Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1869 — The Tenure of Office Law. [ARTICLE]

The Tenure of Office Law.

’Chert sfcinit to be a disposition ♦*« tlrt part of a f* w extremist; in tKe tTuited States Senate, under the leadership of Mr. SfMjncn, to oppose the repeal of the Tenure of Office law. The law wa- enacted for an especial purpose, to prevent the occurrence of eertain contingencies. — ; The danger which the law was created to meet ceased to threaten, with the election of President Grant, and they will have been completely dispelled upon hisinauguration, next week. The law will then have become a dead letter, so far as Its original object was concerned. It then will be, in fact, and now is in effect, a useless incumbrance upon the statute books, 'conducive of nothing but embarassment and contention. The purest of motives may have moved the framers of the law and some good may have resulted from, and some evils been prevented by its workings ; but that it has worked unsatisfactorily in too many ease* will not be denied. How ever pure were the motives yhieh made it a law, it is certain that it hn6 been Poly too successfully made use of by bad men, who were pillaging the public moneys, to protect them from removal. It may have protected valuable officers from arbitrary and unmerited removal; but it alao extended its protection over the most unblushing knaves and consummate scoundrels. It not, only circumscribed the pow ers of a perverse Executive in his revenge, preventing the commission of possible evils; but it also completely shielded the worst villains- from merited punishment. And the evils it shields more than balances the evils it is likely tb present.

General Grant is pledged to retrenchment, economy, and the faithful collection of our national revenues, that his pledges are sineer his record is evidence; but how ran he fulfill his pledges if he can not remove corrupt men from office? Wherein will General Gkast's administration be an improvement upon t.J»e unpopular one he succeeds if be is not permitted to introduce reforms? and how are reforms to be attained without the power to remove wicked and incompetent men from office? The burthens ol taxation are Tery heavy and grievious to be , borne, but the intelligence of the ! American masses teaches them to I mdure with patience those evils which there is a prospect of curing within a reasonable period of time. All classes demand retrenchment, and economy in the administration of the Government. Then let this useless and harmful law be repealO.f Tot the -new—AdininUtrationbegin at once the measures of reform, retrenchment and economy, without the unnecessary embarassmenl of a law which only serves to cast an unmerited distrust upon the Presidential office. J2s*”Hon. James N. Tyner was elected to Congress in the Eighth District at the special election on last'Saturday, by a larger majority tKun was given Hon. D. 1). Pratt in October lust. The democracy tried to get up a division in the republican ranks, by pretending to support Judge Biddle of Logansport, as an independent candidate, while at the aame time they were secretly circulating tickets with S. A. Hall’s name on theme The pretty little scheme wis divulged, and 8. A. Hall did not sneak into Congress on Judge Biddle's popularity. Lfudge Biddle was not a candidate and the democracy used bis name without his knowledge or consent. 13T tJcnfett, Messrs. DiC«»oX and Tbusleb, who were sending circulars to county officers asking them to submit to a liberal assessment, to be U6cd as a fund to defeat certain bills before the Legislature regulating the fees of county officers, have a smelling committee of .seven from the House after them to find out who gare them “assurances”* that the bills would lm defeated if “a sufficient fvmd was raised.” We trust that the committee will do its work thoroughly and put a slop to these corrupt barque being made to defeat bill*. . —Senator Saulabury of Delaware fell and broke hie leg last Saturday evening. It is supposed be was sober. —.«,*»» roost UX&tu body in