St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-30
SILVER IS IN LINE,
But 1t May Be Put Over for a
Few Weeks.

WASHINGTON, May 20. The chief
subject for the consideration of the
senate during the coming week will be
Mr.. Stewards bill Tor the free coinage
of gold and silver. II has precedence
over all other subjects after the morn
! ing hour. Monday, Decoration day,
being dies non, the ball will not open
until , O'Clock on Tuesday. Then Mr..
| Sherman lin case he will have been put
| in possession OF the information which
! he has been seeking from the treas
! ury Department. will address the
senate in opposition to what he
! calls 1.-The silver heresy." His speech
will probably occupy the whole of Tues
days session. The debate will be con
tinued "Wednesday. Thursday and Fri
! day, after which the matter will pro'l-
! ably go over until after the minneapolis
convention. The fact that eight Sena-
tors Gncluding Messrs. Teller and VOL
cott) are delegateS~to that convention,
and Will consequently be absent from
; Washington. will probilbly act as stay
of proceedings in the case OF silver:
and. indeed, it is even questionable
whether the final decision will be
i, reached until after the Democratic con-
vention at Chicago. In the meantime
Should an arrangement be made to pre-
serve to the silver bill its advantageous
position as the unfinished buSineSS) there
are special orders which can be disposed
of. These are: The bill for the devel-
OpmenG and encouragement OF silk
culture in the United States; the bnll
fixing the compensation OF United
States district attorneys; and the bill
for the allotment of lands among lndia',
tribes in the Quapaw agency in the In
dian territory. -
The committee on appropriations is
hard at work on the Sundry civil apprO-
priation bill, and may have it ready to
take the place of the silver bill when
the latter is laid aside temporarily. And
there are many public bills on the cal
endar which may. under like conditions.
occupy the attention of the senate-the
first of these being Mr.. Dolph'S bill
making an appropriation tor the pur-
chase of sites for Notifications.
The sundry civil appropriation bill has
at last been passed, and it is expected
that the house will now make better
progress of the appropriation bills. Oni
Tuesday, when the house re-aSsembleS
after its Decoration day holiday, con-
sideratiOn of the postoffice approprla.
ton bill will be resumed, and the Dill
will be taken up by paragraphs, general /
debate having closed. The bill is a
short one, and with the exception OF the
paragraph reducing the rate of COM
penSatiOn to be allowed land grant and
government-aided railroads for carrying
the mails, and one Or two other para
graphs, there is nothing i'll it likely TO
cause prolonged discussion, SO that two
more days should certainly suffice to |
put the bill on its final passage.
A struggle for precedence will then /
take place between the agricultural /
committee, to have the house take up |
the anti-optIons bill in accordance with |
the resolution adopted by the Demo
cratic caucus. If the appropriations |
committee wins, it will call up the legis !
lative, executive and judicial appropria- !
ton Till, reported to the house last Sat
urday, the majority of the committee |
being of opinion that this bill, though |
subsequently reported, should have |
priority in the house of the fortifica- |
tons appropriation bill, which has been /
on the calendar for several weeks. |
Either the anti-options or the legislative |
bill is sufficiently important and inter- |
esting to occupy the house for the re- |
mainder of the week after the postoffice |
appropriation bill has been disposed o.. |