The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-23
COMPROMISE GOSSIP
Fight on the Passage of the Bill
Will Be Spirited.
Promise of a Break i'm the Senatorial
Deadlock To-Day Stirs Up the
Members of the House.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Speciai 10 Ine lnOlanpOl1S JOURNAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-The probablli-
ties of the proposed compromise the sill
yer question made public yesterday becom-
ing law were vigorously discussed to-day.
Friends of the measure are sanguine that
it Will be accepted by the majority Of the
Senate. although there remains a few who
have not accepted the request of Chair
man VOORHEES, to offer the substitute for
when it will be presented. Silver Senators
from the West are by no means satisfied
with 1t. They are quoted. however. as say
ing that they will not offer any obstruc-
tive tactics to vote, after being allowed
an opportunity to vote in favor of a
free-coinage substitute. Senator Pettigrew.
of South Dakota, is one Of the most out
spoken critics of the compromise.
Unconditional repeal" he said, "is a
thousand times more to be preferred, even
from a silver mans standpoint. The pres
ent hard times are not going to grow bet
ter right away, whatever legislation be
passed and this compromise will put the
whole onus of the situation on the silver
men. The purchase of silver will continue
until within a month of the election next
year, and because the hard times have
continued people will say: If the bill had
been repealed all would have been WE'LL
And the silver men will also be handicapped
in their efforts to prove that the sherman
law was not responsible for tne distress
throughout the country On the other hand,
If the bill had been repealed outright In
year from now the people would be in favor
of the restoration OF silver as money.
shall not vote for it
Senator Jones, of Nevada, who has spoken
already on three different days, announced
last night that he would require parts or
two or three days more for the conclusion
of his remarks. Senator Teller also has on
hand speech which he began m. TWO or tnree
opportunity to conclude. There are proba-
bly, others of the silver advocates who are
similarly situated They VIII . be given given rsd an
even though the adjustment or the question
shall be definitely settled. In all proba-
bility there will also be many speecnes IN
but these will be comparatively snort
There is possibility that the compromise
may fail though all the probabilities are
in favor of it's success. If it should fail
the throttle will be thrown wide open again,
and no one can foretell what the work
might bring forth. Such state of af-
fairs would almost certainly force the Sem
ate into a fierce fight over the rules 1t is
probable that Senator Voorhees, Will make
Il summing up speech during the week II
the compromise amendment is introduced.
Republican leaders in the House declined
to talk for publication on the ground that
the terms of the compromise have not yet
been known, and until that be done they
prefer not to commit themselves. Talks
with Mes srs. Reed, Hopkins OF Illinois, and
others, fowever, demonstrated that on one
point they were not satisfied. That was the
coinage of the seigniorage OF the bullion
now in the treasury and the bullion yet 10
be purchased, and increasing the currency
TO that amount without providing any way
for the additional purchase OF additional
gold to maintain the parity OF the two
metals. Unless a provision of this sort be
made 1T will be difficult, from present m
dications, to secure any Republican votes
in the House.
This week will open in Congress with
better promise of a break In the deadlock
in the Senate than has been evident Tor
many days. 1t is the intention OF the man
their proposition before the body at the
earliest possible cement, probably to-mor-
question of ways and means to secure ac-
| ton on 1t, for strong opposition is expected
| from the Populist Senator's, and there Is
no means of knowing what measure OF sup
port can be expected from Republicans III
necessary, however, there may be resort
to cloture. Such a proposition would be
much stronger when indOrSed by ma
jority of Democratic Senators than when
it was broached before, and there is no
reason to suppose that the vice President
would not, in such case, take the necessary
steps to bring the question to a vote. The
Voorhees, amendment to the rules would, In
this event, be the means of closing the de-
bate. and as this has already occupied more
than the thirty days specified III the new
rule, the adoption of the voorhees, rule
amendments very speedily. Even If the
compromise movement should fail again,
1t is understood that a cloture rule VIII De
pressed, probably beginning TUESDAY, ana II
is fully expected by Senator Hill that the
few conservative Democrats In favor OF
repeal who SO far have declined to sign his
petition to the Vice President, in the nope
that by an agreement on compromise
the necessity for cloture would be removed,
will then fall into line and sign the petltlon.
The development of the programme IN
the House this week will depend upon the
course of events in the Senate. If the
latter body should speedily adopt the silver
compromise. now imminent. or make any
other disposition of the pending question,
it is the opinion of Speaker Crisp and
other members of the committee on rules
which is the managing force of the House.
that recess FOR two or three weeks, or
possibly for an adjournment of the ex-
traordinary session, would follow IN Day
or two The announcement, therefore, that
an early settlement of the silver question
in the Senate was probably brought on a
season of waiting. In the meantime, how
ever, the DILL TO establish a uniform system
of bankruptcy, reported by the committee
on judiciary. Is on the calendar for con-
sideration tomorrow, with no limit or
House. in case the opportunity presents it
self, to consider proposition for a recess
or adjournment, either to act quickly on
the bankruptcy bill and get IL out OF the
way, or to postpone present definite ac-
ton and take 1T up again when Congress
shall reassemble. In case Congress con-
tfnueS IN session through the week. beside
tie bankruptcy bill, there several
measures on the calendars which are likely
to be called up for action or consideration
in the morning hours Prominent among
them the bills authorizing settlement
of the accounts Of Florida with the United
States, directing the appointment of COM
rnittee to revise the personnel of the navy,
to amend the interState-commerce act and
to submit the famous McGarrahan claim to
the Court OF Private Land Claims. The
bill to regulate the public printing and dis
documents 10 first
business after reading the journal to-mor-
row, the House having adjourned on Sat-
urday pending a vote on its passage, the
roll call disclosing quorum.