MASON FLATS WILSON
FOR MISUSE OF POWER
Executive Influence Should Be Les
sened When Used to Prevent
Permanent Peace.
yy asuingiun, uune — i wish 10
God the President had some idea with
regard to limitation of executive
power,” exclaimed Representative
William E. Mason, of Illinois, in de
fense of the Knox peace resolution.
He said:
“This is the law that repeals the
war laws. This is what is wanted.1
Ninety-five per cent of the war legis
lation ends with war. Ninety-five per
cent of the legislation, the drastic leg
islation under which your President
today is arresting men because they
quit work, ends with the declaration
of peace. We waited for the Presi
dent and the Senate for a long year
and a quarter to make a treaty of
peace. We have now reached the time
when we are going to repeal those
laws: and, believe me, the Supreme
Court of the United States .will say
that every one of those laws ended by
the declaration of peace by the Con
gress of the United States.
“The gentleman says that by ac
cepting this amendment we admit that
there is some limitation to congres
sional power. I wish to God the
President had some such idea with re
gard to limitation of Executive power.
There is a limitation of our power, it
is quite true. You can not negotiate
a treaty of peace, and neither can he
make a treaty of peace unless it is
ratified by the Senate. There is a
limitation of power. I am glad for my
party, if they have ever been guilty of
forgetting the limitations of legisla
tive and executive power, that we have
come back to the old lines of Ameri
canism where, as plain American Con
gressmen, We admit there is some
limitation to legislative power. I wish
the President had been born with that
idea. If he had any idea of the limi
tation of Executive power, he never
would have t,ent our troops into Siberia
and northern Russia, there to fight
his personal war for the collection of
the debts of the people of ancient
Russia to the bankers of France and
Great Britain. If he had any idea of
the limitation of Executive power, he
would not keep the people of the
United States today, the women and
children, paying taxes on their shoes
and stockings in order to maintain
15.000 men in Germany, after the
treaty of peace has been rejected. We
have no more business with our troops
in Germany than we Would have with
them in Great Britain. He had the
right to send them there after the
signing of the armistice; he had the
right to keep them there after the
signing of the ancillary convention in
June, 1919, a year after the armistice
was signed. Now, when the treaty
failed off ratification that power
ceased. He has absolutely no idea of
the limitation of the Executive power
we conceded to him during the war.
He now seeks by the control of his
party organization to whip you into
line— and you know it—to carry out
his personal and selfish desire to con
tinue in his hands the power he had
during the war.
“Day after day the Democratic side
of the House in the last Congress and
in this has been the most subservient
of any Congress that ever served in
waiting for the White House to take
snuff before you would condescend to
sneeze. You have an idea that it is
your duty. I am not complaining of
you, but I beg of you not to complain
of me or my party when we, anxious
for peace, anxious to answer the cry
of a hundred million people to give us
peace, meet on common ground with
Senators, agree to their suggestions,
and carry out what the people oif the
country want—a declaration by the
war-making pctwer that we are at
peace.”
(First publication June 10.)
(W. J. Hammond, Attorney.)
NOTICE FOR PETITION FOR AD
MINISTRATION.
Estate No. 347.
In the County Court of Holt County,
Nebraska, June 10, 1920.
In the matter of the Estate of Frank
F. Oviatt, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
interested in said estate that a petition
has been filed in said Court for the ap
pointment otf an administrator with
will annexed of said estate, and will
be heard June 28, 1920, at 10 o’clock a.
m. at the County Court Room in
O’Neill. Nebraska.
(Seal) C. J. MALONE,
1-3 County Judge.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
New York Sun: “The President’s
expected veto message to the House of
Representatives denounce the Knox
peace resolution as a measure which
would place ineffaceable stain upon
the gallantry and honor of the United
States,” an impudent reflection on the
deliberate action of a coordinate de
partment of the Federal Government
which has refused to abdicate ip favor
of an autocratically disposed Execu
tive. The entire text of the message
suggests nothing so much as Mr. Dick
and his reiteration of King Charles’
head. It contains nothing new, noth
ing especially worthy of comment by
this newspaper, nothing sywprteing in
view of the President’s now generally
well recognized psychology; unless we
except the unconsciously humorous
passage in which Mr. Wilson actually
reproaches the Congress for indiffer
ence to the great principle of the free
dom of the seas. That, as some peo
ple may recall, was Point Two of the
original Fourteen Points; but few will
remember the exact state of his per
sonal and self-determined bargainings
abroad for the sake of his Covenant
at which the great principle of free
dom of navigation upon the $eas
dropped out of the Fourteen and dis
appeared from his Creed and his heart
and his activities. And now he re
bukes Congress for recreancy to Point
or Principle Number Two! And still
he keeps us out of peace.”
