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r"r: '' $7, ' ; ' - -'? >.. . . ;:. - ' ' ' ' .' * " . ' >*?; . '.. . . ," ' 111 ?" ' ???a?^? . 4"' ' 'mymn-m. M - * * 1 1 * " ' ^?>? ~~~ ' " . T~ * ' - . . ? . ; i . ; . ?.f VOL. 2. ABBEVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1886. ' NO. 27. . - The President's Message. Washixqtoh, March 1.?The Presi dent's message to the Senate to-day in regard to its demands for papers was received when the Senate was in secret session. When it was laid before the body Senator Harris proposed that it be road with closed doors. Senators Kennn and Van YVyck prostested against this proceeding and demanded the doors be opened. After a brief debate Senator Harris withdrew his proposition, and <li?r?rs wore* onened. the nics sngn was roHti. The following is its full toxt: To the Senate of the United States : Ever since tlic beginnning of the present session of the Senate the different heads of departments attached to the executive branch of the government haVe been plied with various requests and demands from the committees of the Kenate, from members of such committees, and at last from the Senate itself, requiring the transmission of the reasons for the suspension of certain officials during the receass of that body; or for the parpors touching the conduct of such officials ; or for all papers and documents relating 4o such suspensions ; or for all (documehts and papers filed in such departments in relation to the management and conduct of the offices held by such suspended ollicals. The different terms (Wtn. it mi. ?n time adonted in making j these requests, and the demands or the / order in which they succeeded each other, ud the fact that when made by the Senate, the resolutions for that purpose was passed in executive session, Uave led to & presumption the correctness of which will, I suppose, be candidly admitted, that from the first to the last the information thus sought an<l the papers thus demanded were desired for use by the Senate and its committees in considering the propriety of the suspensions referred to. Though these suKpewioosare o?y executive acts, bused 1 Upon considerations addressed to me alone, and for which I am wholly responsible, I have had ho invitation from the Senate to state the position which 1 have f?dt constrained to assume in relation to the dame or to interpret for my solf my acts?nd motives in the premises. In this condition of affairs I have foreborn addressing the Senate upon the subject lest I might be accused of thrusting myself unbidden upon the attention of that body ; but th? report of the Committee on the. Judiciary of the Senate, lately presented and pub-1 lished, which censures the Attorney j General af the United States for hi; re-; fusal to transmit certain papers relating to suspensions from office, and which lso, if I correctly interpret it. evinces a misapprehension <?f the position of the Executive upon the question of such suspension, will I hope justify this communication. This report is predicated upon ? resolution of thn Senate directed to the Attorney General, and his reply to the same resolution,.was with consideration of nominations for office. It required the Attorney General "to trans init to the Senate copies of all 4ocunients and papers that have been filed in the Department of Justice since the 1st day of January, 1885, in relation to the management and conduct of the office of District Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama." The incumbent of this office, on tho 1st diy of January, 1885, and un: til tho 17th day of July ensuing, was George M. Dustin, who on tho day last mentioned was suspended by executive order and John D. Burnelte was designated to perform the duties of said of flee. At the time ot tho passage 01 me resolution above referred to the nomination of Burnctte for said office was pend-* v ing before the Senate, and all papers relating to Raid nomination were before that bor|y for its inspection and informntion. In reply to this resolution, the Attorney General, after referring to the fact that the papers relating to tho nomination of Burnett had already been *nt to the Senate, stated that he was directed by the President to say thnt the papers and documents which were mentioned in said resolution, and still remaining In the custody of this Department, having exclusive reference to the suspension by the President of Cieo. M. Pustin, the late incumbent of the office of District Attorney for the Southern District Of Alabama, it in not considered .that the public interests will be promoted by a compliance with said * resolution and the transmission of the papers and documents therein mention. , itSs 4 -\.y I l> . . ' ' . ' ' >1'. ^ ' V - ed to the Senate ni executive ses sion. Upon this resolution and the answe thereto the issue is thus stated by th< Committee on the Judiciary, at the out set of the report: "The important ques tion then, is whether it is within ch< constitutional competence of eithe; House of Congress to have access to tin official papers and documents in the va rious public offices of the United States