The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-12
The Executive Power Of the Government Be-
ing Used as Means to Assail the Cit
liens Character and Reputation.
Clear Statement of the Attitude in
Which the Administration Is Placed.
The House Considers the Indian Appropria-
tion Bill, and Debate Ensues Concerning
the Opening of the Oklahoma Lands.
Senator Wilson Presents Graphic Picture
of Abuse of Executive Power.


WAsHINGToN March 1.-The Chair laid be-
fore the Senate letter from the Secretary of
the Treasury transmitting in response to
recent Senate resolution. information as to the
expense incurred by the United States in behalf
of the Territory of Utah since the passage of the
act of June %, 1874
Also from the same officer, a like response.
transmitting information of claims filed by gov
eminent workmen under the eight-hour law.
The papers were appropriately referred.
Among the petitions presented and referred
was one by Mr.. Jones, of Nevada, from the
National Bimetallic Coinage Association, and as
its subject-matter, he said, was of transcendant
Importance to the industries of the country, he
would ask unanimous consent to submit a few
observations on it. Unanimous consent having
been obtained, Mr.. Jones addressed the Senate
on it The memorial, he said, showed in q
striking light the disastrous effect on the
silver products of the United States of the com
petition with India. The extraordinarily rapid
development and expansion of the resources Of
India since 1873, Mr.. Jones said, was the direct
result of its use of silver money, and instead of
that country being held up to US as warning,
1t should be taken as an example to guide as.
Mr.. Morrill, asked Mr.. Jones whether the rea-
Bon for the depression of the wheat growth in
Great Britain was not that the importer of that
cereal could buy Indian rupees for one shilling
and elk pence, and then pass his rupees in India
for two shillings
Mr.. Jones admitted that that affected the price,
but said the reason why the rupee could be
bought at one shilling and six pence was that the
Annuitants. those who had fixed incomes, de-
Biring to increase tho value of the money which
shey received entered into conspiracy to de-
stroy silver as money, to take away from it its
principal use to deny the royal privilege Of coin
age, and in that way. from 1873 down, had s0cs
seeded in reducing the rupee from two shilings.
% ore shilling and six pence. For one hundred
gears, Mr. Jones continued, France alone had
maintained the parity of silver with gold on the
ratio of 15a to /. If that relation existed to-day
At would be utterly impossible for the Indies to
ship a bale of cotton to tho Western world Let
the United States undo the wrong it did in 1873;
let it again coin silver. From the large amount
of paper money in the world, we all know that
there is not nearly enough silver to meet the
monetary wants Of the world Let the United
States coin; this would put the rupee at two
6hilings, and it would be impossible that Indian
competition could affect the wheat-grower or the
cotton planter of the United States.
Mr. Teller said the price of wheat in Liverpool,
during November had been within half cent
busheI of its price in Chicago.
The Chair suggested that debate was allowed
only by unanimous consent, and objection being
made, the matter was dropped.
Mr. Hawley, from the committee on civil SER
vice, reported adversely Mr.. Vance's bill for the
kepeal of the civi-service law. Mr.. Hawley said
she committee was not unanimous The bill was
placed on the calendar.
Mr. Logan, from the minority Of the committee
On military affairs, submitted the views of the mi
hority members on the Fitz John Porter bill. 1t
Is the same report presented by the minority in
She last Congress, with the addition of General
Logan's letter in reply to General Grants article
Ia the North American Review justifying the
conduct of Fitz John Porter.
In the morning hour. the bill for the forfeiture
Of part of the lands granted to the State of Iowa.
to aid In the construction of railroads, was
taken up, and after debate, went over until to-
morrow.
The Chair then laid before the Senate the res
piutions reported from the judiciary committee
as to the right Of the Senate to papers on file in
the departments, and Mr. Wilson addressed the
Senate in support of the resolutions reported by
the majority of the committed Mr. Wilson said
gov
ernment its executive power is now being used
rs means OF assault on the character and rep
htation of its citizens. He stated the fact and
would not now stop to determine whether it was
The result OF purpose, inexperience, want Of
thoughtful action or other cause whatsoever
&c was fact however, and doubtless it would
have been guarded against If the trainers of the
Constitution had believed such result possible
In an administration of the executive power
hinder the provisions Of that instrument as pre-
pared by them. Who could have anticipated
that from the political protoplasmic presence
which hoated on the bosom of the Democratic
platform of 1884, and whose indefinite
hess was expressed in the words I'VE
evolved a result so harmful to the character and
reputation of a citizen as the practice of the
present administration. Every state reached
by the peculiar movements OF this strange polit
heal evolution gave promise of better result
shan we have now attained the citizen ex-
berienced. The first stage was marked by the
expression of Mr. Cleveland in accepting the
domination rendered him by the national Dem
Dcratc convention. Mr.. Wilson read an extract
from Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance Here.
be continued, and in his words, the protoplasmic
particles which foated in the platform,
Seem ssto take, on some degree,
definite shape The evolutionary process con-
tinued its movement but its next stage was not
reached until Mr.. Cleveland, the candidate of his
party for the great Office of President of the
United States, had become President-elect When
the latter character had become assured to him
by everything except the counting of the elect
oral vote and the announcement of the result
thereof, awaiting himself of the glad Christmas
time. he took occasion to announce in his letter
10 Mr. Curtis, in language forcible and express
eive, that the political revolution was going
steadily and resolutely on toward those higher
conditions and purer practices which show
the presence OF reform in the method of executive
potion, and here no read an extract from
letter to Mr.. Curtis. These expressions, he con-
finued, marked the second stage reached by the
political evolution which took it's start in the
protoplasmic feature of the Democratic platform
Of 1880 No one could doubt the marked char
ncfer OF the advance which it indicated Surely,
beautiful creation must be the final result
This was the expressed belief of those who do
sired such termination of the movement and
1t intensified the fiercsness Of those who did not
IT moved on, and the political evolution kept
pace with il. The 4th of March, 1885, was