Nevada County picayune., 1890-12-04
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The short session of the 5lst Con
 press assembled Monday. First
 thing done was reading of President
 Iarrison's annual message, copy
 of which appeared in lhc daily pa
 pcrs Monday afternoon and Tuesday
 morning. It is a very weak docu-
 mcnt. In lieu of reyiewal of our own, we give extracts on 1t from | Tuesday Gazette, below:
 In dreary way the operations of tue various departments are summa- rized, and considerable space IS de- voted to our foreign relations, which are not exciting, and few facts con corning which ordinarily interest the general reader.
 The most notable reference to this branch of the subject IS the Presi- dents hearty endorsement of the management of the Interior Depart mcnt. The Pension Bureau belongs to this department; and as it's record since Harrison entered the W hlte House has been a record of proiliga- cv, corruption and public and prl- vate scandal, and as beyond pension scandals the Interior Department has been almost unknown, the public will readily appreciate the kind of man. aeement the President deems worthy of special commendation.
 The vital parts of3the message are those in which the President con graduates Congress on the excel
 ence and importance of the work performed during the late session. He endorses that body in whole and in part, and this is an endorsement of the Mckinley tariff law, of the baVonet bill, which passed the House, of the open, fragrant robbery by the Republican majority of the seats to which Democrats were elected, and of the revolutionary methods by which the minority were gagged, and even the majority subjected to the despotic will of the man who fills the Speakers chair.
 The President of the United States. who, if he were not besotted in partizanship, would be ashamed to utter such sentiments, holds up the black, infamous record made by the late session of Congress as cause for congratulation. He thus slaps in the face and insults the millions of frcemcn who, aroused by the mis- deeds which he comments, admin istered to their authors a punishment which no political party ever before received, by reducing the Republi- can majority in the 52nd Congress to a hopeless minority, with barely enough members to fill places on standing committees.
 The President is profoundly inn pressed with the necessity for Fed eral election law. He endorses the measure which passed the House. As the partisan object of that meas ure is barely denied; as this object is to prevent the American people from ever again electing a Democrat ic Congress or President, and as in the late elections the people showed ! that, unless restrained by bayonets, they will speadily destroy the dis graced Republican party, of which Benjamin Harrison is tituar chief, his concern and solicitude can be readily understood.
 The infamies of the present Con- gress he makes his own by adoption. The lesson of the elections is lost on him; and for the people who few weeks ago nearly destroyed the Re publican party because of its crimes against them, he cXultingly pre- scribes the Mckinley device, to bind them to the giant monopolies whose corruptly used money placed him in the White House, and demands the ! bayonet as scourge to stille their free and independent will.