St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-03

written In bold, round hand. and 1t is
said that Surrogate Rollins aided him in
the preparation of them. He came to
Washington and the pres ident and him5
SELF went over the topics which were ia
compose the message, and the reSuit
was the combination of their two brai Is.
President Hayes was a greater man
than he has the credit of being. He
had broad mind. and his state papers
read well. His messages were copied
! Dy MS private secretary. Mr.. Rodgers,
and ne used his cabinet officers to a
large extent in their preparation.
A FORGED MESSAGE
There Is only one case in our history
in which Presidents message has been.
forged. This was In 1864, and it was
rather proclamation than a message.
1t was production of a famous New
YORK correspondent, who is still writing
for the press, and it pretended to be a
call for half million more troops, and
to come from President Lincoln. 1t
never saw the White house, however,
but was gotten up i'll New York. 1t was
written on the manifold paper then
| used for the Associated Press news. and
was handed in to the morning papers
by telegraph boys, who gave it to the
papers as an Associated Press dispatch.
The only wonder is that it was not used
by every morning paper in New York,
out through some bungling in the
delivery suspicion was aroused in
| the offices of the Times and Trib.
une, and they would not use it.
Inc Herald had struck off an edi-
ton of %, 900 copies, believing the mes
sage to be genuine, but when they did
not see it in the Times and Tribune
they investigated its source and, finding
it bogus, they suppressed the entire edi-
ton. Among the papers who used it
were the Journal of Commerce and the
World. The publication created a great
sensation. and President Lincoln
ordered the editors of the papers who
used the matter to be imprisoned in
Fort Lafayette, but, finding they were
innocent of any intention to do wrong,
he afterward countermanded the order.
The correspondent who got up the
scheme was next arrested. He made a
full confession, and he was imprisoned
in Fort Lafayette. He was not kept
long. but, by the intercession of power
full friends, secured his release.
RED TAPE IN 1T.
The message will be taken from the
White house to the capitol by the eX-
ecutive clerk. There is good deal of
red tape about the matter, and though
the cable cars run directly from the
White mouse to the capitol, presidents
mes sage is always taken in a carriage,
and usually behind spanking two
horse team. The carriage is the office
turnout of the White house. 1t trots
out of the yard of the executive mansion
down to the treasury, then along the
west side of Fifteenth street and down
the south side of the avenue At
the bottom Of the avenue it skirts
the Peace monument ana goes I'D to
the senate. Acre Mr.. Pruden gets out,
carrying big official envelope in his
hand. This contains the message. He
carries it up to the front door of the
senate. where he is usually met by old
Mr.. BasSett or by the clerk of the SEN
ate. who announces that there is a mes
sage from the president of the United
States. 1t is then carried up to the
clerks desk, and it is there read. The
words in which the message is delivered
to the senate are uttered by Mr.. Pruden
as follows: 81 am directed by the pres
ident OF the United States to present a
message in writing
HANDLING THE MESSAGE.
Copies OF the message are given to
the newspaper correspondents. and
they are sent out by the Associated
Press to all the papers in the country.
1t used to be that manifold copies were
handed over to the newspaper men. and
they rushed for the telegraph offices, IN
order to send the news to their papers.
At this time correspondents kept car
rlageS and last horses at the capitol dur
ing such times. and made races to get
possession of the telegraph wires. Be-
fore the telegraph came into existence
it took the mail a week or so to give, the
message to some parts of the United
States, and the Cincinnati Gazette once
made a great fuss about its feat of pub
fishing the presidents message within
sixty hours after it had been delivered
to congress. 1t ran pony express from
| Washington to Cincinnati, and it cost it
$500 to get the news.
What becomes of the presidents mes
sages after they are delivered? The
copy that goes to the printer is cut up
into pieces or takes, and it is of little
use after it is set up. The earlier mes
sages, which were written by the presiI
dents themselves, were carefully filed
! away. and in the crypt of the capitol
| there are several of Gen. Washington's
messages, written in his peculiar. clear.
bold hand. The messages which are
sent to the senate are stored away in
the state department vaults, where all
the laws of the congress of the United
States are put, and they form a part of
the manuscript history of the country.
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