Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-06
CONGRESS TO MEET.
The President Orders an Extra
Session to Begin August z.
Full Text of the Proclamation = The Re-
peal of the sherman silver Law Com
sidered Certain-India's Action
on silver.
THE PRESIDENTS CALL.

WASHINGTON, July l.-After carefully
going over all the details at the cabinet
meeting the president issued procla-
nation Friday afternoon calling an ex-
ira session of congress, beginning Au-
gust Z, 1898, as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
June 30, 1S93-Whereas, The distrust and APP
prehension concerning the financial situation
which pervade all business circles have already
caused great loss ami damage to our people
and threaten to cripple our merchants stop the
wheels of manufacture bring distress and pri-
walton to our farmers and withhold from our
workingmen the wage of labor; and
Whereas, The present perilous condition is
largely the result of q financial policy which
the executive branch of the government finds
embodied in unwise laws which must be exc
cuted I'm til repealed by congress;
Now, therefore, l. Grover Cleveland. presi-
dent of the United States, in performance Of q
constitutional duty, do, by this proclamation,
declare that an extraordinary occasion requires
the converting Of both houses of the congress of
the United States at the capital IN the city OF
Washington on the 7th day of August next at
IL o'clock noon 70 the end that the people may
be relieved through legislation from present
and impending danger and distress.
"Au those entitled 10 act as members OF the
Fifty third congress are required 10 take notice
place above stated
"Given under my hand and the seal Of the
United States at the city OF Washington on the
soth day of June in the year OF our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and
Of the independence Of the United States the
one hundred and seventeenth.
"GRovER CLEVELAND"
DUE TO midas ACTION.
Developments make 1t appear that
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the uncertainties of the situation grew
so alarming that Mr.. Cleveland at last
was compelled to acknowledge that
"the unexpected contingencies necessi-
tating an earlier meeting of congress"
which he spoke of In his celebrated in
terview of June 5, had arrived. The ac-
ton of the British government in India
brought matters to a crisis. Previous
to that startling event Mr.. Cleveland
had manifested firm determination to
adhere to his plan of calling congress
in September. After the suspension of
silver coinage in India the president
resolutely declined to speak further
about his intentions until he should
be prepared to act. and each
Of his cabinet officers maintained
a similar silence 1t may be stated,
however. without violating conf
dence, that from the day when the an
nouncement Of the action of India was
made the president took steps to keep
himself forewarned through the press
dispatches of the slightest approach to
panic in the money market, and was
prepared at any moment to take the
course which he has now adopted il it
seemed to him that his so doing would
in any way tend to allay alarm and re
store public confidence.
THR SHERMAN ACT.
The action Of the president apparent
" meets with the commentator and
approval of most Of the members and
politicians now in the city, and the
opinion is almost general that the
Sherman act viii be repealed. The prop
osition is not refuted, probably for the
reason that the free silver men, who will
conduct the fight against repeal have
few members now in the city. The
free silver men, however, VIII oppose
anz attempt to repeal the Sherman law