St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-30
PIERCE ON THE HUSTLE.
One Supreme Effort for Cloturev
WatSOn's War Cry.

WatSOn'S var Cry.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The free
coinage advocates have not yet given
up the fight in the house of representa-
tiveS. The controversy between Mr..
Bland and Speaker Crisp was the SUBJ
ject of general comment today, and tho
former announced that he Will make no
further attempt to secure decree of
cloture from the committee on rules, but
Mr.. Pierce, of Tennessee, and other
leaders in the free coinage move
ment have again taken courage and will
make one supreme attempt to force tho
the committee on rules to report Il rula
fixing day and hour for final vote on
the passage Of the bill.
Up to the hour of adjournment of the
house this evening between 00and 100
names had been secured to the petition
asking the committee on rules to bring
in report for further consideration and
a final vote on the bill. The total num-
ber of signatures required is 1lS, and
many believe that it will be found i'm
possible to secure more than 100 DameS
to the petition. There are really l3S
members who can reasonably be re-
duested to sign the petition, but even
this shows the free coinage people with
a narrow margin of but twenty mem-
berS. 1T is quite positively stated by
the anti-frce coinage members that over
twenty Democratic members who last
week voted for the bill have already re-
fused to sign the petition but that so
many positive refusals have been given
is denied by the advocates of the bill.
The most Jubilant members in the
house Just now are the nine Peoples
party congressman. who rejoice in the
discontinue of the Democratic major
ity, and claim that the failure to pass
the free coinage bill means that the
Peoples party will carry six or eight
states in the coming campaign. Repre-
sentative Watson, the leader. tonight
said: This action III the house on the
silver bill is the death knell Of the old
Democratic organization. Hundreds Of
thousands of voters in the Southern
states have felt that if financial relief
could be had, Democracy as now organ
lied would give that relief if it had
chance. 1t was only by the help of nine
Peoples party members and eleven Re-
publicans that the immense Democratic
majority OF 14S escaped a Waterloo.
Consequently, the most conservative
Democrat in the South knows now
that Democratic majOrities welded un-
der the present organization mean abs0-
lutely nothing so tar as practical legis-
latiOm is concerned.
mo power on earth can now keep
Georgia from going into the electoral
college with the Peoples party cOnven-
tion, and | confidently believe that the
same is true of several other Southern
states. / believe now that the immense
majority of the Democrats all over tho
South will come to our party as the true
exponents OF the JeffersOnian prin-
a.. In Of ttn mi Of
against the Hamilton doctrine of the
rule of money and Of the classes. Let
1t never be forgotten that MI BOutelle,
of Maine, Republican, asked the
Tammany Democrats to stop hlibuster-
ing on the bill, and challenged the Dem
Ocratic house to come at once to a
direct vote on the bill itself. That
challenge was refused, and refused by
Democrats. I'm other words, a magnf-
cent Democratic majority Of l4S found
itself absolutely pOwerless to leglsate
upon mild measure of reform to
which their party is committed and upon
which they have sought and obtained
votes"
The notice given in the senate this
afternoon by Senator Stewart Of his III
tentiOn to call up his free silver coinage
bill next Monday created a sensations,
Notwithstanding tine fact that it was eX-
pected, in view Of the setback the Bland
bill had received in the house, that the
struggle must sooner or later be trans
ferred to the senate. As far as can be
learned, Mr. Stewart appears to have
acted altogether on his own re-
spOnsibility in precipitating the issue.
Democratic senators are as yet unde-
cided as TO the attitude they shall as
sumo when the bill is called up by Mr..
Stewart. Senator Carlisle remarked that
the outcome of the effort to pass the bill
would be extremely doubtful. and this
view appeared to be generally enter
tanned on this side of the chamber. 1t
is probable that there will be a general
consultation among the Democratic sem
ators before next Monday with a view
of reaching an agreement upon united
line OF action. On the Republican side
OF the senate the opinion is that the bill
mil f1n