The Columbus journal., 1893-12-20

Of tho brain" Theman Who spokethose
words VA one Of the few sdministrstion
senators, and he Was referring to hr.
Cleveland whom he had just seen.
Whistler the senator was right in his
diagnosis your correspondent does not
prstend to say, but it IL becoming evi-
dent that Nh. Oeveland's friends think
there IL something the matter with him.
His actions have Of late certainly been
queer. Hei u impatient, cross and almost
insulting to the few senator's and repre-
sentatives he c~ondescends to Pee at all,
and when they afterwards get together
and compare notes they find that he is
changeable and inconsistent as we'll.
Every discriminating person who has
taken the trouble to compare the style
Of the literary work upon his annual
message with that Of his messages dur
ing his first administration must have
discovered q great difference in them
This may, Of course, be largely owing to
the fact that Dan Lamont finds the
duties Of deputy president 80 ~exacting
that he has no time left to assist in the
preparation of executive documents. Be
that as it may, MI. Cleveland's friends
he sees no one else, except in q public
wsy-are certainly showing among them
selves uneasiness about his mental con-
ditiOn.
The democrats in the house are acting
more like q lot Of badly demoralizsd
school boys than statesmen. They prom
ised 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.. Wilson promises
that it shall be this week. The demo-
Gratis Of the ways and means committee
have already made dozens Of minor
changes in the tariff bill. thus acknowl-
edging that it was not properly consid-
cred before it was made public. They
are now squabbling among themselves
about submitting the bill to q 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 com.
mittee on banking and currency, which
has been wrestling with that plank of
the Chicago platform, which promised
the repeal of the tax on state bank cur
rency, a plank, by the way, that Mr..
Cleveland absolutely ignored in his mes
sage, has arrived at no conclusion,
although it's chairman-the much sat
upon Springer. of nlinois,-has made
public q hodge-pOdge of absurdities that
could not possibly be carried into effect,
even If they were enacted, showing what
alleged progress the committee has made.
The democratic members of the ways
and mean committee are at daggers
points concerning the items that are to
be included in the internal revenue bill,
which ought to have been ready stimuli
taneously with the Cleveland tariff bill.
A majority OF them favor a personal in
come tax, but they hesitate about incor-
porating it in the bill because OF MI.
Cleveland's premature announcement in
his message, that the committee had
agreed to tax the profits of corporations
only. Meanwhile the holiday recess is in
sight and nothing has been accomplished.
In obedience to the demand of the
senate resolution passed last week all
the Hawaiian documents will this week
be sent to the senate.
Like master, like man." Secretary
Carlisle has refused the request madeb by
| officials of the G. A. r. that they be
allowed to solicit contributions in the
treasury for a Christmas dinner to the
INDECENT soldiers Of this department.
The southern wal claimants will have
q snap il the bill which has been favora-
bly, reported from the judiciary com-
mittee Of the house ever becomes a law.
The bill provides for the repeal Of all
laws making personal ~disloyalty during
the rebellion, and gives all claimants
whose cases were by reason Of their dis.
loyalty thrown out Of the court of claims
the right to revive their claims and to
have the same rights and privileges in
prosecuting them that would be extend
ed to the man who was always loyal to
the government Any person could rec
ognize the jobbery in this bill, ven if
the southern lobby, headed by Exon
gresham Hemphill, of South Carolina,
were less conspicuous in its advocacy.
That "there are millions in it" If it al
be made a law, is apparent to all. Dem
ocratic reform will come high, but it will
not last long.
The democrats from the south voted
almost solidly against the bankruptcy
bill which was last week defeated in the
house. It remains to be seen how they
will treat the voluntary bankruptcy bill,
fathered by representative Bailey, of
Texas, which that gentleman will en-
deavor to push to the front this week.
IT has been publicly stated by q well
known gentleman of Cleveland, and wide
ly published, that the pulp mills, a large
and powerful industrial organization in
the state OF New York, are owned by W.
G. Whitney, Colonel Lamont and other
leading democratic capitalists, the 9TH
ers including President Cleveland.
These wood pulp mills manufacture the
material which enters into the produc-
ton OF most Of the printing paper used
in the United States. In this connec-
ton it is noticed that the Wilson tariff
bill provides a duty Of 10 per cent on
wood pulp. But this is not all, nor is it
the most significant or suggestive fea-
tura. The duty on sulphuric acid and
other chemicals used in the manufacture
OF wood pulp has been largely reduced
and some Of the articles placed on the
free list. We refrain at this time from
further comment, but seriously ask, is
this so?ICincinnati Commercial.