The Irish standard., 1893-07-08
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The President Orders an. Extra
Session to Begin August Z.
Full Text of the Proclamation = The Ro>
peal nj the shermsn silver Law Con.
sidered Certain midas Actioh
85 5s5s% ON Silver.
THE PREsIDENr's cALL.

So . .s
=. WASHINGTON, July /. After carefully
going over all the details at the cabinet
meeting the president issued procla
nation Friday afternoon calling an ex'
ira session of congress-, beginning Au'
gust Z, 1893, as follows:
''ExECUTIyE MANSION, WAsHINGToN, D. c.
June 80, 189a-Whereas, The distrust and ap
prehension concerning the financial situation
caused great loss and damage TO our people
and threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the
wheels o! manufacture, bring distress and pri
walton to our farmers and withhold from oul
workingmen the wage of labor: and
Whereas, The present pcrilOus condition ID
largely the result Of q financial policy which
the executive branch Of the government nnds
embodied in unwise laws which must DO exc
outed until repealed by congress;
"Now, therefore, L Grover Cleveland. presi
dent of the United States, in perf0rmance of a
constitutional duty, do, by this proclamation
declare that an extraordinary occasion requires
the converting of both houses of the congress OF
the United States at the capital in the city OF
Washington on the 7th day Of August next, ~
u o clock noon, to the end that the people may
be relieved through legislation from. present
and Impending danger and distress.
GAN these entitled to act as members Of the
Tifty-third congress are required to take notice
of this proclamation and attend 1T the time and
place above stated
United States at the city OF Washing ton on the
3Oth day of June, in the year OF our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety.three, and
OF the independence OF the United States the
one hundred and seventeenth
"GRovER CLEVELAND
DUE TO midas ACTION.
Developments make it appear that
the disturbances of values arising from
the uncertainties Of the situation grew
SO alarming that Mr.. Cleveland at last
was compelled to acknowledge that
''the unexpected contingencies necessi-
tating an earlier meeting of congress, =
which he spoke of in his celebrated in
terview of June S, had arrived. The ac-
ton of the British government in India
brought matters to a crisis. Previous
to that startling event Mr.. Cleveland
had manifested a firm determination to
adhere to his plan of calling congress
in September. After the suspension of
silver coinage in India the president
resolutely declined to speak further
about his intentions until he should
be prepared to act, and each
of his cabinet officers maintained
a similar silence. 1t may be stated,
however, without violating conf
dence, that from the day when the an
nouncement of the action of India was
made the president took steps to keep
himself forewarned through the press
dispatches of the slightest approach to
panic in the money market, and was
prepared at any moment to take the
course which he has now adopted if it
seemed to him that his so doing would
in any way tend to allay alarm and re-
store public confidence.
THR SHERMAN ACT.
' The action of the president apparent
1y meets with the commentator and
approval of most of the members and
politicians now in the city, and the
opinion is almost general that the
Sherman act will be repealed. The prop
osition is not refuted, probably for the
reason that the free silver men, who will
conduct the fight against repeal, have
few members now. in the city. The
free silver men, however, will oppose
any attempt to repeal the Sherman. law
with all their strength. The fact that
the mines in the west have been closed
will be used as weapon with which to
force any wavering member in their
ranks hack into the fold. e9