Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-07-06

issued:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 80 1898. I
Whereas, the distrust and apprehension
concerning the financial situation which
pervade all business circles have already
caused great loss and damage to our people
and threaten to cripple our merchants. stop
the wheels of manufacture, bring distress
and privation to our farmers, and withhold
from our workingmen the wage of labor
and
Whereas, the present perilous condition
Is largely the result of a financial policy
which the executive branch OF the govern
ment finds embodied In unwise laws which
must be executed until repealed by Con-
gress;
And now therefore, ], Grover Cleve-
land, president of the United States, in per-
Torrance of a constitutional duty, do, by
this proclamation, declare that an extraor-
binary occasion requires the Governing of
both houses of Congress of the United States
ct tho capital in the city OF Washington on
the seventh day Of August, next, at II
O'Clock noon, to the end that the people
may be relieved through legislation from
present and impending danger and distress.
All those entitled to act as members Of
the SOD Congress are requested to take
notice of this procla nation and attend at
the time and place above stated.
Given under my hand and the seal OF the
United States at the city of Washington,
the thirtieth day of June in the year of
Our Lord eight hundred and ninety three,
and of the Independence of the United
States the one hundred and seventeenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
what Hastsned tho Procla alton.
WASHINGTON June 30.-It is almost
conclusivelv established that the calling of
an August session of Congress was not even
determined until after midday to-day. The
plain facts appear to be that the disturb
an ce of values arising from the uncertain
ties OF the situation grew SO alarming that
Mr., Cleveland was compelled at last to ac-
knowledge that the unexpected contingent
cies" necessitatng an earlier meeting Of
Congress, of which he spoke in his interview
Of June s. had arrived
The action of the British government n
India brought matters to crisis. Previous
to that event Mr.. Cleveland had manifested
firm determination to adhere to his plan
OF calling Congress on September l.
After the suspension of silver coinage in
India, the president resolutely declined to
speak further about his intensions until he
should be prepared to act, and each of his
ca binet officers mani tanned similar silence.
1t may be stated, however, that from the
day when the announcement of the acto
of India was made, the presid ent took step
to keep himself forwarned through the
press dispatches of the slightest approach
OF panic in the money market, prepared ut
any moment to tGke the course which he
has now adopted, If it seemed to him that
his SO doing would in any way tend to allay
the alarm and restore public confidence.
When to-day he found kilograms on his
table, not only from the Eastern and Middle
States but also from the South and even
from some of the silver States OF the North
west urging that Congress be called together
at the earliest day possible to end the un-
certainty, he determined to delay no Ion
! ger. The presinent took steps as far as he
could to prevent its being known before the
stock exchange closed, as to avoid any
appearance of exercising undue influence on
the stock market.
EN-Frssident Harrison's Opinion.
NEW YORK, June 80. -Ex President
Harrison when asked tonight as to his opin =
ion of President Cleveand's call for an
August session of congress, said that, pre-
Stunning the latest dispatches contained cor
rect Information it was about the only thing
Mir Cleveland could consistently do.
l think that there is plenty OF money, but
that people are holding on to what they
have got and boarding it. 1 am not pre-
pared TO say whether think that an Au-
gust session of Congress will restore conf
dence which is said TO be demoralized.
think that perhaps altogether too much of
the much complained of stringsncy has
been loaded upon the Sherman law. The
load is altogether too great.
Ia the first place the Law was passed by a
majority of the senators and representatives.
OF whom many were outspoken advocates
of the free coinage of silver and many
thought that its effect would he to place it
at 81. 20 an ounce. The democrats were en-
tirely responsible for that and | am sure
that whatever Mr. Cleveland may able to
do with Congress they would not have re-
pealed the law for me-