The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-26
Stewards Arrangement of the
President Yesterday.
THE REPEAL BILL AGAIN.
Cameron. of Pennsylvania, Says
Greater Circulation Is Necessary.
II the Repeal Bill Is Passed, the Silver
States WIN Revenge Themselves on
the Manufacturers by Pushing
Reduction of the Tariff.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.-Ihe nrSt tnl0g
in the Senate today after the routine
morning business was the consideration
of Stewards resolut ion offered on Satur-
Gay, arra1gning the president for attempt
ing to coerce Congress into passing the
silver repeal bill, thereby impairing the
independently of the coordinate branch
of the government, in violation OF the
Constitution, and for the destruction of
the government.
The Nevada senator had scarcely spoken
dozen words in support of his resolu-
ton, when Henderson, of Nebraska, in
terrupted with the point of no quorum.
Enough senators finally strolled in TO
make up quorum and Stewart pro-
ceeded.
He began by referring to the recent
centennial anniversary of the laying the
corner stone of the Capitol, when, he
said, the president, with more than
hundred thousand high paid govern
nent offices to bestow, with a veto
power designed only for extraordinary
occasions, and backed by concentrated
capital and tsvenal press, - turning to
the Senate wing, declared in menacing
tones that If the representatives there
assembled legislaLed in passion or preju-
dice or on behalf of sectional or selfish
interests, the time when the corner stone
was laid or the circumstances surround
ing it would not be worth commemorate
ing This sentiment was cheered by the
thoughtless multitude and construed by
a venal press as rebuke from the presi-
dent to a guilty, venal Senate. Stewart
then quoted from the history of England
as to the parliamentary struggle with the
Stuarts. Coming to the present time he
charged that the president, in disre-
gard to his oath of office, had allowed
the secretary of the treasury to violate
the act which made the purchase of four
and a half million ounces OF silver per
month mandatory, by exercising unlaw-
full discretion in purchasing a smaller
amount. Stewart declared that at no
time since Charles l. in either Eng
land or the United States, had any
king or president openly, defantly dis
obeyed the statute which he himself had
declared mandatory, or allowed the SUI
bordinates TO do the same thing. Was it
not time to sound the alarm? If the con-
stitutional liberty is of any value, all
should stand up and say to the president,
'e1 on have overstepped the mark; we
cannot afford to have the laws of Con gress
disregarded. -
Stewart said the president had no ex-
allied opinion of the Senate or the House.
He seemed to regard it as an appendage
to the executive. In one of his letters the
president spoke of expecting soon to have
"a session of Congress on his hands,
That spoke volumes touching the presi-
DENTS opinion of the coordinate branch
of the government. Congress had assem-
bled as sn independent branch of the gov
eminent and was on nobody's hands.
Stewart then read from the Cincinnati
IiBaeS-Stdr an interview'with the presi-
dent, in which he said: 1.-THE repeal of
the silver purchasing act could not be
effected this year, There was no news
paper reporter, Stewart said, who would
misrepresent the presidentin the columns
of his paper. They all had too much re-
spect for the office to do that. The article
continued, THE people are with me and
my policy" said the president, 'sbut l
fear / shall not be able to command action
from Congress. l never saw such OBJ
stinacy as exists among the members of
Congress on the silver question. 1t is
useless to appeal to them now.' The
assumption OF the president that he knew
best, said Stewart, and that those who
had studied the sn biect all their lives were
wrong, is remarkable. When such a
sentiment Is uttered by the chief ex-
ecut-ve, it becomes pertinent to inquire
where and when did he acquire all this
knowledge; where and when did he have
an opportunity to familiarize himself
with the wants and needs OF the Ameri-
CHI DtOD1c AuQ Will bnC cClCuCS "a UOu6Y
and economies; VIXEN and where did he
study it and in what school? 81 be-
lieve, - said Stewart, 1.-THE president is
the only president who has ever presided
ct the White House who did not possess
liberal education, gained either in some
college or on farm. when ne communed
with nature and learned NATURES
law. / believe that either country ed
ucation among the people or college ed
ucation is necessary. | do not believe
the education OF clerk or lawyer, with
out liberal education in college or a lib
eral education by studying the books of
nature, can fit man to preside over the
destiny of this country. The three
greatest presidents we ever bad received
that liberal education which ma
ture affords, coming in contact with the
people and taking wider views of laws
and men and OF nature, than can be OBJ
tanned in q law Office or in a sheriff's
Office or in the Office of mayor or in any
other contracted place where the great
book of nature is closed. He cited Wash
ington, Jackson and Lincoln as great ex-
amples of great presidents as a result of
this liberal education. Unfortunately
the present president had been denied
both college education and that grand
and better education that comes from
communion with the great producing
classes OF the country; communion with
the pioneers of the west: communion
with those who formed the bone and
sinew of the country; comm anton with
the pure aspirations of free American
citizens. If the present president had
known what Washington knew; if he
had known people as Washington,
as Jackson aud as Lincoln fully
appreciated them, he would not
have uttered the remarks he did.
He would not have talked of the obstinacy
of Congress. Nor would he have talked
of having Congress on his hands, said
Stewart. His environments have been
pecusiar. He then read from the presi-
dents biography in the Congressional
directory. the authenticity of which could
rot be questioned. At Is years of age, he
became an assistant teacher in the New
York institute for the blind, read Stew
art. and added: ssIt looks now as if he
had not gotten entirely over that idea. -
Laughter. In 1855 be went west in
search of employment, continued the
biography. LET us see what his idea of
west is, - said Stewart. Then he read on !:
Engaged with his uncle at Buffalo
Ilaughterl to aid in the compilation of an
American herd book. Laughter.] Upon
retiring IRON the presidency the
biography read, che located in New York
city aud resumed the practice of law
HWbv did the president say IN con-
remptuous manner, that he would have
f-1s,r, press IN his hands7 Wtv did he ca o