The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-09
The President Elect Announces Through One
Of His Organs that the Tariff Plank of
the Platform Will Be Repudiated.
There Will Not Be an Extra Session of
Congress, Either, if He Can Avoid 1t.
bis Decree Causes Sensation Among Demo-
They Will Oppose Him at Every Point


Cleveland Announces Indirectly that the
Democratic Platform Will BE Ignored.
specia, to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.-The first definite
authority for the statement that no extra
session of the next Congress will be called
before next September or October
was obtained to-day by your correspond
ent from leading Democratic member of
the House. This statement was confirmed
by Senators Mills and German. The Demo-
cratic leaders in both branches of Congress
have been In q great deal of doubt as tn
this policy. because of the silence of their
oracle, Mr.. Cleveland. The oracle has at
last spoken.
After reading the reports as to the condi.
ton of the treasury. the President-elect
has decided that the question OF the con-
struction of the new tariff bill can be best
referred to q committee Jointly composed
of members of the Senate and Of the House.
who Will be mem bers of the next Congress-
This Joint committee will be appointed I'M
der authority of q special resolution, and
will begin its work of framing new tariff
gress, on March 4. The members of this
yet been selected. The senatorial members
have already been decided upon, with the
approval of Mr. Cleveland. The five Sem
ators who will help to frame the new tariff
hill are Messrs. Carlisle of kentucky. Mills
of Texas, Vest of Missouri, German of
Maryland, and Mcpherson of New Jersey.
The selections are interesting because they
fail to disclose any definite policy as to tho
tariff by the Democratic managers. The
names of Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Mills will be
recognized as those of extreme free-traders.
Mr.. German and Mr.. Mcpherson will be
recognized as protectionist Democrats.
while Mr.. Vest hangs. like Mohsmmed's
coffin. suspended between the two theories.
The positive announcement that there
will be no immediate extra session of Con-
gress, while made upon the highest author
ity. is, of course. subject to conditions
which may or may not develop during the
next three months. For instance, some of
the more radical Democrats are soheming.
with the assistance of the third party men
to force an extra session by killing one of
the great appropriation bills. as has al
ready. been explained In these dispatches.
by means of an obnoxious leg islative rider
bill.
THE ANTI-CLEvELAND CABAL.
The true political reason for referring the
tariff question to q joint committee, with
authority to sit during the coming summer,
Jis to allow time to lessen the howl of
the free traders for an Immediate and
radical revision of the tariff, and TO
thwart the ambition of Speaker Crisp and
of the men behind him, such as Senators
Hill. Brice and German, again to organize
the House in their own interest Curious
ly enough, ex-Secretary Whitney is re-
gsrded as involved In this anti Cleveland
cabal. They may be in error. but it is q
fact that many Democratic members of
Congress are just now sngrily asking
whether Mr.. Cleveland or Mr.. Whitney has
been elected to the presidency. In fact, the
leading Democrats in WASHINGTON are
Quarreling between themselves in part be-
cause of Mr.. Cleveland's obstinate silence.
Evidences are coming to the surface here
every day that MIR. Cleveland will not be
fully established in the White House be-
fore he will find himself In q war of exter-
mination with not only his party princi.
pies, but individual members of his party
success. Mr.. Cleveland has unquestion-
ably arrived at the firm belief that his re-
cent nomination. made against the protests
of the leaders of his party. and his election.
which was the result OF Vaccinations IN
volving all the side parties and issues
IN existence, were inevitable results, and
he does not intend to be under the least OBJ
legations to either individual members of
] his party or the party as an organization.
In fact, he is just now breaking the intelli-
gence to the body of the Democratic party
that he, like Louis XIV, who said he was
the state, is the Democratic party, and
greater than the voters who compose 1t.
The latest evidences of Mr.. Clevelands
and to consult only his own ideas in run.
ming the government during the next
four years, attracted the attention
of public men In both policical
parties at the Capitol to-day in the
form of an editorial in yesterdays Pbila-
delphia Ledger upon the subject Of Pres
ident Harrison's message to Congress The
article was written by Mr.. l.. Clarke Davis,
the editor of the Ledger. who recently
spent some days with the President-elect
cunning for duck on tho waters about Hog
island. The editorial ls. beyond the least
doubt, an inspiration from Mr.. Cleveland.
and is said to express his own views of
President Harrison's message and his
own intentions reg ardinR the policy which
will begin at the executive mansion next
March. The inspired editorial in the
Ledger. in q word, repudiates the platform
adopted by the Democratic party at Chicago
last June and announces determination
upon the part of Mr.. Cleveland not to re-
form the tariff upon the lines promised by
the party during the recent campaign. 1t
also. in q word. announces that Mr. Cleve-
land, and not the party to which he is sup
posed to belong, is TO be President. The
statements PROMULGATED by Mr.. Cleveland,
through his personal friends. caused great
surprise in some quarters to-day. and were
the topic of much comment.
HIS PLATFORM REPrDIATED.
In referring to President Harrison's state
ment that we must assume. as q conse-
quence of the recent election, that mo
duty is to be higher because the increase
will keep open an American mill or keep mp