The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-13
FALL OF THE FORCE BILL,
THE SILVER MEN BOUND TO HAVE
IT BURIED TUESDAY.
They are Nettled by a Belief That Hear

They are Nettled by Belief That Hear
is Keeping 1t Before the Senate in
Order to Frustrate Their Own Plans
The Speeches in ths Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l2.-The silver repub-
hcans, seeing that they have the whip hand
In the Senate, are crowding Senator Hoar
and the other force bill mourners. They
insist that the force bill must be buried on
Tuesday next, and that if the republican
caucus Monday night does not order the
funeral for the next day they will go ahead
indepeE deatly and move TO set the force
bill aside. Senator Teller spoke right out
to-day, saying openly that be believed with
the other silver republicans that Senator
Hoar and the other eastern republicans were
keeping the.force bill before the Senate for
the purpose of keeping silver legislation
out He said that he himself would move
to set the force bill aside next week if no
one else did, and that he knew there were
enough republican votes to carry the motion
with the aid Of the democrats
WHY HE WAITS.
Senator Teller added that he would make
vised by the other silver republicans to
wait. Pr rbabiy the eastern republicans will
let Senator Teller or some other western
republican make the motion TO lay the
force bill aside next week, knowing that it
ill be carried by democratic votes, in the
hope that they can use this fact as an
argument with the rest of the republicans
to stiffen thens up against free silver. This
is really the present question before the
Senate.
HARRISoN'S HARD FIGHT.
President Harrison is fighting against
free silver just as hard as he is fighting for
the force bill This makes western repub-
licans firier and more defiant to deal with
than they would otherwise be. They say
they are going to bury the force bill and
then carry the free silver bill right to the
white house, even if it will meet veto If
Presinent Harrison supplements his private
advice with public message in opposition
to free silver, 1T will apparently have no
other effect than to exasperate the silver
republicans.
This afternoon Senator Blodgett ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the force
bill. His first great objection to it was, he
said, that it would unsettle society, and
that it threatened the peace, prosperity and
development nt of a considerable proportion of
the country. 1t had grown into political
maxim that no law which could not be fully
executed should be made, and it followed
that one which could not be put into oper-
alton without disturbing the essential
result of good government in the commu
nifty to which i5 was to be applied ought
never to be enacted except under the press
ure OF absolute necessity. The ulNatura
| strain put by such laws on society was to
! great to be unnecessarily applied, and tht
resulting shock to free government was tot
dangerous to be lightly encountered. Hi
second objection t0 the bill was that it wa
in direct antagonism to the democratic
spirit OF popular government.
STEREoTYPED PETITIONS,
Mr.. Walthall Of Mississippi also argued
against the bill. In the course of his re-
marks he referred to the ereotyped petit
tions in favor of the elections blu that had
come up from Mississippi. and said that the
largest number of the names to such petl
| tions came from the county of Bolivar
And yet, he said, there were more negroes
holding office in the county of Bolivar thar
in any other county in the south, or than il
any state in the north. Out of forty-foul
ofiiceholders in thaU county, forty-one were
negroes. 1t was wealthy county, where
the white people were intelligent and Ell
| terprising; and yet, every constable IL
! the county was a negro; out of fifteer
| justices Of the peace, thirteen were negroes
| two mem bers Of the board of supervisors
| the coroner. assessor. treasurer, circuit
court clerk and one Of two representative;
| il the state legislature were negroes. The
saTe condition of things existed in Wash
| ington and other counties of Mississippi
| He mentioned these facts in contrast to the
treatment of the coored men in the north
ern states in the matter of holding office.
Mr.. Jones took the floor and the Senate
adjourned.
| PETITIONS AGAINST THE BILL.
In the Senate this morning Mr.. McPher-
| son presented numerous rem INSTANCES from
the state of New Jersey against the passage
of the election BILL