The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-11-02
DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL. !"
COMPROMISE KILLED BY CLEVELAND
AND cARLlsLE.S.

. A'o ifesldent and the secratary ,f,h.
Treasury Kepudlate the. Scheme and
stand Firm for uncond laonsl, Repeal. 1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s..-The Wash. !.
lnSton correspondent of the Iouisv;IIa
COURIER ournal tonight sent the follow.
ing special dispatch to that paper For
puOilcatloa tomorrow morning. So
Ihe compromise patched up bytha
conference or steering committee on
the Democratic side 0! the Senate Is as
dead as door nail. Mr., Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle killed It this
morning by stating cmphatically that J;
they would have nothing to do with it.
Senators Lindsay, Palmer, Smith ofNew
Jersey, Gordon, Gray White and Cam
den, known as warm friends of the ad.
mlnlstration, refused to be q, party to the
compromise when they wete Informed
that 1T did not meet with the wishes of
the President. 1t seems that these
gentlemen signed the compromise paper
under misapprehension. They say
they were led to believe, when. they at.
tached their signatures to the document.
that the plan met with the tul approval
of the President and Of the Secretary of
the Treasury. - - ~ =
The Courier j Journal correspondent
asked Senator Lindsay today how he
came to sign the paper, as he was we'll
nnown to be staunch supporter of
The administration in its fight, for un.
conditional repeal. He replied s,Of
course should not have pnt my name
to the letter if L had not believed IL TO.
be agreeable, at least not Objectionable,
to the administration. thought thatT
had good reason for believing that the
President and the Secretary would not
seriously object to the terms f..the
agreement. 1t came to me in an appa.
rcntly reasonable way, that. the con-.
cession would be acceptable all around
and under these circumstances I did
not see anything Tor me Ito do but to
tall in with my friends who hail been
acting with me all alOn, ucfavor Of llu-
conditional repeal aud in this way recon.
cl'c Democratic differences: How such q
misunderstanding could have occurred
amOLg The friends of the administration
perpleXes me, as 1t d ,es a number Of
Senators on our side; but Shall nos:un.
dcrlake TO solve the mystery. Sufficient
Tor mo TO know, and only know it from
the public press, that the administration
y aE&!nst the compromise; and Without
Democratic harmony at both ends oil
Ihe avenue no cOmprGmlse' can sue.
cced. Ii The admlnistratiO ion, 5Cnposltion
Is truc, and L have no doubfthat iii Is.
| shall have TO accept the sitlaG0n.s i
stand where | have always stoodssS la
favor of the unconditional repeal Of the
Sherman act, and to accomplish that
end will vote tor a cloiure rule In the
Senate if opportunity ls afford ~ aae, y H. T.,
The foregoing from Sen atois LlndsaY
ls the explanation given byEail biie adj
ml1istratiOn Senators who attached their,
names TO the compromise. F$SIssSt Sgsss e {,
There ls not anybody here's Who;s8enas
to understand just how the compromise
which 80 suddenly startled the Country
Saturday came about. All the eentle.,
men who signed it fully and firmly be !
lieved that the President and The Saere..
tary of tho Treasury knew all. about it
and favored it. Now, to the .ahsoldt6
and personal knowledg &c of theEoUrier
Journal correspondent, the S5crstRry; Of
the Treasury knew nothing about it -Mn.f.
Til nearly O'Clock p. n. Saturday 1t
happened that, few minutes" before
that hour, the Courier Journal CORE.
oP''i 'SiiU oShCu NIL. CtrllSlo II Gu6E0 WAS
any change in the financial situation up.
on the part of the Administrations t'No
sit; the administration stands today
where it has sto ID all along, on the Hnl
OF the Presidents message calling Con.
gress together, 10 favor of the uncondi.
tlonal repeal of the Sherman act."'
AS L turned to leave the room, T met,
Senator Villas, who had called to see
the Secretary. Senator Villas, as I 'have
since been informed, came to apprise
the Secre ary of tho compromise paper
beng circulated. The Secretary told
MIR. Villas that he knew nothing about
it, and never saw it, and, so. far as, he
was concerned, it did not meet with! his
approval. The news was Of such irn,.
portance that the Secretary thought it
advisable to communicate it's purport at
once to the President, who onthat day
was not at the White House, but at
Woodley. &t as,aaS<
When tho Information was impartial
TO the Pfesi lent, he promptly repudiat-
cd the whole scheme, so far aS ha was
concerned, saying that the nroposed
compromise did not meet w
proYal, and If the Senate sho
the House ought to reject IT..