Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-08-24

Caffery, of Louisiana, Gibson and
German, of Maryland; Murphy of
New York; Roach of n. Dakota.
and Smith of New Jersey.
Senator Sherman took the floor
after the adoption of the Murphy
resolution to make a few remarks,
which he correctly characterized as
"plaintalk.' He told the demo
Gratis of their numerous blunders
which included from so to 100 i'm
portant errors in the tariff bill, now
in the hands of Mr.. Cleveland, one
of which that for the free entl v
of alcohol used in the artS-would
if uncorrected, cost the govern
ment from twenty to thirty mil
lions of dollars in lost revenue an
nually. He also had sharp word
or two to say about the unusual
extent to which the encroachmen:s
of the executive upon the legisla-
tive branches of the government
had been pushed during the pres
ent session of Congress, and in
conclusion expressed his belief
that the best thing to be done was
to 90 home and await the verdict
of the voters before further med
ding with the tariff. TO show that
he was in earnest Mr.. Sherman has
himself gone home not to return
until the opening of the next ses-
sion of Congress.
While it is generally regarded
as certain that Mr.. Cleveland is
going to swallow his big dish of
crow and allow the Senate tariff
bill, which he so roundlv abused
in the Wilson letter, to become a
law, either with or without his
signature, there are men-promi-
nent men, tOo-whO believe that
he is still in doubt, and that his
present visit to Buzzards Bay was
not because of his illness, but be-
cause he could better hold secret
conference there with certain in
dividuals than he could at the
White House, and that those con-
ferences will settle whether the bill
shall be allowed to become a law
or be vetoed. These men say
further that Secretary Carlisle is
fully committed to the Senate bill
and has been ever since he wrote
its sugar schedule, and that his
actions, in sending copies of the
bill to all collectors of customs
and otherwise preparing to execute
the provisions of the new law, is
merely a shrewd move to allow the
public to suppose that the admins
tration accepts the bill and thus to
aid in coercing Mr.. Cleveland into
allowing it to become a law.
Congress can do nothing more
for lack of a quorum in both
branches, but it will be kept in
session until next Monday, unless
Mr.. Cleveland acts upon the tariff
bill before then, and it may even
then have trouble to adjourn if
some member takes a notion to
raise the point of "no quorum
when the motion is made. How.
ever, it is probable that enough of
the members might be got to re-
turn for the purpose of making a
quorum to adjourn when it can be
done without jeopardizing the tariff
bill.
Nothing but the need of the
$4,000 year which the position
pays keeps Secretary Carlisle il
the Cabinet" This assertion was
made by a personal friend of Secre-
tary Carlisle's-a Kentuckian-
and it is uot surprising to those
who know anything about the in
side history of this administration.
Mr.. Carlisle has known for some
time tina the failure of the fina-
cial policy, or rather the lack of
policy, of the administra-
ton has killed his political future,
and he feels doubly sore because
he has not been allowed to be
more than a clerk to Mr.. c.
He thinks that things would
have been better had he been al
lowed to control affairs connected
with his department, as he expect
I'd he would be when he left the
Senate, where he could have re-
mained as long as Kentucky could
elect a democratic legislature, to