Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-11-06

4 lovncss Of Cleveland's sentiment
on the subject As shown in hi
message to Congress at tho tin
! the Scott bill was signed, wherein
| the President recommended thu
admission of all Chinese into thu
country whs were on their wa
here when the bill was passed
winch he aptiy stated would mear
the admission of all China, becaus;
every Chinaman who wanted to en-
ter the United States could swear
without fear of contradiction thai
he was on his way when the bill
passed. Laughter and applause.
He condemned the Democrats
for giving Cleveland credit for sign
ing this bill. He said it would
have been 2 crime to veto it and
tie President did not dare 90 that
because it would have cost him the
vote OF every laborer in the coan-
try.
lie commented with severity on
the usurpatioa OF the veto power by
tho President, which was incorpor-
ated in the Constitution by the
trainers OF tina. instrument with the
idea that i. would only be used to
protect the Executive from encroach-
ments on his authority. With this
in view all the early Presidents
were extremely cautious to exercise
this power. Washington vetoed only
two bills, one of which was mani
testify unconstitutional, and the
ether was passed through an over
sight of Congress. jefferson, John
Adams, John Quincy Adams, Van
Buren,, Taylor and Fillmore never
used the veto power, and Lincoln
exercised it but once. Down to the
Inauguration of Cleveland 1873 bills
in all were vetoed, while during the
three years of Cleveland's Admins
tration he has vetoed over 80 bills.
Besides this hs has "pockst-vetoed"
over SO bills. among which was
bill to prohibit the employment of
convict labor and alien labor upon
any public works of the United
States, or the manufacture of ma
terials by convict labor Tor use on
any public works. How could Clsve-
land claim to DO friend of honest
laborers after this? (Applause.)
Senator Stewart said that Clevs-
lands record on the silver question
alone was sufficient to defeat him
in this State, and he wondered that
any Democrat who is in favor of
honest money could find it possible
to support the President. Although
he was elected On a platform which
declared for both gold and silver,
he did not wait to be inau.urate d
before he violated his pledge to sup
port it by addressing letter to the
members of the Forty
eighth Congress, urging tho repeal
of all laws providing for the coinage
of silver. He followed this up in
his inaugural message, almost de-
handing tho repeal OF the Bland
Act and predicted utter ruin it this
were not done. Then he sent Geo.
Walker, Consul General at Paris,
to inform the Latin Union Monetary
Conference assembled in that city,
that there was growing sentiment
in the United States in favor Of the
repeal of the Bland Act, and that
the Administration would do all in
its power to secure its repeal. In his
annual message to Congress in 1886
he repeated what he had stated in
his inaugural message. He also
sent Manton Marble and Edward
both gold bugs, to junket
about IN Europe at tho expense Of
the United States, to obtain false
on the silver question
from European bankers and bond
holders.
And when the Senate. in April
last, amended the House bill auth
orizing tho purchase of U. 8.
bonds by requiring the purchase
and coinage of sufficient silver to
take the place of national bank