The Press., 1893-08-10
Tan ptssident,s message to congress,

THB presidents message to congress, this week in extra session, is certainly straightforward, plain spoken document. It charges all the business troubles upon the silver purchase act. After reviewing the situation, he declares
 s'I believe these things are principally chargeable to Congressional Legislation touching the purchase and coinage or sii- yer by the general government.
 This legislation is embodied In staI- ute passed on the 14th day of July, lS9O, which was the continuation of much agi- tation on the subject involved, and which nav be considered a. truce, after a long struggle, between the advocates of free silver coinage and those intending to be more conservative"
 In closing he says:
 It was my purpose to summon Congress in special sesson early in the coming Sep tember that we might enter promptly upon the work of tariff reform, which the true interests of the country clearly demand which so large a majority of the people as shown by their suffrages, desire and expect, and to the accomplishment oi which every effort of the present admins tration is pledged. But, while tariff re- form has lost nothing of it's immediate and permanent importance, and must IT the near future engage the attention ol Congress, it has seemed to me that the finanical condition of the country should be once and before all other subjects be considered by your honorable body.
 I earnestly recommend the prompt re peal of thr provisions of the act passed July IA, 1890, authorizing the purchase o silver bullion, and that other Legislative action may put beyond all doubt or mis, take the intention and the ability of the government to fulfill it's pecuniary obi cations in money universally recognized by all civilized countriea.
 Hartford Courant: President Cleve lands message comes up to the occasion so far as the silver question is concerned though his promise to give us tariff dis turbance later cannot but counteract som, of the benefits of his vigorous talk on thu currency. -.
 Hartford Times: The president .terse ly tells congress of the vast sums of golt that have been taken from this countr, in the past two years, weakening ou financial condition while strengthening that of foreign nations. He truly say that the people of the United States ar entitled to currency that cannot b questioned in any market of the world He is right, every time; and never nor clearly right than when he shows that tn cheaper money" craze always injure THE LABoRING MAN most-hurts him first and hurts him longest.
 Senator Hawley said: "The republi cans, on the whole, appear pleased wit the financial portion of the message While good majority of the republica senators, including the whole of the NeN England delegation, are in very grea earnest in their desire to come to a speed vote on the repeal, and while New EI glands senators represent, as they think the entire population emong their COT stituents, they are not. sanguine in tn belief that immediate repeal of the silve purchase section of the Sherman la1 would bring full relief to their people That can only come," said General HaV ley, "when we shall not only have som comparatively permanent arrangement ( the currency question, but shall also def nitely know what the future tariff polio is to be-" General Hawley said that h was especially pleased with the happy rt mark of the president in his messag when he called the Sherman act only ''truce." Senator Sherman referred t that with satisfaction himself in his rt marks in the senate.
 Senator Platt says of the message ''The message, so far as discussion ( the silver question is concerned, is yer much like what President Harrison woul have said in message. His statemer that our business distress is principal owing to the Sherman law is an attemI to shift the responsibility from the demo | cratic to the republican party, and hi threat to repeal the Mckinley law, g
 soon as the Sherman law is disposed o
 will only aggravate the distress"
 Senator Hoar was satisfied with tn silver portion, and glad to know that th
 president called the Sherman act true,
 In this respect he is more just than hi party associates. He regretted the tari
 passage. Senator Lodge said the republ cans generally will heartily co-operat with the democrats on silver repeal, bJ l he considered the tariff suggestion a COT ! tinuing menace to our industries. Sens sor Dixon, of Rhode Island, was of tn same opinion.