Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-10-28
DEAD AS A DOOR-NAlL.


The President still stands on the Line
of His Message: Unconditional Repeal
WAsnrSGToN, Oct 23.-Thc Wash
ington correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal tonight sent thefoi-
lowing special dispatch to that paper
for publication tomorrow morning;
."rhe compromise patched up by the
conference or steering committee on
the democratic side of the senate is as
dead as door-nail. Mr. Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle killed 1t this
morning by stating emphatically that
they would have nothing to do win
it, Senator's 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 we're informed that it did not
meet with the wishes of the president.
| II seems that these gentlemen signed
the compromise paper under misappre,
hension They say that they we're leu
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-Journal correspondent
asked Senator Lindsay to-day how ne
came to sign the paper since ne was
well known to be a staunch supporter
of the administration in its t1ght 1or
unconditional repeal He replied: 'ot
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
i. good reasons for believing that
the president and the secretary
of the treasury would not seriously oD-
| iect to the terms of the agreement IL
= came to me in an apparently reasona-
G bic wav that the concession would De
,. accentable all around. and under these
= circumstances did not see anything
a left for me to do but call in my frlends
- who have been acting with me all
V along in favor of unconditional repeal,
II and in this way reconcile democratic
g differences. How such misunder-
standing could have occurred among
the friends of the administration
perplexes me as it does number
of senators on our side, but shall not
or undertake to solve the mystery. sum-
at cient for me to know, and ! only know
it from the public press, that the ad'
OF ministration is against the compro
ce mise and that without democratic mar
IT. monv at both ends of the avenue nc
i'll compromise can succeed.
ge of the reported administration op
lot position is indeed a fact, and
Nd have no doubt that it is, shall have
lty to accept the situation. | stand wher
ice 7 have ALWAYS stood in favor of the un
led conditional repeal OF the sherman ac'
'g. and to accomplish that end will vot
Th for a cloture rule in the senate II tn
rk- opportunity is afforded me
nd THE foregoing from Senator Lint
nth say is the explanation given by all tn
the administration senators who attache
GUS their names to the compromise. TheI
hey is not ANYBODY here who seems to III
OF derstand just how the eomproml'
Ugh came about All the gentlemen WI
'ad- sipned it firmly and fully believed th'
lets the president and secretary OF Il
'lth treasury knew all about and favored
pro- Now, to the absolute and person
airy knowledge of the Conrier-Journal &C
ght respondent the secretary of the trea
orr urv knew nothing about it until near
Wis 10 o'clock p. III. Saturday. 1t happen
the that Just a few minutes before IN
bers hour the Courier.Journal correspor
IRIS ent asked Secretary Carlisle If the
Miss was anv change in the financial sitr
J. H. tion upon the part of the admlnlstl
lent tion. and he replied NO, sir The
:, OF ministration stands to-day where 1t i
, OF stood all along--on the line of
ian president's message calling congr'
liam torether in favor of the unconditol
ond' repeal of the sherman act
sich' AS turned to leave the room
De- Senator Villas, who had called to
+ OF the secretary Senator Villas, as
$ l." have since been informed, came to
Kos prise the secretary of the compron
paper being circulated. The secreti
told Senator Villas that he kn
.,., nothing about it. never saw IT, ana
far as he was concerned. 1t dld
" Va meet with his approval The news
an.o '.'. of such Importance that the secret
i'u'e thought it advisable to commune
wv its purport at once to the presld,
NC who on that day was not at the WI
ii '', House but at Woodlawn. When
y, ,,, y, information was impaired to the pr
which oeliV nv =, p't ta,. ~, ba WAS concerned.
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