Ceredo Advance

REPEAL BILL.

If a Compromise Measure is Reached It Will Be Vetoed.

That Is the Situation as Given Out By High Authority-No Compromise of Any Description Will Ever Be Signed By President Cleveland.

WASHINGTON, Oct. .-Readers of Washington dispatches concerning compromise in the senate should bear in mind the fact that in what is said the president is not taken into consideration in the calculation, and he is a highly important factor.

The matter of some compromise measure is spoken of only as it concerns the senate, and the statement that a compromise is bound to come or will not come, means only that such is the prospect in the senate as between the warring factions over the silver question. It does not mean that a compromise bill may or may not become a bill.

So long as the president maintains his attitude of opposition to anything but unconditional repeal, all the compromise talk is the idle gossip of an empty day. The senators may compromise till the cows come home, and any measure short of unconditional repeal they send to the president for his signature will receive instead the deadly sign of the veto.

There is no reason to suppose that the president has changed from the position taken in his message, and emphasized later in the letter to Gov. Northern.

On the contrary, it is given out by his organ, the Philadelphia Ledger, in italicized type, and from "the highest authority," that no compromise measure of any description will ever be signed by the president. That, too, is the understanding here among those closest to Cleveland, and that diagnosis of the situation is believed on all hands to be correct. This being so, the senate must pass an unconditional repeal bill, or there will be no action on the matter by this congress.

With this measure the others would go to the morgue, and really the chances now are stronger that nothing whatever will be done as that there will be any action at all.

This has been Senator Frye's idea from the beginning. Mr. Manderson still believes in a compromise, and the propositions he advocates were given exclusively in these dispatches last Sunday, and they have appeared Tuesday morning as fresh matter in the eastern papers.

Mr. Voorhees still expresses himself as confident of the passage of the conditional repeal. There is no satisfaction in the situation. It is as mixed and uncertain as ever, with no human possibility of foretelling the outcome, or foreshadowing it even.