St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-04
THE SILVER AGITATION.
Indications Point TO Temporary
Suspension Compromise.


Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The overshad-
owing question is the silver policy, and it
interests both house and senate equally. The
most potent fact is that the probability of
even g temporary suspension of silver coin
age is daily becoming more remote. 1t is
very doubtful if the administration will
succeed in debating to the line which the
majority of the Democrats, in the house at
least, will follow. 1t is less doubt
full that there has been much
comforting with view to bridging the gulf
between the president and a powerful ele-
ment Of his party. Manning's bOnd-call
was taken as eyid 3nce that the admiHiStra-
ton had put out the white flag and was
ready for a compromise if this could be
arranged so the advantage would all be on
its side. But the silver Democrats, taking
their inspiration from Senator Beck, have
become more aggressive and want to pro-
pose the terms of the compromise. Some
of them are willing to take the bill pre-
pared by Warner of Ohio as basis. War
her has been at work on his bill
DURING THE HOLIDAYS,
but it is said the changes he has made in
the original draft are slight. The Western
got wrong on the silver question are having
an unhappy time of it. Some of them went
home for the holidays, ard We're able to
explain to their constituents that they did
not favor the suspension of silver coinage.
and that they had been misrepre-
scented in the list which placed them
on that side. Others stayed here
and their mail has been rather heavy for a
day or two past. Among these unfortu-
nate are Congressman Fuller, Calamity
WelleT's successor in the Fourth Iowa dis
trict and Struble of the Eleventh district.
Both were quoted as favoring suspension,
whereas both are decidedly against such
policy. If any of the Western members
who opposed suspension were yielding to
the Wall street bullion argument, this sort of
news they are getting from home
WILL sTIFFEN THEM.
The question of how Senator Evarts stands
on the silver question still agitates many
minds here. He is claimed by both sides.
An official high in authority in the treasury
department says Mr.. Evarts will surely be
found favoring temporary suspension of
the coinage. He says that so much influ-
ence will be brought to bear on him from
his own state that he will not dare take
any other course. This official further
said
Mr.. Evarts went to the monetary conven-
ton in Europe as strong bimetalist. While
he was there Gen. Garfield sent him a long
dispatch. The substance of the message
was that while silver is one of the great indus
tries of this country, the United States can
not afford to be placed in the position of q
suppliant before the other great powers ask
ing that coinage be continued. What Mr.
Evarts learned at that conference was wholly
against the further coinage of silver. He
will certainly force the temporary suspension
of the coinage.
The policy of the administration is now
said to be to ask for temporary suspension
of coinage, and the appointment of a con-
ference. The administration people claim
the chances are excellent for this to be
done. They even go so far as to count the
speaker of the house willing to enter into
such an agreement