The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-23

Rut the democratic party is greater than
any man. It survived Jefferson 1t sur
vved Madison, 1t survived jackson, ana IL
will outlive Grover Cleveland He does not
embrace all the democracy and all the
tariff reform of this country. He had no
right to disregard the spirit of the consti-
tuition. He had no right to trampe on the
sensibilites of other members OF his party
for any purpose whatever Where dld' the
president of the United States hnd the
right by private letter, to try to influence
legislation? When our fathers declared
that there should be three great coordinate
departments of this government, absolutely
Independent Of each other, did they mean
that a president of the United States, by
the use of patronage, by the shadow OF
the great office which the people gave him,
should, in the teeth of the constitution,
put into the hands OF q conferee instructed
to have a full and free conference in mat
tiers in dispute between the two houses, 4
personal appeal to his party friends TO
stand by his views any puDilc question?
"Mrs. Adams, the wife of the second
president of the United States, in some
memoir. has given q reason why the capitol
was placed at one end of the avenue and
the white house at the other end. She said
that it to prevent the president from
exercising undue influence the deibera-
lions of congress But in a conference COM
mttee, where the conferees are Instructed
to have a full and free conference, the
president of the United States has deliber-
ately injected his personal appeal ana per-
sonal opinion, in order, in advance, to in
huence a measure which ne is the last
under the constitution, TO pass. He is a
part of the lawmaking power OF the
government but his functions only begin
after the two houses of congress, unSWerVed
and uniniuenced by the executive office.
have passed upon the questions and nave
placed the bill before him.
But the president, without waiting until
the constitution put the duty upon him,
in private letter to the chairman OF the
conferees on the part OF the mouse OF repre-
sentatives, threw his personal authority,
the weight of his great office his hold upon
the American people, into the scale and de-
mands of this senate that 1t shali accede
to his views in reference to tarlff reform.
That portion of the letter which has struck
me with more alarm than anything nave
heard in the course of my pubi1c Ire, since
the declaration of war between the sections
thirty years ago, is the declaration ny me
president that it Is lmppSsloe, a haInug
without perf1dy to the principles wnlch we we
profess for the tariff bill to become law
What a mockery it is to talk of fun
and free conference when one conleIee H ne
in his pocket. at the time he Goes iilto .ne
conference the views, il not the iHStlu t
lions, of the president of the United States
as to what should be done
Vests Patience Is Tired.
"I was a tariff reformer before the pres1-
dent commenced his phenomenal career
and TO be now told that we are false 10 the
great principles of the party is peyond the
limit of human endurance. The traVeler
who tolls up his course along the liiooii'"
side knows that he cannot reach the Suhl-
nit in a single hour or day. he Is CON
fronted by some marble cliff, some Ivy
glacier. He must by strategy MAKE n'o
way around it. But if animated by tne
certainty that he must succeed at la:I, ~.
will eventually stand upon the hls
,aoL and then look back upon the tons
and dancers and "reminiscences Oh Inc
MAST T hone that the time Will come Wneh
the full fruition of my hopes IN leia'ioii
to tariff reform shall be Witnessed ~ ~
III T can get a better bill, L shall take such
- ,oaocure as can be enacted by the congress
NC 20 ITnited states and [ shall not re-
o.e,Te NV instructions from any C.nSl
source in regard to my duties as d cohAeie0
Il an an lro President, no administration mas
the right to lctate to me in the perform t
ance Of what | consider my o IVY initad
neCnle of Missouri and OF the Cnlte"
1iu become a law or the Mckinley act
viii remain on the statute book. Wish
Mr.. Aldrich asked Mr.. Vest if he wanted
1t understood that the senate deilior 49,
conferees were not "a aWatf 9 ed the
18th.
NJ VT sneak on1v tor myself. never
heard of that letter until it was read yes
teraay in the house. I had no oaI more of
knowledge of it's existence than ! nave G %,
what is passing in Asia Minor or III
Hfri ic ao+o Mr.
Ir the further course of the date Mr.,
Caffery of Louisiana, said that IL II Cdlng
to y question between his party ana MS
state. he would stand by mis- state, ana
tat if the promise of the finan;e comnilt,,
tee was not coupled with the Dill II WCula
not receive his support or sanction
Mr. Blanchard, of Louisiana, lhtimateo,
without stating it in many words, tnat
IF Mr. ViIas's motion was carried ire VOTES
of the two Louisiana senators would not De
for the bill