Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-12-15
WASHINGTON. Dec. II, 1898,
IT Regular Correspondent

oms OF sottenlng OF the brain.
The man who spoke those words
vas one of the few administration
and he was referring to
Mr.. Cleveland whom he had just
seen. Whether the Senator WAS
light in his diagnosis your CORES
pondent does not pretend to say,
but it Is becoming evident that
Mr.. Cleveland's friends think
there is something the matter
with him. His actions have of
late certainly been queer. He is
cross and almost in
sulting to the few Senators and
representatives he condescends to
see at all, and when they after
wards get together aud compare
uotes they find that he is change
able and inconsistent es we'll. Ev-
cry discriminating person who
has taken the trouble to compare
the style of the literary work np-
on his annual message with that
of his messages during his first
administration must have discov-
cred great difference in them.
This may of course, be largely
owing to the fact that Dan La
mont finds the duties OF Deputy
President 80 exactlng that he has
no time left to assist in the pre-
paration of executive documents.
Be that as it may, Mr.. Cleveland 8
friends he sees no one else, ex-
cept in public way-are certain
ly showing among themselves un-
easiness about his mental condl-
ton.
The democrats in the House are
acting more like q lot of badly de-
moralized school boys than states
men. They promised that the new
tariff bill should be reported to
the House on the first day of the
session, and the bill has not yet
been reported, although Mr. Will
son promises that 1t shall be this
week. The Democrats Of the Ways
and Means committee have al
ready made dozens of minor
changes in the tariff bill, thus
acknowledging that it was not
properly considered before it was
made public. They are now
squabbling among themselves
about submitting the bill to a
caucus before it is reported, and
Democrats are openly saying that
they will not vote for the bill
unless certain industries in their
districts are protected. The
House committee on banking and
currency, which has been wrest-
ling with that plank of the Chica-
go platform, which promised the
repeal of the tax on banking and
currency, a plank by the way that
Mr.. Cleveland absolutely ignored
in his message, has tfrivcd at no
conclusion, although its chairman
the much sat upon Springer, of
llllnois-has made public hodge
podge of absurdities that could
not possibly be carried into effect,
even If they were enacted, show
ing what alleged PROCESS the COM
mittee has made.
The Democratic members of the
Ways and Means committee are
at dsgger's points concerning the
items that are to be included IN
the internal revenue bill, which
ought to have been ready slmul-
tsneously with the Cleveland ta-
riff bill. A majority of them fay
or 6 personal income tax, but they
hesitate about Incorporating it in
he bill because of Mr.. Cleve
lands premature announcement,
in his message, that the com nit
tee had agreed to tax the profits of
corporations only. Meanwhile
the holiday recess is in sight aDd
nothing has been accomplished.
In obedience to the demand OF
the Senate resolution passed last
week all of the Hawaiian docu-
ments will this week be sent to the
Senate.
"Like master like man. Secre-
tary Carlisle has refused the re-
quest made by officials of the G
A. z. that they be allowed to SO
licit contributions in the Treas
ary for Christmas dinner to the
INDECENT soldiers of this depart
ment.
The southern war claimants
will have snap If the bill which
has been fayorably reported from
the judiciary committee of the
House ever becomes law. The
bill provides for the repeal of laws
making personal disloyalty bar
to claims against the government
for property destroyed during the
rebellion, and gives ell claimants
whose cases were reason of dis
loyslt7 thrown out of the
Court of Claims the right to re
ylve their claims and to have the
same right and privileges in pros
ecuting them that would be ex-
tended to the msn always 10y
al to the government. Any per-
son could recognize the jobbery
in this bill, even if the southern
lobby, headed by ex-congressmsn