The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-21
vEToEs OF PENSIONS,

merely for his
vEToEs OF PENSIONS,
but for his general and dangerous US,
of the veto power, which is without pre-
cedence in the previous history of tn.
country, and altogether beyond the
conception and Imagination of those
Who formed the Constitution, Jeffer-
son, whom thu Democrats have politi-
| cally delfied, and the founder of theil
party, had eight years of administra-
ton, distinguished by troublesome per-
iods and by advents of great moment
yet he never found the occasion, not
even once, for using the veto, so great
was his respect for the will OF
the people. as manifested through
their representatives In Congress-.
(Cheers.) In the long period from
Washington's Inauguration to the close
of b.rthur's administration the veto was
used but seventy-five times in all.
Cleveland's term rounds out the first
century of the Federal government, and
thus far in his administration he has
used the veto 80 times. more than four
times as frequently as it was used by
all his pl edecessors in the long period
of ninety-six years. 1t seems to me the
Presidents conception of the veto power
is that whenever he would vote "no,"
if be were member OF the Senate or
House he would veto the measureas Pres
1dent, which is entirely new interpre-
tation of the Constitution. and one IN
known to ihe founders of the govern
ment, and absolutely repudiated by
everyone who has occupied the Presi-
dental chair before him. l submit
that the trainers of the Constitution
never intended to make the President
third legislative power, with vote tnat
could override the others. Such use
of the veto power has been condemned
by ell the great statesmen of both
parties. Such a use of the power would
dethrone any continental monarch in
Europe (Cheersl Such a use of the
veto power, gave to that French
King who brought on revolution, the
name of Monsieur Veto" and Presi-
dent Cleveland will be fortunate if in
his history he escapes the same uescrip-
five soubriquet. (Applause.)
The Republicans
ARRAIGN THE ADMINISTRATION
for having unjustly, without precedent
and for partisan reasons, DISTINGUISHED
70 coo Am rican citizens in the Terri
tory of Dakota.
Here Blaine set forth at some length
what has been the custom in the matter
of the admission of Territories, touched
on the resources of Dakota, and
charged that she was only kept out to
maintain Democratic supremacy. The
n
lands administration for breaking
down the useful policy of paying off the
national debt as rapidly as the surplus
in the Treasury will allow. They per-
mitted bonds of the United States pay
able at par to remain at interest, while
the income of government was devoted
to the creation of a surplus, which
might be used to prejudice the financial
ana industrial system that had steadily
produced condition of prosperity In
the country. When the surplus was
thus designedly enlarged. the Treas
ury Department used it for the
first time since General Jackson
broke down the old United States bank
for the purpose of loans, under the
name of deposits" with interest to
the banks.
Blaine then dwelt at length on the
loaning of over a million dollars to q
New York bank by Secretary of the
Treasury Manning and ex-Treasurer
Jordan, and charged that nearly $780,
600 was thus deposited in Covington,
KY. banks to aid Carlisle in his canvass
for re- election. He declared that If
Louis Napoleon in the days of his most
absolute power had done such thing,
the streets of Paris would have been
barriCaded and
REVOLUTION GENERATED,
and that should Queen Victoria do it,
the ministry would inquire into the
question of her sanity. He continued:
But on a larger scale and as between
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 $13 600, 900 of the Treasury funds
and in this great western body of States
Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and
Nebraska, with double the population
of New York, and in special need of
ready money at this time to move crops
to the market, the Secretary has
given but little over $1,000 600,
the rule of the Secretary ap-
parently. being that to a state o holt
lcaI importance to the administrator
$4,000 600 are given, and to seven States
with double population, that are nope
lessly Republican, considerably less
than half that amount. Such political
gambling and sporting with the COM
mon funds of the government has never
been dreamed of before in this country.
ss Lastly: The Republicans arraign
the President for deliberate attempt
to destroy the protective system of this
country, by using against it as an argu-
ment, its tendency to produce the sur
plus in the Treasury when not one dol
lar of the surplus would be there if the
money had been lawfully expended in
reducing the public debt instead of be-
ng loaned out to national banks and
Tor the benefit of political favorites.