The morning news., 1891-01-06

that the victory had actually been won by
the free coinage men after oil the doubt
and Encouragement which they had been
expressing during the past week, but it did
not take them long to realize it.
WORE LONG FACES.
Messrs. Hoar, Sherman, Spooner aud
Aldrich soon wore look Of disappoint-
ment, and Messrs. Hoar and Spooner
added disgust to it. They settled back in
their chairs as though they had been sud-
denly retired to private life and had no
more interest in the direction Of affairs
The silver senator's, who had voted for MIR.
Stewards motion, smilingly took control,
while the silver senators who had
voted against it were reproaching
everybody else Mr.. Stewart, as the new
leader on the republican side, stepped nat
urally aud gracefully to the front, had the
bill and the amendment read and made q
brief Introductory speech.
SHERMAN GETS THE FLOOR.
Mr.. Sherman, recovering himself before
any of the other old leaders, sent to the
finance committee room for some docu-
mentary ammunition, and as soon as Mr..
S ewart gave him a chance made one of the
best speeches he had ever made against free
coinage. While he was speaking, Messrs.
Hoar, Spooner and Aldrich we're confering
as to what their future course should be-
A senatorial caucus bel G really senatorial
tea party, for which the senator at whose
house 1t is held provides moderate supper,
they agreed that it would not do to leave
Mr.. Stockbridge, the host of this occasion.
in the lurch by withdrawing the invitations
which they had so imperativeIy issued for
to-night's caucus, and that the more courte-
GUS way would be to meet at Mr.. Stock
bridges, talk awhile and adjourn, leaving
the free coinage repu blicans to work out
their own salvation with their allied demo-
Gratis.
AN OBSERVATION CORPS.
They agreed that the force bill was dead
and buried; and that a free coinage bill
would pass the Senate, and that taeir posi-
tion for most of the session would be prac-
tically that of corps of observation,
since the same combination which
won to-day would win again if any fight
was made. OF course they will do all they
can to defeat fres coinage. and, failing that,
to make 1t as uncomfortable as possible for
the traitorous eight. Ths,comments of the
leaders of the different divisions In the
Senate in the coup d'etdt by which Mr..
Hoar was hoist with his own petard,
Hale's arbitrary ruling and the senators
from Idaho combined, were very interest
ing. zts-sy,(tf
HoAR's COMMENT!
Mr.. Hoar is quoted as saying: ''The
federal election bill is dead. The republi-
can senators who killed it must take the
responsibility for it. i have striven in
season and out of season, believing it
to be the most important measure
pending, to secure by every means what was
just and right its passage by the Senats.
On the very eve of success, as believe, my
efforts have been thwarted by an unholy
alliance between small minority of the re-
publicans and the democrats. Against such
combination the friends of the federal
election bill are powerless, for at the most
the best we could do, if we had every re-
publican sitting in the Senate, and even if
we had the Vice Presidents vote, would oe
to tie the Senate, SO that motion to take
up the fede. al election hill would fail even
if a financial bill, say of the free coinage
variety, should have passed before the
motion was made. The republicans
bill to-day did so to defeat the federal cleo
tions bill. for there were other republicans
just as jealous for free coinage as they VIII /,
voted against the motion, because they be-
lieved that financial legislation could wait a
little on more important measure"
GOT TIRED WAITING.
Senator Stewart is quoted as saying:
"We got tired waiting for Mr.. Hoar and
other friends of the federal elections bill to
put it through. They cane to me the other
day and said: Now, If you can't vote for
the federal elections bill, don't at least put
anything in its way. Let us get a vote on 1t
and after it is disposed OF we will fix
up some satisfactory financial BILL said
NO, you won't. for won't be satisfied with
anything less than free coinage You
wouldn't vote with the democrats to secure
free coinagep asked one of tnem. No, said
/, but have been leader in this fight for
years, and the democrats can vote with me,
and that is just what the democrats did to
day."
A FREE COINAGE BILL TO PASS.
Senator Aldrch, who does not care so
much about the force bill as he does about
free coinage, said; "a free coinage bill
will undoubtedly pass the Senate
by the vote of the free
coinage republicans and the democrats,
only one or two of whom would vote against
free coinage. But the bill will not become
law either in this congress or next session,
and in my Judgment the silver men have
hurt their cause by the action they have
taken to-day. Their wisest course was to
help dispose of the elections bill and then
turn to the financial question. Then they
would have gotten something-now they
will get nothing"
REASON HAS ITS SWAY.
Senator German said: Reason has It's
sway in the United States Senate. have
always said that the Senate was too
sensible to do any radical thing. | do not
believe that iT will do anything Of that sort
now, but if anything extreme is done the
responsibility will rest upon the republican
leaders, who ignored the offers OF the demo-
Gratis, sincerely and patriotically made, to
consider soberly and conservatively the
financial needs Of the country, and who de-
hberately preferred to press purely parti-
san measure which the country neither
needed nor wanted. The New England
senators are especially responsible, also, for
bringing into the Senate dozen senators
from new States which, to say the least,
were not we'll organized and conservative
communities"
PLANNED AT THE LAST MOMENT.
So far as can be learned, the arrange
ments to displace the elections bill was not
definitely effe ted until some time after the
Senate met. though there had been some
quiet consultation prior to to-day on the
subject 1t is understood that Messrs.
Stewart and Teller were the principal
movers in the scheme The matter was
kept SO quiet that the Idaho senator's even
did not know what motion was TO be made.
Senator Shoup says that he was told not to
go away, that something OF interest TO the
silver people was to take place; but he says
he did not know just what it was that was
going to happen.
THE SILVER BILLS ADVANTAGE.
The financial bill could now only be dis