created by the laws enacted by them selves." I do not suppose that the public of fleers of the United States are regulatec or controlled in their relations to eithei House of Congress by the fact that the} were ''created by the law enacted b^ themselves." It must be that these in strumentalities were created for the ben efit of the people and to answer the gen oral purposes of the government undei the Constitution and laws, and that the} jire unencumbered by any lien in favor o either branch of Congress growing out o their construction, and unetnbarrasser by uny obligation.to the Senate as th< price uf their creation. The complaint of the committee tha* access to the official pipers in the public offices is denied the Senate is met bv tht statement itaat at no time has it been th< disposition or intention of the Presideni or any department of the executive branch of government to withhold froui the Senate official documents or paper? tiled 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 acts of the Executive in removing or suspending a public officer upon official documents or otherwise, it is considered that the documents and papers of that nature should, because they arc official, be freely transmitted to the Senate upon 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 specially demanded in any or Mm i ipi niii >inl dnwnlii on the department, yet as ofteil as they were found in the public office# they have been furnished in answer to such applications. The letter of the Attorney General in response to the resolution of the Senate in the particular case mentined in the committee's report was written at my suggestion and by direction. There has been no official papers-or documents Bled in his department relating to the cases within the period specified in the resolution. The letter was intended by its description of the papers and the? documents remaining in the custody o( the depai^nmnt to convey the idea that they were not official, and it was assumed that the resolution called for the information, papers and documents o( the saiue character as were required by the request and demands which preceeded it. Everything that has been written or done on behalf of the Senate from the beginning has pointed to all letters and papers of a private and unofficial nature as the objects of the search, if they were to be found in the departments, and provided they had been presented to the Executive A'ith a view tc their consideration upon the question of suspension from office. ^Agaiust the transmission of such papers and documents I have interposed my advice and direction. This has not been done, a* 5 a cn flprrnutnrl in t h <r? onmmi ffnn'ii 0 uu^^uimvv4 in *-*?v winiii n 1 I'pui (i upon the assumption on my part thai the Attorney General or any other head of a department "is the servant of the President and is to give or withhold copies of documents in his office according to the will of the Executive and not otherwise," but because I^regard the papers and documents withheld and adMrt-..sed to me or intended for my use and action, as purely unofficial and private, not infrequently confidential* and having reference to the performance ol a duty exclusively mine. I considei them in no proper sense as upon the Hies of the department, hut as depositee there for my convenience, remainding still completely under my control. ] suppose if 1 desired to take them int< my custody I might do so with en tin propriety, and if 1 saw fit to destroy thein no one could complain. Even tho committee in its report ap pears to concedo that there may ba wit! the Prosident or in the departments, pa |lul c* niiu iiwvuiu^iivn n uivu wn fiu^uqu of their unofficial character arc not sub ject to the inspection of Congress, lie ferencc in the report to tho instance! where the House of Representative! ought not to succeed in a call for thi 1 hi vi " ' ; . 4 \ . ' v . < > {' f- ' i ' . V . -4 . . . - proihiction of papers is immediately followed by this statement: "'The comP mittee feels authorize 1 to state after a ; somewhat careful research that within - the foregoing limits there is scarcely in - the history of this government until j now any instance of the refusal by a r head of a department or even of a Pre>? 3 ident himself, to communicate official - facts and. information as distinguished , from private and unofficial papers, mo tives, views, reasons and opinions to either House of Congress when un conditionally demanded. 