The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-18
THE NEXT MESSAGE,
1t Is Now Being Discussed by thu
President and Cabinet.
BLAINE AN ELEMENT OF DIsCoRn
III the Force Bill and a High Protective
Pollcyare Recommended, He is Downed;
Ii Not, He Triumphs,

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
NEW Y DIRK, Nov. ia WOrlds special
from Washington says: president Harrison
yesterday held an informal conferences with
several members Of his cabinet on the sub-
lect OF MS annual message to Congress,
upon which he is now hard at work. The
present week will witness some earnest.
ana probably, some exciting cabinet con-
ferences. The Presidents advisers as
usual, are having the message read bv sec
lions, and are thus afforded an opportunitv-
In advance, TO indorse or dissent from the
views therein expressed.
MIR. Blaine, originally opposed to the
force Dill, is against it still, and thinks III
ought to die on the Senote table. He dis
courages all talk about committing the
party further to its fortunes. He is like
wise opposed to any reassertion of the
principle OF high protection, as illustrated
Dy the Mckinley bill The President to-
day leans in the opposite direction on both
propositions. He wants the force bill
passed, and is inclined to give it the active
and unqualified support of the administra-
tlon. AS to the Mckinley bill, he stands
0y mat. be sympathizes with Mr. Nc
hlnley,s assertion that the bill was con-
demned without a proper hearing, and he
has hoped, as Mr.. Mckinley seems also to
nave, that the developments of the next
Two years Will put an improved face on the
matter These facts make it plain enough
that the President and his premier are rap
IDLY approaching a point seriously affecting
tnelr own and their party's fortunes II is
no secret here that the Presidents friends
arc deuouncing Mr.. Blaine warmly now.
Ihey regard him as a traitor in the camp
oent only upon his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Ihey want him driven out of office and as
the situation now appears, a demand to
that erect may shortly be made. They
have been prodding the President on the
subject ever since Mr.. Blaine's merciless
criticism or the Mckinley bill was first
made public. The Interpretation given to
tnat expression of opinion was that Mr..
Blaine was willing to help the democracy
win the coming fight in order that
his own views about reciprocity, which
must then come in for separate examina-
ton, might dominate party platforms in
the presidential year. Blaine remains
mute, or when speaking at all only adds to
the belief that he was from the outset one
OF the most extreme aud uncompromising
opponents of the Mckinley tariff bill
1T is because the Presidents message
must throw much light on this controversy
that such great interest attaches to it. If
the passage of the force bill is advanced In
1t and the principle of protection as illus
trated by the Mckinley bill is reasserted.
then Mr.. Blaine will have been turned
down But If the message should be one
OF temporization and explanation, then Mr..
Blaine Will have triumphed, and having
the PRESIDENT completely in his power, it
VIII tax the patience of the country to wait
and see what he will further do with hirnn