The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08
NEW SILVER TACTICS
A Plan to Get the Free Coinage
Bill Out of Committee.
THREATS OF THE REPUBLICANS
To Place Force Bill Rider on the Appropria.
ton Bill If the Democrats Put on q
Free Coinage Rider.

WASHINGTON, Feb. I'm the House to-
day, Townsend of Colorado offered tor
reference a resolution amending the rules
OF the House so as to provide that when
four members of any committee shall make
statement in writing that after five hear
ings on any bill (other than revenue or
appropriation bills), the committee refuses
to make any report, favorable or un-
favorable, it shall be in order to
move to discharge the committee from
further consideration of the measure. This
amendment of the rules is directed
especially towards the committee on coin
age, weights and measures, having charge
Of the coinage bill. The Star says: SIT is
threatened by the Republicans of the House,
if the Senate attaches any free coinage
amendment to any appropriation bill, they
will amend it by putting on the force bill
as a rider. Ii this is done, and the bill sent
to the President it is said he would proba-
bly, sign the conglomerate bill taking in free
coinage, rather tnan veto the appropriation
bill and the force bill. This may deter the
Democrats from entering upon plan of
putting Tree coinage rider on the appro-
priation bill. Since the defeat of the at
tempt to have free coinage amendment as
rider TO the sundry civil appropriation
bill, the silver men have been
busy devising other schemes by
means of which to compel a vote
by the House on the question of free coin
age. The vote Of yesterday is not re-
galded by them as a fair test of their
strength, for the reason that it was COM
plicated with a question Of parliamentary
practice, on which they did not regard their
position as strongly fortified, and they
were therefore anxious to bring the mat
ter up in some new form. Townsend
resolution offered to-day was the first
effort in the new plan Of campaign. The
opponents OF the free coinage bill will re-
sort to every available means to secure the
attendance of abseRtees known to be OPP
posed to free silver coinage"
In the House to-day Evans, of Tennessee,
re-lntroduced the bill heretofore offered by
him TO establish limited postal telegraph
service. The section In the former bill
making it unlawful for any contracting
telegraph company to engage, directly or
indirectly, or to be interested in the sale of
press or other reports, market quotations,
etc, beyond the service of transmitting at
uniform rates, is stricken out of the pres
emit bill.
Gambler introduced bill authorizing the
postmaster general to contract with any
person or persons operating telegraph lines
for the transmission of telegraphic CORE
spondence at rates TO be agreed upon.
Sherman, from the committee on foreign
relations reported to the Senate the amend
ment proposed to be made to the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill which con
templates division of the Central Amer
lean mission into two missions, one to in
clude Nicaragua, Costa Rico and San Sal
unJ ond he Ofhn,.
mala. Salaries of ministers are fixed at
$500 instead of $4,000, which is the sal
airy at present of a single mission TEE
division is proposed by the committee on
the ground that the difficulty of travel is
so great that it is next to impossible for one
minister to properly meet the necessities of
the mission.