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Show fiAORMONS IN ALABAMA Their Elders Ordered to Leave and They Deeline to Go. - The American Opera Company's Great Success iu "Lakme" Last - Sight. TV jt' i : '. '. ; " A Supreme Court Uecisiou That Rail-roads Rail-roads Are Not Bonnd to Carry the Business of Express Companies. The Hlormoa Work In Korth Alabama. Ala-bama. Atlanta, Ga, March 2. The Constitution publishes to-day the investigations of its representative in North Alabama in regard to the Tvork of the Mormons in that section. Several elders have been zealously engaged in the work for the past six months, and have made many converts among the country people. The farmers in Shinbone valley, in Clay county, have notified" them they" must leave, and threaten to use force. The elders refuse to go, saying they are engaged in legitimate le-gitimate work and will be protected by the Government. A number of women and some men have gone to Utah. and reputation, and therefore the Senate should review the case for his vindication. I have said that certain offioials should not, in my opinion, be removed during the continuance con-tinuance of the term for which they were appointed solely for the purpose of putting in their places those in political affiliation with the appointing power, and this declaration declar-ation was immediately followed by a description de-scription of official partisanship which would not entitle those in whom it was exhibited ex-hibited to consideration. It is not apparent how an adherence to a course thus announced carries with it the consequences described. If in any degree the suggestion is worthy of consideration, it is to be honed that there may be a defense against any unjust suspension sus-pension on tho part of the Executive. EVEBY PLEDGE WHICH I HAVE MADE By which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise of executive power has been faithfully redeemed. Of courpe the pretense is not put forth that no mistakes have been committed, but not a suspension has been made, except it appeared to me that the publio welfare would be improved thereby. Many applications for suspension have been denied, and the adherence to the rule laid down to govern my action as to such suspensions sus-pensions has caused much irritation and impatience im-patience on the part of those who have insisted in-sisted on more changes in the offices. The pledges I have made were made to the people, peo-ple, to whom I am responsible for the manner man-ner in which they have been redeemed. I AM NOT EESPONSIBLE TO THE SENATE, And I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment. There are no grounds for an allegation that the fear of being found false to my professions, profes-sions, influences me in declining to submit to the demands of the Senate. I have not constantly refused to suspend officials, and thus incurred the displeasure of political friends, nor yet wilfully broken faith with the people for the sake of being false to them. Neither the discontent of party friends nor the allurements constantly offered of-fered of confirmations of appointees, conditioned con-ditioned upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone; nor the threat proposed in the resolutions now before the Senate, that no confirmations will be made unless the demands of that body be complied with, are sufficient to discourage dis-courage or deter me from following in the way which I am convinced leads to a better government for the people. (Signed) Gboveb Cleveland. Executive AIansion, Washington, D. C., March 1st, 188G. SENATOR EDMUNDS' SPEECH. When the President's message had been read, Edmunds said it reminded him of the communication of King Charles I. to his Parliament. He also said that the President, Presi-dent, unintentionally, no doubt, had fairly misstated the question involved between himself and the Senate. "I think I am safe in saying that it is the first time in the history his-tory of the Republic that any President of the United States has undertaken to interfere inter-fere with the deliberations of either House of Congress on questions pending before them, otherwise than by a message on the state of the Union, which the Constitution commands him to make from time to time. This message is devoted solely to the Senate itself in regard to the question that it has under consideration. That is its singularity. I think it will strike the reflecting people in this country as somewhat extraordinary; if, in these days of reform, anything at all can be thought extraordinary." The Senate of the United State, m its communications to j the heads of departments not his heads of departments, but the heads of depart- I ments created by law directed them to j transmit certain official papers, and that is all. The President of the United States undertakes to change the question and to compel the consideration by the Senate of his reasons or motives for putting the civil ; officers, as it might be called, "under arrest," with which the Senate has not undertaken in any way to make any question at all. By every measure he has sent to this body, and they are all public, he has asked the Senate officer and the appointment of another. That is what he has done, and the Senate, in calling for these papers, to say nothing of the wider considerations about any deficiencies defi-ciencies in the Department of Justice, is asked to remove these officers without knowing know-ing the condition of the administration of their offices. j After a little tilt between Edmunds and Harris as to the disposition of the message, j the motion of Edmunds was agreed to, re- ferringitto the Judiciary Committee and ; ordering it printed. j |