Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-07-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(oUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

authority for Mr.. Cleveland to
have written that letter and it only
aggravated the case when he com
PEELED Mr.. Wilson to read it as
part of his speech on the floor of
the House: but there is no denying
that the letter has had at least
partially, the effect twas intended
to have. 1t has made it certain
that the II ouse will never agree to
the Senate amendments to the
tariff bill, because, as Senator Hill
significantly remarked, such agree
ment would merely result in get
ting the bill vetoed. 1t has had
another effect, however, which it
is certain was neither expected nor
intended by its writer. 1t has
wrought a sufficient number of
democratic Senators to control the
Senate. declaring that they would
refuse to vote to accept any con-
ference report that puts upon the
free list any article upon which
the Senate amendments placed a
duty.
That is just the way the thing
stands at this writing. The House
will not accept the Senate bill, and
the Sanate will not accept the
House bill. Now the only thing
that can take place must involve
the surrender of either the House
or the Senate. 1t can be surmised
without any great risk of making
a mistake, that Mr.. Cleveland will
be able to prevent any surrender
on the part of the House, and as
the democratic Senators who add
ed the protection amendments to
the bill did so because of pressure
from the states they represent, it
would seem that they might be
counted upon to stand firm even if
they were not strengthened by
their hatred of Mr.. Cleveland, not
only because of the insulting man
ner in which he refers to them in
his letter, but also because of the
manner in which he tried to boss
his party in Congress-aye, and
succeeded, too--from the day on
which be became President. Still,
if there is a break in the lines of
either side it is believed that it
will be on the part of the Senate.
The republicans are playing the
part of onlookers at the contest.
but they are by no means disinter-
eSted. On the contrary, they arc
so much interested that Senate
Aldrich has asked all impaired re
publican Senators to be on hanG
and to remain within call unt!
the tariff is in some way dispose
of. The republicans wish to ac-
complish one of two things-pre-
vent any tariff legislation, if that
can be done; otherwise to aid in
getting as many of the Senate
amendments as possible in the
bill that finally gets through.
Mr.. Cleveland's alleged argu-
ments in favor of the sugar trust
and OF the Whitney Nova Scotia
coal syndicate, in which all the
world knows the money of his
closest personal and political
friends is heavily invested, have
greatly weakened his position and
added to the chances for MONACO
ton on the tariff bill. Everybody
knows that Mr.. Cleveland friends
put their money into tIlat coal cyn-
dicate solely because he assured
them that free coal was a certainty.
and, although ii is not absolutely
known, there are excellent reasons
for the belief that other friends OF
his have obtained options On GER
tain Cuban iron mines upon as
surances that iron ore was also TO
be free.
Did some democratic Senators
commit perjury when they Swore
that they had never purchased
stock in the sugar trust. The di-
rect charge has been made that
they did, and the Senate committee
has reopened the investigation and
is again taking testimony. 1t is
keeping the testimony very dark,
too, members of the committee
claiming to be afraid that its publ