The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-24
DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL.
Cleveland and Carlisle Killed the
Compromise Scheme.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23.-The Washing
ton correspondent Of the Louisville Courier
Journal tonight sent the following special
dispatch to that paper for publication to-
morrow morning
''The compromise patched up by the con-
ference or steering committee on the DEM
ocratic side of the Senate Is as dead as a
door nail. Mr. Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle killed it this morning by stating
emphatically that they would have nothing to
do with it. Senator'S Lindsay, Palmer, Smith,
Gordon, Gray, White and Camden, known
as warm friends of the administration, re-
fused to be a party to the compromise when
they were informed that it did not meet
with the wishes of the President. 1t seems
that these gentlemen signed the compromise
paper under a misapprehension They say
that they were led to believe when they at
tached their signatures to the document
that the plan met with the full approval or
the President and Secretary of the Treas
''The correspondent asked Senator Lind
say to-day how he came to sign the paper,
he was well known to be a stanch sup
porter of the administration In its nght Tor
course, should not have put my name to
the letter if 1 had not believed it to be, If
not agreeable, at least not Objectionable to
the administration people. / thought 1 had
good reason for believing that the Presi-
dent and the Secretary Of the Treasury
would not seriously object to the terms of
the agreement. 1t came to me in an ap-
parently reasonable way that the conces-
sion would be acceptable all around and
under the circumstances did not see any
thing left for me to do but fall in with my
friends who had been acting with me all
along in favor of unconditional repeal, and
in this way reconcile all differences. How
such a misunderstanding could have oc-
CURED among the friends of the admins
tration perplexes me. as it does a number
of Senator's on our side, but / shall not un-
deftake to solve the mystery. Sufficient
the public press, that the administration is
against the compromise, and that without
Democratic harmony at both ends of the
avenue no compromise can succeed. If the
reported administration opposition is true,
and L have no doubt that it is, shall have
TO accept the situation / stand where
hay. have always stood. in favor of the uncon-
accomplish that end will vote for
cloture rule In the Senate if the opportunity
is afforded me-
'The foregoing from Senator Lindsay is
the opinion given by all the administration
Senator's who attached their names to the
compromise. There is nobody here who
seems to understand just how the COM
promise which startled the country Satur-
day came about. All of the gentlemen who
signed 1t fully and firmly believed that the
ury knew all about it and favored it. Now,
to the absolute and personal knowledge of
the the correspondent, GORE the Secretary of
it it until f' nearly "ew o'ciock 1Ioclns aDomt m
Saturday. 1t happened that just few
minutes before that hour the correspond
Il
any change in the financial situation upon
the part of the administration, and he re-
piled: No, sir The administration stands
to-day where 1t has stood all along-on the
line Of the Presidents message calling Con-
gress together in favor of the uncondi-
tional repeal of the Sherman act
"As l turned to leave the room I met
Senator Villas, who had called to see the
Secretary. Senator Villas, as I have since
been informed, came to apprise the Sec
retary of the compromise paper being cir
sulated. The Secretary told Senator Villas
that he knew nothing about it; never saw
1T and, so far as he was concerned, 1t did
not meet his approval. The news was of
such Importance that the Secretary thought
1T advisable to communicate its purport at
once to the President who on that day
was not at the White House, but at
Woodley. Whe,-a the information was i'm
parted to the President, he promptly re-
was concerned, saying that the proposed
compromise did not meet with his approval
and If the Senate should pass it the House
ought to reject it."