The morning call., 1893-09-26
GROWN TOO GREAT
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Cleveland Called Down by
Stewart.
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CONGRESS NOT HIS SLAVE.
One Mans Too Exalted Notion
of His Own Power.
CONGRESS NOT HIS SLAVE
REVOLUTION MUST BE AVERTED.
Can Be Done Only by Preserving the
independence of the Coordinate
Branches of Government.


In the Senate to-day after the routine
morning business was the consideration OF
Stewards resolution offered Saturday. ar
raigning the President for attempting to
coeree Congress into passing the silver re-
peal BILL thereby imparing the independ-
ence OF the coordinate branch of the Gov
ernment in violation of the constitution
and destructive TO government.
Tie Nevada Senator had scarcely spoken
e dozen words in support of his resolution
when Manderson of Nebraska interrupted
him with the point of no quorum.
Enough Senators finally strolled in to
make the quorum and Stewart proceeded.
BE began by referring to the recent GEN.
tennial anniversary of laying the corner
stone at the Capitol. When" he said,
''the President, with more than one hun
dred thousand high paid Government
offices TO bestow, with a veto power de-
signed only for extraordinary occasions,
backed by concentrated capital and the
''yenaI press turning to the Senate wing
declared in menacing tones that if the
. Representatives there assembled legisated
in passion or prejudice On behalf of sec
tional or selfish interests, the time when
the cornerstone was laid or the circum-
stances surrounding it would not be worth
-.comme mora;ing. This sentiment, cheered
BY the thOughtless multitude. was con-
strued by the 'venal press as a Tebuke
from the President to a guilty, 'venaI
= Senate" "
Stewart then quoted from the history Of
England as 10 the Parliamentary struggle
: with the Stuarts. Coming to the present
time, he charged that the President in
disregard Of his oath of Office, allowed the
Secretary of the Treasury to violate an act
which made the purchase of 4,5O0, coo
= ounces of silver per month mandatory by
exercising an unlawful discretion in pur-
chasing a smaller amount. Stewart de-
cIared ''at no time since the days of
= Charles !, in either England or the United
States. had any King or President openly
and defiantly dlsObeyed a statute which he
hipTsef declared mandatory or allowed
sui.ordinates 70 do the same thing.
WAS it not tine to sound the alarm? II
constitutional liberty was Of any value at
all we should stand up and say to the Pres
fdent. You have overstepped the marx
We cannot afford to have the laws of Con-
'gress disregarded.'
Stewart said the President had no ex.
afted opinion Of the Senate or the House
He seemed TO regard it as an appendage to
the executive. In one of mis- letters the
President spoke of expecting soon to have
''a session Of Congress on his hands" That
sentence spoke volumes touching the Pres
ideni's opinion of the coordinate branch
of the Government Congress was on no
body's hands.
= Stewart then read from the New Or
leans Times-Star an interview with the
President. in which he said: 1.-THE repeal
of the silyer-Durchasing act could not be
effected this year."
Ihsre was no newspaper reporter"
Stewart said, who would misrepresent
the President in the columns of his paper.
=. They all had too much respect for the Of
fee to do that. The article continued:
'The people are with me and my policy
said the President, but fear shall not
he able to command action from Congress.
] never saw such obstinacy as exists
. among members of Congress on the silver
question. Ii 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 subject all their
lives were wrong is remarkable. When
such sentiment it uttered by the chief
executive it became pertinent to inqure
where and when did lie acquire all his
knowledge? Where and when did he have
the opportunity to familiarize himself
with the wants and needs of the American
people and with the science Of money and
economics? Where and when did he
study it. and in what school?
Il believe" went on Stewart, "that the
President is the only President who has
ever presided at the White House who did
not receive a liberal education in some
college or on some farm where he CON-
munlcated with nature and learned
natures laws. l believe either a country
education among the people or collegiate
education Is necessary. l do not believe
the education of the clerk or the LAWYER.
without liberal education in college or a
liberal education by studying the books of
nature, can at man to preside over the
destiny Of this country. The three great
est Presidents We ever had received that
liberal education which nature affords nv
coming in contact with the people and TAX
ing a wider view of the laws of man and
Of nature than can be obtained in law
Office or in a Sheriff's office, or in the
office of Mayor or any other contracted
place where the great book of nature is
closed"
Stewart cited Washington, Jackson and
Lincoln as great examples of great Presi-
dents as a result OF liberal education.
unfortunately" he added. ''tbs present
President was denied both college edu-
cation and that grand and better educa-
tion that came 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, communion
with the pure aspirations of free Ameri-
can citizens. IL the present President had
known what Washington knew. if he had
known the people as Washington, as Jack
son and as Lincoln knew them and fully
appreciated them, he would not have ut
tered the remarks he did. He would not
have talked of the obstnacy of Congress,
nor woulG he have talked of having Con-
gress on bis hands"
Stewart said Cleveland's environments
had been peculiar. He then read from