The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-09-26
SHARP is HIS SATIRE
Stewart Holds President CleIeland Up
to Scorn and RIdicHla.
THE SENATE IN LAUGHTER
cieveiand's Deficiencies In Educa-
ton MsroiIessiy Exposed-How
He Lords IL Over Congress as
II We're His Servant


IN the senate to-day after the routine
morning business was the oousideratiou
OF Stewart's rc.solution, offered on Satur.
nay, arrai <ning the president for ATTEMPT.
'ne 70 .oesce congress into passing the
shvs se repeal bill. thereby impairine the
!. '.Adependence Of coordinate branch of
he government In violation OF the con-
stttution and In . manner destructive of
,Rovernmont. The Nevada senator had
scarcely spoken . dossu words In sun.
port of his resolution when Manderson,
ot Nebraska, intei rupted with the point of
NO quorum.
Enough senators finally strolled In 70
make up a quorum q nd Stewart pro.
cceded. He began by referring to the
recent centennial anniversary Of the lay.
snR OF tho corner stone Of the capitol.
when, he said, the president, with more
than hundred thou sand hiRh paid aoy.
eminent Offices to bestow, with a veto
power designed only for extraordinary
occasions, backed by concsntrated CANT
tai and venal press, turning to the
senate wing, declared in menacinR
tones that IL the representative there
assembled legislate.i In passion or preju.
dice or ON behe..f of sectional or selfish
interests. t.se time when the corner stone
was I'd or the circumstances surround
~ 4 were not worth commemorating. This
sentiment, cheered by o thoughtless null
tituds> was construed by venal press as
= rebuke from the president to the guilty
and venal senate. Stewart then quoted
from the history Of England a. TO the par
llamentary struggle with the Stuaits.
Coming to the present time he charged
n v%v~sAAnA L. ls.-
oath OF ofiice, allowed the secretary of the
treasury to violate an act which made the
purchase Of four and . half million
ounces OF silver per month mandatory,
by exercising unlawful discretion in pur-
chasing q smaller amount. Stewart de-
clared that mt no time since Charles l., in
either England or the United States, had
any king or president openly and defiantly
disobeyed statute which he himself de-
clared mandatory, or allowed his subordi-
mates to do the same thing. Was II not
time to sound the alarm? II constitu-
tional liberty has 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 disre-
garded."
Stewart said the president had no OK
seemed to regard II as an appendage to
the executive. In one Of his letters the
president spoke of expecting soon TO have
. ''session of congress on his hands,"
That spoke volumes touching the presi-
dents opinion Of . coordinate branch of
the government. Congress was on no.
body's hands.
Stewart then read from q Cincinnati
Times-Star an interview with the president
in which he said the ''repeal Of tho silver
purchasing act could not b effected this
year." There 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
ice to do that. The article said: "The
people arc with me IN my policy" said the
president, ''but ] fear shall not be able
to command action from congress. I
never saw such obstinacy as exists among
the members Of congress on the silver
question. II 10 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, was remarkable.
When such . sentiment was uttered by
the chief executive IL became pertinent to
inquire whore and when did he acquire all
his knowledge; where and when did he
have an opportuuity to familiarixe him.
self with the wants and needs of the
American people, and with the science of
money and economics? Where and when
did he study Il, and In what school?
II believe" said Stewart, "that Presi-
dent Cleveland is the only president who
has ever presided at the white house who
did not possess a liberal education either
I'm some college or ON n fam. where he
communicated with nature and learned
natures laws, I believe either q country
education among the people. or a collepi.
ate education is necessary. I do not be.
lieye tho education of n clerk, or q lawyer,
without a liberal education in college or q
liberal education acquired by studying the
books of nature can ft a man to preside
over the destiny OF this country. Tho
tbrse oreatest presideuts We ever had. re.
ceived that liberal education which nature
affords. coming in contact with the people
and taking a wider view of the laws of
man and of nature than can be obtained