Show RESTRAINING THE PRESIDENT I It is i amusing to read the account Col G H CorkhSlls plan to sue the President on account of his proclamation ordering the cattlemen to remove their stock from Indian Territory and his talk about obtaining I ob-taining an injunction restraining the President Surely Col Corkhill knows that no such order could be obtained and that if any Judge were to issue such an order it could not be enforced en-forced The idea involuntarily comes I to ones mind that Col Corkhill is talking talk-ing buncombe to aid General Butler in the formation of his Peoples party General Butlers name connected with any scheme in the interest of law and the rights of properly is enough to throw grave suspicions upon that scheme It is said that Butler himself is very largely interested in the cattle business and that he and his clients and personal friends represent many millions of dollars of capital thus invested The President as the Chief Executive of the Nation whose special duty it is to enforce the laws says that the cattle must leave Indian In-dian Territory as they are there in violation viola-tion of the law and Col Corkhill says the cattle will not go The most childish and silly thing he said was about there being no autocrat in this country Such statements always savor of pothouse politics and low demagogism and always lead one to the conclusion that the man who utters them is either a knave or an idiot It is much the same style of talk with which all are so familiar in this Territory when violators are brought before the bar of justice and then they and their friends cry out that the officers of the law are naught but a set of midnight marauders and that quiet and peaceful homes are being raided in the interest of plunder and not of law And these same people talk about tyrants and such like beings and about how the Constitution is being overridden and how they love l it how some day they will pick it up and carry it aloft that the oppressed op-pressed of all nations may find shelter beneath it and enjoy liberty and suchlike such-like things Were Col Corkhill and his clients so anxious to obey the law and infringe in-fringe upon no ones rights when they went into Indian Territory with their cattle cat-tle upon leases of doubtful validity But Col Corkhill talks loudly and with great gusto about restraining the President Presi-dent How would he proceed to enforce his order providing he had one when the President had the army at his back I to enforce his proclamation and I the t army would obey him as its CommanderinChief We have I never heard that moral suasion was I to be relied upon in such cases But the powers of the President as the Executive i of the Nation are coordinative with those I of the Judicial branch or the Legislative branch of the Government and were I they to come in conflict there is no method known to the Constitution by I which the conflict of powers could be I harmonized This subject of the powers of the three branches of the Government I belongs to the domain of checks and balances and is a question that has ever j exercised the minds of our great students I of the American Constitution No such 4 I a conflict of a serious nature has ever I arisen and possibly never may but still j I the way for it is open if either branch i shall choose to tread it Seeing that Gol Corkhill and his leader Butler were bent Ion I I ion i-on restraining the President it would have been well for them to have studied closely the cases of Mississippi r Johnson John-son 4 Wai and Georgia r Stanton 6 Wai whore they would have found doctrines doc-trines laid down tho very reverse of those upon which they proposed to proceed Col Corkhill talked more nonsense in a brief period than is given most men the power to do 9 A telegram which came some time later than the one telling of the farrago i of nonsense which Col Corkhill talked says that the cattle are being moved as rapidly as possible and that the reserva j tion will all bo cleared within a few days j after tho expiration of tho time allowed for their removal b I by the Presidents pro emanation Col Corkhill would show t far more sense and learning by restraining his tongue if he has nothing better to say than what he did about the cattle interests and enjoining the President from enforcing his proclamation |