1 To which of the classes thus recogr nized do the papers and documents ber long that are now the objects of the Sen? ate's quest ? They consist of the letters - and representations addressed to the - Executive or intended for his inspection. - They are voluntarily written and prer sented by private citizens who are not r in the least instgated thereto by anv f official invitation or at all subject to f official control. While some of them 1 are entitled to executive consideration i many of them are so irrelevant or in the light of other facts so worthlesb t that they have not been given the least ; weight in determination of the question > to which they are supposed to relate. Are s all these, simply because they are pret served, to be considered official docui mcnts and subject-to the inspection of i the Senate ? If not, who is to deteri mine which belong to this class ? Are . the motives and purposes of the Senate, . as they are day by day developed, such - as would be satisfied at my selection ? . Am I to submit to them at the risk of > . being charged with making a suspension . from office upon evideiv^e which was not ( even considered ? Are these papers to , be regarded as official because th^y , have not only been presented but pre- i i served in public offices ? Their nature and character remain the same, whether i 4L 1 A. ! ? At.. 13 If ! Kiev arc 111 uie r-zXccNiivu iuuiiHion or deposited in tho departments. There is no mysterious power of transmutaAltered solemnity of department file*. It tlie presence of these papers In pub* lie offices in a stumblingblockin the way i of the performance of Senatorial duty, , it can be easily removed. The papers and documents which have been described derive no official charac, ter from any constitutional, statutory or i other requirement making them necces. sary to the performance of the official 1 duty of the Executive. It may not be denied, I suppose, that the President . may suspend public officers in the en' tire absence of any papers or documents to aid< his official judgment and discretion, and I am quite prepared to ayow , that cases are not a few in which sus pensions from offices have depended on oral representations made to me by citizens of known good repute, and by ! members of the House of Ilepre^enta, tives and the Senators of the United . States, more than letters aud documents presented for raj' examination. I have not felt justified in suspecting the veracity, integrity and patriotism of the . Senators or ignoring their represent** , tion8 hccuuse they were not in party , affiliation with the majority of their as, sociates, and I recall a few suspensions . which bear the approval of individual I members identified with the majority in i the Senate. While, therefore, I am constrained to > 1 I dispute the right of the Senate to the [ papers and documents described, so far > as the right to the same is based on the I claims that they are in any view of the . official, I am lud unequivocally to dis. pute the right of the Senate, by the aid , of any documents whatever, or in any . way save through a judicial process of , trial of impeachment, to review or re. verse the act of the Executive in the I suspension, - during the recess of the p Senate, of federal officials. I believe tho . power to remove or suspend such offi, cials is vested in the President alone by I the Constitution, whioh, in express , terms, provides that "the executive pow[ er shall be vqsted in a President of the ) United Slates of America," and that > "he shall take care that the laws be , faithfully executed." The following is the concluding para. graph : "Neither the discontent of party i friendR, nor the allurements constantly . offered in the confirmation of appointees, t or the contention and avowal that sus. pensions nave been made on party . grounds alone, nor the threat proposed , R in the resolutions now beforo tho Senate R that no confirmation* will be made unless is the demands of that body.be compelled :< ; * ;' . ' ' \ ?? ... , i . - a < y# . it with, ore sufficient to discourage or dete mo from following in the way which, am convinced, leads to the better govern ment of the people." Grovkk Cleveland. A Predestinated Presbyterian Presi dent, [Washington Letter in Pittaburpr Loader "President Cleveland will never be married mifn?mark that," said a Ilufia Ionian to your correspondent to-da} "Why ? Well, I will tell you. Ho is social philosopher, or, in other ward he philosophizes on social matter; I had a long talk with him about'house hold allairs' the other evening and I tel vou he has a bushel of sense about ther ?all practicable, ,too. But ho won't mat ry. ' He believes certain persons wer born to fill certain positions. He believe in foreordination?at least so far n being at the head of a family is concern ed.*' "Does Mr. Cleveland believe he wa born to.be a bachelor ?" "Precisely. He said it was nil ver, well'for other people to get married am raise futnilies and all that, but as fo Groyer Cleveland the idea was so foreigi to bis taste that he long ago conclude! to remain a single man. The more h saw and heard and the more he though of it the more he was convinced of th truth of the adage that 'our firs thoughts are our best thoughts.' H has ^uiftpped out in his? mind an idea bacht'lor, maiden, wife, husband, an< hnu bis distinct ideas about how the; should/ live. My ! what a pious ol< husband he would makn if he woul< live pp lo his crecd." * "Then he thinks there is reform in be \ng1 husband ?" '.Xes; he believes that the domcsticit] i-f ?. home is a part of a man's religion? tha( there is something even more saore< in the world than the church vow, be taust in the fon^ar jou link the life o one wi$i your,own, while in the lattei yiiniMinyir Mi jiit iii,!i HIM sister both believe they must remrii ingle, bat in this matter I think:. tin lattpr may ba a tittl* u^ikk . There ti nothing selfish about him. He is verj companionable and he is generous. H< has a system for everything, even to hii rrnvi/?rncitv tml I miocc mnaf Ko uru [JV.I.VI va.VJ , M. BB\J muni* OJ o tematic in his way of concluding that i was decreed that he should bo a bachelor." "Isn:t he getting tired of life at th< White House ?" 