but the heads of departments created by law—directed them to transmit certain official papers, and that is all. The President of the United States undertakes to change the question into a consideration by the Senate of hfs reasons or motiv es for putting a civil officer, as it might be called,“under arrest” —with which the Senate has not undertaken in any way to make any question at all. By every message he has sent to this body—and they are all public—he has asked the Senate to advise and consent to the removal of one officer and tho appointment of another. That is what ho has done, and the Senate iu calling for those papers—to say nothing of wider considerations about any deficiencies in the Department of Justice—is asked to remove these officers, without knowing the condition of the administration of their offices. Mr. Edmunds moved that the President’s message be referred to tho Judici try Committee. Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, remarked that, for reasons to which he could not then refer, he had no desire to discuss the matter involved, and moved that.the message be printed and laid on the table—the usual course, he said. After,a" little parrying between the two Senators the motion Edmunds was agreed to and the message was sent to the Judiciary Committee. •

SENATOR PUGH’S REPORT.

The Minority Report of the Judiciary Committee Replies to the Majority. Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, submitted to the Senate, on the Ist of March, the report of the minority of the - Judiciaiy Committee on the Senate papers relating to the removal from office ot United States District Attorney Dustin of Alabama. It is very long, and contains no resolutions. It says that when President Cleveland came into office 95 per cent, of the offices were filled by Republicans. Notwithstanding* 1 the great demand of his supporters for offices and the fact that good reasons for the removal of Republicans were abundant, removals from office have been sparingly made. Hi the case of Dustin the report says that Dustin has made no complaint that he was wronged. The whole point at issue is the right to the possession of a single document relating exclusively to the removal of Dustin. The decision of the President that this document is not a public one must, the report says, be accepted as conclusive. The minority admits that all public documents relating to any subject over which Congress has power are subject to call, but denies the right to d mand documents relating exclusively to removals or susjiensions. The only rightful custodian of such papers is the President. Tho minority expresses sunrise at the appearance in the majority report of the reso- - lution relating to the preference of' appointing honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, and asks by what authority such a resolution was reported, and what it has to do with the Dustin case. The information of the minority is that Dustin never was a Union soldier, but on the contrary was either a Confederate soldier or sympathizer, and they believe the intent of the resolution was to secure political and partisan advantage. In conclusion, the report denies the right of the Senate to try the President for an alleged violation of his public pledges. It admits that the President did declare that he would not remove officials merely because they; were Republicans, but says he at the some time declared that he would decapitate officeholders who had been guilty of offensive partisanship. The President, it says, declines to submit voluntarily to the decisions of a tribunal having no jurisdiction over the question, the sufficiency of such cause for suspensions, especially when his fear is that such conduct in the officer might be regarded by the Republican majority as a reason for the retention of tho incumbent in office. In relation to the reasons of the President for removing officials the report Bays that the documents in lieettly every ease contain only a partial statement jpf the causes, facts, and reasons, while in a large majority of the cases the President relied on oral testimony, which it would be impossible for him to remember or reproduce in.every case, so as to put the Senate in possession of all the facts whioh governed him in tho suspension, even if the Senate had the authority under the Constitution or laws of the United States to call him to an account.

A MOST WONDERFUL FAMILY.

Seventeen Brothers, the Lightest of 'Wlfuni Weighs an Eighth of a Ton, and ijh Healthy Sisters. [From the Chioago Tribune.] A very mild-mannered man passes quietly about bis business each day, and as he goes along the street no one would imagine' that he weighs 250 pounds, without raiment. His name is Richard Pyne; he has no spare flesh, but any one who would take a second look would be satisfied that he is there or thereabout. Mr. Pyne’s residence is at No. 3641 Marshfield avenue, and he is a railroader, 29 years of age, and formerly in the employ of the Chicago and Alton. Aside from its faithfulness, it can be stated that the family history, so far as records show, is of a very remarkable char--aeter, both as regards brain and sinews. At present the Pjme family consists of twenty-three children, seventeen boys a'nd six girls, and of the brothers it may be stated Richard, with his one-eighth of a ton, is the lightest one of the seventeen. Of this family it may be further said, that the old people are still vigorous and living at the old homestead in Killrnsh, County Clare, Ireland; two sisters are married and living in Buffalo, N. Y., while John E., Ed, and Tim are on the police foroe of the same city. Another sister is living at Elmira, N. Y., and yet another brother, Patrick, is the proprietor of one of (he most prominent saloons in San Francisco.

A WONDERFUL GUN.

Tests of a New Piece of Ordnance That Is Expected to Throw a Ball Fifteen Miles. [Kalamazoo (Mich.) speciaL] . A remarkable gun, one that renders armor-plated ships of about- as little protection as wood, has just been tested here. The first trial was made with the smallest gun, which burst. The second trial, with a 55-caliber gun, was more successful, sending a 24-inch steel ball through a solid steel plate! 3-16 inches thick, imbedding the ball eighteen tnehes in very hard wood. In third trial a 74-inch ball was used, and the target, composed of fourteen thicknesses o£ boiler plate, 64 inches, firmly attached to an oak log, was perforated, the ball penetrating the log a distance, of four feet, the passage through the jron and steel being perfectly smooth. There is but slight recoil. In this powerful gun the powder is so well used that the entire power is concentrated on the projectile. Two pounds of powder were used in the heaviest test. The inventor claims this gun will send a ball fifteen miles. j -•- j, Georgia can beat Kansas on sheep stories, and tells of fifteen sheep looked together by oockle burrs. » — Lord Salisbury lias declined a dukedom. . THE cable cars in Kansas City cany weather signals.