St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-05
The Silver-Dollar Congress-
man on Deck to Lead the
Expected Fight.
Discouraging, Possibly Fatal,
Complication Confr onting
Silver Men.
Senator Stewart's Measure
Thought to Be Defective
in Wording.
Bland Intimates It w ould Re-
pudiate the Silver Ger
tifieates.

WASHINGTON, July 4. = Mr.. Bland
has returned from Missouri and is ready
to take ho.d of tie big end of the silver
fight. His return was entirely on ac-
count of the silver bill having passed
the senate, and he is here to try and get
1t through the house. He will call "a
meeting of the committee on coinage
weights and measures Wednesday for
the purpose of considering the measure,
and speedy report is expected.
There is a complication in the Situa-
ton, however, which embarrasses the
silver men. Mr.. Bland believes that
the Stewart bill will have to be amended
in order to prevent its being practical
reputation of the silver certificates now
outstanding.
Mr. Bland said to reporter today:
II have not had chance to talk with
members of the committee or with the
senators who are interested in silver,
nor have made a full investigation of
the subject: but, looking the bill over,
fear it will have to be amended.
IEepudiates Certificates.
"It seems to me that by repeating the
act of 1899, this bill deprives the eighty
odd million of silver certificates OF their
} legal tender quality. This would admit
of a veto by the president without refer
/ cnce to the question of silver coinage,
upon the grounds that the act repudiat-
ed the certificates as lawful money. The
legal tender quality given these certiii-
Gates when they were issued must be
preserved, and il this act by an mad
yetrence deprires them Of that quality.
! 1t must be amended before it is passed
/. by the house. OF course there was no
|, Intention on the part of the gentlemen
proposing the bill to destroy the legal
tender character of these certificates,
and it may be that they have looked
into the matter and discovered that it is.
all right, but 1t seems. to HE that there
has been an oversight which must be
corrected.
Is unfortunate if we have to amend
the bill, as.it wiH. then have to 90 back
: to the senate for further action, and its
enemies then may be able to talk it to
, death, but it is better to do that than to
pass it as it is, if it takes the legal ten,
. der quality from more than $50. 0.00O, 600 in
; the hands of the people. | am, as l
have said, talking without having con-
suited with those who prepared the bill,
sand it may be that | am mistaken. l
( hope | am.
8 Confident: of Passing It.
$50 far as the passage OF the bill is con-
cerned, l AMI sure we can accomplish
that ii we bring it to vote. If 1T proves
necessary to amend IL we will do 80, and
send it back to the senate for consider
alton. If 1t turns out that no amend
;ment is necessary the matter will be
very simple"
. There will be meeting of the COM
mittee on rules tomorrow to consider the
. proposition to fix upon Thursday of this
week as suspension day, to take the
place of the day lost by reason of to-
day being legal holiday. The pur-
pose is to secure the passage of the tin
plate bill, action on the conference re-
port on the river and harbor bill, and TO
pass several less important bills. This
proposition contelnp!ates the ordinary
two-thirdS suspension.
( Mr.. Pierce has Introduced resolution
providing that on a day to be agreed
upon it shall be IN order to move a SuS-
pension of the rules to pass public
measures which have been pre- egiouSIy
discussed, and that a majority vote shall
De sufficient. 1t is probable that such a
rule will be reported from the commit
tee on rules, and, of course. if a majority
favor it. it will be adopted. as reports
from the committee OIL rules cannot be
flibusterett against.
1t may be that this proposition will be
adopted at the meeting tomorrow in-
stead of the twO-thrds suspension rule
for Thursday to secure the passage of
the tin plate and other bills as we'll as the
silver bill, but this is uncertain. If it is
not adopted now. it probably will be
adopted later. in ORDER to bring about a
vote ON the silver bill.