The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-19
THE SILVER BILL.
Speaker Reed Working for the
"Gold Bugs"
THE AUToCRAT OF THE HOUSE
Will Oppose the Measure-A Count of the
House Not Satisfactory to the
Silver Hen.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 49, fSpecia
telegram to THE HERALD Speaker Reed
is determined that there should be no legis-
lation On silver at this session that is not
satisfactory to him and the egold bugs'' of
the east. The Senate's action yesterday in
returning the House bill so amended as to
make it an out and out free coinage meas
nre, was a bitter disappointment to
Speaker Reed and his Republican associ
ates. They have been casting about all
day for some plan whereby they can
pigeon-hole the measure, for they are
afraid to risk the passage of the
bill on a test vote. Since the ad-
iournment of the House today it
is learned that late this afternoon Mr.. Reed
sent the bill to the government printing
office, marked referred to the committee
on coinage, weights and measures There
will therefore come up in tie House TO-
morrow this question of reference, and a
days parliamentary debate is likely to
ensue. The free coinage men will resist
this reference. though they find themselves
IN perpleXing position. If the speaker
should be overruled in his intention to send
the bill to this committee, they fear that he
would then entertain motion to send il to
the committee of the whole on the point of
order that it contains an appropriation.
In case this point is made at any stage of the
consideration of the bill, the rule is man
datory and there would be no way except
through unanimous consent, to eyade send
ing the bill to the calendar of the committee
of the whole, where it might lie indefinitely.
So, in any event. those in the House who
are opposed to free coinage believe that the
speaker and those who agree with HIM will
try to force compromise with the Senate
which shall include as one feature the
abandonment of free coinage. There
was a pretty thorough canvass
of the House to-day by Chairman Conger
of the committee on coinage weights and
measures, to see if there was strength
enough to render a defeat of free coinage il
the question was allowed to come up on g
motion to non concur and send the bill tc
a conference. The result was not as salts
factory as had been hoped. Still those who
prepared the House bill are confident that
the speaker will be able to give such d.
rection to the bill as will enable the more
conservative element of the senate to com
promise. In fact, it seems certain that such
control of the bill will be retained, even if
the committee on rules is obliged rs a last
resort to make a rule to meet the case
In short, the ''gold bugs" are desperate
They own Speaker Reed, body and soul
He is working to secure their influence t.
further his Presidential aspirations, anC
he will do their bidding cheerfully TIL,
code of rules which his party adopted a
his suggestion gives him power in tn,
House that is absolutely autocratic. S.
long as this power was used by Speake
Reed to override the wishes of the Demo
cratic minority, his party with one acclaim
east, west, north and south, shoutet
t'amenn' Now that the western Republi
cans take issue with their eastern
brethren on a subject vitality important t.
them as that of silver, they ind that tn
methods they have heretofore oppose,
being applied against them, and they dom
- like it. With a fair man in the chair lik
Mr.. Carlisle, of Kentucky, the two oppos
ing forces would be permitaed to fight tn
issue to a square finish. Perhaps, afte
all, the salvation of the silver men lies il
the election of Democratic House mex
autumn. Win they be wise enough to con
tribute to this result?