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Show WHAT WILL BE DONE? If the Republican majority in the Senate Sen-ate conclude to carry out their obstruction policy to the bitter end, as indicated by the latest dispatches, they will adjourn without confirming a very large number of appointments which have been sent in by the President. There is little likelihood likeli-hood that the President will concede to the Senate one inch of ground in the position po-sition he has taken ; he is not that kind of a President. Believing himself in the right and the Senate in the wrong, he will rosin his hands anew and take a still firmer grip on the tail of his Constitutional Constitu-tional prerogatives, and from what the country already knows of him, there is every reason to believe that he will hold on to his privileges until sheol freezes over, or until his term of office shall expire. ex-pire. An interesting phase of this controversy contro-versy is the position in which numerous office-holders are left nominated by the President yet unconfirmed and with no prospect of confirmation by the Senate, i but who have assumed the duties of the offices to which they have been nominated. nomi-nated. At the adjournment of the present pres-ent session of the Senate, the commissions commis-sions of all such unconfirmed officials will expire, and if the President desires to keep them in office, it will be necessary for him to re-com mission them. It may be that the Executive can "circumwent" the obstructionists ob-structionists by continuing to commission his men anew at the expiration of each session of the Senate, and thus keep up a running fight in which he must in the end come out victorious. The fight is a very pretty one, as it Etands, and the next move of the principals princi-pals will be awaited with much interest. |