The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-26
The White House Bully On
the Rack.
SENATOR STEWARDS CHARGES.
He Asks by What Authority the ex-
Hangman Tries to Influence the Ac-
tion of the Senate-Grover the First
Requested to Try and Mind His Own
Business.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.-The first
thing in the senate today, after the
routine morning business, was the
consideration of Stewards resolution
offered Saturday ,arraigning the presi-
dent for attempting to coerce congress
into the passage of the silver repeal
bill, thereby impairing the indepen-
dence of the coordinate branch of
the government in violation of the
constitution and destructive to the
government.
The Nevada senator had scarcely
spoken dozen words in support of
his resolution when Manderson of
Nebraska interrupted him with the
point of no quorum. Enough senator's
finally strolled in to make a quorum
and Stewart proceeded. He began by
referring to the recent centennial
anniversary of the laying of the corner
stone of the capitol, when he said:
"The president, with more than one
hundred thousand high-paid govern
ment offices to bestow, with the veto
power, designed only for extraordi-
nary occasions, backed by concen-
trated capital and venal press, turn
ing to the senate wing, declared in
menacing tones: IF the representa-
tives there assembled legislated in
passion or prejudice or in behalf of
sectional or selfish interests the time
when the cornerstone was laid, or the
circumstances surrounding it, were
not worth commemorating.' This
sentiment of the president" said
Stewart, "was cheered by the
thoughtless multitude, and construed
by venal press as rebuke from the
president to a guilty, venal senate.
Stewart then quoted from the his
tory of England as to the parliament
tary struggle with the Stuarts. Com
ing down the present time, he charged
that the president, in disregard of
his oath of office, allowed the secre-
tary of the treasury to violate the act
which made the purchase of four and
half million ounces of silver per
month mandatory, to exercise an un-
lawful discretion in purchasing a
smaller amount. Stewart declared
that at no time since Charles lst, in
either England or the United States,
had any king or president openly and
defiantly disobeyed statute which
he, himself, had declared mandatory,
or allowed his subordinates to do the
same thing. Was it not time to
sound an alarm? If constitutional
liberty was of any value all should
stand up and say to the president,
"you have overstepped the mark.
We cannot afford to have the laws of
congress disregarded." Stewart said
the president had no exalted
opinion of the senate or the house.
He seemed to regard it as an append
age to the executive. In one of his
letters the president spoke of expect
ing soon to have a "session of con-
gress on his hands," That spoke
volumes touching the presidents
opinion of the coordinate branch of
the government. Congress was on
nobody's hands.
Stewart then read from the Cincin-
natl Times-Star an interview with
the president in which he said: "The
repeal of the purchasing act could
not be effected this year."
"There was no newspaper re-
porter" Stewart said," who would
misrepresent the president in the
columns of paper. The article con-
tinues: The people are with me and
with my policy said the president
but fear shall not be able to com