St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-30
Silver Suspension and the Tariff Promise
Plenty of Discussion in Congress
This Winter.
The President and Speaker Carlisle Look
ing the Field Over With View to
Silver Compromise.
Pinkerton's Detectives Appear to Be
Going to the White House for
New YEARS. Only.
Gossip on Committee Appointments
MIR. Cleveland to Contribute to
the Hendricks Fund.
Silver and the Tariff.

Special to the Globe.
2. WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-The president
and the speaker of the house held number
of conferences lately upon the silver ques-
ton. Mr.. Carlisle is said by his friends to
believe that the present silver coinage
should be suspended, but he does not ex-
pect that arbitrary suspension can be car
ried through. Too many members have
committed themselves to the line of Oppo-
sition to the suspension of the coinage of
silver to now turn abruptly about simply
for the purpose of being in accord with the
presidents policy. The vote of last spring
committed many members who are in the
present house. Nearly everything accom-
plished in politics or legislation is comprO-
mise. So the natural outcome of the silver
agitation in congress will be something of
this kind. 1t is understood that the
recent conferences between the presi-
dent and speaker have related to
the discussion of the details of a
compromise. The president is beginning
to realize more than he did when he wrote
the message the strength of the silver feel
ing in the West. 1t is possible he will
favor the compromise when he learns that
no other course is practicable. 1t is thought
by some of the house leaders on the Demo-
cratic side that proposition limiting coin
age to certain
FIXED AMOUNT,
which will permit coinage to go on for
some time yet, can be passed. Some such
proposition, coupled with additional feat
ures to facilitate the getting out OF silver
already coined, would undoubtedly meet
with favor in the house and senate. The
financial question promises to take prece-
dence of the tariff in the house. 1t will
take some time for the ways and means
committee to mature new tariff measure,
as it is not believed Mr.. Morrison
intends to reintroduce his horizontal
tariff bill. That measure was
said at the time of its discussion to be a
mere expedition. The committee now has
plenty of time, and, in view of the large
number of tariff refOrmers in the house, it
will be natural to procure careful bill
which will not be so snide as the horizontal
cut of the last congress. The financial
question is much simpler in form, and there
is greater pressure behind it to have it
settled in some sort of way than there is
back of the tariff. The business people of
the country would be very well satisfied if
there was no tariff agitation for some time.
They could endure the postponement of
this question, but they are very much in
earnest about the financial question, and
will continue to be so as long as the treas
ury continues to heap up silver in its vaults,
holding over the business market the uncer-
tain element of a constant menace.
HE EXPECTS NO LEGISLATION.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 80. - Ex-senator
Mcdonald, who has just returned from
Washington, expresses the belief that there
will be no legislation on the silver question
this session, and that the house is largely
opposed to suspension of silver coinage.