Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-06
QUESTION Of FINANCE
What the President Has
TO Say.
PROSPERITY NOW UPON US.
How Mr.. Cleve veland Received the Joint
Delegation From Congress.

WAsHINGT,N, nv. 6.-The president
aas declared bat tie result Of The passage
of the uncondti.ntl rep al bill would
bring about revival of business that
would su,prist e,ei the most sanguine
friends Of Il gle stand ,rd. 1t was evi-
dsnt, he said, from the reports already re-
ce!ved from the co onmercial centers that
confidence bad been re-establshed, not
only AT home, but ab oad.
Secretary Carlisle does not share in the
belief of may OF the southern members OF
congress Int he passage of the repeal bill
will result in the loss of several of the
southern states Va the Democracy. The
question is uppermost in the minds Of the
representa- yes from the south.
Representative Cooper of Florida, who
was from the beginning of the great fight
To the finish an earnest advocate for un.
constitutional repe Il, said that the Demo
Gratis would suffer some loss Of votes
temporarily in the south on acc Iunt of The
policy of the administration, but that he
did not think there would he enough
change To AFT let the result. in an election.
He said tn & wha ever dis. ffection might
grow out of the present situation would be
overcome, he believed. by Legislation which
would follow
Work For Next Congress-
In his opinion th,re was no doubt that
some general legislation on the question
OF ii iance would follow very soon after the
reaSsemblug Of congress, and there would
be also OF her legislation which will he i'm
line with pubic sentiment in his section
of the country. lie said he believed the
tar II legislation would be popular and
that financial legislation to follow would
be- Of u charac er to put the country on
sound basis with sufficient money for the
needs Of trade and commerce.
He said he thought the qu stion before
the next session If congress would he
whe, her they should increase he currency
throu th the medium Of state la k or
should so enlarge the natiohal / ank sys-
TEN, by permitting them To Issue ioaus on
real estate aud the like, rs to meet the
public requirements.
During the recn fight Mr.. Cleveland
was visited by IA dele sation of prominent
Democratic representatives AMI senators,
who assured him that the passage of un-
conditional repeal would mean the loss To
the party If several southern states. His
reply is Characteristic of the man:
An Emphatic statement.
81 should not carer" he Is reported to
have said, "if it lost every state in the
Union To the party. Thisis not a question
of politics but a question Of finance and
must be so considered
Then he continued, in his emphatic way,
TO contend hat such would not be the re-
suit, arguing that the repeal would bring
pros sperity and many votes to the party,
except in those ates entirely interested
in IN ming silver.
In almost every instance where the
president signs an important act of con
gress there are many applications for the
pen with which he wro'e his name. Few,
II any, bills have excited more public
interest than the repeal bill, and yet the
steel stub pen with which Mr.. Cleveland
signed 1t and made it the law of the land
remains at the White House without
claimant.
President Got Cross.
A good story is told about the way the
president received the joint commissi
from congress 1t was late in the after
noon, Thursday, when the committee
reached the White House. and there was
no time to be Lost In complying with the
usual form of waiting upon the president
for any communications he might have to
convey to congress.
1t is a mere formality, and the president
evidently 30 regarded it, for he sent word
out that he was at luncheon, and invited
the committee to sit down and wait until
he had finished.
With less than 30 minutes at their dis
poiai, In which to make their ubeisance to
the chief executive and report the success
of their mission to congress, the members
of the committee WINGED under the presi-
dents request, and sent word back that
they had not time to wait
The president came into the cabinet
room ia few minutes. aud it was plain
from his countenance tnat he was not at
all pleased at having his luncheon inter
rupted by the call from the congressional
committee.