The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-31
THE WAY TT WAS DONE.
How the Silver Compromise was Kill
ed-The President and the Secretary
OF the Treasury Repudiated the
Scheme and IL Fell Through.

ed-The President and the Secretary
OF the Treasury Repudiated the
Scheme and It Fell Through.
The Washington correspondent Of
the Louisville Courier-Journal gave
the following sketch on the morning
after the silver compromise failed:
The compromise patched up by the
conference or steering committee on
the Democratic side Of the Senate is as
and Secretary Carlisle killed it this
morning by stating emphatically that
they would have nothing to do with it.
Senators Lindsay, Palmer, Smith of
New Jersey, Gordon, Gray, White and
Camden, known as warm friends of the
administration, refused to be party
to the compromise when they were in
formed that 1t did not meet with the
wishes Of the President. 1t seems
that these gentlemen signed tho com
promiseNpa paper under misapprension.
They say they were led to bclieve,
when they attached their signatures
with the full approval of the President
and OF the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Courier-Journal correspondent
asked Senator Lindsay to-day how he
came to sign the paper, as he was we'll
known to be q staunch supporter of the
administration in its fight for uncon-
ditional repeal. He replied: "Of
course should not have put my name
to the letter if had not believed it to
be agreeable, at least not objection
able, to the administration. thought
that had good reason for believing
that the President and the Secretary
would not seriously object to the terms
OF the agreement. 1t came to me in an
apparently reasonable way, that the
concession would be acceptable all
around and under those circumstances
[ did not see anything for me to do but
to fall in with my friends who had been
acting with me all along in favor of un-
conditional repeal, and in this way
reconcile Democratic differences. How
such misunderstanding could have
occurred among the friends of the ad-
ministration perpleXes me, as it does q
number of Senators on our side but |
shall not undertake to solve the mys-
terry. Sufficient for me to know, and
only know it from the public press,
that the administration is against the
compromise ; and without Democratic
harmony at both ends of the avenue,
no compromise can succeed. If the
administration opposition is true, and
/ have no doubt that it is, shall have
to accept the situation. | stand where
l have always stood, in favor of uncon-
ditional repeal Of the Sherman act,
and to accomplish that end | will vote
for cloture rule in the Senate if op-
portunity is afforded me-"
The foregoing from Senator Lindsay
is the explanation given by all the adj
ministration Senators who attached
their names to the compromise.
There is not anybody here who seems
to understand Just how the compro-
mise, which so suddenly startled the
country on Saturday, camo about. All
the gentlemen who signed it fully and
firmly believed that the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury knew all
about it and favored it. Now. to the
absolute and personal knowledge of
the Courier-Journal correspondent. the
nothing about it until nearly o'clock
p. IN. Saturday. 1t happened that, a
few minutes before That hour, the
Courier-Journal correspondent asked
Mr.. Carlisle if there was any change
in the financial situation upon tho part
of the administration. mo. sir; the
administration stands to-day where il
has stood all along, on tho line of the
Presidents message calling Congress
together, in favor of tho unconditional
repeal of the Sherman act"
AS bufHeu W leave inc ToOll, L lueI
Senator Villas, who had called to see
the Secretary. Senator Villas, as l
have since been informed, came to
apprse the Secretary of the compro-
mise paper being circulated. The Sec
retary told Mr.. 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 Importance that the Sec
retary thought it advisable to COM
muuicate its purport at once to the
President, who on that day was 80 80
the White House hut OF VI ney.
Who, iau f.lIormation was impaired
To the President, he promptly repudia-
ted the whole scheme, so far as he was
concerned, saying that the proposed
compromise did not meet with his ap-
proval, and If the Senate should pass it
tho House ought to reject it.