The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-12-16
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ETATLOuAG CAPITAL NOTES 20
speoiai TO THE GHAPnro.
The total RECEIPTS of the govern [
ment to-day were as follows: Internal l
Revenue, S7lI,755; Customs, SOL /
PIG. II
TIE am UAL MESSAGE
The annual message OF President
Harrison to congress was not received !
with any special manifestation OF mites
est in either the. senate, OF the house
Upon every senator's desk q Esatiy
printed copy Of 5h5 E1essaEe epp5aleEI
for perusal, but if the appeaI Wasl
granted in any instance, the reading
was done in the cloak room, to which
the piIgrimages were many and fno-i
quent. The president attempts 10
prove in his message that during the
protective and almost exclusively re-
| publican era of thirty-twO years
the growth and prosperity of the coun-
/ Try is without a parallel in the history
/ of nations. OF course, it was expected
| that the president would stand boldly
up for the principles through which lac
was once elevated to the chief magis-
tracy and once defeated, but it is rsa-
sonabIe to suppose that much Of ths
/ argument which he produces would
never have been written mad the ne
publican party been successful in the
late election, for in that case the
republican cause would not need "a
champion. ''Fhe friends OF the pro
uectfve system he says, .swIth uudi-
minished confidence in the principles
they have advocated, viii await the
result of the new experiment"
CAPITOL COMMENTS ON THE MESSAGE.
The general democratic comment on
the message is that MIR. Harrison seems
to be hurt worse by the election than
they thought he would be, and the
radical tariff reformers say that they
are very glad that he has so forCshIIig
expressed himself as to compel Li.
party to continue to occupy the sxtrems
! position on the tariff and force biz
e which they occupied during the cam
paign. The republicans, however
, applaud the sentiments of the messag,
g throughout. and the few who have boeI
q a little weak in the knees are stifeuet
t up by it,
AFTER TIE SENATE
The conference Of democratic sena
tors, which was held yesterday after
- noon, lasted nearly two hours and wa
u attended by every member in the city
u The election Of senators from MOntan
and Wyoming where the standing O
70 the Legislatures was in doubt was Tia
. principal topic of discussion. 1t Wa
81 determined to do all that could b
done to aid in bringing about til
B. choice of democratic senators tEoI
ST those states, and Chairman GoEma
I'd was authorized to appoint commits
y of three senators to act in AN advisor
capacity to the Legislatures of thOs
If states in the conduct of the contest
m and election of the senators. . FL,
~ THE NEXT sPEAzERsHIP.
N Representative breckenridge, of a
=, kansas, said to a reporter of the Nj
of tiOilaI News Association, with Telatio
IA to the talk of opposition to the re-eIs
A ton OF Mr.. Crisp to the spsakership
he the house Representative, that the
n has been no formal conference yet
or those opposed to the present organic
he ton of the house. s'There are, as yl
a. know he said, 'sa number of gentI
tn men in the house. opposed to the poll
~. of the present organization. TIN
,ie have been talking over the matter il
aft formally Tor some time and it appea
ch to be developing more definitely no
of L do not understand that it is yet d
cidsd that a contest will be made, b
val there Is a disposition that way, and
IN it develops sufficiently, I suppose the
On viii be "a conference to settle what
~ to be done"
mill OEE-CEST POSTAGE
,ns The postmaster-geuers in his aH1.l
ne report says: t'in my report OF "a "a