The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-10-26
DEAD AS A DOOR-NAIL.

Democratic Steering Committee RiNed
| by the President and Secretary CarIise--
Tile President StIll Stands on the Limo
OF Ills Messenger Unconditional Repeal.
WAsnINGroS, Oct. 23. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal tonight sent the fol-
lowing special dispatch to that paper
Tor publication Tomorrow morning:
"Thc compromise patched up by the
conference or steering committee on
the democratic side of the senate is as
dead as Il door-nail. Mr.. Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle killed 1t this
morning by stating emphatically that
they would have nothing to do with
". Senators Lindsay, Palmer, Smith
tof New Jersey, Gordon, Gray,
White and Camden known as warm
friends OF the administration, refused
to be parties TO the compromise when
they were Informed that h did not
meet with the wishes of the president.
1t seems that these gentlemen signed
the compromise paper under II misupprc'
hcnsion. They say that they were led
to believe when they attached their
signatures to the document that the
| plan met with the full approval of the
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treasury.
"The Couricr-Journal correspondent
asked Senator Lindsay to-day how he
came to sign the paper since he was
well known to be staunch supporter
of the administration in its fight for
unconditional repeal. He replied: OF
course should not have put my name
TO the letter if ! had not believed il
to be, if not agreeable, at least
not Objectionable to the admins
tration people | thought had
good reasons for brlievipE that
the president and the secretary
of the treasury would not seriously OBJ
ject to the terms of the agreement 1t
came to me in an apparently rcasona-
BILE way that the concession would be
acceptable all around, and under these
circumstances did not see anything
left for me to do but call in my friends
who have been acting with me all
along in favor of unconditional repeal,
and in this way reconcile democratic
differences. How such misunder.
standing could have occurred among
the friends of the administration
perpleXes me as it does a number
of senators on our side. but shall not
undertake to solve the mystery. Sufli
cient for me to know. and | only know
it from the public press, that the adj
ministration is against the compro.
mise and that without democratic har-
mony at both ends of the avenue no
compromise can succeed
"'lf the reported administration op.
l.. t,,.l, Il 4
have no doubt that it is, shall have
to accept the situation. | stand where
| have always stood in favor of the un.
conditional repeal of the sherman act
and to accomplish that end win vote
for cloture rule in the senate if the
opportunity is afforded me-
The foregoing from Senator Lind.
administration senators who attached
their names to the compromise. There
is not any body here who seems to un-
dcrstand just how the compromise
came about. All the gentlemen who
signed it firmly and fully believed that
the president and secretary of the
treasury knew all about and favored it.
Now, to the absolute and persona
knowledge of the Couricr-.Iournal cor
TIC S'tTtluTN III llt JTtuS
ury knew nothing about it until nearly
10 o'clock p. m. saturday. 1t happened
that just a few minutes before that
hour the Courier. Journal correspond.
ent asked Secretary Carlisle if there
was any change in the financial situa.
tion upon the part of the administers
tion, and he replied NO, sir. The ad.
ministration stands to-day where it has
stood all along-on the line of the
presidents message calling congress
together in favor of the unconditional
repeal of the sherman act
AS turned to leave the room met
Senator Villas, who had called to see
the secretary senator Villas. as |
have since been informed. came to ap.
prise the secretary of the compromise
paper being circulated. The secretary
told Senator Villas that he knew
nothing about it, never saw it, and, so
far as he was concerned. it did not
meet with his approval. The news was
of such Importance that the secretary
thought it advisable to communicate
its purport at once to the president,
who on that day was not at the White
House but at Woodlawn. When the
information was impaired to the prcs-
dent he promptly repudiated the whole
scheme so far as he was concerned.
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