The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-23

pdtSH ADSIi1.1
BY permitting the bill to become a
law by default of action upon his
part the president will become IN OBJ
ject' of scorn and distrust.-W Whining
ton Del) News, Rep.)
Mr.. Cleveland may we'll cry out to
be saved FROM his friends. He is
and he must speedily make np his
mind which way to ge.-Philadelphia
Telegraph Rep)
If President Cleveland remains true
to himself and to principle, he will rise
superior TO all the cries of ruin to the
party in the south and west" and veto
the bill to 'cein vacuum. Hartford
Times Qem.)
It is impossible to see how Cleveland
can sign such a bill without making
himself ridiculous in the light of what
he has advocated in our currency
Hartford Post (Rep9
The attempt to ineite a belief that
the President will sign it, or permit it
TO become a law without his signature,
has failed through its utter feolishness.
NO one expects it to become a law
Boston Post Dem.)
If Mr.. Cleveland let's this bill go on
the statute book, either without his
signature or with it, he will destroy
Inc reputation as supporter of sound
money which he won last fall-Buffale
Express Rep)
There was never a more fitting oc-
casion for the exercise of this legisla-
than is presented by the bill to coin
the so-called "seigniorage" on the sill
yer lying in the treasury Philadelphia
Record Qnd.)
President Clevelands latest utter
ances indicate that if he acts in the
matter on his individual judgment as a
political economist and yields nothing
to political and partisan considerations,
the Bland bill will be vetoed by him.
Washington Star Qnd.)
If President Cleveland writes his
name at the bottom of it, he will blot
his whole past record on this question
OF the currency, and sign away at a
stroke all that remains of his old repu-
tation for consistency and courage
Hartford Ceurant Rep)
There can be no doubt that the Sue
cess of the Bland seigniorage bill would
tend to debase the currency and inn
pair the public credit, because it would
create an apprehension of further leg
islation, already threatened in the
Public opinion would undoubtedly re-
gard the Bland seignorage bill, If it
were to become a law, as a measure to
undo largely the good effected by the
outcome of the extra session, the re-
peal of the Sherman silver law. This
alone ought to be a fatal objection to
the bill.-Buffalo Courier Oem)
AS to the character of the seigniorage
bill, there is no reason to doubt that
the president. regards it as thoroughly
bad. and if he does it would not be at
all like him to let it become a law for
reasons of policy or because he thinks
it may be SO carried into effect as to
do no great harm.-Chicago Herald
Dem)
Refusing to act upon BANDS bun
combe bill and allowing it to Decome
law would be more colossal blunder
than affixing his 1.-THE presidential sig
nature to the ridiculous legislation,
which is SO indefinite. Secretary Car
Isle says, that he might coin under it
all the silver bullion into ten and
twenty-five cent pieees.-Beston Tran
script Rep)
The president has very good excuse
for vetoing the bill without commit
ting himself against the coinage of the
seignorage. The bill is defective in
that it is open to the Interpretation
that it authorizes the secretary of the
treasury not only to coin the alleged
seignorage of $50, 156,6S1, but also to
issue, in addition, that amount of sill
yer certificates, = Savannah News
Oem)
The same reasons which led Mr..
Cleveland to approve the re-
peal act apply with not less
force to this seignorage absurd
ity, and he would be guilty of woful
act of inconsistency if he were now to
surrender TO the Democrats who are
appealing TO him to sign it on the
ground that something must be done
to satisfy the Bland silver faction and
to conciliate the Populists,-Philade
phia Bulletin Rep)