Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-25
The Presidential Veto.
Senator Stewart Strongly Con-
 demns Its Too Free Use.
HE CALLS IT "ONE MAN POWER"

ADOuC fTeSIucut
 Postofice Appropriation Passed in the
 House-A Marine Conference-Pension
 Appropriation Conference Reports.
 WASHINGTON, May 25.-The feature in the senate yesterday was the speech of Senator Stewart on the presidential veto power.
 He said that in little over three years President Cleveland had vetoed 172 bills and had refused to sign fifty. The objection that many of them were individual pension bills was not satisfactory reason for the exercise of arbitrary power against the deliberate judgment of majority of congress Wash ington had vetoed but two bills, Lincoln but one and Jefferson noHe. The government had changed from Democratic simplicity to q one man power, responsive only to the necessities of party and the influence of money. The vast resources of the government are prac- tically used by the administration as a private fund to augment the power of the executive. He desired to show the salmost unlimited dis. cretionary power exercised by the executive to benefit his friends and destroy his enemies" As an example he would refer to the raid of the attorney general on the Bell Telephone company.
 Mr. Stewart then referred to The Washing ton Post-a most devoted friend of the presi- dent-drawing parallel between Napoleon crowning himself and "Grover Cleveland the First' nominating himself at St. Louis He accused President Cleveland of dictating to his party. With one wave of his hand he paralyzed the house of representatives SO that it could not utter the word ''silver' when tho senate sent in the Beck amendment on the bond purchasing bill The growing power of this ''man of destiny" had but to con- tinue unresisted for another term of four years to so intrench Grover Cleveland in ths White House that nothing but revolution | could move him. Nine of the states had al- l ready shown their opposition to the veto power by qualifying it so that majority could pass bill over the governors veto. It was absurd to suppose that one man with | mutifarious duties could more deliberately examine legislation than the ma jority of con- gress. He had no unkind feeling toward the | president personally He had great respect for his sagacity, ability and natchless will | power.
 1 The selection by MT. Cleveland of the money kings and bond holding aristocracy of Europe and America as his allies MT. Stew | art said, proved his sagacity and showed his | appreciation of the necessity for the use of | money in accomplishing his Napoleonic | schemes. If such associations did not arouse the people to action before it was too late it | would be because the boldness and daring of ! this "man of destiny" dazzled and blended | them. 1 Senators Vest, Plumb, Manderson, Cullom l and Coke were announced as the committee 1 to examine into the questions touching the meat product of the United States.
 The conference report on the pension ap- propriation bill was agreed to-
 The feature in the house yesterday uas the passage of the postoffice appropriation bill, the only amendment being an increase of the appropriation for railway mail ser vice from $9O0, ,OOO to $95O, ,OO0.
 On motion of MT. Phelps senate bill appro- priating $125, 900 for the erection of public building at Paterson, N. J., was taken up, | the appropriation reduced to $S0, 900, and as amended the bill was passed.
 The house in committee of the whole pro ceeded to the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill.
 The ensuing argument several times turned toward the admission of Dakota to statehood.
 The house then passed the senate marine conference bill.
 It authorizes the president to invite the governments of other maritime nations te send delegates to maritime conference te be held at Washington Oct. l, 1888, or a, such other time or place as he may designate and appoint five delegates, one of whom shall be an officer of the navy, and another an official of the life saving service, to repre- sent the United States at the conference. I, is made the object of the conference to revise the rules of the road at sea, and various othe, matters pertaining to ocean navigation. Al appropriation of s15,OOO is made to meet tht necessary expenses of the conference.
 The conference report on the invalid pen sions appropriation bill was agreed to. The
 bill is practically the same as it passed thu senate. ....
 On motion of MT. Belmont, of New York
 resolution was adopted authorizing tn
 committee on foreign affairs to inquire int
 the facts connected with the imprisonment i,
 an English jail of John Curtin Kent, a nat l uralized American citizen.