Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-08-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(oUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE }
Washington July 80, 1894.

Washington July 80, 1894.
The free traders publicly buster
quite as loudly as they did week
ago, as to the House conferees hold
ing out for free raw materials until
the Senators are compelled Ia sur
render, but their private talk and
acting tells another story. Mr..
Cleveland has discovered that he
could not dictate to the democrat
ic Senators in matters affecting
the welfare of thousands of citizens
of the states they represent, and
he is said to deeply regret that he
allowed the advice of Don Dickin-
son, the Michigan rainbow chaser,
to outweigh that of Secretary Car
Isle, who advised him not to send
that letter. He hasn't changed his
mind about free coal for the bene-
fit of the Whitney syndicate: free
iron for the Carnegie crowd, and
protection for the sugar trust. bur
he has found out that he went the
wrong way to get this unique
combination of tariff reform He
wants them badly as ever, ,and some
say he is willing to see all tariff
legislation fail rather than not to
get them, but he regrets having
jumped ON those who know how
and do not hesitate to fight back
Although the conferees held
their first recorded meeting to-day
since the bill was, on Friday last,
sent back to conference without
instructions by the Senate, the
democratic confereeSs pent all
day Saturday and Sunday in
trying to patch up the diff
ferenceS between the House and
Senate, but as no satisfactory
answer has yet been found to the
ultimatum of the .stake
the bill as it is or you'll get moth
ing the status is unchanged.
Some of the Shrewdest observers
are convinced that victory for
the Senate bill is assured, and that
the time OF the democratic bosses
is now principally taken up with
arranging series of more or less
confusing changes in the bill,
which shall make it seem that con
eeSSlonS were made on both sides,
or as one man puts it: "fnding a
soft place for Cleveland to fall on. ,
The House conferees are indiyid-
ually willing to hold out against
the Senate, but the democrats of
the House generally are not will
ling to keep up the fight, and they
have plainly shown their disincli-
nation to fight Mr.. Cleveland S
battle for him.
Mr.. Cleveland seems to have
little difficulty in controlling the
actions of democratic members of
the House. Only the other day
the democratic members of the
House committee on Commerce
were instigating upon the necessi-
ty for the adoption of the resoiu-
ton authorizing that committee to
make an investigation of the re-
cent strikes, because they did not
consider the law under which Mr..
Cleveland appointed Investigating
Commission board enough to fur
nish the necessary authority. Mr.
Cleveland gave the chairman of
that committee hint that he
thought one investigation enough,
and straightway the democrats on
the committee began to talk about
the clashing that would be caused
by two investigations and to indi-
cate very plainly that the resolu-
ton was dead. Mr.. Cleveland
would doubtless be willing to pay
largely for recipe that would en-
able him to cont troll the Senators as
easily.
No finer bit of sarcasm was ever
got off on the floor of the Senate.
than when Senator Henderson
sent fan to Senator Villas, just
before his name was called on the
vote to instruct the Senate confer
eeS to recede from the differential
duty on refined sugar, to hide his
face while he voted against a mo-
ton he had originally made him
self and had only withdrawn after
two lengthy and exciting democrat