Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-28
Mr.. Stewart Full of Ire.
THE NEVADA SENATOR ARRAi6NS
PRESIDENT CLEyELANn.
Miifai Disregard OF the SiiYer far.
chase Law Charged - The chief
Magistrate Accused Of Belt.
ting Congress and Star
ring At Its Members.

SESSION. Oi tue seliato upeiieu touaS
With Mr.. Stewards arraignment OF
President Cleveland for alleged vio-
lation of the constitution in seeking
to influence the legislative depart
ment of the government. He spoke
on his resolution OF Saturday, which
declared that independence OF the
coordinate branches of the govern
ment must be maintained and use
of the power and influence of one
department to control the action of
another is in violation of the consti-
tuition and destructive of our policy
and form of government"
There was a dead stiffness as the
Nevada senator opened his attack
on the President for his alleged en-
deavor to coercs congress into pass
ing the silver purchase repeal bill,
but a dozen words had scarcely been
spoken before MIR. Henderson of
Nebraska broke in with an INTERRUPT
ton.
Mr.. Stewart waved an impatient
objection, but the Nebraska senator
persisted, saying that there was no
quorum present.
The roll was called and absentees
strolled in until a quorum respond
ed to their names.
Mr.. Stewart then resumed his
speech. He began by a reference
to the laying of the cornerstone Of
the capital and the recent centen.
NAL anniversary of that event. On
the latter occasion, he said, the
President of the United States arm.
| ed with more than hundred thous.
and high paid, desirable federal
offices to bestow, with the vote powe,
designed only for extraordinary oc.
~casions, backed by concentrated
capital and fattered by a vena.
press, turned his face toward the
senate wing of the capital and il
angry and menacing tones said tha'
if the representatives there assem-
bled legislated in prejudice or pas
sion or in behalf of sectional ant
selfish interests the time when tht
cornerstone was laid and the cir
cumstances surrounding it would
not be worth concentrating.
THE SILVER PURCHASE ORDER.
This declaration, said Mr.. Stew
art, which had been cheered ane
encouraged by the thoughtless mul
titude, had been construed by 6
venal press as a rebuke from ths
President of the United States to {
guilty and venal senate. He ther
quoted at length from Macauley's
history of England the part of the
struggle with the Stuart kings.
In open disregard or his oath o:
office to execute the laws, Mr..
Stewart said the President hac
permitted the Secretary of the
Treasury to violate the act which
made the purchase of Al million
ounces of silver bullion per month
mandatory by exercising an unlaw.
full discretion in purchas ng &
smaller amount. He undertook tc
say that at no time since The reso.
luton of Charles L in either Eng.
land or in the United States had
: any King or President openly and
d~efantly disobeyed a statute which
be himself declared was mandatory
Or allowed his subordinates ovel
which he had control to do the
same thing. Was it not time tc
| sound the alarm? If constitu.
tional liberty was of any value il
seemed to him that all friends and
foes should stand up and say to the
| President of the United States
"You have overstepped the mark;
we cannot afford to have the laws
of Congress or any question disre.
garded."
Mr.. Stewart said the President
of the United States had no exalted
opinion of the Senate or House.
He regarded each doubtless as an
appendage to the executive depart.
ment. He then read from a letter
written by the President accepting
an invitation to attend the GEN.
tenniaL celebration of Williams
college, in which he said he soon
expected to ''have a session of Con-
gress on his hands"
IA session of Congress on my
hands," remarked Mr.. Stewart In
simulated seriousness. "That re-
mark spoke volumes in interpret
ing how the President regarded the
coordinate branches of the govern
ment. Would a man who fully
appreciated the responsibility of his
Office even by accident make the
remark-Congress would be on his
hands? Congress had assembled
as an independent branch of the
government and was on nobody's
hands,"
SUR AT Mr.. CLEyELAND's EDUCA-
TIoN.
Mr.. Stewart then read from the
Cincinnati Times-Star an interview
with the President, after declaring
that there was no newspaper re-
who would misrepresent the