Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-03
OPINIONS OF THE MESSAGE
1t Was Not Such Document as Was Gen.
orally Expected.
His Financial Recommendations
Please Some and Disgust Others
The Tariff Changes Advised.

The early part Of the session in both
houses consisted In nothing but formal
roll call and resolutions. The Senate took
a recess until / 80. The House. which took
a shorter recess, had to extend it for flf-
teen minutes upon reassembling at
oclock. A very general interest was man.
ifested in the Presidents message on &C
count of the expectation that he would
discuss financial questions at some length,
and more than usual number of the
members waited through the recess to
hear the message read. There was evil
IDENTIFY a feeling of disappointment when
the clerk began reading u message con-
structed on the old lines. summarizing the
operations of all the departments and dis
cussing i'll a general manner our rela-
tionS with the various foreign countries.
1t had been expected that his message
would be one similar to the famous tarifr
message, dealing exclusively with one
question, that of finance. They were,
therefore, surprised, and lost interest when
so much of dry detail was gone into in
the early part of the message.
The Financial Features.
When finally the financial features of the
message were reached, general attention
was given to the reading. This was rec
ognized as the principal feature of the
message, but in the treatment of the sub
ject 1t was not made as conspicuous in
scare heads as Is Mr.. Cleveland's custom
when dealing with questions which he de-
sireS to call especially to attention. There
was no surprise in the message at any
point, except it's surprising dullness. When
the financial plan with Mr.. Carlisle was
discussed. il was found to contain nothing
of Importance which had not already been
anticipated in newspaper paragraphs for
the past three or four weeks.
silver Men Disgusted.
The silver men, who had got some sort
of an idea in their heads that Mr.. Cleve-
land might say something to indicate a
more friendly disposition toward the white
metal, were immensely disgusted at his
close adherence to what is known as the
Baltimore plan. and 1T was made evident
at once that his recommendations would
not in any way appeal to the radical ele-
ment of the democratic party. The so-call-
ed sound money men among the democrats
applauded the recommendations, pronounc-
ing them wise and statesmanlike The re-
publicans had very little to say on the
subject. AS the representatives of sound
money, they were hardly disposed to take
their cue from democratic President rep
resehting but a minority sentiment in his
own party, and they showed a disposition
to take time for consideration before dis
cussing Mr. Cleveland's suggestions.
The Tariff RccOmme dntiOns.
In repeating his recommendation for free
coal and free iron ore Mr.. Cleveland did
only what was expected of him In view
of his proverbial tenacity. 1t was not ex-
pected however. that he would venture in
to a discussion of the sugar question, even
to the extent of a paragraph. His recon-
mendation that the dfferential duty in
favor Of refined sugar be repealed was one
of the few things gratifying to the radi-
Gals in his party. They Will be very ready
dation. His discussion of the bond ques-
ton, especially that part wherein he
planes Congress for failing to give their
approval for an issue of low interest bonds,
fell upon unwilling and offended ears. The
long -winded, dull routine character Of the
message was very generally commented
upon.