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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Discussing the powers of the the cumbre at 1300 feet, and drop-
President and the Congress I re
call this: “No money shall be
drawn from the Treasury, but in
Consequence of Appropriations
made by Law That means
that a bill to authorize spending
money must specify something
then and there. The practice
of appropriating great sums of
public money loosely designated
so that they may be used by a
lot of bureaucrats for making
grants for this, that and the
other, in their discretion, is not
in harmony with the Constitution;
nor is this practice a sound meth
od of conducting the government
al affairs of the Nation.
Did you ever nave too much
money? Has your money ever
been a great burden to you? “Im
not thinking of what someone
said about present-day food pric
es. Yqu may remember that a
map said that he used to take a
pocketful of money to buy a bag
of groceries, but that now he
takes a bag of money to buy a
pocketful of groceries. And so it
is.
While I was In Peru—the first
eighteen months—I was high up
in the Andes. If I had wanted to
go to a bank I should have rid
den horse-back two days, climbing
ping down, to 3000 feet where the
Rail Road began Then a day to
the coast at Pacasmayo At
Pacasmayo I could wait for a
ship; it might be a week; or I
might have chartered a car foi
$76 to go over the desert, about
six hours in low gear, if going
to Chiclayo; or taking another
car South to Chocope,. riding the
beach for milee and dodging the
rocks and breakers. At Chocope
the train started for Trujillo. So,
going and returning, with all the
hazards, made banking impracti
cable except for great hacendados
whose transactions were with the
exporters and on a large scale.
About the. time I arrived, the
Government of Peru introduced
coins, because the Cholos, or. In
dians, didn’t have confidence in
paper bills Up in the mountains
the • hacendados and merchants
carried their balances in British
gold. ;
The Government decided to put
the coins in circulation by pay
ing Government salaries in coin.
The unit of Peru today is the Sol-
worth about twenty cents in our
money in my time. The Sol was
as large and heavy as the Ameri
can Silver Dollar; so a.man with
ten dollars- in Peruvian money
carried a weight of fifty Silver
Dollars—enough, surely, to dis
courage spending Didn’t Lycur-
gus, the Spartan, make the mon
ey of iron in order to discourage
trade and spending? Perhaps
Congress would take the hint and
let Mr. Truman throw away only
money made of iron.
What I have in mind was an
amusing incident. One of the
Americans resigned and asked
tor a settlement The Government
owed him about $2000, or 10,000
Soles. Strangely enough my
friend’s name is Cash Mr. Cash
presented his libramiento (that’s
a warrant) at the Caja Fiscal
(paying office) and was told to
come back at three o’clock for
his dlnero (money) Mr. Cash un
derstood. by the word dinero that
he was to be given several kegs
of Soles—10,000 Soles—so he ch
artered a truck and went to
the Caja Fiscal for his kegs of
money. The paying clerk upon
learning that Mr. Cash was fully
prepared to handle the kegs of
money, gave him a check.
Some of our cotton mills “paid
off” in Silver Dollars in Decem
ber. Many a man knew for the
first time how heavy fifty Silver
Dollars are; but try to imagine
that fifty dollar payment in 260
Peruvian Soles; then imagine
how my friend Cash felt at the
prospect of ten thousand Soles!
looking for a chance to support
the unsound policies of recent
years, I should earnestly advo
cate a challenge in court of the
policy of appropriating billions
of dollars for such general use
as the National bureaucracy may
decide on. We . might have known
that someone would feel like an
American type of Alexander the
Great and try to throw our dol
lars around the world and cry
when, nobody else wanted our
money! .
Mr. Truman believes in unity,
whatever that is in his under
standing, but he has gone all over
the earth wearing a mantle of
sweet charity, while slapping in
the face the stalwart sons of the
South who made and sustained
the Democratic Party, as a ser
vice, not as a chance to build
a personal following on the jobs
and grants and favors of Federal
power.
The President has spoken.
Everybody seems to be speaking
all the time, including the Presi
dent. What Mr. Truman says
carries very little weight with us.
We know that the Federal debt is
$256,602,605,557 and that on Janu
ary 1st. the Government had col
lected since July, $17,954,213,762
and had spent more than eighteen
billions. That, of course, does
not tell the story: the Govern
ment has authorized many other
billions and will pour out the
billions during the next few
months.
Although most of us think that
all this turmoil is due to Mr.
Truman’s pdor leadership, he has
the Nation in a corner: there
is nothing for us to do but fight.
