Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-21
Senator Blaine Endorsed in the Position He
Has Taken.
EFFORTS FOR RECIPROCAL TRADE URGED
The President VIII Not Make Known
His Views Regarding silver
Until the House Takes
Some Action.
wAsmxe ton BUREAU TuE OMAHA BEE,

| kilograms commanding the position he has
taken on The sugar and wool schedules OF the
tariff bill and urging him to continue his ef
forts until some reciprocal trade Is secured.
The first caller at his house this
morning was Senator Morrill, of Vermont,
the chairman OF the finance committee. He
did not succeed in seeing Mr.. Blaine, who
was too busily engaged TO see anyone, but
afterwards wrote him letter, in which he
asked, in behalf of tho finance committee,
the corporation of the secretary state of in
amending that portion of the bill which re-
fers to the sugar and wool tariff. Mr.. Blaine
will doubtless have an interview with the
committee before many days.
THE PRESIDENT AND SILVER
Several attempts have been made to draw
out of the president some kind of a commttal
on the silver bill by members of the house of
representatives and the senate. Three or
foLr statesmen visited the white house today
and by one way or another sought to elicit
an expression from the chief executive as to
what he would do in the event of a free
coinage bill, such as was passed by the SEN
ate, being sent to him. The presi-
dent in the early part Of this session
indicated that he would like bill passed
such as Secretary Window proposed and sent
to congress, but since that has been cast aside
and free. coinage measure substituted no
word has been uttered by him which would
indicate his position any other silver
proposition than the present. The president
indicated very clearly what kind of u meas
ure he wanted when steps were taken toward
the formulation of the bill prepared by Secre-
tary Window. Now that congress has
taken it upon itself to pre-
sent an independent measure the president
intends to wait until congress has. done wnat
it considers its duty, then he will proceed to
the duty devolving upon himself. He is free
to say that he is anxious for - judicious silver
bill to be finally adopted. He believes it will
be to the best interests of the country, as it
will increase the volume OF the circulating
medium He does not want to see bill
passed which will be Objectionable to any
considerable section of the country,
as it would not be a thorough
success if it was antagonized by
anyl formidable element of business. 1t Is
believed, although it is not known that he
does not look favorably upon the free coinage
bill, but whether he would veto it remains to
be seen.
The votes in the house today relating to
the silver bill stood about the same as yester-
day. an unwavcring majority of two or three
against any movement to send 1t to the com
mittee on coinage, weights and measures,
where it is known that it would
be amended and reported back
original Window bill. The democrats are not
solidly for free coinage, but are solid in the
present fight because they believe they can
cast reflection upon Speaker Reed The
fact that a number of republicans voted with
the democrats to rescind the action of the
speaker in referring the bill back to a COM
mittee cannot be construed as reflection at
the hands of republican members upon their
republican speaker 1t only means that there
are number of free coinage advocates who
have 50 much pressure upon them from their
districts that they feel compelled to stand
against movements intended to weaken the
cause of free coinage.
Mr. Dockery of Missouri, who is one of the
leading democrats now fighting the speakers
rulings, acknowledged today that the demo-
Gratis were standing together simply to '.sit
down on the speaker" He says that he
knew that there were a lot of democrats who
were opposed to free coinage and that they
were voting soiidly for "cussedness." But he
took satisfaction out of the fact that there
were some republicans voting with the demo-
Gratis.
The bill still rests upon the speakers table
and is yet considered as in committee of the
whole. The journal of yesterday, which
showed that the bill had been committed to
the committee on coinage, weights and meas
ures, has been amended so that it does not
show any action on the bill whatever. Mr..
Bland of Missouri moved to lay the bill before
the house and direct the speaker to present it
for immediate consideration, but there were
dilatOry motions which consumed the time up
to the hour of adjournment, and the motion
is yet pending. No one is able to forecast the
outcome of this contest. Many of the free
coinage advocates are frank to say that the
Window bill with the bullion clause stricken
out is better in the long run for the country
than the measure which was adopted by the
senate, and that it is sentiment and principle
that they are fighting for, but they refuse to
recede from the position they took in the be-
ginning.
THE STORY GREW.
The widely published story that the presi-
dent had informed "a well known intimate
friendn that he would not be candidate for
reelection is based upon a remark he
made to John H. Woodward, formerly the
correspondent of Cincinnati paper and now
a railway travelling agent. Woodward for
merly lived in Indianapolis and knew the
president well, although of opposite politics.
Being in town he called at the white house
and was cordially received, In the course of
the conversation the president incidentally
remarked that when his term closed he
should go back to indianapolis and resume
the practice of law This remark was re.
peated until it grew to q story 10 the dimen-
sions published. .r'ar
LAX NEBRASKA ENUMERATQRs
Information has been received here today
to the effect that at least one or two census
supervisors in Nebraska have been very lax
in their efforts to secure full census of all
the citizens of their district Some time ago
Senator Manderson wrote to the supervisor
at Omaha asking him what, IL any, effort had
been made to take the census OF the one or
two hundred citizens OF the state who are
temporarily located in Washington, and he
received no reply. Subsequently he tele-
graphed to the supervisor, making the same
inquiry, stating that there were large num-
ber of Omaha people here who should
be noted in the census of that district, but he
has received no Indication yet that any effort
has been made to take the census of Omaha
citizens in Washington. A number of Ne
braslla people have gone to the trouble of
sonding statements of their citzenships to
the census office, but 1t is not likely that in
the hurly burly of the season proper notation
can be given of the information in the re-
turns.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ex-Governor West of Utah, who has been
in the city for some time, says 1.-THE rest of
the territories may be ready for statehood,
but the same cannot be said of Utah | am
democrat, but it took residence in Utah to
convince me that the situation there can only
be controlled by the most rigid and effective
legislation. The people OF Idaho have secured
the laws they needed to shut out the Nor
mons from the polls. In Utah we have
secured legislation esCheating the property