Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-26
STEWART Vs. WEBSTER
The Nevada Senator Criticises
 the Great LcxIcographer.
CLEVELAND BITTERLY ATTACKED.

MT. Cameron Says Pennsylvania Is Not In jur.d by the Sherman Law-Aa Unevent- full Session In the House-Minor Matters of Interest nt Washington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26-President Cleve- land was the object of prolonged personal attack in the senate yesterday on the part of Senator Stewart, who spoke for nearly three hours on the resolution which he had offered last Saturday as to the relative independence of the three coordinate branches of the government. That inde- pendence he charged the president with disreGarding in many ways, but particular ly in not causing the silver purchase law and the Chinese expulsion law to be faith fully executed. But worse even than the incarceration of these laws appeared to be, in Mir. Stewards opinion, the contemptuous allusions to congress which he found in some of MT. Cleveland's letters and inter views. He was particularly embittered at the president s allusion in one of his letters to having congress on his hands" This was an indignity beyond endurance Then, in retaliation, the Nevada senator scoffed at the president for his want of a collegiate or any other liberal education that would fit him for his high office and read the pres ident's brief biography in the congressional directory, laying much stress on and seek ing to attract humor from the points of Mir Cleveland's career as assistant teacher of the blind, clerk, sheriff mayor and prac- tiCing lawyer.
 4 Slap at Noah Webster.
 In criticising one of Mir. Cleveland's let ters in which he spoke of the intrinsic" value of gold and silver, Mir. Stewart said that the president did not know what he was talking about and that some public men ought to open kindergarten school to learn how to use terms. Webster's die tionary defining intrinsic" and giving as examples the phrase intrinsic value of gold and silver was quoted by Mir. Dolph, but Mir. Stewart swept it by cOntemptu- ously with the remark: 50 much the worse for Webster. LI-aughtcr.l l have no controversy with Webster The man who pretends that value in a commercial sense is intrinsic has not learned the first kindergarten rules Of finance"
 Mir. COckrcll called attention to some of the scare articles" iu the New York news papers and quoted from Philadelphia pa pcrs to the effect that the New York stock market had upprrhensions that some other object lessons might be needed to move the senate to action"
 There was further criticism of the news papers by various senators, and another batch of newspaper paragraphs was read by Mir. Stewart, to be embodied in the columns of The Congressional Record It included the president telegram to Representative Wilson of West Virginia, congratulating him and his associates in the house on the passage of the repeal bill.
 NIT. Cameron Against Repeal.
 Thc mdcliCaCy of such action on the part of the president was condemned by the Ne vada senator and was taken by him as a proof that the president did not realize the importance of having the departments of the government kept distinct.
 Speeches against the repeal bill were then made by Mir. Cameron and Mir. Bate. After the speeches, Mir. stewart occupied the re- maindcr of the day session.
 Mir. Cameron said in part: How does this much abused sherman act injure Pennsylvania: In no way whatever. In der thi~ act We increase the currency now about >G,uuu.UN a yCar-harely enough tO meet the nrv,ls of the natural increase of population. In d very few years this act will hc q muasurr vf absolute contraction. IL will uuduly restrict the coinage. The people of Pennsylvania want even now, and expressly require, greater increase than this and ask for il ill paper, but what adNautILC haS paper over silver, which has at least an intrinsic value equal to JC per cent of its nominal value in gold, and Is also guaranteed by our gold reserve, whereas the paper would bc guaranteed by the gold alouc?"
 TLc session of the house was an unevent- fu' che without quorum. After the roll was called it attempted to consider the printing bill but without final action on the measure. the house adjourned