Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-23
WILL HE VETO IT,
Expectations Relative to the President.
Course o., the Silre,. Ouest;on.

Specut0tions Relative to the Pres;dent,.
Course on the Steer Question.
washington Cor (20th) Cincinnati Ennn;rer
Meeting Stanley Matthews this afternoon,
your correspondent asked him if he conId
furnish any reliable information as to tha
Presidents intentions concerning the silver
| bill.
"No," he replied, II can not. have not
spoken with the President on the subject. >,
"What do you think about tips persisted
your correspondent.
"Wel,' he replied" 81 think it depends a
| good deal upon what the House does with
| the Senate bil.''
| Correspondence hear over there that the
House is almost certain to concur in the Sen
ate amendments.
Matthews-Th I think the bill will be-
come law.
Correspondent Without the Presidents
signature?
Matthews-very likely. l hardly think
the President will veto the Senate bill. Re
member, however, I am not authorized in
any way to speak for the President.
Correspondent what, Mr.. Senator, do
you base your opinion?
Matthews Mainly on conversation had
recently with Secretary Sherman.
Correspondent-Did he say the President
would not veto the bill?
Matthews-No, he did not say SO; but l
! think his conversation indicated a strong con-
viction in his mind that the President would
not. He said, in effect that the bill was sure
to become law: that everybody might as
well know and accept that fact: and that it
was the part of wise men to begin to shape
the policy of the government in conformity
with the fact.
Correspondent course do you i'm
agine Secretary Sherman will pursue after
the bill will have become law?
! Matthews-''Do you mean his course in re-
gard to carrying out the provisions of the
bill itself?''
responsibilities, SIR
/ AIatthews-:'Oh. have no doubt he will
execute the law fairly and fully
Correspondent-'You have no fear, then,
that he will endeavor to antagonize the spirit
of the law by coming as little silver as posi-
BILE, Or in any other way?''
| Matthews-''Not the least. am quite
! sure Secretary Sherman has no such inten-
ton: and I am equally sure that after the
| bill shall become law. he will accept the
situation and execute all the provisions of
the law to the best of his ability
Correspondent--'Do you think the Presi-
dent would veto the Bland bill as it came
from the House?'
Matthews Yes I feel very sure he
would
| Senator Voorhees,, on being asked his
views as to the Presidents veto, replied that
he had no means of getting at the Presi-
dents Intentions; that he would not be sur
prised if the President allowed the Senate
bill to become law without his signature,
! but whether he did OF not, Congress would
make it law any way if the House con-
CURED in the Senate amendments.
| Bayard and Eaton, both hard-money men,
| say they would be surprised if the President
did not veto the bill. This opinion seemed
to prevail among Senators, as did also the
opinion that if the House struck out the
| Senate amendments two thirds of the Senate
could not be obtained to vote for the original
bill, and hence it would fail, as the Presi-
| dent would surely veto it.
Later in the day your correspondent met
Hewitt, of New York, one of the hard
money members of the House. In reply to
similar questions, he stated that he felt alb
solutely sure that the House would concur in
the Senate amendments, and had Just been
given reason to believe that the President
would allow the bill to become law without
his signature. He said he could not disclose
his authority, but it was gentleman who had
close relations with the President, and who
had conversed with the President
on the subject recently. and whom he
(Hewitt) had more recently seen. From this
and other sources he had formed his opinion
of the Presidents position, and it was this:
The orig inal Bland bill was so very obnox-
ious to the President that if it was sent to
him he would veto it. The Senate bill he
did not like, but considers it less harmful,
and in view of the decisive majorities for it
in both Houses should not feel authorized to
thwart the will of the people so strongly e1-
pressed. Therefore, he would allow the bill
to become law without his signature.
Senator summed up the Presidents po-
sition in about these words: s:The plain
English of the matter is that the President
begins to feel very keenly his need of some
backing. The Democrats will not take him.
He is not willing to give in to those people
who have been kicking him for the past six
months; and SO, as a sort of forlom hope, he
thinks perhaps he can win over to himself a
money party by placating the silver men,