, 1888-10-25

thus far in his administration he has used
the veto $40 times, more than four times
as frequently as it was used by all his pre-
decesc ors in the long period OF ninety-slx
years. 1t seems to me the president,
conception Of the veto power Is that
wherever he would vote NO" If he were
a member of the senate or the house, he
would veto the measure as the president.
which is an entirely new interpretation OF
the constitution unknown to the founders
of the government and absolutely repudi-
ated by every one who has occupied the
presidential chair before him.
A THIRD LEGISLATIVE POWER.
1t is submitted that the trainers of the
constitution never intended to make the
president third legislative power with
vote that could override others. Such use
of the veto power has been condemned by
all the great statesmen of both parties;
such use of the power would dethrone any
constitutional monarch in Europe cheers |;
such use of the veto power gave to that
French king who brought on the revolution
the name of Monsieur Veto, and Presi-
dent Cleveland will be fortunate If, in his
tory, he escapes the same descriptive
sobriquet loud appIausel. The republi-
cans arraign the administration for having
unjustly without precedent and for parti-
san reasons, disfranchised 10000 American
citizens in the territory OF Dakota.
Here Blaine set forth at some length
what has been the custom in the matter of
the admission of the territories. He
touched upon the resources of Dakota and
charged that she was only kept out to
maintain democratic supremacy.
The republicans arraign President
Cleveland's administration for breaking
down the policy of paying off the national
debt as rapidly as the surplus in the treas
ury will allow. They permitted the bonds
of the United States. payable at par, to re-.
main at interest while the income of the
government was devoted to the creation of
the surplus which might be used to 2reju-
dice the financial system that had steadily
produced the condition Of prosperity in
the country when the surplus, thus esigned
by an enlarged treasury department, used
1t for the first time since General jackson
broke down the old United States bank for
the purpose of loans under the name of
deposits" without interest to the banks.
HOW THE PEOPLES MONEY WAS USED.
Blaine then detailed at length the turn
ing over of a million dollars to New
FORK bank by the treasury, and charged
that nearly $9,0O0,0 900 was thus deposited
in Covington, Ky, banks. to aid Carlisle
in his canvass for reelection. He de.
clared that if Louis Napoleon, in the days
of his most absolute power, had done such
a thing, the streets of Paris would have
been barricaded and revolution inaug.
urated. and that il Queen Victoria should
do it. the ministry would inquire into the
question of her sanity, bat
on larger scale, and as between commu
mites rather than individuals, look at
what the secretary has done. He has
placed in the state of New York. in the
banks of his own selection, nearly
$4,000, 900 of the treasury funds, and in
this great Western body of states, COM
prising Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska,
with double the population of New York,
and in special need of ready money at this
time to move the crops to market, the
secretary has given but little over
s. 900. 900. The rule of the secretary
apparently has been that to state of
political importance to the administration,
$4,000, 900 are given, and to several
states with double the population. which
are hopelessly republican, considerably
less than half that amount. Such polit-
ical gambling and personal sporting with
the funds of the common treasury of the
United States has never been heard of be-
fore in the history of the country. The
republicans arraigned the president for
his deliberate attempt to destroy the pro-
tective system of this country by using
against it, as an argument. the tendency
to produce surplus in the treasury, when
not one dollar of the surplus would be
there If the money had been lawfully ex-
pended in reducing the public debt in
stead of being loaned out to the banks for
the benefit of political favorites.
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