Show his phrase famous the expression innocuous desuetude was made famous by grover cleveland in his roes sige to the sen ate on march 1 the sentence that contained it was after on ex of nearly twenty years of nl most innocuous desuetude desue tuda these laws are brought forth the senate had claimed that aa the assent of the sen ate was required to conform the appointment certain off lcena of r A gife w bleers were not subject to removal by the president without the senates per mission this claim was based on the tenure of ohice net passed in during alie conflict between congress and president johnson cleveland maintained that in this mat ter that law had up to that time been allowed to remain in a state of barm less disuse |