Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-05-09
PENDING SILVER QUESTION
1t is Troublesome One to the Solons
at the Capital.
Between Free Coinage and a Veto
They Don't Knew What to Do.
The Party at Its Wits End Over the
Perplexing Situation.

he silver men-that Is, the men who
own silver mires-are moving heaven and
earth to get silver bill through the pres
ent congress. The bill they want is one
with free coinage, unlimited silver.
double-standard, every kind -of-money-as-
! g0od-as-gold sort of bill and put profit
of 10 or 20 per cent into the pockets of
those who are now so happy as to own
! bullion
There are two reasons why they want ii
now.
They feel instinctively, as muskrats
fOrtel the winter. or as ducks understand
an early spring, that this is the last re-
publican congress, the last jobbers' con-
gress, the last open-treasurv congress that
will be for a long time. Hence. they will
push for a bill and they will then unite to
coerce the White house end of the party to
sign it.
What the President Wants.
The views of the administration are we'll
known. The president wants congress to
pass the Window BILL but he will not be
gratlhed. The silver men will not permit
any bill to pass that does not provide for
the issue in the form OF permanent money
of all the bullion that goes into the treas
ury, and they want at least 81. 500 900 a
month.
The three senators of the silver bearing
SectiOn-Jones, Teller and Stewart the
leaders in the silver movement. say that
he Will; that he dare not do otherwise :
that it would be his political ruin and the
defeat of his party at the next election.
and that no matter how reluctant he NAV
be he will be forced to accept the newt
able
Reeds Plan of Compromise,
A prominent republican leader of the
hoase of representatives quotes Speaker
Reed as saying that the house will take
no action whatever upon the silver ques-
ton until after the senate has passed the
bill. Then. if it complies with the views
of the administration on the subject, the
house will take immediate action upon it.
Should the bill adopted 10y the senate con-
tilct, the house committee on coinage,
weights and measures will be prepared with
a duplicate of the Window bhl or il meas
ure agreeing with its principal features.
and report it, The bill! will be passed bv
the house and the question thrown into a
conference committee. Speaker Reed says
that when he selects the representatives of
the house upon the committee he will
biliN tPJOlllb llitll w NllOSt views dTt KNOWN
to be in accordance with the administra-
ton, and they will stay in conference until
Judgment day before they will Weld to the
extreme silver men of the senate.
Such Is the report. tits safe to discount
1t. The silver question is a
Burden 10 the Party
For whichever way they turn the reaction
will be fearful. If the silver men carry
their point, the exposure 81 the iniquity
of bill that puts millions into the pockets
of a few and bulls up the price of silver,
will be hard bill TO explain in the future
10 do nothing is equally dangerous L,
pass the Window bill is nearly as periIous,
for it is a dangerously close drive to the
edge of the precipice.
The Senate for Free Coinage.
The Jones bill will be called up on
Wednesday next 1t is expected. he said,
that Secretary Teller Will offer his free
coinage bill as a substitute. If the free
coinage people people desire they can. he
continued, pass their measure without
difficulty, for a majority of the senate is
favorable to that proposition.
The pres dent has intimated however.
that he will not approve free coinage
bill, and thG question which now
agitateS the minds Of the extreme
silver men is whether they shall go ahead
in spite of this intimation OF whether they
shall agree to some compromise which can
be not only passed, but which will receive
the presidents signature The free coin
age men themselves are not certain as to
which is the better courle, and it is this
uncertainty on their part which makes it
difficult to determine how many days or
weeks the discussion may continue