New-York tribune., 1878-02-19
THE SILVER MEN ANXIOUS.

THE SILVER MEN ANXIOUS.
DETERMINED EFFORTS TO DEFEAT THE SENATE
AMESDMENTs-THE ORIGINAL BILL WITHOUT
TwO-THIRDs VOTE IN THE HOUsE-A PREsiDEN-
TIAL VETO CERTAIN.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO rHH TRIBUSRl
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The passage of the Silver
Bill has been delayed by parliamentary obstruc-
tions and by the decision of the Silver League this
afternoon, to cause its reference to the Committee
on Banking and Currency but it cannot be said to
have been endangered The Silver League gave no
instructions to the committee, nor have majority
of It's members declared that they will to con-
cur in the Senate amendments The movement III
favor of the reference undoubtedly led by men
who, ike General Ewing arc in favor Of making
direct issue with the Senate the question of free
coinage and an unlimited issue of silver dollars;
but he was the only one to declare that he would
not vote for tho bill in its present shape if the
mittee should recommend the acceptance of the
amendments. But though proposed by the extreme
men the reference of the bill also supported by
two other classes those who desire opportunity to
make speeches, and those who think that the effect
the public will be better if the measure is allowed
to take the regular course, instead of being driven
through the House again under whip and spur with
out word of consideration or explanation.
Very much of the future of the bill will depend
upon the temper of the Committee on Banking and
Currency at its meeting tomorrow morning.
General Ewing will undoubtedly go to that meeting
determined to defeat the Senate amendments, while
Messrs. Buckner and Phillips will favor accept
ance of them The opponents of the remonetiza-
tion of silver may, for the sake OF the advantages
they may gain act with General Ewing, and
either resort to filibustering, or If they frd
that by joining with the extreme men they can carry
a majority of the cOmmittee-they may even vote
against the Senate amendments, knowing that in
this way the whole movement can be defeated The
Bland bill in its original form can never command
two-thrtls vote in the Senate, even if it can be
ried through the House over the Presidents veto.
The meeting of the Banking and Currency Commit
tee tomorrow will, therefore, be very important
one.
As soon as the committee agrees in regard to the
BILL another meeting Of the Silver League will be
called and report will be made to that body be-
fore it is made TO the House. 1t is hardly possible
that the measure can be advanced in the House this
week beyond q reference to the committee; no OPP
portunty to report will be given. But next Mon
day If the silver men still control two-thirds of
the House, as they undoubtedly will, the rules can
be suspended. and time fixed not only for the COM
mite TO report, but also for final vote TO be
taken.
There has been some change of sentiment in the
House since the passage of the Bland bill two
months ago. Many men, who were then ready to
vote for free coinage and UNLIMITED Issues have been
educated by the debates the Senate, and the dis
cussiops in the newspapers, and will never again
support a measure loaded down with those Objec-
tionable features. On the other hand some of the
extreme yer men have discovered that they omitted
from the Bland bill some provisions that wOuld
make II more effective imitation measure and
which they would now engrait on any Dill winch
they would draw; for instance 1i General M Lw,ng
in the Senate amendments but he is anxious that
ne section shall be added to the original bill, pro-
vdnc for the unlimited Issue of certificates for sill
yer bullion deposited with the Government thus
making available for the immediate iniia-
tion Of the currency all the silver bullion
IL tins e9hny Od '"T may snScc ri gi'uE gn,
already been considered in the Silver League, md
also i'm the Committee on Banking ana Currency,
and general understanding was arrived az that, as
such a provision would make Ghe bill too heavy 10
mass over the Presidents Veto it would bo wiser to
bring il forward as separate measure or
put it as q rider on an appropr alton blll.
Now General Ewing is unwilling 10 stand by this
understanding He IS afraid that the only silver
legislation of tue session Will be the passage OF the
Bland bill and nc wants 10 make that Dill as conl-
There is hardly reason to hope that these differ
ences of opinion among the silver men VIII icid 10
divisions tnat viii endanger the final passage Of the
Bland till. but the believers III the proVerD thil
when thieves fall out honest men get their dues"
hook at these little qqaIreis with sood deal oi
{or hone that any accident Will DCfal tile Silver
BIZ while 1T is in the House. the situation Tonight
is such that the advocates OF the Dui are unaDIc 10
conceal their anxiety. ~ ,
believe that the President may, after ALL sign the
Silver Bill If il is sent 10 him in the shape IN which
II p,esed the Senate OF Saturday morning, or That
he may allow At to become law without hs sigma
| ture If the President contempiates any euch
= a lfr.et tilpf tl B IL nd
private utteTaAccs. Within week he has con
suited with several gentlemen as 10 the policy
not only of setting forth ms reasons Tor With
holding his signature 10 the SILVER Bill, but
of going further, AND indicating what KIND OF
reconciliation he believes IN and VIII approve;
Members of his Cabinet have a!SO Remarked
since tia, character Of the Senate amendments was
pretty well understood that the President could not
consistently sgu any bill that would pass Congress,
and today Representative from ONO VINO .iad a
conversation with the President this morning r.
ports that he will certainly veto the bal The
grounds which the President assigned as
The basis of his veto that III his
opinion the bill was: first, an injnry 10
pnblIc credit; second, breach of public
iaIt aud third unconstitutional. IN that II inter
feTes witn vested rights and is violation of co
tracts, Upon the latter p0int the President sad
that he was not entirely cl"di. -
The OHIO Republican delegation III the House has
held a conference az which all except General Car
field were present. They agreed to vote for the sil-
yer Bill with The Senate anGIIicIiS ana NOT ioi
the extreme measures Which General Ewing ana ms
clidue iyCr. General Garfield WILL OF course, vote
for neither.
THE VOLUME or CURRENCY INFLATED.
BOTH PAPER AND SILVER WIiL REMAIN IL CIECU-
LAIIoS-A FLyCTUATNG CUKREYCY-MONInLY
ISSUES TAIN-sPECULAIION-THE LABOR
ING MANnTILL SUFFER-.
TO the Edttor or The Trtbuns
SIR Permit me to call attention, through your
coumne to one or two radical errors adopted in the
silver controversy by the silver advocates, which are
calculated to deceive and misead Argument III
mpport of the Band bill is rcpletc with reference