The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-03-29
Belief Expressed That it Has Met
Its Death Blow.
BLAND VERY MUCH DISCOURAGED
AT THE OUTLOOK.
Congressman McKenna Retires From
Active Duty in the House as Repre-
sentatiyes of the Third District of
California Contracts for Furnish
ing Supplies at the Mare Island
Navy Yard Awarded-Proceedin
in Congress.
Special to the REcoRp-UxroN.

| Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
! WASHINGTON, March 26.-The chances
are that BANDS liver bill is knocked
out. Speaker Crisp confirms the report
that he will not, as member OF the
| Committee on Rules, vote to set time for
consideration and for calling the previous
question on the silver bill, unless ma
| jority of the Democratic members of the
House sign q petition requesting the
adoption of a cloture resolution. 1t is al
most certain that the majority of the
Democrats will not sign such petition.
! Representative Harter of Ohio. leaper
OF the anti-tree-coinage men OF the House,
said TO the correspondent Of the RECORD
! UNION this afternoon that the majority OF
! the Democrats would not sign such Pc
tition. He says Rland's bill is killed. All
Of the Virginia delegation except one, all
of the Indiana delegation except two, all
of the Ohio, and most of the members OF
| the Illinois delegation, have refused to
! sign it, and only two more refusalS are
wanting to insure the defeat of free coin
age. At any rate, for this session OF Con-
greSS.
Caminetti of California says he will
sign the petition, and will do anything in
his power to insure the passage of BANDS
| bill. Geary will not sign the request.
Speaker Crisp and his lieutenants say
| that it is useless for the Committee on
| Rules to set time for the consideration
OF the bill unless time is also set for the
debate to close and the previous question
to be ordered, because discussion could
be INDUCED in till the crack of doom, and
] he does not care to see so much time fritz
tered away.
| BLAND Is DOwNCAST.
| WASHINGTON, March 2S.-Speaker
| Crisp was asked by an Associated Press
reporter this morning if the reports were
true that the order would not be brought
in unless majority of the Democrats
signed the petition. lie replied, THAT is
my intention"
"Then the silver bill VIII never be
brought to vote?" queried the reporter.
| Il don't know that that follows" re-
piled the Speaker. ''They had a two
thirds majority of the Democrats and
may get majority to sign the petition
MIR. Bland, Mr.. Pierce and other silver
men were seen. Mr.. Bland was very
downcast over the news that he might
not force to vote the measure he has
worked for so long. He admitted that
| the report that the silver bill bad met
with a serious setback, and which prac-
! tically meant its death without final
vote, was well founded. But he said that
the matter was not absolutely settled.
Mr.. Pierce was little more confident,
but he and MI. Bland said they would
have nothing TO do with the CIRCULATING
of any more petitions. One Of the other
| silver men, however, attempted to get
| Signers to a petition of the nature Sug-
gested by the Speaker, but met with poor
| success, for, as already stated, many OF
the men who have heretofore voted for
the silver bill refused to sign it. Among
| 10 mn bar MIR Com of
land, who not only declined to sign the
petition, but gave notice that ii any
cloture resolution is brought in he will
vote against it.
The anti-silver men are exultant over
the changes in the situation, but the pro-
| irritated and angry, and do not hesitate
to Indignantly protest against the
! treatment they have received. They
| were so much discouraged at the declara-
| ton of intention of the silver men not to
sign any petition that the effort to secure
signatures to such paper was aban-
doned and no actual petition is now in
| circulation.
BLAND MAKES A STATEMENT.
| WASHINGTON, March 2S.-Bland this
afternoon made statement to the Asso-
| ciated Press. He said: 'When the rule
was first reported setting apart three
! days for consideration of the silver bill
/ insisted that the rule should be con-
tinuing order, to be considered from day
to day until disposed OF, knowing three
days could be filibustered out. Speaker
| Crisp replied that we ought to trust the
| Committee on Rules in that matter: that
| if three days were filibustered out with
| out disposing of the bill, the Committee
on Rules would report rule preventing
| tilibustering motions and compelling a
| vote.
| tia g |, l., i j u
| friends of the bill determined to continue
in session to prevent lapse of the legis-
lative day. Myself, Pierce and others
went to Speaker Crisp and asked whether
he thought tilibustering had proceeded
| long enough to satisfy the House and
country that the Committee on Rules
would be warranted in reporting a rule
by which all tihbustering motions would
be prevented and bring the House to a
direct vote upon the bill. He assured us
| that he thought filibustering had gone
| long enough to demonstrate that fact, and
the Committee on Rules would report a
rule TO bring the bill to vote.
Friday / went to the Speakers room
and Crisp advised the introduction of a
rule to be voted on to-day Monday pre-
venting all tilibustering motions, and
! compelling vote upon the bill. He sat
down and wrote out the rule himself I
| introduced it at his request, and had it
| referred to his committee, with the dis
| tinct understanding that the rule would
| be reported to-day. / never heard any,
| thing about his wanting petition of the
majority of the Democrats until this
morning, when we ought 10 have been
voting upon the order itself
"A telegram in New York paper this
morning, stating the correspondent had
] information from the highest authority
that Speaker Crisp would exact petitions
before acting upon the rule, was the first
intimation 1 had of anything of that
/ character. When we found the attitude
4 OF the Speaker changed it created con-
fusion and CONSERVATION among the free
coinage advocates. They felt that they
! had been deceived and disappointed by
| the action of the Speaker. The fact that
! the Speaker himself has changed his at
! titude toward the measure, and deceived
/ his friends, has caused great many free
/ coinage people to weaken, and | see ar
this time little hope of getting q majority
| OF the members TO sign a petition asking
/ that the rule be reported.n
| SPEAKER CRISP HAS WORD TO SAY.
Speaker Crisp, when shown BANDS
statement this evening, said he was sur
prised that Bland should so far have for
gotten himself and the true situation as
| to endeavor to mislead the public by
such statements. In justifying his posi-
ton, Crisp said when the rules were be-
ing considered he in caucus pledged the
party that no rule would be reported
prohibiting filibustering or cutting OFT
dilatory motions except at the request
and desire of majority of the Demo-