The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09
Carlisle 5 Dismissal De-
manded>
Wall Street Kings Try to Run
Over Cleveland Once too
Often.


speak, and is prepared to show fight
and a lot of it. His head is down
aud his horns are this time aimed at
his old Wall Street banker allies.
2ierpont Morgan aud H I. Lanler,
two Of the syndicate of bankers who
took the recent issue Of bonds. are
the meu who waved the red flag in
the face of the white house bull, and
now the bull in question is ready to
charge upon old-t'me friends.
Last Saturday Morgan and Lanier
came over to Washington in private
car in which they remained during
their stay in order to prevent their
visit being known, except while they
were at the white house. The bank
res came over here and put in great
a;ck to the president They wanted
him to remove Carlisle from the head
of the treasury department because
they declared he had failed to keep
faith with them They were mad
because of Mr.. Carlisle's financial
bill. Tha, bill. they told Mr.. Cleve-
land, had played havoc with them
They had organized syndicate aud
: taken $50, 10000 worth of bonds,
as they expressed it. out of a spirit of
patriotism They paid LII for these
bonds, and expected to sell them at
an advance which would net the
syndicate about $4,000. 900 profit.
Instead of making money the syn
dicate has lost, and it has Host big
pile.
tons to congress caused the bonds to
decline aud instead of being worth
III now, the highest recent bid on
the late issue of bonds has been III
So Morgan and Lanier and the
balance of the Wall Street wolves
who forced the issue and expected to
reap a harvest of finances from it
when they failed to do so presented
themselves at the white house and
demanded Mr.. Carlisle's removal
They accompanied it with threat
that unless Mr.. Cleveland did SO, they
would never again aid the admins
trs.ion but rather would play havoc
with it, and cause this administration
to be a complete failure. But the
hI1,fc did rot work
Mr.. CieSeland's old time bullhead-
ed spirit arose in him and he told the
two bankers that "they could do as
they id pleased" he was running
this administration and ne did not
give a biankety blank what they
thought of it, or what they did.
Mr. Cleveland Immediately sent for
Mr.. Carlisle and told him he was
determined to put the Carlisle bill
through congress, if the power of the
administration aud al; it had to be-
stow upon defeated members iii the
way Of patronage could do IT.
Cleveland is redhot, and he is right
now preparing a message to congress
which will probably be sent in this
week, urging the immediate passage
of currency bill
In this message he will tell just
what orde. of currency bill he wants
passed.
1t is the Carlisle bill with a few
amendments
The message which he is prepar-
ing with the assistance of MIR. Car
Isle, | am told tonight, will be a
ringing one and will contain a covert
threat, or rather Mr. Cleveland will
come out square'y and say to con-
gress that unless it passes currency
bill at this session he will call an
extra session of the new congress
Immediately after the 4th of March.
MIR. Cleveland tonight sent notes
to several leading members of the
house, asking them to call at the
white house tomorrow. 1t is pre-
sumed he wants to make known to
them his decision to send Ill the
message
A caucus of the democrats of the
house is to be held this week, per-
haps Friday night, for the purpsse OF
attempting 10 get together on cur
rencv bill Notwithstanding the
message and the desire of all the
democratic leaders for the passage OF
a currency bill, there are those who
yet predict that this congress will do
nothing on the question They think
bill may yet pass the house, but do
not believe that if can go through
the senate They say the time is too
short to do anything under the senate
rules.
Major Black, Of Augusta, is to
make a speech ON the Carlisle cur
rency bill tomorrow or Friday. lie
has spent the holidays here in prepar-
ing his speech and will make it the
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