Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-01
I'VE call is as follows:
ExrCrTIYE MANSION.

EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASHINGTON, u. e., June 30, 1873.
WHEREAS, The distrust and apprehension
concerning the financial situation. which
pervade al business circles, and have al
ready caused great loss and damage 10 our
people, aud threaten to cripple our mer-
chants stop the wheels Of manufacture,
and bring distress and privation to our
farmers and withhold from onr working
men the wage Of labor, and,
WHEREAs, The present perilous condi-
ton is largely the result OF q financial
policy which the executive branch of the
government finds embodied in unwise laws
which must be executed until repealed by
Congress,
Now, therefore, /. Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, in per-
formance of constitutional duty, do by
the proclamation declare that an extraor-
binary occasion requires the converting OF
both Houses of Congress of the United
States at the capitol in the city OF Wash
ington on the seventh day of August at II
o'clock noon, 10 the end that the people
may be relieved through legislation from
present and impending danger and dis
tress.
All those entitled to act as members OF
the Fifty-third Congress are required TO
take notice OF this proclamation and at
tend at the time and place above stated.
Given under my hand and the seal Of
the United States at the City of Washing
ton on the 30th day Of June, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-three, and of the independence
of the United States, the one hundred and
seventeenth. GROVER CLEVELAND.
The issuance OF this proclamation
was the result Of to-day's Cabinet meet
ing. 1t is known that up to the hour the
Cabinet met no final decision had been
reached on the matter. The President
himself was stilk-donhtfnl- -ahont --the
wisdom OF rstreatlng from his original
p0n, not to assemble Congress I'M
8ptember, for the reason that he
lacked the assurance that If
Congress were called together
earlier 1t would vote to repeal the
Sherman law, the one great object
sought to be obtained by a midsummer
meeting. If an earlier session was call
ed for the express purpose OF repeating
the Sherman law, and then when Con-
gress met that law were not repealed, the
effect on the country the President
felt, would be much worse than If mat
tcfS were aiiOWeu W Jdho bHCiI OWu
course until the time arrived which was
long ago fixed for assembling the extra
session for considering the tariff, the
finances and other matters OF general
legislation.
But, as was some time ago announced,
the members of the Cabinet as well as
the President have been making a can
Yass of Senators and members with 8
view 10 ascertaining the prospects Of Sc
curing q majority in each House favor
able to q repeal of the Sherman law.
When the Cabinet met this morning the
members were aware that final report
would be expected from them as to the
result Of their canvass, and that final
decision would be made as TO whether
or not Congress should be called to-
gether earlier than September. 1t now
appears that the information laid before
the President at to-dsY's Cabinet meet
ing convinced him that there was ma
jority in Congress favorable to repeal
ing the Sherman law. Hence he at once
issued call for an August session.