The herald., 1893-09-20
THE CRUCIAL STAGE.

Voorhees, Once More Tries to Bring the
Repeal Bill ton Vote.
!, WASHINGTON, Sept. l9.r-The situation
in the senate on the repeal bill reached
the crucial stage this morning. Voor-
hees, leader Of the repeal forces, after
sensational denunciation of the New
York bankers and defiance to the press
that has been criticising his actions and
questioning his motives, demanded that
the minority senators name date for
the final vote.
Immediately after the senate met the
repeal bill was taken up. Voorhees, once
more sought to obtain an agreement as
to when vote was to be taken. Time,
he said, would not be misspent in in
structing the public mind in regard to
the organization of the senate. In do
ing this he addressed himself to the great
body of intelligent public opinion, as we'll
as in some quarters to the dense, opaque
degree of gnorance-ignorance in some
respects innocent, in others malicious.
He then reviewed the history OF the
rules of the senate from its creation,
showing that for II years. from 1889, the
senate amongst its rules had provision
for the previous question. 1t was tried
fully, and in 1906, when Thomas Jeffer-
son was president, it was deliberately
abandoned and never claimed or sd-
mitted from that hour to the present.
II am now arraigned," said Voorhees,,
"before the bar Of public opinion for not
terminating this debate. AS well might
l be arraigned for not terminating the
tide OF the ocean or the north wind. In
abandoning the cloture rule the govern
ment of this great body was placed
upon the sense of propriety, patriotism.
Difference to public sentiment and pub
lie interests of each senator and OF the
body itself. With the assurance in the
minds of those then in the senate, that
no senator would be found to abuse the
patience of this body or outrage public
business or public interests, for 81
years this body has been law suffi-
cient unto itself. 1t never has been
found wanting in peace or in war; 60
that the criticisms Of a certain class will
fall as harmless upon this body as they
fall upon me.
$50 far as concerns the personal criti-
cism of myself, may as well embrace
this moment as another, to say they are
served the people of Indiana many yearg
and have had no explanations required
when l have gone home to them, and I
treat with scorn and immoasurabls con-
tempt, the suggestions coming from
New York bankers or anywhere else, as
to the motives which govern me. l re-
spond to that kind of criticism by say
ing it comes from class of whom the
Saviour of the world never spoke with
respect, nor do /.
A vote had to come on the repeal bin,
Voorhees, said, and he appealed once
more to the senators in charge OF tho
opposition to the repeal BILL which. he
said, was supported by public opinis u
and majority of the senate, to know
whether or not there was tins in
their minds when vote would ~
agreeable to them.
were yet to be heard. My own impres-
sion is the senator in charge oi this
measure would better proceed in az Or
derly manner and in the cue omsry way.
He will reach result sooner By that
course. The opponents OF repeal ere
ready to join issue with ito friends.
whether it DO for longer sessions. con-
tinuous session or the ciotnre. ,fhe pass
age of the repeal bill wolld sound tie
death knell OF ailver as money metal.
No jugglery with words can obscure the
issue. Senators talk sweetly about al
International agreement. forcing Eng
land into bimetallism, but when the
pending bill is passed, tho doom Of sill