Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-09-26
STEWART ON CLEVELAND
DID THE LATTER RESBUKR
THE SSNATEP
Stewart Chooses To Believe That
He Did and Eeesents The Com
lmemt-NOu-Purch of silver
Bullion.

nnent-NOu-Purch of silver
Bullion.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-The Senate
met yesterday at II o'clock with an I'M
usually small attendance.
The resolution offered last Saturday
by Stewart as to the coordinate depart
ments of the government, was laid before
he Senate:
Resolved. That the independence OF
the coordinate departments of the gov
ernment-the legislative, the executive,
and the judicial-must be maintained,
and that the use of the power and influ-
ence of one department to control the
action of another Is in violation of the
constitution and destructive of our form
of government"
Stewart began with Il citation from
President Cleveland'S speech last Mon
day on the occasion commemorating the
hundredth anniversary of the LAYING of
the corner stone of the capitol. This
speech had been made by a President
having more than 10000 federal Offices
to dispose of, and with We to power which
had been designed only for extra ordinary
occasions, backed by concentrated capi-
| tai and encouraged and tlattered by a
venual press. lie described Cleveland
on that occasion as turning his face to-
| wards the Senate wing of the capitol,
| and in angry and mcnacing tones using
the following language:
eff the representatives who have as
sembled to make laws for their fellow
countrymen forget the duty OF broad and
diSintereSted patriotism and lcgiSlate in
prejudice and passion or in behalf of sec
tional or selfish interests, the time when
the cornerstone of the capitol was laid
and the ciI cumstanCes surrounding it
will not be worthy of cOmmemorating."
This declaration, Stewart said, had
been cheered and encouraged by a
thoughtleSs multitude and construed by
| a vcnal press as rcbuke from the Presi-
| dent of the United States to the Senate.
Stewart charged that the President in
disregard of his oath of office had per-
| mitted the secretary of the treasury to
violate the law OF January IL, 1890,
| which made the purchase of 4,5OO.O0O
ounces of silver bullion per month man
datory. He knew that an excuse was
made that silver bullion was not pur-
chased because the holders asked
| more than the market prices, but
he insisted that the market price
of property was that at which
the owner was willing to sell.
However much, he said, some Senators
might depreciate the law of July II,
| 1890, all (both high and low had to
ODSy luS INV IL ClSll WAS 10 De
| maint aimed and if constitutional govern
| ment was to exist. The Presidents cath
| of Office commanded him to that the
| laws were faithfully executed; but here
| was plain mandatory law that had
been disreG Garded. Was 1T not time, he
asked, to sound the alarm. Ifconsttu-
| tional liberty was of any value, it seemed
| to him that all (friends and focs) should
stand up aad say to the President of the
| United States: "You have ovcrstepped
the mark, we caunot afford to have
the laws of Congress disreGarded."
| Stewart then read from the Congress
sional directory of the present session
the Presidents biography, making anus.
| ing comments upon it as be read. Whcr
| he read the sentence that Cleveland had
| when 16 years old, become clerk and
assistant teacher of the blind in New
York city. his comment upon it was that
Cleveland had not entirely gotten over
that habit vet. Laughter.
After talking more than two hours ant
a half. Stewart paused and said thai
he would now like to yield the floor to
the Senator from Pennsylvania (Cam
ROM but he would go on with his speech
| whenever the Senate would let him. HI
had not got to the main part of it yet.