Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-28
STEWART SAYS so.
THE PRESIDENT ASSUMES TO KNOW
ALTOGETHER TOO MUCH.
As Lawyers Clerk and sheriff How Did
Mr.. Cleveland Learn all About Economic
Remarkable Criticism of the Presi-
dents Qualifications for His High ONCE.

| WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-In the Senate
| to-day the resolution offered last Saturday
by Mr.. Stewart republican, Nevada, as to
| the coordinate departments of the govern
mcnt-the legislative, the executive and the
iudicial-that they must..be maintained, and
| that the use of the power and influence of
one department To control the action of an
other is in violation of the constitution and
destructive of our form of government. was
taken up.
| Mr. Stewart charged tibet the president.
in disregard of his oath of Office to execute
the laws, had permitted the secretary of the
treasury to violate the law of July ID. 1890,
which made the purchase of 4, 800. 600 ounces
of silver bullion per month mandatory. He
asked if it was not time to sound the alarm.
If constitutional liberty was of any value, it
seemed to him that all, friends and foes.
should stand up and say to the president:
"Nou have overstoppcd the mark We
cannot afford to have the laws of Congress
disregardcd -
Mr.. Stewart then drifted to the anti Chi
nese bill, and asked whether the executive
bad enforced it. Whatever might he thought
of that law. it was in force, and if the cx-
ccutive might violate one law he might vio-
late another. Was the president he asked,
to have the option to obey or
To Refuse to Obey Enactmcnts?
He went on to remark that the president
! had no very exalted opinion of either house
| of Congress: and that connection he read the
presidents letter of June % last accepting
an invitation to be present at the centenary
of the Williams university, but saying that
he expected to have session of Congress
ON his hands at that time
That is the idea - said Mr. Stewart in
doleful tone that he has of Congress Could
man who fully appreciate the responsibility
of his Office make such a remark even by
| accident
Mr.. Stewart said he had read many inter
views with the president and they were all
of the same tendency. He had one inter
view in his hands, telegraphed from Wash
ington on March 10, 1893. to the Cincinnati
Times-Star and he read it, with running
comments. This sentence occurs in it. as
coming from the president Nv hen the
squeeze comes, the men who stand in the
way of legislation intended to preserve pub
| lie confidence will lose sight of their local
| theories and sentiments and be willing TO
join the opinion of those who know best
what should be done
The Presidents Assumption
that Congress was ignorant, and that he
knew best was remarkable. 1t led him TO in
quire where, when and how the president
| he'd learned all that he knew? Where had
he had the opportunity of possessing him
self of the science of money and economics ?
Where and when, and in what school had he
studied il , He believed Mr.. Cleveland was
the only president of the United States who
had not possessed liberal education either
in some college or on farm where he COM
muned with nature and learned nature 5
laws.
He did not believe that the education of a
clerk or of law without prior education in
a college or without liberal education in
studying the works of nature, fitted a man
to preside over the destinics of this country
The president of the United States was re
quired to take wider view of the laws of
money and of nature than could be obtained
in lawyers office or in a sheriff's office, or
in the office of mayor or any other such
contracted place, where the great book of
nature was cosed Washington, jackson
and Lincoln were adduced by Mr.. Stewart
as great examples of great presidents who
had not had collegiate educations but had
acquired their extensive knowledge of gov
eminent
by Close Contact with the People.
but unfortunately, he continued ''our
president was denied both college educa-
ton and that grander and better education.
communion with the great producing classes
of the country, communion with the pioneers
of the West, communion with those who
are the bone and sinew Of the country.
Mr.. Stewart read from the congressional
directory of the present session the presi-
dents biography. making amusing or sar-
castle comments upon it as he read. When
he read the sentence that Mr.. Cleveland,
when 10 years old. became a clerk, and
assistant teacher of the blind in New York,
his comment upon il was that Mr.. Clcve-
land had not entirely gotten over that habit
yet. Laughter
) He read Mr.. Cleveland letter of Feb. 2l,
! 1889, to Mr.. \. J. Warner on the silver
, question, and made an alluson TO Mr.. Ed
ward Atkinson. whom Mr. Stewart described
as such "crank ON finance that he unjust
take the cake.
This disrespectful treatment of the great
Massachusetts statistician stirred up the
anger of Mr.. Hoar, republican, of Massachu
sets, who eulogized him as absolutely
Trustworthy
Mr.. Stewart then yielded the floor to Mr..
Cameron, republican, of Pennsylvania, who
addressed the Senate in opposition to the re
peal bill
Mr. Bate then addressed the Senate in op
position to the bill. At the close of Mr.
J Bates speech Mr.. Stewart resumed the tool
! and continued his criticism of the president
, In the course of his remarks he called atten
ton to the president telegram to Represcn
tive Wilson thanking him and his associates
on the passage of the repeal bill. The in
delicacy of such action on the part of tn,
president was declared by the Nevada sena
tor TO be proof that the president did no
realize the Importance Of having the depart
ments of the government kept distinct
On motion of Mi. VOORHEES, the Senat
: went into executive session and afterwar'
: adjourned.
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