San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-30
The Daily Eight.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 80, '9e
WASHINGTON LETTER
From Our Regular Correspondent. !

Cleveland LOT MS dGIellplS W III
terfere with the legislative branch
of the government. The speech,
which was delivered today, was
made in advocacy of the following
resolution offered by Mr.. Stewart
on Saturday: Resolved, that the
independence of the coordinate
departments of the government,
the legislative, the executive and
the judiciary, must be maintained,
and that the use of the power and
influence of one department to con-
troll the action of another is a viO-
lation of the law and deStruct-
i've of our form of government.
There can be no question about
the truthfulneSS of the assertion
made in this resolution; it has
been talked about for weeks, among
senators of both parties, and the
only reason it has not come before
the public in an official way is that
many senators who diSapprOVe Of
the manifest encrOachment OF the
executive upon the prerOgatives of
the legislative branch of the gov
eminent were willing to appear to
condone it, because they approved
of the end sOught-the repeal Of
the purchasing clause of the sill
yer law, and the same feel
ing may prevent the adoption Of
Mr.. Stuart'S resolution, but 1t
should not. The resolution involves
a great principle and does not alone
refer to pending legislation, but to
all future legislation. If Congress
does not stand up for its constitu-
tiOnal rights and rebuke the eXecu-
tive for trying to usurp them it |
cannot expect that the usurpation
will cease when the pending legis- !
lational shall have been disposed |
of. 1t will continually grow, if al
lowed to, so long as Mr.. Cleveland |
with his dictatOrial disposition is
President, and the example will
certainly be followed in the future |
by his successors in the executive |
chair. The cause of the usurpa- |
ton should be regarded as imma-
terial; the usurpatiOn is danger
Gus and should be promptly re-
buked.
Senator Chandler has intro |
duced a resolution that may STIR
up the administration consider
ably, to say nothing of adding to |
the hard feelings already existing
in both factions of the New York |
Democracy. The resolution calls |
upon the secretary of the Treasury
for his authority to appoint the |
FairchIld commission now engaged |
in examining the appraisers office
on the port of New York what |
has been done paid out, and what |
is agreed to be paid, together with |
all correspondence on the subject
or relating thereto. When the
resolution is called up it is not pro-
bable that either Senator Hill or
Murphy will attempt to defend |
Secretary Carlisle. 1t is suspected |
that some of the correspondence |
will be especially interesting to
the New York Senators.
Representative Wilson, chair
man Of the House Ways and |
Means committee, talks in para
doXes about the new tariff bill. |
He starts out by saying that the |
new bill will be exactly what was
promised by the Chicago platform, |
a tariff for revenue only, without |
any incidental protection, and then |
winds up with the assertion that |
no established American industry
will be injured by the bill. Now
any school boy knows that one or
the other of these statements is
wrong. A tariff for revenue only |
is tariff that will the most large
ly increase the importation of for
eign goods, and the more foreign
goods consumed in the UnitedStates
the less demand there will be for
domestic goods of the same kind,
and the natural consequence will
be closing of American factories.
The only theory upon which Mr..
Wilson's statements can be recon-
ciled is that he does not consider |
established those American indus
tries that require protection from
foreign competition. There is go
ing to be fight in the Democratic
party on this question, the num-
Der of Democratic protectionists is
larger than many suppose and
event sare making daily additions
thereto.
The Senate will by agreement
make set speeches on the Voorhees,
bill two weeks or more, and then
there will probably be an indefi-
mite period of filibustering, if the
attempt is seriously made to force
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