But we observe no prudent sav
ing by Mr. Truman; day by day
we hear of grants and loans for
ah' sorts of things that are not
pressing. If we could expect the
Supreme Court to think soberly
about the Constitution, instead of
The General Assembly of the
State is now in session. The
whole State is talking about the
poor pay of the teachers, and the
discussion grows more animated
all the time. Just what the teach
ers receive - is not commonly
known. In order to clear up
som^ of this it might be desirable
to let the State pay the teachers
and take that off the Counties
and districts. As it stands, a
teacher receives so much from
the State and so much from the
district—and so on. If the State
means to provide for the schools
let us stop the piece-meal nolir
and go all the way. But let us
take the burden off the counties
and districts.
In this connection I suggest
that the State Department of Edu
cation needs a searching investi
gation. It is too big to operate
without sharp scrutiny from the
outside. It is no more proper for
it to be a teachers’ organization
than for the Highway Depart
ment to become a contractors’
club.
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Many of our people, including
some of Senatpr Johnston’s sup
porters. are wondering why he
supported a Public Power scheme
in Virginia and North Carolina
when the Senators -from Virginia
and North Carolina opposed it.’
It appears that Senator Johnston
broke the tie and defeated the
offer of the private Company to
build the line, according to The
Charlotte Observer.
If the Senator would like to
discuss the matter Spectator
would be glad to cfcrry his state
ment.
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Has the President the lawful
power to send an army to Eu
rope? Did he have the Consti
tutional power to engage in war
In Korea? Ha* he the preroga
tive to make agreements With
Britain, France and other Na
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committed to defend Europe? He
has no such authority. Senator
Taft raised the question, though
it is a bit tardy .The necessary,
curb on Presidential usurpation
and arrogance is nine years over
due, perhaps ten years. Unfor
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gress will overlook anything, or
almost anything, done by a Presi
dent of the same Party. ^
Now let's see what the law is.
Remember this: whenever the
Congress virtually hands unlimit
ed power to a President the Con
gress is itself violating the Con
stitution, as the Court ruled in
N.R.A., you may recall.
Now what Is the law? “The
President shall be Commander-ln
Chief of the Army and Navy of
the United States, and of the
Militia of the several States,
when callfed Into the actual Ser
vice of the United States.” The
intent of the Constitution was to
have one person responsible for
the actual operations of the Army
and Navy; that Is as far as the
Constitution Intended; it dealt
with the armed forces and their
employment under the general
authority of Congress. For ex
ample, the President might
change the garrison from Fort X
to Fort Y, but he has no authority
to commit the Nation to any sort
of policy; that would require an
Act of Congress. Let us see if
the Constitution says anything
about the making of promises or
obligations by the President. “He
(the President) shall have Power,
by and with the Advice and Con
sent of the Senate ,to make Treat
ies, provided two-thirds of the
Senators present concur.'* This
provision has been so flagrantly
violated within recent years that
the Congress should re-assert its
powers and restrain the Presi
dent. So Important is the matter
of treaties, or dealing with other
Nations, that the Constitutional
Convention debated this at length.
Even Alexander Hamilton, who
was an advocate of a strong ex
ecutive power said; “ the
vast importance of the trust and
the operation of the treaties as
laws plead strongly for the part
icipation of the whole, or a por
tion of the Legislative body."
The only lawful agreement the
President can make with another
Nation is by a treaty; and that
treaty must be ratified by the
Senate. Congress has no right
to delegate that authority any
more than it has the right to let
the President decide issues of
law which belong to the Supreme
Court.
Certainly the Senate must be
consulted, but the House also,
when the proposed arrangements
require expenditures of money.
Today Mr. Truman runs wild;
and the Congress becomes a party
to the gross violation of the basic
law because the Congress is play
ing politics. If America had to
choose, which is worth more tb
us, the great game of politics and
partisan loyalty, or Constitutional
government, faithfully carried
out?
The Congress shall have
Power: “To declare War." Quite
clearly the Constitution confers
thle power on the Congress, not
the President. The President has
been acting as though all the
power of the Government were
vested in him and subject to his
whim and pleasure.
The Constitution says, further,
that the Congress not the Presi
dent, “the Congress shall, have
power to make Rules for thp
Government and Regulatidn 6f
the land and Naval Forces; To
provide, for calling forth the Mili
tia to execute the Laws of the
Union, suppress Insurrections and
repel Invasions." Congress has
probably enacted laws that per
mit the calling out of the Militia,
but .the Constitution says that
It may be done to execute the
laws, suppress Insurrections and
repel Invasions. While that
seems clear enough we have be
come so politically minded that
the Courts would probably sustain
the calling out-of the Militia even
to take a joy .^e down the Pb-
tomac with the . President. It wgs
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or fate.: of this .country should
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