The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-18
THE SILVER QUESTION.
How 1t is Worrying the Heads OF
the Nation.

WASHINGTON, September 1.-THE
Ecening Star has the following: "Repre.
entative Warner. of Ohio, is in the
city to-day, having come here to see
Secretary Manning and Treasurer
Jordan about his proposed silver COM
promise bill. Mr. Warner has been
consulting with all the prominent silver
linen he could reach with view to
strengthening his proposition. The
most important persons on both sides
of the question are said, however, to
stand in their original position, and the
prospects of a compromise are not
thought to be good. Both Mr. Blanc
and Mr.. Reagan are quoted as declaring
their determination to stand by the
Bland dollar uncOmpromlsingly. and
the anti-silver men say that President
Cleveland has not altered his views in
the least since writing his. famous anti
silver letter shortly after his election.
The prospect seems to be for a straight
issue on both sides and the outcome
depends upon whether or not the adj
ministration has received enough con-
verts since last session to put them in
control of the house on that
question, which, it is thought, will be
the most important in the organization
of House, and in this respect Speaker
Carlisle will be placed IN an embarras-
sing position. There is no idea that he
will meet with any opposition in his
canvass for the speakership, and he
will have to decide as to the organiza-
ton of the coinage, weights and measures
committee, which will have the silver
question before it. According to the
general custom, old chairmen,
who have served satisfactorily,
will be appointed at the heads of their
respective committees. Thus Mr.. Nor
rlson will expect to go at the head of
the ways and means; Mr.. Randall's
friends will claim for him the appro-
priations committee and Mr.. Bland will
expect to be placed at the head of the
coinage, weights and measures COM
mittee. He will expect also that that
will be organized
according to his ideas, so that the
silver men will be in control.
Should his expectations be accomp-
llshed, silver men would have the reins
in their own hands, and the admins
tration would be defeated at the outset
On the other hand, if Mr.. Carlisle
should refuse to replace Mr.. Bland in
LIS OAO pOS4tlOuj VI SAOulO organ &c LLlc
committee so as to take the power out
of his hands, il would have tendency
to commit the House to the support of
the administration before any vote had
been taken. and to plunge it into a
long and exciting contest at once. In
the face OF these circumstances, it is
important to know what MIR. Carlisle's
views of the question are. Silver men
naturally reckon on his beins with
them. as opposed to New York bankers,
but it is understood that he has studied
the question very carefully and is in
clined to think with the President that
there is danger in an unlimited coin; ge
of silver dollars. This question is CIV
ing him more uneaslnesS than tariff or
anything else that may come before
Congress this winter, and for months
past he has been talking with men on
both sides and making a careful study
of the question. Representative War
ner expressed the opinion to-day that
Congress would pass a compromise
silver bill this session.