The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-04
1t Is Alleged that He Will Offer Something
New on the Tariff, and Supply Solutions
OF the Financial and Indian Problems.
The Trade Dollars Day of Redemption
Thought To Be Almost at Hand.
Comptroller Durham's Opinion About the Two
Salaries of Sunset Cox-A Wrathy Iowa
COngressman-Clevelan Health.
CLEvELAND's MESSAGE.
Report that 1t VIII Contain Something News
Upon Several Topics.

Report that 1t VIII Contain Something New
Upon Several Topics.
Washington Special.
Some portions of the Presidents message have
been shown to few persons outside of the Cab
met and through them to a third party. to
whom they have, of course, been very confden-
TALLY communicated, and from whom have come
the various stories as to the contents of the mes
| sage. Senator Beck is one of these favored per-
sons, and there can be no doubt that he has told
Congressman from his own State that the
President read to him his recommendations with
respect to the tariff and in regard to revenues,
and that Mr. Beck said to that Congressman
that he himself was satisfied. There are other
Surface indications" which tend to confirm the
statements attributed to Senator Beck. and from
these it is to be at least inferred that there will
be some rather startling suggestions in the mes
sage upon the subject of the tariff. In fact,
gentleman who knows what is in the
message, if any one outside of the
Cabinet does know, says: "The President will
make new and possibly unexpected recommended
tions. He will strike out on some lines of new
departure, and he will possibly discuss some new
topics. In the matter of the reduction of taxa
tion he will probably take even stronger ground
than he did last year. He will be more emphatic
and more precise. He will insist that taxation
should be reduced in order to prevent the ac-
emulation of larger surplus in the Treasury.
He will adopt different method of treating the
silver question from that which we see in the
message of last year He will not recede from
the position which he then took but he will en-
deavor to state his views in o manner that will
hp off pciv IN fho Gil hot &c ha
will write as a presidential candidate The
message will contain recommendations for liberal
appropriations for the coast defenses, as one
might readily conclude from the numerous and
important consultations which have recently
been held between the Secretary of War and
the Secretary of the Navy
1t is believed that the President contemplates
recommending in his annual message that Con-
gress shall make provision to pay off in full the
depositors in the Freedmen's Bank They have
peen paid something over go per cent. The
proposition that the government should assume
the remainder of the indebtedness has previous
ly been several times asitated, but not from any
influential quarters. The President has worked
upon his message during the last two or three
days with some discomfort, caused by slight
rheumatism in the knees. Instead of moving
out into his library he has kept on with his work
IN his private room, where Senators Beck, Har-
ris and Whtthorne saw him to-day when they
of the fact that he was suffering from rheuma-
tism was made not without some reluctance and
with the firm conviction on the Presidents part
that the White House would be flooded in a day
or two with all sorts of oils to be rubbed in
draughts to be swallowed, plasters to be applied
and pills to be taken, to say nothing of medical
suggestions by letter from unnecessarily
alarmed persons The President has had no
physician.
For the last week the Presidents library has
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desk presented by Queen Victoria has been
almost hidden under the pile of papers and manu-
script upon it. In pile all the Cabinet
officers reports are placed in their regular order
Inc PRESIDENT, after reading them, marks page
or selection which he wants to mention, and
turns down corner of the page to mark it for
easy reference. The last message shows how
much he clipped from his Cabinet officers re-
ports. In an adjoining pile are memoranda
furnished by Cabinet officers of work done or
the policy carried out by the departments
The State Department has the largest batch
in this pile, for with the Mexican and Cana
dian difficulties, Mr. Bayard has furnished
the President with enough "copy" to write
four or five messages. The Navy Department
has lot Of interesting data in regard to the
new navy and need for more. The Treasury
Department has, through Assistant Secretary
Fairchild, with some points from Mr.. Manning
put its views on the tariff and the surplus in the
Treasury on many sheets Of paper. The Gero |
nmo campaign material is furnished by the
War Department while Postmaster general
Villas wants, among other things, Fourth AS !
sistant Postmaster general. There are many
letters and papers of Importance from various |
parts of the country and from the departments |
These the President looks over and arranSes
Colonel Lamont of late has taken to iottins>
down dictated portions of the Presidents mes
sage. He has given his experience to the COM
plling and ARRANGING OF the copy and it is said
thar he uses the blue pencil most freely.