The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-26
A SILVER PLATED STING.
Stewart Makes a Bitter Attack on the
President.

The President Held up as Lacking
Knowledge Fitting Him for His OF.
hoe-Bate and Cameron Also Make
Speeches on the Silver Issue.
Washington, Sept 25.-The Senate met
this morning at IL o'clock with an un-
usually small attendance. The resolution
offered last Saturday by Mr.. Stewart, as
to the coordinate departments Of the gov
ernment, was laid before the Senate.
Here is its text:
Resolved, That the independence Of the Co
ordinate departments OF the government the
legislative, the executive and the judicial
must be maintained, but that the use OF the
power and influence Of one department TO con.
troll the act on OF another is in violation OF
the constitution and destructive of the repub-
lican fern ofgovernment
Mr.. Stewart began to address the Sen-
ate on the resolution, but had spoken
few sentences only, when he was inter-
rupted by Mr.. Manderson with the re-
mark that the resolution was most im-
portant one, and that undoubtedly the
speech about to De made was one that
should be heard by full Senate He sug-
gested that there was no quorum present.
The roll was called and forty-four sena-
tors zone more than quorum) responded.
AN ATTACK on THE PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Stewart then went on with his
speech. He began,with citation from
President Cleveland's speech last Monday
on the occasion commemOrating the one
hundredth anniversary of the laying Of the
corner stone of the capitol This speech
had been made by a president having
more than 100000 federal offices to dis
pose of, and with veto power which has
been designed only for extraordinary oc-
casions, backed by concentrated capital
and encouraged and ilattered by a Venal
press He described President Cleveland
on that occasion as turning his face to-
ward the Senate wing of the capitol
and in anger and menacing tones
using the following language: eff the
representatives who here assemble to
make laws for their felow-countrymen
forget the duty of broad and disinterested
patriotism and legislate in prejudice and
passion, or in behalf Of sectional or selfish
interests, the time when the cornerstone
of the capitol was laid and the circum-
stances surrounding it will not be worthy
of commemorating.n
CONSTRUED AS A REBUKE.
This declaration, MIR. Stewart said, had
been cheered and encouraged by
| thopghtless multitude and construed by
venal press as a rebulfe from the Presi-
| dent of the United States to the Senate.
The struggle for constitutional liberty he
continued, of the Anglo-Saxon race,
which had been long, arduous and at
tended with many sacrifices, had lasted
now for nearly a thousand years. He
went on to quote at great length from
Macaulay's History Of England as to the
parliamentary struggle with the Stuart
kings. Coming back TO the present time,
Mr.. Stewart charged that 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 Jan ID,
1890, which made the purchase of 4,500,-
600 ounces of silver bullion per
month mandatory. In proof Of
this he cited the short purchases
Of silver by the treasury during July and
August.
DECLARED UNJUsTIFIABLR.
He could not conceive how
this could be justified in view
of the scarcity of currency,
which should have been increased by the
issue of treasury certificates for silver
bullion. He knew that an excuse was
made that silver bullion was not pur-
chased because the holders asked moro
than the market price, 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 deprecate
bllb law OF July IL, loJU, as
King James had deprecated the laws on
the English statute book-all, both high
and low, had TO obey the law if civil lib
erty was to he maintained, and If consti-
tutional government was TO exist. The
Presidents oath of Office commanded him
to see that the laws were faithfully exc
cuted but here was a plain mandatory
law that had been disregarded Was it
not time, he asked, to sound the alarms
N cDngtif11fiOpal lihapfu xva n N " tralffo
it seemed to him that all, friends and
foes, should stand up and say TO the Pres
ident Of the United States: "You have
overstepped the mark. We cannot afford
to have the laws of congress disregarded."
Mr.. Stewart then drifted to the anti
Chinese bill, and asked whether the ex-
ecutive had enforced it. Whatever might
be thought of that law, it was in
force. If the executive might vio-
late one law he might violate
another. Was the President, he asked,
to have the option to obey or to refuse to
obey an enactment!
cLEvELAND's EDUCATION.
Mr.. Stewart quoted remarks made by
President Cleveland at different times,
some of them in what purported TO be in
teryiews, which he construed to Indicate
that President Cleveland held congress in
rather low estimation; that The assumed
sumption led Mr.. Stewart to inquire
where and how the President had learned
all that he knewl Where he had the op-
portunity of possessing himself of the
science of money and economies2 Where
and when, and in what school had he
studied itl He believed that President
Cleveland was the only President of the
United States who had not possessed a
liberal education, either in some college
or on farm where he communed with
nature and learned natures laws. He did
not believe that the education of a clerk.
or of a lawyer without a prior liberal
education in a college or without liberal
education in studying the works of ma
ture, fitted man to preside over the
destinies Of this country. A President
Of the United States required
TO take wider view of
the laws of money and of nature than
could be obtained in lawyers Office or in
sheriff's Office, or in the Office of a mayor,
or any other such contracted place where
the great book of nature was closed.
Washington, jackson and Lincoln were al
luded TO by MIR. Stewart as great exam
pies Of a President, who had not collegi-
ate education, but had extensive knowl-
edge Of government by close contact
with the people But unfortunately"
he continued, "our President was de-
MED both a collegiate education and that
greater and better education, communion
with the great producing classes Of the