1 inquired. "Mr. Cleveland wouldn't get tired any where. He has the happiext way of ad justing himself to the circumstances am making himself comfortable and Rati* fied of any man I ever saw. I have com Ashing with him up North. Now, peo pie may talk as much as thev please, bu the man who can trudge along a rive bank all day without catching fish -am nevur swear nor gf?t drunk 18 a good one I remember once to have walked fullj ten miles with him fishing, and alonj in the afternoon, when we began to ge tired and had caughtnothing, Mr. Cleve land drolled ont in a way that made mi roar with laughter : 'Oh, let's sit dowi in the shade and have a little gatno an< give the fish a rest. It's evident th suckers are all away from home to day!" "The President boars up under hi burdens, does he not ?" "Ho tells me he has gained severa pounds on acconnt of sitting so quietl; at his desk. I suppose the thing h misses most is tho exercise he was use< to even after he became Governor. H< was fond of patting his arm in that of i friend, after his six o'clock dinner, am wandering away out on the unfrequent ed streets, and talking and slaying ou till late. As I sat with hiui in the Whit< Houso the other evening, where it wa so quiet you could hear a pin drop, h< exclaimed: "It would seem like Sun day hero every day if 'twere not for th office-seekers.' I remarked that I sup posed the men who caiue to see abou offices were therefore a Godsend, whei he Raid: i think I prefer it to be Sun day." In Newberry week before last, Judg Kershaw stated that ho was decided!; of the opinion that Trial Justices hav no jurisdiction in cases of petty larcen and that the act of the Legislature con ferring jurisdiction upqn them is uncor stitntional nnd void.?fiatlcy 3lessen get\ r The Killing or Marshall traced to j Rev. Ham. Jones. Millkdgrville, Ga., March 2.?The killing of Marshal Haygood Saturday has given a bloody culmination to one of the bitterest contests over prohibi" tion yet conducted in Georgia. As" explaining the feeling which lee' to this I state of things, both parties chnrge the I other with inciting to riot and bloodshed. a The Phohitionists brought Sum Jones l" here ami he delivered a speech and r* preached a sermon. The anti-Prohibia tionists allege that he advised the Pro'* hibitionists to be ready to fight, if it 1 should be found necessary, in order to secure the polling of their vote?, and * that he even recommended that they u should ro to the polls armed with pistols. The Prohibitionists admit that e Mr. Jones made use of some such ex8 pressions. but they insist that he meant 8 that the Prohibitionists should stand firm for their rights, and nothing more. Immediately after the terrible tragedy 8 such expressions as these were common : "It was Sam Jones's work,*' and y "How will Sam Jones feel when he ^ hears to what his incendiary utterances r led?" n A dispatch from Macon Ga., makes I ^ similiar charges that Mr. Jones incited! Ihe Prohibitionists to violence. 1 kkv. 8am. jonks interviewed. e Chicago, March 2.?Mr. Jones was to * day ankud what he had to say about the e statements contained in the Washington * and Macon telegrams. He replied : "J * think my name is connected with that f affair in order that it might be more senJ national. 1 never made an incendiary * speech in my life. In the town of Milledgeviile I said : 'You men who are prohibitionists, be prudent, but stand to your convictions If these liquor men ^ try to frighten you by cursing you nnd drawing their weapons on you, tell them * you have been bullied as long as you intend to be, and if they can die for ^ their infernal traffic you can die in der fence of the helpless WQ.^en and chil1 to run that game of >guns and pistols on 9 you. fell. tbem. they must strike first *> . you will feOds buasard P witR thom it you-can,, but don't-yoo s ever strike first blow." s prohibition ix oeokoia. Continuing Mr. Jones said : ''.A man 1 literally takes his life in his hands when he goes out to talk prohibition down there. They blew up my stable ' with dynamite nnd sent me threatening letters to come to Atlanta to talk prohibition.M 1 Sold his Slaves to Mr. LincolnJeremiah Looper, of Pickens County, 8 who in a well known Hepuhlican. is much intereHted in the movement of 1 Beast Butler to piy for the staved {<ft r loyal men taken during the war. fl$ * s?ys ho sold his slaves to the OevoM* uient twenty-three years airo and sub^ mits the following copy of a letter writ? ten by,Kim to President Lincoln in evi1 dence. Wilmington, N. C., I'ov. 18. 