St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-03

United States is the executive clerk.
Mr. Pruden, and it is he who copies the
messages for congress. Two copies are
made. one for the senate and the other
for the house, and at the same time that
these are read, printed copies are laid
on the desks of the senators and repre-
sentatives, some of whom follow the
reading of the clerk with the books, and
others who take the printed messages
home to read at their leisure.
CLEVELAND TAKES ADVICE
1t is said that President Cleveland
writes his own messages. He takes
plenty OF advice from his cabinet, and
gets all the suggestions he can. but re
has his own opinions and writes his own
Ideas in the end. The present message
has been looked over by the cabinet and
few outside parties. Cleveland and
Gresham, Lamont and BiSsell have had
the most to do in consultation, but the
finished document is, [ AN told, the
work OF the president.
Why shouldn't it be? you ask. The
reply is that it ought to be, but at the
same time it would be nothing strange
if il We're not. Many of the executive
messages of the past for which presi-
dents get credit were written by Others
than themselves. Washington gave the
Ideas for his farewell address, but 1t
was Alexander Hamilton and James
Madison who put the thoughts into
shape for him. Amos Kendall wrote
most OF Andrew .Jackson'S messages,
and his first inaugural address was
written for him by Mai. Lewis and
Henry Lee. jeremiah Black wrote a
number of the messages of Andrew
Johnson, and Daniel Webster revised
the inaugural address of William Henry
Harrison. 1t was full of classical eX-
presSlonS, and had many illusions to
out, and in speaking of his work at a
party the night after he had revised the
address he excused himself for being
tired because of the number of Roman
proconsulS he had killed that day. You
remember JackSon'S famous nulliiica-
ton proclamation. 1t is said that Ed
ward Livingston wrote 1t for him. and
IL is so with other famous messages.
READ BY THE PRESIDENTS.
Inc first messages to congress were
read by the presidents in person, and
the presidents would probably be read
Ing them today in this way had it not
been for Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson.
1t is said, could not speak. He was a
poor reader, and ne didn't want to APP
pear ridiculous by trying to read his
message to the house. The result was
that he sent it up by his private secre-
tary. Washington gave MS first mes
sage, his inaugural, TO congress in New
York. He took the vice presidents
chair in delivering it, and "a few days
after this the house and senate prepared
reply to the message and went to
Washingtou's house, and one of their
members delivered the reply to
him. This procedure was gone
1Crh x.,if
President Washington was looked upon
as having the right to direct congress.
He delivered thirteen messages to con-
gress during his eight years in office,
and Ill addition to these gave his fare
we'll address. John Adams was one of
tie most wordy Of our presidents. He
delivered ten messages in four years,
and you find the pronouD Il" thirteen
times in his inaugural address. Van
Buren, and Harrison each used this
pronoun thirty-eight times in their re-
spective addresses, and Thomas Jetfer-
son used the word 'l' nineteen times
i'll his first message to congress. Jeffer-
soG gave twenty-three messages during
his presidential term, Madison twenty
five, Andrew Jackson seventeen and
James Monroe thirteen.
WILL BE UNPOPULAR.
The outlook is that President Cleye-
land will be decidedly unpopular with
part of his party during the coming
session, and his message will be Sc
verely criticised, whatever it may be.
Congress will, however, have no chance
to insult him, as it did in the case of
Washington. They refused to call upon
Washington, and would not adjourn for
thirty minutes on the 22G of one of the
FebruarieS of his term TO congratulate
N h RI Eod
i'll the habit of doing. They refused
also to receive John Adams, and the
papers OF that time criticised Washing
ton and Adams quite as severely as
Cleveland is being criticised now.
Washington once said that he had been
abused worse than a common pick
pocket, and when Jackson's farewell
address was published, one of the New
York newspapers congratulated its
readers as follows: Happily, this is
F, the last humbug which the mischievous
popularity of this illiterate, violent,
vain, and iron-wllled soldier can impose
upon confiding and credulous people,"
Much worse expressions were used con-
:cerning Washington at the time he left
the presidency.
} JEFFERsoN's SPECIALS.
Thomas Jefferson sent fourteen spe-
cial messages to congress, and iD Mad
ison's time congress received number
of confidential messages from the pres
ident. Andrew jackson was cenSured
by the senate, and he sent protest
against this censure to that body. Pres
ident Grant addressed congress by
messages eight times. He did not write
his messages himself, and left the work
of the various departments to his cab
met officers. These men sent in their
reports, and he took such parts of them
as he wished for his message, pieced
them together and finished them up so
that they made a consecutive message.
All of his vetoes he wrote with his own
hand and his state papers read well.
President Lincoln'S messages are won
ders OF good diction, and W. d. Kelly,
of Pennsylvania. the famous pig iron
protectionist, once told me that he
thought Lincoln was the greatest all
around genius since Shakespeare, and
that his messages to congress would
eventually become classics.
President Arthur's messages were