The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-04
SEN. BUTLBR'S
BOND BILL

Agents Of the Gold Combine Fear
fully Wrought Up
Over II.
AN EXHAUSTIVE HISTORY
OF the Ffsaneias Conspiracy u. log 6is.s
ny Senator Basis<-Th~ President ve-
toes tbs River and Hsrbar lie WI
Probably Pass over HI. ysss.
Special to The Cauczsianl
WASHINGTON, u. G., June l. &c.
Nothing Of interest has transpired in
the House during the past week ex-
cept the bill of impeachment against
President Cleveland offered By Con-
gresham Howard. No enc questions
that every charge and specification
contained in this bill of impeachment
10 true, but the House, though Repub-
lican, is so welded 10 the gold stand
ard and so thoroughly endorses the
money question that they cannot
agree TO impeach him for doing Just
what John Sherman did himself when
he was Secretary of the Treasury. If
the House were to present a bill Of
impeachment to the Senate against
the President, the proceedings before
the Senate would at once assume an
importance Of the first magnitude. No
party has q majority in the Senate,
and it is now in a better position to
act as non-partisan court than it has
ever been since the foundation of the
government. The specifications in the
bill OF Impeachment as drawn by Con-
gresham Howard are as follows:
/. That he has sold or directed the
sale of bonds without authority of law.
2. That he sold or aided in the sale
of bonds at less than their market
| value.
3. That he directed the misappro-
priation of the proceeds Of said bond
sales.
4. That he directed the Secretary of
the Treasury to disregard the law
which makes United States notes and
Treasury notes redeemable in coin.
3. That he has ignored and refused
to have enforced the 'anti-trust law"
6. That he has sent United States
troops into the State of Illinois with
| out authority of law and in violation
of the Constitution.
7. That he has corrupted politics
| through the interference Of Federal
Office holders.
! 8. That he has used the appointing
power to influence legislation detri-
mental to the welfare of the people.
THE PRESIDENT vEToEs THE RIVER AND
| II
| On last Friday President Cleveland
returned to the House the river and
harbOr bill with his disapprOval. He
vetoes it on the specious plea that he
is in favor Of economy. This reminds
US Of the case OF Satan quoting Scrip
ture. The man who has piled up on
the country two hundred and sixty
two millions of debt without a single
material thing to show for it; debt
created simply for the benefit of the
bond holders; an interest bearing debt
placed upon the people and future
generations to borrow gold which was
in effect presented as free gift to the
gold combine, now prates about econ.
Omy, while the expenses under this
river and harbor bill will not be more
than ten million for the next year
| AOAS 10 ho "oy III WuiCL UulS COu'
, gress has appropriated money thai
will be of more direct benefit to al
, classes of our people than the money
appropriated in this river and harbol
, bill. In the first place the money thu
appropriated will give employment t,
labor, will cause the scattering ant
J circulation of money among the PEG
: pie; and in the second place, ever,
river that is now improved is a lastin,
} benefit to the farmers and people liv
ing along the banks or near that river
l because it gives the people water com
2 petition against the railroad com
3 panies, and enables them to secure lOv
! freight rates for their produce to mar
ket. 1t may be that Mr.. Clevelan
1 has vetoed the bill at the request @
: the railroad companies. At any rat,
= it is absurd for him to say that he ha
y done so on the ground of economy.
i is very probable that Congress wi
c pass this bill by twO-thirds majorit
o over the Presidents veto.
: AGENTS OF THE GOLD COMBINE TERRI
BLY, EXERCISED OVER Buffers ANT
IS BOND BILL.
r 1t is safe to say that there has nc
e been bill introduced in Congress fC
g the last twenty years that has create
as much excitement and caused 9
= much CONSERVATION among the gol
it gamblers and their hireling agents,
n Washington, as Senator Buffers sin
=. pie little bill of three lines, which pr
vents the further issuance of bono
without the advice and consent
Congress. The gold Senators have r
Il sorted to all of the parliamentary ta'
:. tics possible and to all of the cunnin
~ devices known to the older Senator
:" not only to try to prevent the takin
" up of this bill, but also to outwit Sem
l, tor Butler and to sidetrack it since
70 has been taken up. Having failed
n all of these efforts and realizing TIL
n they, the gold men, were getting tt
s. worst of the argument, they went
r. Senator Butler on last Friday and to
n him that they we're willing to stop d
bate and take vote, whereupOn Sen
tor Butler agreed that the vote shou
u be taken on tomorrow. Between no
70 and then the gold men will make de
n perate efforts to make converts to the
o. side, not by speeches and argumen
A on the floor, but by other influence
Mt and in different manner. As SOC
% as the time was fixed to take fin
:. vote on the measure, Senator Butt
- took the floor to speak at length
VI support of this bill.
o. SENATOR BUTLER CLOSING THE DEBA,
y ON HIS BOND BILL.
1S Senator Butler began his speech
- Friday and will deliver it in insta
lo ments continuing to-day and finishiI
or tomorrow. Before he closes ha W
D. go into a thorough and exhaust
Id history of every bond transaction Z
y: tered into by the officials of this go
~ eminent since the late war, and
!. proposes to prove conclusively tn
the characterization OF silver W
10 brought about under the influence
81, a hired lobby at Washington, emplo
d. ed and sent there by the bond holde
a to secure the decentralization of sily