The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-26

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-The senate
opened to-day at II o'clock with ssna.
,or Stewards arraignment Of President
Cleveland for the alleged violation Of
the constitution in seeking to influence
the legislative department Of the gov
crnment.
There was a dead stiffness as the
Nevada senator opened his attack on
the President for his alleged endeavor
to coerce Congress into passing the re-
peal bill.
Hs began by reference to the laying
OF the corner stone OF the capitol and
the recent centennial anniversary OF
that event. On the latter occasion, he
said. tho President Of the United States,
armed with more than q hundred
thousand high paid, desirable federal
offices to bestow, with the veto power
designed only for extraordinary occa..
sions, backed by concentrated capital
and encouraged and Hattered by yenai
press, turned his face towards the sem
ate wing OF the capitol and in angry
and menacing tones said, "If the repre-
sentatives there assembled legislated In
prejudice or passion, or in behalf oil
sectional and selfish interests, the time
when the corner stone was laid and the
circumstances surrounding it would not
be worth commemmoratinR."
This declaration, said MIR. Stewart,
which had been cheered and encour.
aged by thoughtless multitude, had
been construed by venal press as a
robuke from the President OF the
United States 10 guilty and venal sem
ate. He then quoted at length from
Macauley's History OF England as to
the parliamentary struggle with the
Stuart kings.
Coming to the present time, Mr..
Stewart charged that the President, in
Disregard to his oath OF Office TO execute
the laws, had permitted the secretary
Of the treasury to violate the act which,
made the purch ase OF four and halt
million ounces OF silver bullion per
month mandatory by exercising an un-
lawful discretion in purchaslnRa small
er amount.
STRONG WORDS.
Mr.. Stewart undertook to say that at
no time since the execution of Charles
/, either in England or the United
States, had any king or president ever
openly and detiantly disobeyed a stat
ute which he himself declared was
mandatory, or allowed his subordtnates
over whom he had control to do the
same thing. Was 1t not time, he said,
to sound the alarm? II constitutional
liberty was OF any value, 1t seemed to
him that all friends and foes should
stand up and say to the President OF
the United States: "You have over
stepped the mark; we cannot afford to
have the laws of Congress on any ques-
ton disregarded."
Mr.. Stewart said the President Of the
United States had no exalted opinion
OF the senate or the house.
He regarded it doubtless as an mp.
pendage OF the executive department
Mr.. Stewart then read from q letter
written BY the President, accepting an
invitation to attend the centennial cell
ebration Of Williams College, in which
he said he soon expected to "have
session OF Congress on his hands,"
ga session Of Congress on my hands"
repeated Mr.. Stewart, in simulated SER
iousness. That remark spoke volumes
IN interpreting how the President re-
garded the coordinate branches Of the
government. Wopl d a man who fully
appreciated the responsibility OF his
otf1ceeven by accident make the remark
Congress would be on his hands.
Congress had assembled as an inde-.
pendent branch of the government and
was on nobody's hands.
Mr.. Stewart then read from the Gin
cinnati IImEs.Star IN interview with
the President in which he said:
"The repeal OF the silver purchasing
act could not be effected this year"
There was no newspaper reporter, Mr..
Stewart said, who would misrepresent
the President in the columns Of pa
per. They all had too much respect for
tho Office to do that The article con-
tinued!
"The people are with me and my pol.
icy (said the. President), but fear ]
shall moi, be able to command action
from Congress. never saw such oostl-
nacy as exists among members 0t Con-
gross on the silver question. 1t Is use
less to appeal to them now"
crEvE1AND's EDUCATION.
The assumption OF the fFestuent tnaE
he knew best, said Mr.. Stewart, and that
those who had studied the subject all
their lives were wrong, was remarkable.
When such sentiment was uttered by
the chief executive it became pertinent
to inquire where and when did he &C.
quire all the knowledge? Where and
when did he have any opportunity to
iamiliarize himself with the wants and
needs Of the American people and with
the science Of money and eeonomics2
Where and when did he study 1t, and
In what school?
~ believe" said Mr. Stewart, "that
the President Is the only President who
has ever presided at the white house
who did not possess a liberal education
either in some college or on farm,
where he communicated with nature
and learned natures. laws. / believe
either country education among the
people or aGollegiate education 10 neces'
sary. ] do not believe that the educa.
ton Of a clerk or a lawyer without o
liberal education in q college or q lib
erul education by stndying the books
etnature can at a man to preside over
the destinies Of this country.
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