1883.? e Hon. Abraham Lincoln President of the United States.?Dear Sir :?I have just ?een your proclamation to the rebels in L> arms against the said Government asking them to lay down their arms and remain in the Union, as I think wo should * do, although the nigger wonld be freed. But the United States Government would pay three hundred and thirty^ three and one-third dollars a head for e them. ^ Now sir, I am a Southern man un^ a 0 South Carolinian, and for the love I a hold the union of these United States, ^ I for one accept the proclamation, b< < lieving, as I do, it is the best thing we * could do under present circumstances. 1 e have 8 niggers. Jim Id years old, Charles 8- 16, Martha 18, Violet 12, Mary 26. and 3 f% _ * 1 children from 2 to 6 years old. Now air, in consideration of ^ou pro 0 clamatiou, I do grant, bargain and sell - to the said Government these 8 niggers t together with all the rights and titles I n hold to them. I further bind myself, my hoirs, executors and administrators to warrant and defend the same against any one claiming any one of themor all, to the Haid Unitod States Government e This is given under my own'hand and goal this tho 18th dav bf November y 18A3, in the presence of 100 witnesses. e JEREMIAH LoOPKRy Private Co. C- S. C. Cavalr/ y P 8.?Please forward check for whole amount as per your proclamation. Yours Ac., J. Jj. Bat Mr. Loopor says he has never rrt ceived any check for the property I) question and be now wants know why. "Sitting Down" on 8am. Chicago, Ii.l., March 2.?At the Fi * Baptist church .yesterday, Rev 6am Jor. said : "What a privilege it in to pray ? Now, I waDt all thos.' who got down on their knees and prayed before they camo to this meeting to rise in their seats.1' About twenty persons arose. The evanglist leaned against the pulpit and seemed to gasp for breath. ^You may be seated now. Why, brethren* you would And more prayerful christians in Hong Kong, China, than there are in thin meeting. If you dan't pray I want you to take your carcasses out of here. I don't want you to como here if you can't pray." I)r. Scudder?"These aro not exculpatory remarks." A man with an ear trumpet arose and punctuated his remaks with a vigorous pounding on the rostrum. uMr. Jones,'* he" began, "I did not have time to get down on iny knees to pray for this x meeting. 1 have spent nearly the entire day in reading the Bible to a gambler and drukard, and I think I am entitled to respect here.'' ? Other men and several women began to stand up in various sections of the church, but a few explanatory remaks served to still the tempest, and the re ~ 11 i iMuuni was Hiiuwi'ii u> nni8n nin sermon without further interruption. In conclusion lie said : "Let us take the lesson in the text to our homes and get some food out of it?food out of it!" An old man sitting in one of the front pews, leaped to his feet and in a faltering voice said: "Mr. Jones, I don't think it is necessary for persons to get down on their knees to pray. 1 consider myself a good christian and I donOtlike to hear sitch talk." ' I was about to say something," exclaimed Uev. Mr. Soudder, of Plymouth Church. "I prayed while on my way to church. 66d docs not jlemand that a man shall get down on his knoes before flSSlSSSfc^ dcawleiS^CKe'evangelist." * > ^ . 4 " ' Joseph Hart It is rot often that one aeea a mora piteous appeal than the foltowingr fna a man known to many of. our people. ' Mr. penck is gifted as few nleQ ai% and V if it had not been for the demon of drink which has kept him bound thrte many years, he might to-day have oceu-, pied a position amongst the to oat successful! composers and musicians of the continent. In the Atlanta Constitution, he published the following card : TO MY FRIENDS AND TH* PUBLIC. I have returned to Atlanta to establish myself in my profession. You all bow my habits have been stumbling blocks on the road to success. A too free indulgence in intoxicating drinks has robbed me of the position I should . occupy. I have now determined to forswear the cup that inch rates and take this method of beggihg' my friends to assist me in my resolution. As I can not take one drink without craving a second, a third, and innumerable othon ending in intoxication, 1 earnestly ask all those interested in my welfare and in that of my wife, never to ask me to jtouch !iquort in any shape of my own free will shall, with God's help, never be Hhaken. 1 Koupcctfully, Jobkph H. Atlanta, Jan. 20th. 1885. \'j, : 'M . ' ":k Another Dorn's Gold 1(m. i We clip the following from the Eliyajr ' , Ga? Courier r ^Laat Thursday afternoon Mr. Art her Pinson, who was in the employ of Mr. ' < P. P. Martin, found, while digging in the SpriggH Hollow, ?t the Whitepsth 1 gold mine, s fine Urge nugget of gold that wnighs 180 pennyweights. This in the finest lump we erer mw, end forever "J Milenccx croaker* thet'nogold exists in Gilmer county, Os? The mine is leased by Mr Stephen Tate, of Pickens, who is now operating it." Wc hesrtly oongrsjtnlste the Hsjor en hit* very brilliant ontlook fora big rieh . prospect in the preeioos metal, and trust "'f noon to write hi* mtao in oar eoltmn .^8 of miliiontireiu The Major is th* poo- \ Bor of on? fifth interest in this excel- ^ lent gold propped .-r-JfcCorinidt A<^tavce.