Philadelphia Press: “The Presi
dcnts’s veto message on the peace
resolution is a strong piece of writing.
It *is calculated to make the unre I ect
ing think that Congress i3 very (dere
lict in making peace with Germany
without imposing heavy penalties on
her for her past wrongdoing. Those
penalties are in the peace treaty
which the President, by his personal
influence on democratic senators,
would not permit the senate to ratify
without swallowing whole the League
elf Nations covenant with its sacrifice
of American principles and traditions.
Peace with Germany exists except on
paper, and Congress tried merely in
its peace resolution to give the actual
peace legal status. The President’s
veto does nothing but keep up the
pretense of war in the teeth of truth
and common sense..
New York Tribune: A veto of the
Knox resolution was long ago dis
counted. The resolution is dead, since
there is no prospect of the veto being
overriden in either branch of Con
gress. What Congress sought to do
was not so much to terminate the
state of war with Germany, so far
as domestic war legislation was con
cerned, as to put on record its will
ingness to secure peace by an alter
native method, the President having
blocked all effort to secure it through
the ratification of the pending treaty.
The President’s mind is unchanged
by the demand for reservations to the
treaty. He still regards his own work
as perfect. The voice of neither the
senate nor of the people is off' conse
quence to* him. He says with a touch
of unconscious humor: “The attain
ment of these purposes (those for
which, he sa$s, America entered the ■
war), is provided for in the Treaty of
Verailles by terms deemed adequate
by the leading statesmen and experts
of all the great peoples who were
associated in the war against Ger
many. Do we now not care to join
in the effort to secure them?” This
is the issue which Mr. Wilson has
raised from the beginning with his
opponents. He is unwilling to classi
fy them as ‘statesmen or experts.’
He thinks it is not for them to pretend
to be such. He has quarreled with
Secretary Lansing and Colonel House,
his two chief aids at Paris. There
remains then, but one American
'statesman and expert.’ And with
what that sole survivor says the co
ordinate branch of the treaty-making
power, containing no statesmanship
or expert knowledge, must disagree
at its own peril.
Peoria Transcript: Franklin K.
Lane, retiring Secretary of the Inte
t,
rSor and one of the ablest members of
President Wilson’s cabinet, issues a
valedictory which is full of suggest
ion and horse sense.
“Washington,” he says, “is a combi
nation of political caucus, and draw
ing room and civil service bureaus,”
containing “statesmen who are poli
ticians and politicians who are not
statesmen.” Mr. Lane declares that
trust, confidence, and enthusiasm—
three simple virtues of all great busi
ness—are the most lacking in govern
mental organization. “For the high
administrative ' officers,” he says,
“there should be Salaries twice as high
as those now given, and they should
be made to feel they are the ones re
sponsible for the work of the depart
ment, the head being merely an ad
viser and a contractor o£ policies. In
a word, we need more opportunity for
planning engineering statesmanship
above, and more fixed authority and
responsibility below.”
The situation in Washington never
has been described more forcibly or
clearly. The government at Washjng- j
ton is the biggest business in the
country, yet cabinet members are
treated as clerks and are not permitted
even to consult each other in the ab
sence of their chief. General policy is
one thing; administration is some
thing else. Responsible heads of suc
cessful private business select sub
ordinates to carry out their policies,
but do not undertake to review, their
decisions.
Particularism is the bane of federal
administration. Mr. Lane, who knows
whereof he speaks, points a vital de
fect in our administrative system.
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The budget bill will soon be passed
by both houses and up to the Presi
dent for signature. It ranks with the
most important legislative achieve
ments of this generation.
New York democratic delegates to
the national convention, in conference
at Albany, turned down suggestions
that the Wilson administration be en
dorsed or the league of nations fa
vored. This seems to show that the
administration and its policies are just
about as popular with New York
democrats as with other folks.
USEFUL AMANUENSIS.
Louisville Courier-Journal: “That
young lady is very striking.”
“A handsome girl.”
“But I never see her doing any
work around your law office.”
"She’s valuable, however. When the
other side has a pretty witness we find
her very useful as a counter attract
ion.”
SHE WASN’T SELFISH.
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you’d die for me.
Edwin—Indeed I was, dearest!
Angelina—Then why don't you let
me drive the car when you take me
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