The record-union., 1893-09-26
snecial to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

! WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-The first thing
in the Senate to-day after the routine
morning business was the consideration
of Stewards resolution offered Saturday.
arraigning the President for attempting
TO coerce Congress into passing the silver
repeal bill, thereby impairing the inde-
pendence of the coordinate branch OF
the Government in violation of the Con-
stitution and destructive to government.
The Nevada Senator had scarcely
spoken dozen words in support of his
resolution when Manderson of Nebraska
interrupted him with the point of no
quorum.
Enough Senators finally strolled in to
make the quorum and Stewart proceeded.
/ He began by referring to the recent CEN
tennial anniversary of laying the corner
stone of the Capitol, ''when," he said,
1.-THE President, with more than 100000
high-paid Government Offices to bestow,
with veto power designed only for ex-
/ traordinary occasions, backed by concen-
trated capital and the 'venal press turn
ing to the Senate wing declared in men
acing tones that if the representatives
| there assembled legislated in passion or
prejudice on behalf of sectional or selfish
! interests the time when the cornerstone
was laid or the circumstances surround
ing it would not be worth commemorate
ing. This sentiment, cheered by the
! thoughtless multitude, was construed by
| the 'venal press as a rebuke from the
| President to a guilty, 'venal Senate
Stewart then quoted from the history
| of England as to the Parliamentary strug-
gle with the Stuarts. Coming to the pres
ent time, he charged that the President,
/ in disregard of his oath of office, 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 an un-
| lawful discretion in purchasing smaller
amount. Stewart declared 'at no time
since Charles l., in either England or the
! United States, had any king or President
openly and defiantly disobeyed a statute
! which he himself declared mandatory, or
allowed subordlnates TO 90 the same
thing.
"Was it not time to sound the alarm?
| If constitutional liberty was Of any value
at all, we should stand up and say to the
President: You have overstepped the
mark. We cannot afford to have the laws
| of Congress disregarded.'
Stewart said "the President had no ex-
alted opinion of the Senate or the House.
He seemed tpTegard it as an appendage
to the Execrfige. In one of his letters the
President spoke ofexpecting soon to have
| "a session of Congress on his hands,.
That spoke volumes touching the Presl-
dents opinion of the coordinate branch
of the Government. Congress was on no.
! body's hands"
Stewart then read from the Cincinnati
Tl1nes-iStar an interview with the Presi
dent. in which he said: 1.-The repeal of
the silver purchasing Act could not be
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
office to do that The article continued:
! "rhe people are with me and my policy
| said the President, but | fear | shall not
be able to command action from Con-
press. [ never saw such obstinacy as ex-
! lists among members of Congress on the
silver question. 1t is useless to appeal to
them now.'
1.-THE assumption of the President that
he knew best" said Stewart, land that
those who had studied the subject all
| their lives were wrong is remarkable.
| When such sentiment is uttered by the
Chief Executive it became pertinent to
inquire where and when did he acquire
all his knowledge? Where and when
did he have the opportunity to familiar
| ize himself with the wants and needs of
the American people and with the sci
ence of money and economics? Where
and when did he study it, and in what
school?
81 believe" said Stewart, "the Presi-
dent is the only President who has ever
presided at the White House who did not
possess liberal education in some col
| lege or on some farm. where he commune
Gated with nature and learned natures
laws. l believe either country educa-
| ton among the people or g. collegiate
education necessary. i do not believe
! the education of the clerk or the lawyer,
| without a liberal education in college or
| liberal education by studying books of
nature, can fit man to preside over the
destlnies of this country. The three
greatest Presidents we ever had received
| that liberal education which nature affords
by coming in contact with the people and
taking a wider view of the laws of man
and of nature than can be obtained i'll
law office or in Sheriff's Office, or in the
office of Mayor or any other contracted
place where the great book of nature is
closed"
! Stewart cited Washington, Jackson and
| Lincoln as great examples OF great Presi-
dents as a result of liberal education.
Unfortunately" he added, ''the presens
| President was denied both college edu-
cation and that grand and better educa-
! ton that come from communion with the
great producing classes of the country,
| communion with the pioneers of the
West, communion with those who formed
the bone and sinew of the country,
communion with the pure aspirations OF
| free American citizens. If the present
! President had known what Washington
knew, if he had known the people as
Washington, as Jackson, and as Lincoln
| fully appreciated them, he would not
have uttered the remarks he had. He
would not have talked of the obstlnacy of
Congress, nor would he have talked of
| having Congress on his hands,"
Stewart said his environments had
! been peculiar. He then read from the
Presidents biography in the Congress
sional directory, the authenticity of
which could not be questioned: AT 16
years of age he became assistant teacher
! in the New York Institute for the Blind"
read Stewart, and added, lit looks now
rs if he had not gotten entirely over that
! idea. Laughter in 1855 be went West
in search of employment continued the
biography. Let US see what his idea of
the West is" said Stewart. Then he
read on: Engaged with his uncle at
Buffalo [laughter] to aid in the compile
ton of the American Herd-Book.
laughter Upon retiring from the
| Presidency the biography read, he To-
Gated in New York City and resumed the
practice of law
"Why did the President say in con-
| temptuous manner that he would have
Congress on his hands? Why did he say
Congressman were obstinate, and would
not allow others who know all about it to
to establish the financial policy of this