Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-08-21
Republican Senators Will Bend Every
Energy to Passing the Nc
Kinley Message.
Even the Bill to Stop Democratic
Frauding in the >Outh Will
Have to Wait
Bourbon Tactics Are, However, to
Block All Legislation by Long
MINDED Speeches.

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pushed through at this session-greatlv
to the popular regret. But the republic
can senators are determined to take action
on the tariff bill and therefore they will
( permit no other issue to distract them
| This is the policy that Senator Quay, the
great republican leader, wants to see pur-
sued, and his followers are strong enough
to prevent the consideration of the elec-
ton bill for the present 1t is claimed
that Mr.. Quay has succeeded in inducing
fifteen senators to adopt his views. OF
| these fifteen there is but comparatively
small number, possibly four, who are will
ing to admit that they are opposed to the
passage of a national election bill. The
remainder insist that they favor the pas
sage of this bill but say that they desire to
accomplish something at this session and
that the alternative is presented to them
of passing tariff bill by an agreement
which can be made as to the time of vot-
ing. These senators say they favor an
election bill and would be willing to vote
| for it if there were any possible
chance of passing it without change i'll
the rules, but that they have been persist
entity met by some of the most earnest
advocates of the election bill with objec-
tons that it will not do to change the
rules and that the traditions of the senate
must be observed. Therefore, finding that
the rule cannot be passed unless the
rules shall be changed, as practical men
they turn to the other bill which all repub-
licans conceive to be of great importance
to the party-the tariff bill and propose to
make an arrangement by which the pas
sage of that bill can be assured. That
can be done, they claim, by the adoption
of the Quay resolution. 1t is known that
if the Quay resolution shall be reported
favorab.y by the committee on rules, il can
be passed 1t probably will receive the
full democratic vote, although that is not
quite sure, and it has republicans enough
comitted to it to pass it even If the repub-
to adopt that policy
the election bill will have parliamentary
skill enough to force roll-call in some
way directly upon the motion to consider
the election bill. 1t is suggested that,
although Quay had conferred with Gorham
and other democratic leader, the demo
Gratis, if called in caucus upon the propri-
ETY. of voting for the Quay resolution if it
shall be reported by the committee on
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Already there is disposition in favor of
the dissentions among the republicans in
the face of the enemy not to do anything
to compose those discussions. but to in list
upon protracling the debate upon the
tariff bill in exactly the manner in which
it has been cCn1uc'ed for the last month,
for the very object of adding to the repub-
| lican discussion Some of the democrytic
| in nf hnt
Senator Hiscock, Notwithstanding the
rigid injunction of secrecy which was
placed upon all members present at the
caucus, recently said: You can say that
we did not agree upon any definite policy
In fact, nothing was decided. You might
say. however, that the session in all prob
ability will be prolonged until late day"
This would seem to indicate that Mr..
Hiscock is not very confident of an adjust
ment of the differences among the repub
licans. But the republicans will
undoubtedly be able to SO adjust
comes out of the session the tariff bill will
excuse themselves to any constituency if
they shall fail to accomplish that. If the
senate had shown anything like the energy
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election bill could have been passed with
out any doubt But the virihty seems to
have gone out of considerable portion of
the Republicans in the senate, and the
driftwood there is becoming too heavy for
the party to carry Prominent republic
cans, who have come here recently from
different parts of the country, say that if
the members of the present United State s
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majority can do the business Of that body
the state will very soon send senators here
who can The democratic Senators who
sat in the chamber during the civil war,
though rather few in number, were not
lacking in the gift of speech. Hendricks,
of Indiana; Reverly Johnson, of Maryland;
Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, and half ii
! dozen others could talk by the hour or day
without conscious effort But if any or all
of those gentlemen had proposed to talk
| against time for the purpose of defeating
necessary war legislation, how long would
| the vigorous republicanism that then held
sway ia the senate have stood that sort of
nonsense? We have to-day, however, the
extraordinary spectacle Of a republican
majority of II in the senate considering
whether. in order to secure the consent of
| the minority to an important republican
measure, 1t will agree to sacrifice another
measure of equal concern to the republican
party and to The country. The majority is
/ seeking to purchase the privilege of press
! ing tariff bill The senate of Sumner
OF Zack Chandler, and of Ben Wade did
not secure the right of Legislation by pur-
suing any such policy. The courtesy of
the senate has become the manacles of the
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with the consent of the minority. The
majority can assert and maintain their
them to their loquacious and long-winded
opponents.
| Joe HA WILEY In CANADA