Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-30
THE SILVER SENATOR
Objects to What He Terms Fed
eral interference.
No Prospect of Any Business Being
Transacted.
From our regular correspondent

The speech, which was delivered to.
day, was made in advocacy of the fol.
lowing resolution offered by Mr..
Stewart on Saturday:
ResOIaed, That the independence Of
the coordinate departments of the
government, the legislative, the exec
utive, and the judiciary, must be main
tanned, and that the use of the power
and influence of one department to
control the action OF another is a vi
olation of the Constitution and de.
structive Of our form of government.
There can be no question about the
truthfulness Of the assertion made in
this resolution it has been talked
about for weeks among Senators o.
both parties, and the only reason il
has not come before the public in All
official way is that many Senators
who disapprove of the manifest
encroachment of the executive up
on the prerogatives of the leg.
islative branch of the government
were willing to appear to condone ii
because they approved of the end
sought-the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the silver law-and the same
feeling may prevent the adoption Of
Mr.. Stewards resolution, but it should
not. The resolution involves great
principle and does not alone refer to
pending legislation, but to all future
legislation. If Congress does not
stand up for its constitutional rights
and rebuke the executive for trying to
usurp them, it cannot expect that the
usurpation will cease when the pend
ing legislation shall have been dispos-
ed of 1t will continually grow if al
lowed to, so long as Mr. Cleveland,
with his dictatorial disposition, is
President; and the example will GER
tainly be followed in the future by his
successors III the executive chair. The
cause of the usurpation should be re-
garded as immaterial the usurpation
is dangerous and should be promptly
rebuked.
Senator Chandler has introduced a
resolution that may stir up the adj
ministration considerably, to say
nothing of adding to the hard feelings
already existing in both factions OF
the New York Democracy. The reso-
luton calls upon the Secretary of the
Treasury for his authority to appoint
the Fairchild commission now engage
ed in examining the appraisers office
of the port of New York what has
been done, and what it is intended to
do; how much money has been paid
out, and what is agreed to be paid, to-
gether with all correspondence on the
subject or relating thereto. When
the resolution is called up, il is not
probable that either Senators Hill or
Murphy will attempt to defend Secre-
tary Carlisle. 1t is suspected that
some Of the correspondence will be es-
pecially interesting to the New York
Senators.
Representative Wilson, chairman of
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee, talks i'll paradoxes about the new
tariff bill. He starts out by saying
that the new bill will be exactly what
was promised by the Chicago plat
form-a tariff for revenue only, with
out any incidental protection, and
then winds up with the assertion that
no established American industry will
be injured by the bill. Now any
school boy knows that one or the
other of these statements is wrong.
A tariff for revenue only is tariff
that will the most largely increase the
importation of foreign goods, and the
more foreign goods consumed in the
United States the less demand there
will be for domestic goods of the same
kind, and the natural consequence
will be closing of American factories.
The only theory upon which Mr..
Wilson statements can be reconciled
is that he does not consider ''estab-
lished" those American industries
that require protection from foreign
competition. There is going to be
big fight in the Democratic party on
this questionable number of Demo
cratic protectionists is larger than
many suppose and events are making
daily additions thereto.
The Senate will by agreement make
set speeches on the Voorhees, bill two
weeks or more and then-there will
probably be an indefinite period Of
lilibustering, if the attempt is serious
ly made to force a vote on the bill
Mr.. Cleveland is very much. offended
because of this defiance of his wishes,
but no credence is placed in current
rumors to the effect that the Admins
tration will try to bring on another
period of financial stringency in order
to force a vote. One "object lesson"
of that kind is probably quite enough
for even a Democratic administration.
The House, having gone far beyond
anything in the shape of curtailing
the rights of the minority, contained
in the rules of the House of the
Fifty-hrst Congress, will tomorrow
take up the bill for the perpetuation
of the power of the Democratic party,
otherwise known as the bill for the
repeal Of the federal election laws.
Two whole weeks-think of what
magnanimity to the minority that is
will be allowed for the discussion OF
the bill. Unless there is a change OF
rules in the Senate this bill will never
pass that body, let the House railroad
it as fast as it may.
Hypodermic injections of hot lead
are good for train-robbing lever. Ex-