Show MUST THROW UPi UP-i 0 One of the things for which the Republican l Republi-can Senators who held office in 1SS5 were incensed against President Cleveland was his refusal to give them reasons for i the suspension of Republicans and tho appointment ap-pointment of Democrats in their places Mr Harrison was a member the Senate at the time and he not only supported Senator Edmunds in his attempt to extort reasons from the executive but made a i speech on the subject of sudden and unexplained unex-plained removals in which he introduced the pathetic story about Mrs Isabella Do La Hunt whom he has just set aside in order to anoint a more active and effective I partisan at the Connelton postofflco I Since the removal of Chief Justice Sand ford of Utah an effort has been made to obtain from the department of justice the reasons to which AttorneyGeneral Miller 1 referred when he wrote Judge Sandford ge ol fhlde efi lde that there are on file in this department some papers complaining of the manner in which judicial duties aro discharged Itwas assumed that if there were such complaints on file it would be a fair thing to Judge Sandford who courts the utmost publicity of tho charges and to tho President Presi-dent who has the utmost abhorrence if his own words arc to be believed of trumped up charges aganst anybody be he Democrat or Republican to give the public an account of tho complaints It is hardly credible that tho Persident will attempt to justify to the Senate his removal of Judge Sandford because AttorneyGen eralMiller was imprudent as to attribute to the President responsibility of saying that Judge Sandford was removed because the President has become satisfied that your administration of the office was not in harmony with the policy he deemed proper to bo pursued tti h reference to Utah I affairs and for this reason ho desired to I make a change Whether the complaint I against Judge Sandfodwere serious or I trivial was not a matter taken into consideration con-sideration by the correspondent of the Times who went to the department ofi i justice and asked of AttorneyGeneral Miller the privliege of inspecting and publishing i pub-lishing them If they contained allegations of the slightest official misconduct there j was no disposition to apologize for Judge Sandford or to lessen the force of tho Presidents asserted reason for taking him from the bench When Mr Miller was asked to show tho papers he answered I dout care to make public the charges here Its a and then hesitated Beginning again after a moment of reflection reflec-tion he added There are well throwing up his hands I wont say rny thing about it The public will have to be the judge of the sufficiency of tho Presidents reasons for this removal until some Democratic oIlth Go g I Snitor r ses in the star chamber to demand de-mand ff what authority tho president shal i namo a judge to carry out tho executive policy However carefully Attornoy General Miller may bo able to hide his com 7 plaints against Judge i Sandford ill the department of justice ho will find it impossible im-possible to conceal them after they get into the possession of the inquisitive Senate Washington correspondence New York Times |