Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-22
WASHINGTON Letter
FROM OUR REG ULAR CORRESPONDENT.

w ASHINGTON. ~. ". JAN. IL, loSo'
Senator Teller declares upon his hon
or, which has never been impeached,
that himself and the silver republican
Senators did not 1aake combination
with the democrats to scure the passage
of the free coinage bill, which went
through the Senate last week. as a sub
stitute for the caucus financial bill, and
if any proof were needed that the Sen
ators' statement is correct it is furnish.
ed by the fact that Mr.. Teller and the
other silver republican Senators are vo'
ting and acting with the republican
majority in the determined effort that
is now being made to force vote upon
the Federal election bill by a continu.
GUS session of the Senate, which has
now been in session since Friday morn.
ing at 10 o'clock. with the exception OF
Sunday Recess.
TIE republican leaders are determin
ed that the present shall be continu.
Gus night and day session of the Senate
until the Election bill shall have been
voted upon, or the tact shall have be- n
made plain that it is impossible to thus
force vote upon it. There Is now no
division IN the republican ranks and if
all the absent republican Senators who
have been telegraphed for, will return
at once it is generally believed. by
democrats, as we'll as republicans, that
the bill can be voted upon and passed
this week, although the democrats
have one advantage In the contest of
endurance-they can, aud do, divide
their men into relays, while the repub.
licans are all compelled to remain on
the foor, or in call, in order to show a
quorum present when democratic Sena.
tors make a motion, which calls for a
vote Mr.. Morton has surprised every.
one by the calm and dignifed manner
in which he has stood the great strain
placed upon him in presiding over the
Senate.
Absent republican Representatives
have also been telegraphed for, as the
democrats have made 1t plain by their
obstruction tactics, as we'll as the Ian
guage of members of their party, that
no business can be transacted in the
House without the presence of repub-
lican quorum. 1t is now fully evident
that the democratic leaders are playing
their cards for an extra session.
The tree coinage bill is now in the
hands of the House committee on Coin
age, Weights and Measures, and is not
likely to be reported to the House un .
til next week, if so early, and in its
present shape it is hardly probable to
be reported at all. although, of course,
the present bill will be offered as an
amendment by the free coinage men to
any modified bill that the committee
may report. 1t may be we'll to state in
this connection that there is no founda
ton for statements purporting to tell
what action Speaker Reed proposes
taking on this bill. Mr.. Reed has not
told any newspaper man what he pro-
poses doing; on the contrary he has
positively declined to answer any quest
ions on the subject. can state, upon
what l consider objectionable author
lty that the bill In its present condition
providing for free aud unim tied
coinage OF all silver. from whatever
source, that may be presented at the u.
s. Mint, should it pass the House, will
be vetoed by the President. Mr.. Har.
rison Is not ane enemy to silver on the
contrary he is disposed to be very
friendly towards the white metal, but
he fears the effect of free coinage, unless
surrounded by safe guards not possessed
BY the present bill.