The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. rs, '93.

remarkable-for its subject matter
speeches ever delivered in the
Senate numerically scored Mr..
Cleveland for his attempts to inter-
fere with the legislative branch of
the government. The speech, which
was delivered to-day, was made in
advocacy of the following resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Stewart on Sat
urday: Resolved, That the indie
pendence of the Coordinate depart
ments of the government, the legis-
lative, the executive and the judic-
larry, must be maintained, and that
the use of the power and influence
of one department to control the
action of another is a violation of
the Constitution and destructive of
our form of government. There
can be no question about the truth
fulness of the assertion made in
this resolution; it has been talked
about foi weeks among Senators Of
both parties, and the only reason it
has not come before the public in
an official way is that many Sena-
tors who disapprove Of the manifest
encroachment of the executive upon
the prerogatives of the legislative
branch of the government were
willing to appear to condone it be-
cause they approved of the end
sought-the repeal of the purchas-
ing clause of the silver law, and
the same feeling may prevent the
adoption of Mr.. Stewards resolu-
ton, but it should not. The reso-
luton involves great prln
ciple and does not alone refer to
pending legislation, but to all flu
ture legislation. If Congress does
not stand up for its constitutions
rights and rebuke the execu-
tive for trying to usurp them it
cannot expect that the usurpation
will cease when the pending legisla-
ton shall have been disposed of.
1t will continually grow, if allowed
to, so long as Mi. Cleveland with
his dictatorial disposition is Pres
dent, and the example will certainly
be followed in the future by his
successors in the executive chair.
The cause of the usurpation should
be regarded as immateral; the
usurpation is dangerous and should
be promptly rebuked. Sc
Senator Chandler has introduced
a resolution that may stir mp the
administration considerably, to say
nothing of adding to the hard feel
lngs already existing in both fac
tions of the New York Democracy.
The resolution calls upon the Sec
rotary of the Treasury for his
authority to appoint the Fairchild
commission now engaged in exsmin-
ing the appraisers Office of the port
of New York; what has been done
and what it is intended to do, how
much money has been paid out. and
what is agreed to be paid, together
with all correspondence on the sub
ject or relating thereto. When the
resolution is called up it is not
probable that either Senators Hill or
Murphy will attempt to defend Sec
rotary Carlisle. Its suspected that
some of the correspondence will be
especially interesting to the New
York Senators.
Representative Wilson, chairman
of the House Ways and Means COM
mittee, talks in paradoxes 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 reve-
nue. 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 largely increase the importa-
ton of foreign goods, and the more
foreign goods consumed in the I'm
tied States the less demand there
will be for domestic goods of the
same kind, and the natural conse-
quence will be closing of American
factories. The only theory upon
which Mr.. Wilson's statements can
be reconciled is that he does not
consider established" those Amer
lean industries that require protec.
ton from foreign competition.
There is going to be big fight in
the Democratic party on this ques-
tion-the number of Democratic
protectionists is larger than many
suppose and events are 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 indefinite
period of tihbustering, if the at
temnt is SariOuSlv made to foroo n