Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-30
HOPE FOR A CORPSE.
Free Coinage Advocates Try.
ing to Vitalize Their
Dear Departed.
AT WORK ON PETITIONS
To the Committee on Rules to Return
a Cloture Resolution.
THE SENATE TO BE GIVEN A DOSE,
When Dave Hill Will Be Forced to Get
Down Off the Fence.
OTHERS IN THE SAME KIND OF A BOX
AT WORK ON PETITIONS
THE SENATE TO BE GIVEN A DOSE,
When Dave Hill Will Be Forced to Get
Down Off the Fence.
OTHERS IN THE SANE KIND OF A BOX
ESPECIAL TELEeRAPHIc LETTER.


While they could not excuse the plair
breach of faith of Speaker Crisp in hi
action toward the free coinage men, tn,
number of excellent citizens VINO yesterday
hoped that the last had been heard of the
now tiresome subject, could hardly be ex
pressed in figures These men, lively with
hope yesterday, are sad to-day at the pros
pect of revival of the supposed corpse in
the Senate, and probably also in the House.
Mr.. Bland and his friends made great
effort to work themselves into frenzy ovel
the action of the Speaker last evening, and
30 far succeeded as to determine to renew
their efforts to secure signatures to the pc.
tition required by Speaker Crisp before he
will vote for 1t in the Committee on Rules,
including the provisions against flibuster-
ing, demanded by the silver men.
The work began this morning in earnest.
A few of the most active free coinage men
went about quietly with duplicate petitions,
and succeeded beyond their own expecta-
tions At o'clock they had rounded out
100 names of members who demanded clo-
ture and vote on the silver bill, and Mr.
Bland's face beamed as it has not for sew
eral days
Great Doubt a. to Its Success.
About Is additional names are needed,
and the irrepressibles hope to have these
before tomorrow evening. If they are sue
cessful In securing sufficient number of
names, which is yet very doubtful, it is
questionable if the bill can be passed. 1t
has lost its power to inspire, and Demo-
Gratis who would have feared to vote against
it one week ago will now upon a final test
record themselves in the negative, and
square themselves with their constituents
by showing the tremendous opposition to
the measure within the party. AS for Mr.
Bland, he processes not to care so much
whether the bill passes as to place Demo-
Gratis on record. He is anxious to know the
exact strength of free coinage among the
Democrats of the House; to show the dis
tricts in which free coinage is strongest;
to prove that it is vital principle with the
Democrats in Democratic States, and In
Republican States which have in recent
years shown a strong disposition to drift
into the control of the Democrats, and thus
force substantial recognition of free COIN
age upon the National Democratic Conven-
tion.
A Dose OF Free Silver for Senators.
No matter what may be the outcome of
the canvass now being made in the House,
we are to have a dose of free silver In the
Senate, which will be less welcome than 1t
would be at the other end of the capitol, as
speeches in the Senate are always longer
and more tiresome than in the House. Sem
ator Stewart is determined to force his free
coinage bill on the Senate next week 1t
will be interesting solely because, If it be
brought to vote, it will place Senators on
record.
The Republican Senators are Indifferent
on this point Their position is well
known. A very few of them will support a
free silver bill, as they did two years ago
probably not SO many of them as at that
time. 1t is doubtful if Senator Cameron
will sgain be found ranged on that side. He
was hauled over the Goals so effectually two
years ago and made such a narrow escape of
getting himself mixed up in scheme to
speculate in silver, by purchasing the
metal, voting for the bill, and then selling
at the advanced price, that he will be very
thoughtful before he decides again to sup
port bill to bull the silver market
Hill Between the Millstones.
Cameron was the only Eastern Repub-
fcan who voted for free silver two years
ago. Sentiment since that time has become
crystallIzed, and it may be safely predicted
that not only will there be no Eastern Re-
Eastern Democrats will find it vastly more |
difficult to satisfy their constituents now if |
they support free silver than then.
Hill is between the upper and the neither |
millstones. Either way he will be ground to
pieces The unanimity OF New York Dem |
ocrats in the House against the Bland bill |
shows that it will be fatal for Hill to sup |
port free coinage, though his expressions of |
a few weeks ago were favorable to that |
view. To oppose free coinage would simply |
make him second fiddler to Cleveland
German will almost certainly oppose free |
silver, and Gray, OF Delaware, and McPher- |
son and Blodgett, of New Jersey, cannot be |
counted with any degree of certainty for
the Stewart bill
The vote of Representative Wilson, of |
West Virginia, on the Bland bill, may be
accepted as a reflection of the best senti- 1
ment OF that state, and therefore Faulkener
and Kenna, the West Virginia Senators,
may possibly be found in line with the
anti-silver men. 1t is almost certain, there
fore, that free silver will be found to have
lost in strength in the Senate, since a So
called free coinage bill was passed by ma
jority OF five or six in the Fifty-frst Con-
gress and the passage of such bill by the
Senate is very doubtful As has been said,
however, it will be interesting to have the !
Senators placed on record, especially as it
might result in funeral of the hopes of |
more than one Presidential aspirant.
The Nettleton Investigation.
The charges of Assistant Secretary Net
tleton, of the Treasury Department, against
OF Immigration Owen in the
ndinvestigation, to-day have created |
more comment than even the DEVELOPMENTS
of the Raum investigation of the last few
days. Mr. Nettleton charges unftness. in
untrustworthiness in the per-
formance of his official duties, careless
handling of public funds, persistent at
tempts to secure the payment of a false
voucher, crooked awards of bids, etc.
Mr. Owen is an ex-member of Congress-
from Indiana, and by profession was a
clergyman. He stood high in
the House, and his appointment by Presi-
lent Harrison to the new Office of Superin-
tendent of immigration was thought to be a
very shrewd act as the Campbel1ites are so
strong political power in Indiana. Mr..
owen was ambitious, however, and signal
zed his entrance into Office by the speedy
leliverance of an opinion upon an imbor-
ant question which should have emanated
,nly from the Secretary, or his assistant,
Settleton. Ever since that time there
las been bad blood between Owen
md Nettleton, and the unpop-
llarity of the latter everywhere in
he public service where he is known ha smade
OVENS annoyance of him somewhat well
ome. Mr.. Nettleton's letter to the Secre-
ary, under date of yesterday, making
ormal charges against Owen, and which
vas read to the investigating committee to-
ay, will probably bring the quarrel to