Huntsville gazette., 1893-10-28
DEAD AS A DooR-NAIL.
The Compromise Patched Up BY the Senate
democratic Steering Committee Killed
by the President and Secretary Carlisle
The President Still Stands on the Line
OF His Message: Unconditional Repeal

| Democratic Steering Committee Killed
by the President and Secretary Carlisle
The President StiIl Stands the Line
of His Message: Unconditional Repeal.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The Wash
1ngton correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal tonight sent the fol-
lowing special dispatch to that paper
for publication tomorrow morning:
| The compromise patched up by the
conference or steering committee on
the democratic side of the senate is as
dead as a door-nail. Mr.. Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle killed 1t 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 parties 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 misappre
| hension. 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
| president and the secretary of the
| treasury.
THE Courier ournal 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 it
to be, if not agreeable, at least
| not Objectionable to the admins
| tration people. / thought | had
good reasons for believing 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 reasona-
BILE way that the concession would be
acceptable all around, and under these
| circumstances l 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 a 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. Suffi'
| cient for me to know, and | only know
| it from the public press, that the ad-
I ministration is against the compro-
mise and that without democratic har-
| mony at both ends Of the avenue no
| compromise can succeed.
off the reported administration op-
| position is indeed fact, and
have no doubt that it is, i 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 | will vote
| for cloture rule in the senate if the
| opportunity is afforded me-.
"The foregoing from Senator Lind
| say is the explanation given by all the
| administration senators who attached
| their names to the compromise. There
| is not anybody here who seems to un,
derstand just how the compromise
came about All the gentlemen who
| signed it firmly and fully believed that
| the president and secretary of this
| treasury knew all about and favored it.
Now, to the absolute and personal
| knowledge of the Courier-J ournal cor.
respondent, the secretary of the treas.
| ury knew nothing about it until nearly
! 10 o'clock p. m. Saturday. 1t happened
| that just few minutes before that
| hour the Courier-J Journal correspond.
ent asked Secretary Carlisle if there
| was any change in the financial situa-
| tion upon the part of the administra-
| tion, and he replied: No, sir. The adj
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 presi-
dent he promptly repudiated the whole
| scheme so far as he was concerned.
Welsh Tin-Plate Production and the
| American Tariff.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-The state de-
| partment has received from Mr..
Anthony Howells, United States con-
sui at Cardiff, Wales, statement pre-
pared by the Cardiff board of trade
showing the exports of tin plates and
sheets from the United Kingdom dur
| ing the nine months ended September
80, 1898, which is interesting in view of
the controversy over the effects of the
| tin-plate clause of the Mckinley tariff
| bill The statement shows that dur
! ing the period named 212,241 tons of
the material, valued at 60, 7ss, ,5s5, were
shipped to the United States against
2l4,527 tons, valued at 81, S67, ,787, in
/ 1909 and oS4 316 tons valued at "a 672 =