Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-07-04
CONGRESS CALLED TO MEET IN EN-
IRA SESSION.
President Cleveland has issued the
following proclamation

following proclamation
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASHINGTON. ID. G.. June 30, 1892. \
Whereas. the distrust and apprehcn-
sion concerning the financial situation
which pervades all business circles
have already caused great loss and
damage to our people and threaten to
cripple our merchants, stop the wheels
of manufacture, bring distress and
privation to our farmers and withhold
from our workingmen the wage of la
Dor; and
Whereas, the present perilous con
dition is largely the result of Imam
cial policy which the executive branch
of the government finds embodied in
unwise laws, which must be executed
until repealed by Congress.
Now. therefore. |. Grover Cleveland.
President of the United States. i'll per
Torrance of a constitutional duty. by
this proclamation, declare that an en-
traordinary occasion requires the con
vening of both Houses of the Congress
of the United States, at the capital. in
the City of Washington, on the 9TH
day of August next, at II o'clock noon.
to the end that the people may be re-
lieved through legislation from pres
ent and impending danger and dis
tress. All those entitled to act as
members of the Fifty-third Congress
are required to take notice of this
proclamation and attend at the time
and place above stated.
Given under my hand and the seal
of the United States, at the City of
Washington. on the Goth day of June.
A. ID. 1893, and of the Independence of
the United States the 1l7th.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The immediate cause of this action
by the President is the intensified fl
nancial stringency and uneasiness su-
perinduced by the suspension of silver
coinage in India and the assurance he
is said to have received since that
event that majority of Congress
would vote for the unconditional re-
peal of the Sherman silver law
| One or two things are especially
worthy of note in this connection.
Though when the farmers and labor
ing classes have protested against I'M
just and oppressive financial laws they
have been insolently told by the plu-
tocratic press that legislation had
nothing to do with their condition
| to "plow on" work harder and spend
less it will be observed that here we
have the President himself officially
declaring that vicious legislation is
responsible for the present financial
crisis, and that prompt remedial legis
lation and not the size of the next
crop is the solution of the trouble.
The kind of legislation Mr.. Cleveland
believes in as the remedy gold mon
Ometalism, is not that favored by a
majority of his own party or the mass
es of the country: yet the very fact
that he has called Congress together
to act, proves that he believes IA legis
lative remedy may be found for exist
ing and impending financial ills. and
gives the lie to the superciliOus know,
alls. who have been commanding the
common people to keep quiet and go
about their business while being sys-
dramatically robbed 10y law-that fl
nancial legislation had no relation to
their poverty.
Back of it all may be seen the Shy
locks in this country and Europe con
spring to demonetize silver in the
United States as we'll as India. and
reap premium ON their boarded gold.
The program, so far as this country
is concerned, seems to be to force the
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law and the consequent demOnetiza
ton of silver, and then force the gov
eminent to issue more gold interest
bearing bonds And worst of all,
the new Democratic Administration.
from which only little while ago the
people were told they might expect
such wonderful reforms, is playing di
rectly into the hands of the conspira-
tors