However, he permitted and requested Congress to investigate Mr.Ballinger.The party minority of the committee that investigated him, and one member of the majority, declared that the charges were well founded and that Mr.
Ballinger should be removed.

The other members of the majority declared the charges ill founded.

The President abode by the view of the majority.

Of course believers in the Jackson-Lincoln theory of the Presidency would not be content with this town meeting majority and minority method of determining by another branch of the Government what it seems the especial duty of the President himself to determine for himself in dealing with his own subordinate in his own department.
There are many worthy people who reprobate the Buchanan method as a matter of history, but who in actual life reprobate still more strongly the Jackson-Lincoln method when it is put into practice.

These persons conscientiously believe that the President should solve every doubt in favor of inaction as against action, that he should construe strictly and narrowly the Constitutional grant of powers both to the National Government, and to the President within the National Government.