Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-06
Another Long Day of Filibustering
in the House Prevents
A TEST VOTE on THE SUBJECT
The Third Party Platform Stronger Than
Its Candidates.
RADICALS OyERREACH THEMSELVES
ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHIc LETTER.
BUREAU OF THE DIsrAruH,
~ WXEuIM1r0N II q Ii1lv 4

tie occurred which engendered no end OF
bad blood between the two factions of the
Democratic party in the House. That body
adjourned early to-day, after flibustering
by the anti-free silver people, but it is al
most certain that, if the councils of this
evening prevail, the opponents of the bill
will permit the measure to go to its legiti-
mate committee tomorrow, without further
obstruction, and mrke their fight on it
when it is reported. first to prevent the re-
bort of a special order, and then against the
bill itself, if a special order be reported and
adopted.
Whatever the outcome may be, it will
only be after battle the parallel of which
I has not been vet WITNESSED in this Congress
a Two great factors enter into the fight now
which were not present when the Bland bill
was defeated, some time ago, by the per-
sistent filbustering of Tracey and Fitch, of
New York; Williams, of Massachusett;
Raynor. of Maryland, and Harter, of Ohio,
aided by all but about half dozen Re-
publicans
Bland Not at All Dispirited.
Mr.. Bland said to me this afternoon that
he has not at any time despaired of the
passage of free silver bill of some kind at
this session. He believes that public sentl-
ment has been so thoroughly aroused on
the subject and even in the eastern States,
that defeat is impossible except by Presi-
dental veto, which would result in the loss
to the Republicans of several western Re-
publican States. The argument is that the
Democrats can lose nothing by passing a
silver bill, while the Republicans are sure
to lose great deal by the veto of free coin
age BY Republican President
Aside from all these considerations,
stumbling block in the way is the divided
opinion of free coinage leaders in regard to
the effect of the Stewart bill Mr.. Bland's
opinion that it will have to be amended to
prevent the demonetization of nearly
100000 of bullion certificates whose re-
demption is provided for only in bullion,
has great weight, and it is almost certain
that this opinion will prevail, and that the
il passed by the House, will be in an
ende% form. This will impose,
,ticalrys another contest in the Senate,
Senator csnferees unfavorable to the
would undoubtedly be appointed. The
coinage sentiment in the Senate is,
Jwever, almost unquestionably strong
nough to fight down all opposition and
delay.
Anti-Free Coinage Senators Out oft.
The anti-free coinage Senators have lost
their grip. German, after playing fast and
loose with the question in the interests of
his Presidential ambition, attempted to pre-
vent vote on the Stewart bill, and defeat
it if voted upon, but was able to control
only his own vote and that of his colleague,
Senator Gibson, who absented himself
after avowing his friendliness for the bills
and permitted German to pair him
against it.
Conceding the passage of free coinage
measure by the House and Senate, the ac-
tion of the President, that somewhat anom-
alous court of last resort in republican
government, becomes the chief point of in
terest Senators Stewart and Teller and
other Republican free coinage advocates
say that Mr.. Harrison will not dare to veto
such a bill if it passes Congress, as so blind
and bigoted an antagonism to the voice of
the popular representatives of the people
would certainly lose to him every Repub-
lican silver State. They say that he can
easily and logically sign such bill, at the
same time giving expression to his adverse !
opinions. but also paying respect TO the
voice of Congress and TO a vast mass of the
people of the country.
Consistency of the President
In this they are probably counting too
much upon Mr.. Harrison's devotion to |
practical politics" The President has
usually been consistent to the extent of
sheer obstinacy in his adherence to his own
convictions, and will be almost certain to |
veto bill passed only by preponderance |
of Democratic votes in both House and |
Senate. However, it will place the Presi- |
dent in very annoying position should the |
free coinage bill pass as he will have to |
look in the face an almost certain loss of |
several of the lesser Republican States of |
the West-possibly, in the aggregate, suffi- |
cient to eounteract success in the almost |
forlorn hope of carrying New York.
1t is condition of things really dramatic, |
and one which leads President Harrison to
urge upon his friends in tine House and |
Senate to strain every never to prevent |
a free coinage bill from reaching the White |
House.
Generally speaking, both Republicans and |
Democrats here, in and out of Congress,
profess to be nightly pleased bv the |
nomination of Weaver for President by the
Peoples party. They say that Weaver has
been so long and so we'll known as .'crank"
in Congress and in politics that the nomina-
tion weakens the movement" tremendously
at the outset. A few, however, in both
parties do not minimize the influence of the
work of the Omaha Convention.
The Platform the Best Of 1t.
Mr.. Bland, though thorough Democrat,
said to me to-day that the platform of the
convention, while it goes so far in advance
of the utterance of any former organization
Except the Socialist, which has been too
obscure to be counted), is the result of the
operation of influences which have been at
work tor long years, and is the first formi-
dable advance made beyond the old party
shibboleths that has been made since the
Free Soil party took the infant step that led
TO the abolition of slavery.
The truth is, the platform goes almost as
far as that of the great State Socialist party
of Germany, which numbers full 2,000 600
voters, and at this time has a larger repre-
sentation in the Rechstag than any other
of the several parties in German politics
That convention largely composed of
representatives of the farmer element,
which is usually the last to be caught by
new and revolutionary ideas should SUBJ
scribe to the acquisition of all the means of
transportation and communication by the
people themselves, is thought by the con-
servatives of the old parties to be most
alarming and revolutionary STEP
Senator Sherman said to-day that the
pIattorm was declaration against the vest
ed interests which demanded the most seri-
Gus attention from all who objected to ex-
periments which were coined in the fancy
OF men whose emotions had been aroused by
either the spur of personal ambition or BY
brooding over real or imaginative abuses
which must be corrected; if real. BIZ the wis.,
dom of time and growth of understanding ,