The morning call., 1893-09-03
A SLAP AT BLAND.
How the Gold rIen Will
Sidetrack Him.
HIS COMMITTEE IGNORED.
Springer to Be Given Charge of
the Repeal Bill When 1t
Comes Back.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-The admins
tration leaders in the House are already
perfecting their plans for dealing with the
bill repeating the silver purchase law when
the Voorhees, substitute comes back TO
them from the Senate, and they are will
ing to accept the voorhees, bill rather than
risk any delay by throwing it back to the
Senate. An impression has prevailed that
concurrence in the Senate substitute could
be moved from the floor without reference
to committee, but the leaders have con-
cluded from an examination of Speaker
Crisp's rulings in the case of other bills of
like parliamentary character that he will
refer the measure. He will not refer it,
however, to Mr.. BANDS Committee on
Coinage but to the Committee on Banking,
which contains eleven members who favor
repeal 10 five who are against it and one
who is doubtful. The doubtful member is
Black of Georgia. who voted with the free
silver men on the earlier rolcalls last
Monday, but who SWING into the other
column on the final vote for the passage OF
the Wilson bill.
1t will not take Springer long to get his
committee to submit their renort OF con-
currence with the Senate amendment, and
it will not take the Committee on Rules
long, if the silver men in the House are in
a filibustering mood, to report special
order and push the bill through.
There appears TO be no doubt that
Speaker Crisp will refer the bill to the
Committee OH Banking rather than 10 that
on coinage, both from the nature OF the
measure aud assurances he gave in the
conferences which preceded the final
agreement for vote on the Wilson bill.
The Wilson bill and the Voorhees, bill
make 10 reference TO coinage. They nei-
ther curtail existing coinage nor provide
for new, and they do not modify in any
way the provision of the Sherman law that
the Secretary of the Treasury shall coin
bullion for redemption purposes when he
thinks it necessary.
A plan for securing prompt action had
been mapped out by the gold leaders,
which would have accomplished repeal
almost as quickly as that which was
finally accepted by the silver men. This
plan contemplated the introduction OF a
bill similar TO the Wilson bill and the adop-
tion in the rules of the House of an order
from The Committee on Rules providing
for vote on a given day. The important
point in this scheme was that all free
coinage amendments were to be ruled out
of order upon the ground that the bill had
nothing to do with coinage. 1t was to be
reported from the Banking Committee if
reference TO committee became necessary
and to be treated as a currency bill rather
than a coinage bill.
Speaker Crisp took part in the con-
ferences on the subject and was under
STOOD to be ready to sustain the point, and
it is not doubted that be will refer the
Senate substitute to the Committee on
Banking on precisely the same grounds.
A gentleman who talked with the Presi-
dent this morning EXPRESSED himself as
very confident that the Voorhees, bill sus-
pending silver purchases will soon become
law. The gentleman did not pretend TO
quote Cleveland. but he had evidently re-
ceived q considerable infusion of hopeful
ness as a result of a talk with the Presi-
dent, and said he believed the bill would
pass within two weeks.
'The majority" he declared, Twill be at
least ten and almost certainly fifteen or
more. l should not be surprised TO see a
perfect stampede and almost as large
majority in proportion as was given in the
HOuse"