The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-03-02
LIE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY, MARCH .. 1900
THE VICIOUS EXTRA SESSION.

1t has become a fad of late years
with our presidents to call an extra
session OF congress whenever they
have some particular vicious legis-
lation they wish enacted
Immediately after his Inauguration,
Cleveland called an extra session Of
Congress for the purpose of remov-
Ing from our statute books the last
remaining law which at all recognized
silver as the peoples money. 1t is
too fresh in our memories to need
retelling, how Cleveland commanded
congress to do his bidding; how Wall
street howled Its approval; how open
~ and adroitly the idol Of goldbug-
gerry, occupying the presidents chair,
welded the bestowal OF federal pat
ronage as a club to beat recalcitrant
congressman into line and how his eff :
forts were aided by the financial dis
tress, and panic deliberately and ma
liciously precipitated upon the peo-
pie by his plutocratic masters We
say that 1t is unnecessary that that
damnable and besmirched page
of our history be retod. The wound
In our body, economic and political,
10 still gaping sore which we can
not forget until it is cured and which
will never be cured until the cause is
removed.
Again, McKinley-to be in fashion
called an extra session to out Her
cd Herod, to repeal the Wilson Cor
man bill that had u few points Of
merit, enachng instead the Dlngley
bill which had none,
- Now Mckinley threatens another
session, that he may have several
thousand additional troops, we pre-
sumo for the purpose Of enforcing
the era Of republican misrule and the
Ubiquitous policy it has embarked on
What does it mean2 Have our
presidents become SO wise and great
that they are the sole repositories
of political wisdom2 Since when
has the Senate of the United States
5 and the National House of Repre-
sentatives become the servants of the
president to be whipped and coerced
into doing his bidding? We had an
idea that the legislative and execu
tive branches of our government we're
coordinate, or to be more exact we
believed that from the legislative all
legislation originated; that the judi
cisl passed upon its constitutionality
when called upon to do so, and that
the executive simply has the approx
ing OF tor veto power as the case
may be-and enforce its application.
1t seems we are wrong, that in this
golden era the president, only,
knows what is for the peoples bene-
1T and the nations welfare, and that
better than their chosen representa-
tives, as though he were the vice
gerent OF the Almighty in temporal af-
fairs, potent and infallible. 1t seems
that congress has become a danger
GUS excrescence and unnecessary all
lunct in our government that can
have no correct views on public af-
fairs and which must be coerced in
one way or another into obeying the
mandatory suggestions OF the execu-
tive; and that should it, taking ad
vantage OF an unfortunate and re-
gretable provision in our constitution
81 law, undertake to enact anv law
over the veto Of the puissant one in
the White House, it then becomes
the proud privilege snd imperative
duty OF the Judicial element in our
make ups TO set aside such act on
whatever bubble may seem most ap
p'icable and efflcacious. We wonder
the time is at hand when the peo-