The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-23
THIS WEEK IN THE KousE.
The Bankruptcy Bill to Hold the
Floor Unless the Repeal Bill is Sent

Floor Unless the Repeal Bill is Sent
Over.
Washington, Oct. 22.-The course of
events in the House during the coming
week win hinge upon the result of the
effort to put through the compromise at
the other end of the capitol, If the COM
| PROMISE should reach the House before
the consideration of the bankruptcy bill,
I which is made a continuing order begin
1 ming tomorrow, is disposed of, that order
| will be vacated TO the end that prompt
action may be had on the financial
measure. 1t is not expected that the
compromise bill will reach the House, un-
4 der the most favorable circumstances,
until the latter end Of the week. Unless
| 1t become apparent that there might be
| unreasonable delay in committee, the
/ bill will be referred, under the rule, TO
| the committee on coinage, weights and
measures
WILL RUN NO RISK.
! II there is a disposition to hold it there
! a motion will be made to concur In the
/ Senate amendments when the bill Is
! taken from the speakers able, The at
/ titude of the republicans toward the bill
/ viii he governed by the course Of the re-
/ publican senators. The silver democrats,
/
! follow the lead of their political brethren
| of the Senate In fact no sort Of doubt
| seems to exist about the House that ii
| Will pass and pass with expedition, any
| compromise that goes through the Senate,
! The bankruptcy bill, unless the tinan-
! cial measure dislodges IL, viii probably
occupy the entire week Much opposi-
I tion TO this measure in its present form
I has developed. RepresentativessCu sCulber-
o. nd lna fsatr u nseA Tar A
| Stone, rep, of the committee which re
| ported the bill, are among Its opponents.
STONE TO OPEN THE FIGHT.
Mr. Stone will open the fight against
the bin to morrow. MIR Culberson says
chat il must be amended in many particu-
| lars while others say that IL can never
| pass unless radical changes are made.
| One of these changes Is the Involuntary
clause by which man may be put
through the bankrupt court, even when
IL is not to his advantage or that Of ma
jority Of his creditors to have such
action taken. MIR, Stone points out
many defects in the bill, which
he says, to a casual observer arc
harmless. He is opposed to the bill on
general principles. There have been three
bankrupt laws passed and all have been
| repealed, The longest that any remained
| on the statute books was eleven years
| the Others less than two years.
THE TIME NOT oPPoRrUNE.
Mr.. Stone says that TO pass law now
during the depression, would cause great
deal of hardship, as 1t is a time wher
there should be leniency instead of strict
ness in the collection Of debts. Under the
present stringency he thinks there would
be an immense quantity of goods sold un
der the hammer which would seriously
in tp7sfapp 14ri Nh man yed iO lpuif ~
business. Another serious obstacle which
he finds in the bill Is the fact that it is 81
in tricate that very few lawyers would bI
able to master il in all its details, anC
that they would have monopoly of the
business; also that all thC
trials of bankruptcy would bt
in the United States courts
and those courts are often remote from
the people, and would put people who are
involuntarily pushed into bankruptcy tC
a great deal Of inconvenience; and IN
these courts would be u small number OF
attorneys who would make q practice ol
the practice, and they would not have thC
business Of the involuntary, but the vol
untary bankrupt II the opponents of the
bill are not able to amend the bill they
will try ana defeat 1t. They will, Mt least
make it necessary to bring in a closure
rule to putt through.
Minor matters will occupy the atten
tion of the House during the morning
hour.
The McCarrahan claim, which will
come up again tomorrow, will consume
two days.
The passage of the printing bill on
which the House was divided when it ad-
iourned yesterday, will be delayed until q
quorum is produced, and its opponents
who are too weak to defeat it, say they
will insist upon, the presence Of quorum
if the bill is to be carried.
THE BANKING AND CURRENCY COMMITTEE
Practically the banking and currency
committee consists of seven democrat.
and six republicans. On the question OF
the repeal of the state bank tax, the re
publicans, Representatives Walker, Bro.
sius, Russell, and Johnson, of Indiana, are
all counted against the proposition
Counted with them are Representatives
Springer and Sperry. The democrats
who are counted in favor of repeal, are
Representatives Cobb, Of Missouri
Culberson, Cobb, of Alabama, Warner
Black, of Georgia, and Hall, of Missouri
This leaves the committee and 8, with
Representative Johnson, of Ohio, doubt
full. The men against repeal say that hC
is surely with them, and the repealers
say that he will support them if they
repeal certain propositions which he de
sires.
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