Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-14
THE GOLD WITHDRAWALS S
Mr., Cleveland to again Gall the Attention
of Congress to the Situation.
lie Will EndeavOr to Shift the Re-
sponsibility of Insufficient Revenue
From His Shoulders.

The Withdrawals of gold from the treas
ury have not as yet amounted to enough to
be positive menace. The tide having set
in that direction at this time, however,
though il is not strong, there exists an ap-
prehension that it may grow in force. If
there Is anything like steady increase in
the amount of Withdrawals 1t is expected
that Mr.. Cleveland will make another eff
fort to secure legislation to check it.
No Legislation From This Congress-.
1t is obvious that no such legislation can
he secured from this Congress, but this was
TO less apparent when Mr. Cleveland sent
bis message to Congress which stopped the
holiday recess adjournment. In dealing
with a hostile Congress (or one unable to
acD Mr. Cleveland's aim appears to be to
fix responsibility upon the legislative body
when confronted with any emergency. Con-
gress is now nearly leady to adjourn. If ii
adjourns on the I'd or the 10th of June, as
is thought likely it will, there will be a
long stretch, between then and the first
Monday IN December, during which the
executive will have to act upon his own re-
sponsiblity should the conditions of last fall
be renewed. Moreover, during the agitation
of a political campaign, when a new party, if
not the democratic party, will declare for
silver 16 to l, the uneasineSS in business
circles is expected to become manifest.
even if it is for nothing more than Specu-
lative purposes
The administration people have been con-
sidering for some time the probability of
such a situation developing after the ad-
journment of Congress, ard the cxporta-
ton of gold which has begun is regarded
as Indication of possible raid on the
treasury this summer
Mr.. Cleveland Will Anticipate This.
1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland will an
tl ha ind
pronounced. 1t is a matter of debate
whether it would be better, from a politi-
cal point of view, for him to warn Con-
gress before adjournment of the danger
to the gold reserve of having it unpre-
tected during the long recess, or to wait
until the situation feared shall develop
and then to call a special session to deal
question which method would emphasize
more positively the inability of Congress
to deal with the financial situation.
If another bond sale should become neces-
sary before the November elections Mr.
Cleveland wants to give the country to un-
derstand that he has done all in his power
to guard against it. Whether the public
blame the republican party for the failure
of remedial legislation or lay the blame on
the silver men is matter Of more or less
Indifference to him if he can shift the
responsibility from his own shoulders and
conceal the part the lack Of revenue plays
in the depletion of the treasury. He is
satisfied. from the attitude of the silver
men in the Senate that there is no danger
of his being called on to act upon a tariff
bill, and it cannot be said that he has re-
fused any form of relief, but that, on the
contrary, no sort of relief was offered.
Won't Wait for an Extra Session.
The opinion is expressed by some of Mr..
Cleveland's friends that he will not wait
for the occasion to call an extra session
in the summer, but will send message TO
Congress just on the eve of adjournment,
after both houses have adopted an adjourn
ment resolution insisting that they shall
afford some relief to the treasury before
going TO their homes. He is not expected
to name any particular form of relief, thus
leaving the impression that he would ac-
cept most anything.