IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

OCTOBER TERM, 1924

No. 77

LOIS P. MYERS, ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK S. MYERS, DECEASED, APPELLANT

V.

THE UNITED STATES

APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS

The Right of the President to Remove Executive Officers and the Power of Congress to Restrict Him in the Exercise of Such Prerogative

SUBSTITUTE BRIEF FOR THE UNITED STATES ON REARGUMENT

JAMES M. BECK, Solicitor General.

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INDEX

Statement--
Argument:

I. The nature of the question__

II. The question in its narrower aspects.
III. The historic background..

IV. The text of the Constiution__

· V. History of question reviewed in Parsons v. United States__
VI. The importance of the decision of the First Congress----
VII. Arguments in First Congress against President's power of
removal___

VIII. Arguments in First Congress in support of President's power
of removal..

IX. Action in the Senate of the First Congress_.

X. The retirement of officials during Washington's ad-
ministration____

XI. Presidential insistence upon the power of removal_
XII. Appellant's contention_-_

XIII. Conclusion

Page.

67

68

69

83

84

.87

92

95

98

101

104

Cooper Mfg. Co. v. Ferguson, 113 U. S. 727_

Grossman, Ex parte, decided Mar. 2, 1925.

Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U. S. 53

Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264_.

Field v. Clark, 143 U. S. 649_

McAllister v. United States, 141 U. S. 174_
Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137_.

Neagle, In re, 135 U. S. 1___.

Parsons v. United States, 167 U. S. 324.
Robertson v. Downing, 127 U. S. 607_.

Schell's Executors v. Fauche, 138 U. S. 562.
Stuart v. Laird, 1 Cranch, 299_-

United States v. Hill, 120 U. S. 169–

United States v. Philbrick, 120 U. S. 52.

Constitution and statutes:

76-83

Article I, section 1.

Article 1, section 3, clause 7-.

Article II, section 1, clause 1.

Article II, section 1, clause 5

Article II, section 1, clause 7

Article II, section 3--.

Article II, section 4.

Act of July 12, 1876, sec. 6, 19 Stat. 78, 80---

Budget Law of June 10, 1921, sections 301, 303, 305, 42 Stat. 20__

Miscellaneous:

Annals of Congress, I, 16.

Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, II, 270, 273, 274_
Comptroller's Decisions, vol. 3, p. 479__.

Congressional Record, June 4, 1920, pp. 8609, 8610

Congressional Record, vol. 65, pp. 2245, 2335, 2339.
Eliott's Debates, II, 6, 24, 179-.

Foster, A Century of American Diplomacy, 163, 164, 174, 175---
Federalist, No. 77.

Gales & Seaton's Register of Debates in Congress, XI, part 1,
458-470

Journal of William Maclay, 109-118_

Letters of Madison

To John M. Patton, Mar. 24, 1834_.

To Edward Coles, Oct. 15, 1834--

To Charles Francis Adams, Oct. 13, 1835_-_.

Life and Works of John Adams

III, 407-412

IX, 55.

Messages of the Presidents

III, 133.

VI, 497

VII, 38-

VIII, 377, 379, 381-

Opinions of the Attorney General-

Vol. 4, p. 1.-.

Vol. 4, p. 609_.

Vol. 5, pp. 223, 288.

Vol. 15, p. 421__

Speeches in House of Representatives of First Congress—

Ames, Fisher, of Massachusetts--

Baldwin, of Georgia_.

Boudinot, of New Jersey.

Clymer, George, of Pennsylvania_

Gerry, of Massachusetts__.

Goodhue, of Massachusetts.

Huntington, of Connecticut_

100, 101

92-93

99-101

90-91

Jackson, of Georg a-

Lawrence, of New York__

Livermore, of New Hampshire...

Madison, of Virginia--

88-91

Sedgwick, of Massachusetts

Sherman, of Connecticut_.

Smith, of South Carolina_

Stone, of Maryland-...

Vin ng of Delaware_.

White, of Virginia---

Speeches in Senate of First Congress-

Butler, of South Carolina_.

Ellsworth, of Connecticut_.

Grayson, of Virginia___
Johnson, of Connecticut_
Lee, of Virginia____
Maclay, of Pennsylvania.
Paterson, of New Jersey.
Read, of Delaware_.

Sumner, Andrew Jackson, 354
Virginia Plan, section 7----
Webster's Works, IV, 178-199_.