New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-02
THE BILL IN THE HOUSE.
IT STANDS NO BETTER CHANCE THAN
BANDS.
THE SPEAKER WILL NOT FAVOR IT. AND THE
REPUBLICANS WILL FIGHT 1T.
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REPUBLICANS WILL flPhI IA
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Washington, July 1.-The prospect OF any actoh
upon the Stewart silver bill by the iionsc Of Repre-
sentatives at this session must be regarded as doubtful
in the extreme As IL IS received by mat
BODY from the Senate, IL will be referred under the
rule to the Committee on Coinage Weights and Meas
ures for IL could not be left on the Speakers taDie
except by unanimous consent. which. Of course. IL
would be impossible to obtain The free-coinage men
have strong majority in the committee, and VIII
probably report the bill to the House promptly, where
IL will take its place at the foot Of crowded calendar
II can then be reached only In way because 1t
cannot command votes enough to suspend the rIlesl
which Is by Of closure rule reported from the
Committee on Rules and adopted by the House
Whether the majority could be persuaded 10 report
such a rule is than doubtful, In view OF the
refusal to do so in favor of the Bland bill.
In that case 1t will be- remembered. Speaker Crisp
and his Democratic colleagues of the Committee gu
Rules, refused to net until requested so to do b.
majority Of the Democratic members of the House
For several weeks petition In circulation and
strong efforts excrted by the friends Of the
bin to obtain the signatures Of a majority OF the
Democratic membership thereto, requesting the Com
mittee on Rules to act The highest number OF sig
natures obtained was 1903, and more than dozen OF
these were aftcrwad withdrawn and the advocate,
OF the Bland bill forced to abandon it, There Is
the best for saying that the views OF speaker
Crisp and his Democratic colleagues OF the com
mittce on Rules have undergone change, and that
they VIII yield to the Stewart bin greater degree
of consideration than they Were willing 10 bostow
upon the Bland bill
OF course the minority In the House" which Is OPP
posed 10 free coinage, will be alert and vigorous
against the Stewart bill as II against the Bland
BILL and will exhaust every resource Of parliamentary
obstruction. If necessary, In order t. defeat It, BE
sides there are Of Democratic Repre- entatives
who al heart favor free coinage but who at least
as anxious they four months ago to
have the subject postponed until after the Presidential
election. They would vote for the stewart bill il
forced confront it, but will quietly do all they
can to avoid the necessity Of facing the question at
this session.
Moreover. hot weather Is here the Democrats In thc
House have lest confidence in Themselves and ~
one another and their chief anxiety Is 70 have the
session brought to end n the earliest date prlcti
cable. in order that Trey may escape temporarily
from their Congressional duties and responsibilities.
Already many OF them have done thdt II Is only
by the greatest effort that quorum con be mustered
Taking everything into COnsid ration, lheNlol",
the parliamentary obstacles, the VlTiy ana vClllncc
of the opposition. the Indifference of mary friends OF
the measure and the general desire and anxiety oil
the Democrats 10 escape from Washington, the pro-,
poet Of the passage Of the stewart bal ~ ih, ion
must DC REGARDED extremely shiD.