The Helena independent., 1892-11-16
MADE A MERRY FEAST.
The Annual Dinner Given by the
New York Chamber Of
Commerce.
Cleveland, Depew, Reid, and Other
Celebrities Were Around
the Board.
All of Them Given n Chance to Make a
spoech-What some of
Them Said.

An of Them Given Chance to Make a
spoech-what some of
Them Said.
New YORK, Nov. 15.--The annual dinner
of the chamber OF commerce WAS held at
Delmonico's tonight. Mr.. Cleveland was
present. Mr.. Depew was also there. In
the absence Of President Smith President
Orr presided. Cleveland sat upon his
right and Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster upon his left. The cabinet was
further represented by Attorney General
Miller. Among others present we're Comp
troller OF Currency A. ID. Hepburn, Senator
Calvin Is. Brice. Senator Hiscook, VIM. T..
Breckenridge, Whitelaw Reid. Carl Schurz 2.
Murat Haist cad. George M. Pullman, ID. o.
Mills, Henry Willard. Austin Corbin, Col.
Elliott +. Shepard, Henry Clews William
Hayemeyer and others. After dinner MT.
Orr made n short address and introduced
Secretary Foster, who, in response to the
toast. "The Treasury Department" spoke
in part as follows: "The relations of the
treasury department. to such an important
body as the chamber of commerce of New
York is such as to justify me in speaking
somewhat in detail. although briefly, of it's
personnel and relations to the country.
The greatest distress of the secretary is the
numerous and persistent importantly of
party and social friends for office. After
much observation and experience do not
hesitate to express the opinion that the
| work of the government is better done
ho, hst rf Of thu t:npn
Care is always taken to promote the COM
fort and convenience of the public in
| its business with the treasury. We have.
by the use of gold and silver certificates as
a circulating medium, illustrated the su-
| psriority of paper money over metal to such
an extent ns to create In the minds of
thoughtful mon inquiry as to the utility of
coinage. The fact is established that the
paper representative is preferred by our
people"
| Attornsy General Miller followed in
response to the toast: "The President OF
the United States" which was drank by
all present. President Harrison. he said is
kept away by unexpected difficulties He
was in sore domestic affection. He occu-
pied great Office. however, and the
speaker believed the people of the United
Staten did not understand the vast ness OF
! tho office. He believed there 10 tendency
4 existing among the legislative halls Of the
states to rob the executive department of
the government of it's powers, and instapcsd
his own state Of Indiana as an example.
| He thought Legislatures invading the offices
| of the executive.
/ st. Clair McKslvey spoke to the toast:
"Italy.'' IN place of Baron Fava. who was
kept away by illness He was followed by
DR.. Jokn Hall ON Commerce and CivilizR-
tion;' Hon. VIM. T. Brecenridge on The
House of Representatives" and President
Schurman. of Cornell university. on Com
merce and Education"
When Prof. Schurman finished, Mr.. Orr
| announced the regular card exhausted, but
| he would now present to the company a
gentleman who needed no words of intro
| duction, Hon. Grover Cleveland. The
mention of the president-elect's name was
received with an outburst of applause.
Mr.. Cleveland expressed. gratitude at the
kindness and warmth of his greeting. I'VE
all notice." said he, "that many mon
when they seek to appear especially wise
and impressive speak of 'our business inter
ests as something awful and mysterious
and quite often when proposition is
under discussion it's merits are no longer
apparent to those whose hair is on end al
the SOLEMN suggestion that our business
interests' are lying in wait with numerous
| SlalH OIL WTdbu IN COhlplGbo ISduluesS loI
those who arrive at an accepted
conclusion. 1t is entirely natural
that my familiarity with business
interests. arising from the relation to which
| have referred should be of II pleasant sort
and free from fear and trepidation, for the
only meetings have attended OF the cham
ber of commerce have been precisely such
AZ this. when the very hest things to eat
and drink have been exhaustivsly discussed
| am bound to say thnt on these occasions
the dreadful beings representing our busi-
ness interests have been very human in
deed. know you will not do do me the
great in Justice OF supposlng l in the least
undsrrate the Importance of the CONNER
oial and financial interests here repre-
sented. We are all interested as Ameri-
cans in a common pursuit. Our purpose
is or ought to be, in our several spheres, to
add to the general fund of national pros
perity. From this fund we are all entitled
to draw. perhaps not equally, but justly,
each receiving fair portion of individual
prosperity. Let us avoid trampling on each
other i'll our anxiety to be first i'll the dis
tribution of shares. and let us not attempt
to appropriate the share of othors."
In conclusion Cleveland again expressed
thanks for courtesies extended and said he
never allowed himself to be Needless of the
affairs they SO worthily hold i'll their keep
ing.
Hon. Whitelaw Reid spoke next. and in
trOuuCeu nlmSelI py saying sEeecu- mHhihR
ought to be left ITO the other side" ~
have made II great many speeehas." he
said, within the last three or four weeks
and am bound to say l am not Mt al
pleased with the result. As q member of
the chamber of commerce, l would like &c
snswer u question which my fiend from
kentucky (BfeckenridRe) has asked. He
stated that as a representative of the suo
cessful party. he is here to ascertain
the wishes of the business people
of New York. There is nothing 80 I'M iurious
to business Rs uncertainty. tie told
us it is the purpose of his party to set then
faces iesolutely and antagonistioeily
against q course which the people of this
country have pursued for thirty years.
can only answer i'll tho words of deputy
of the French chamber, who SAID that on
international questions affecting his coun-
try or nationality there was no minority
and no majority, that all were trenohmen'
and that we are all Americana
When Reid had taken his scat there were
loud cries for Depew. DIR. Depew kindly
acquiesced and said i'll pstt: Il expected To
be mere tonight attending the obsequies oil
distinguished friend OF mine. and had
prepared II eulogy which would be sstistac-
tory to the deceased. | discover however.
that l have been listening to democratic
ratification meeting. | find the places
changed l am the corpse" Laughter
He believed IL the democratic purity hao
thirty years in which To study ths
political history of tho country, they
| ahould In randy To utesent II prgurammo al