The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-04


al Wheeler cannot assent at all to Mr.. Cleye-
lands financial recommendations.
Representative Livingston Dem.} OF Georgia
said: al approve most emphaticaliy what the
President said on Venezuela. He has gone as
far perhaps in the Cuban matter as interna-
tfonal law will permit. Congress can now
take the matter up. | do not approve the
financial expressions"
Dingley (R.) of Maine said: "The most aston
ishing feature OF the message was the fact that
it entirely omitted to inform Congress whether
there was or was not q necessity of providing
more revenue. The Presidents reference to
the protective policy under which the country
prospered so signally from 1861 to 1893 as one
designed Tor the protection and benefit OF
favored classes at the expense OF the great
mass OF our countrymen' and as one inefficient
for the purpose of revenue is singular disre
gard OF the fact that during the time in which
this policy was enforced revenue was always in
excess OF peace expenditures and the masses OF
the people OF the country were never before so
prosperous. The effort OF the President II
divert attention from the real causes of the
financial stress of the Government by charging
the responsibility on the presence of the green
back IN our currency viii not prove success.
Walker (R.) of Massachusetts, said: az regret
exceedingly that the President felt called upon
to repeat the statements that protection is for
the benefit of favored class and at the ex-
pense of the great mass of the people; that it
is insufficient for revenue; that 1t impedes our
entrance to foreign markets, curtails orr
foreign trade and that free trade alone can
build up our country and develop our in
dustries. These propositions are disputed by
every acknowledged fact revealed by the
various censuseS OF this and every other civil
lied country, not excepting Great Britain
Dalzell (R) of Pennsylvania said: $50 far as
the message refers to foreign affairs it may be
said to be colorless. That part OF it is simply
a recital OF facts and contains nothing worthy
OF note. The most remarkable thing aboutit
is the labored attempts 10 make the people be-
hat hn h1n rnrtF ali oyyfN thn
present administration issnot responsible for
our present ills. With the revenues every
month producing deficit the Presidents
ignoring the fact and indulging in theories as
to financial legislation is suggestive OF Nero's
tiddling while Rome was burning"
Washington D.) of Tennessee said: "The
message is characterized by the usual vigor
and clearness with which Mr.. Cleveland ham
dies all questions. The foreign policy indi-
Gated is patriotic, American and in tune with
the Monroe doctrine. His treatment of the
financial question is clear and convincing"
Bell (Pop.) of Colorado said: "Many OF the
general recommendations will meet public APP
prevail. immigration should be restricted to
very narrow limit and Americanism worked
into all OF our institutions. His financial rec
concentrations, ii carried out, would aggra-
vate our difficulties quite as much as did the
repeal OF the Sherman act at his request"
Johnson RI of Indiana said: "The message,
so far as it relates to the Cuban, Venezuelan
and other foreign questions, is a mere narrative
OF events. Concerning domestic affairs 1t is
labored effort to fasten the responsibility Tor
all our business and financial difficulties on
the Republican party. In this respect 1t is
sort OF protest against the verdict OF the peo-
pie rendered at the polls. 1t is gratifying to
notice that there is no recommendation Tor
State banks OF issue in the message and that
the remonetization of silver at the present IA
ito is deprecated"
Newlands (Silverite) of Nevada: "Mr. Cleve-
land, in his message, INDUCES in the usual fall
lacy OF gold standard money, that gold Is
fixed and immutable standard OF value. He
measures gold by itself, and concludes that it
does not change in value. The fact is that gold
measured by the prices of other products has
constantly increased and is still Increasing in
value, as the use of its only competitor, silver,
is diminished. The sole cause of the prevail
ing depression is the low price of products and
property and the high value of gold, which
measures them. There is but one way TO cure
this fall in prices and that is to take away
portion OF the increased value of gold by re-
storing silver its only competitor"
Joseph G. Cannon (R.) ofIllinois: "Under the
constitution the President is commanded to
give TO Congress Information of the state OF the
Union but in his message to-day he is flag
rantly remiss in this duty as 10 at least one
subject OF absorbing interest. He omits all
reference in detail TO Governmental receipts
and expenditures, actual as to the past fiscal
year and estimated to the current and next
fiscal year. No President, except Mr.. Cleve-
Congress in his regular annual message on this
important topic. This omission is at this time
the more significant in view OF the distressing
facts that during the present admi nistration,
since March H. 1898, to December / 1895 the
expenditures of the Government have exceeded
the receipts by 1927 927, 254; that the de-
fciency in National revenues for the last fiscal
year amounted to S43, sos, 422, and up to De-
cember l, just passed, to SIT 600 900; that
during his present administration he has in
creased our bond Indebtedness by 1862, 315,-
400; that the estimated expenditures submitted
in the annual book OF estimates for 1897 show
an increase over the estimates for1S96 of more
than $40, 800 900, and nearly $21 900, 900 over
the appropriations made by the last Congress
for the current year. The message is most I'M
satisfactory also in its references to foreign
relations and commerce. Our cattle and other
food products are absolutely excluded from
the markets OF Germany and adjacent coun-
tries, while our home markets are wide open
to their products-Which comes by the repeal
OF our late reciprocity provisions and by the
enactment of the Wilson-Brice law. From the
tenor of the whole message it is patent that in
his Judgment 10 legislation increasing the
revenues is needed or would receive his ap-
proval. IL is clear, therefore, that there is
nothing possible through legislation or admin
istration that will cure our ills during his
term
Quigg (R.) of New York said: "Mr. Cleve.
land is bad doctor. His patient has the con-
sumption. He has diagnosed for the malaria
and he prescribes merely for boil on the back
of the neck His remedy would not cure the
trouble for which he offers it, and that is not
the real BILE at all. What he SAYS about
the country's finances is answered bv the SIM
pie fact, SO justified in everybody's experience.
that when a mans income exceeds his expend-
itures he is all right, and when his expendi-
lures exceed his income he is ali wrong This
rule is universal and memorable. The green
backs a form of public debt We have had
them for many years, and Mr.. Cleveland con-
fesses that until he and his party came into
power they never caused the slightest trouble:
but nov he proposes to hold them responsible
for all the ills which he and his party have gen
Grated. He starts the furnace, gets the house
too hot TO live in, and then, instead of putting
out the fire, he swears a. the thermometer"
Bowers (R.) of California said "The very
first paragraph of the message following the
introduction sounds the keynote TO the whole
message and is a specimen of adamantine
cheek. He says, at is pleasing to note that
efforts to enlarge exchange of trade are appre-
ciated by the Argentine Republic, which recog-
nized the value of a large market opened 10
free importation of its woods under our tariff
act and has admitted certain OF our products
at reduced duties He is careful not
to state what products or at what reduc-
tons. He did not care. He could show
no reciprocal benefit to the United States
Pleased he is at the destruction of
one of the greatest industries of this country
and the distress it has brought upon its people.
and is pleased that foreign nations have bene-
fitted thereby. The contemplate foreign