Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-24

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 ~'1Ihe powers of the executive of this country are more definite and bet ter understood, perhaps, than those of any other country" Washington had said, 'and my aim has been, and will continue to be, neither to stretch nor to relax from them in any in. stance whatever, unless compelled to 1t by imperious circumstances" and that was what he meant the country to know, whether the laws purpose was good or bad.
 Wrath Over English Treaty. ] The next year the people knew what NIT. Jay had lone. He reached New York May 2S, l796; and the treaty he brought with him was laid before the senate on the sth of June. On the 2d of July the country knew what he had agreed to and the senate had ratified. There was an instant out burst of wrath. It swept from one end of the country to the other.
 The treaty yielded SO much. gained so little, that to accept it seemed a iveritable humiliation. The northwest ern posts were, indeed. to be given up at last; the boundaries between Eng. fish and American territory were 10 be determined by commissioners; un- restricted commerce with England herself, and a free direct trade with her East Indian possessions, were con ceded; but not a word was said about the impressment of American seamen; American claims for damages for un- coveted trade with the West Indian referred to commission. along with American debts to Englishmen; the coveted trade with the West Indies Islands was secured only to vessels of seventy tons and under, and at the cost of renouncing the right to ex- port sugar, molasses, coffee, cocoa, or cotton to Europe
 Washington agreed with the senate that ratifications of the treaty ought not to be exchanged without a modif- cation of the clauses respecting the West Indian trade. and October had come before new and better terms could be agreed upon; but he had no ioubt that the treaty as a whole ought 70 be accepted. The opposition party h congress had refused to vote money 'or an efficient navy. and so had made t impossible to check British aggres- nons; they must now accept this un-
 palatable treaty ss better at any rate than war
 Storm Rages FiereeIy.
 IL was hard to stand steady in the storm The country took fire as 1t had done at the passage Of the Stamp Act. Harder things had never been said of king and parliament than were now said of Washington and his ad visers. Many stout champions stood i, to his defence-none stouter or more formidable than Hamilton. no longer a member of the cabinet, for imperative private interests had withdrawn him these six months and more, but none the less redoubtable. in the field of controversy.
 For long. nevertheless, the battle went heavily against the treaty. Even Washington. for once. stood a little while perplexed, not doubting his own purpose, indeed, but very anxious what the outcome should be. Pro tests against his signing the treaty poured in upon him from every quar- ter Of the country; many of them earnest almost to the point of en- treaty. soma hot with angry comment His reply. when he vouchsafed any, was always that his very gratitude for the approbation Of the country in the past fixed him but the more firm ily in his resolution to deserve it now nss oheying bis own seonseience
 Tt is very dssirabls.' he wrote to Hamilton, "to ascertain, if possible. after the payoxysm of the fever is a little abated, what the real temper of the people is concerning 1t: for at present the cry against the treaty is Ike that against a mad dog; but he shosSed himself very calm so tAs gen