The Russellville Democrat., 1893-09-07
DOINGs OF CONGRESS.
The Action of Senator voorhefs May Infiu-
 ence the Proceedings
IN THE SENATE.
Tue House Debating Proposed Changes in the Rniss--The Speaker
 Impatient.

hees yesterday in calling fer vote by the senate on the repeal bill will be to keep the senators regular in attendeS5a upon the sessions of the senate. It will also keep the silver men constantly on the alert and on the defensive, for if they know that at each pause in the debate iron now on Senator Voorhees, will be pressing for a vote, they will be compelled to keep one or more men in the chamber and ready to take the floor at moment s notice. The silver men will not al low a vote to be taken until they are unuable to hold the floor any longer. That is the point to which the fight will finally be brought, for the men from the silver states will never consent to vote being reached any other way. It is doubtful if the Democratic majority will ever consent to the adoption of the cloture rule, no matter how long the debate might be strung out. What the free coinage men seek to accomplish by delay was indicated by Mr. Vance, in his speech. He urged the advocates of silver to hold on a little while longer, and spoke of the improvement already going on in business throughout the country. The silver men hope, if they can de- lay the vote long enough, the condi- ton of the country will be sufficient ly improved to weaken the demands of the people upon the senate for action, and in this way they can finally get the advocates of repeal to consent to some sort of a compro- mise.
 Senator Peffer, of Kansas, has introduced sub treasury bill. The bill was not read, but referred to the judiciary committee. The bill as a matter of fact IS in the nature of several amendments to the con- stitution of the United States.
 The greater part of yesterday s cabinet session was spent in discus sion of some method relieving the deficit in the treasury department. There is good reason for saying the cabinet meeting was called more for the purpose of consider ing this question than any other. Secretary Carlisle has for week been meeting the cur rent expenses of the government by the use of the gold reserve. To-day he considered it wise to stop pay ment in gold and began payment again in paper money. Whether the attention called to the report of the house judiciary committee that payment of ordinary expenses out of the gold reserve was illegal had any influence on the secretary it is impossible to ascertain. Treasury officials stated that no more gold would be paid out at present except on demand, ,and paper cnrren- cy would be continued as long as there was a supply of that class of money. But there is not more than $250,000 available in the treasury here of paper money, how ever much there may be elsewhere.
 The end of the debate on rules in the house is not yet. No one can say just when it will come. Good progress has been made. Most of the sections that should legitinately cause debate have been left behind. It is prediction that the upshot of it will be the adoption of code closely similar to the rules of the last congress, and the trans action of business at the old stand and in the old manner. Two years ago the debate upon the adoption of the committes report ran through three weeks, and it was necessary near the close to hold a Democratic caucus in order to reach an under. standing.
 It is thought unlikely that this form of cloture will be used in order to secure a mode of government for the Fifty third house. The talking may be closed to-day, or it may run another week. Mir. Crisp is grow ing impatient and Mir. Reed noarse.