Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-25
HATCH IMPATIENT
He Frets Over Delay On the
Anti-Option Bill
AND SAYS THERE IS A CONSPIRACY

Two Rumors of Agreements, One of
Which the Missouri Statesman Denies
Another Scheme to Dispose of the Sen
ate Amendments to the Sundry Civil
Bil-A Rejected Appointee Says Unkind
Things of Senator Gorman-Trouble for
the Hawaii Treaty in the House
Capital City Items.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga pronounced
snti-silver representative is authority for
the statement that an agreement has been
reached between Holman and Hatch
whereby the anti-option bill will be taken
up and the Sherman amendment TO the
sundry civil bill disposed OF by means of
cloture. Hatch will aid Holman in cloture
on the Sherman amendment, and Holman
will urge his friends to aid Hatch in taking
up the anti-option bill. Hatch was asked
relative TO to this rumor. He emphatically
denied it, saying: There is not a word of
truth in it, nor any foundation for it.
firmly believe that there is a distinct agree
ment and conspiracy between the opponents
OF the anticipation bill, the friends of the
repeal of the act known as the Sherman
act, and the friends of the senate rider to
house appropriation bill which provides a
new lease of life to national banks, to defeat
consideration of the anti-option bill, in or
der that the other measures may be
adopted, Wall street glorified, and the peo-
pie of the country turned down"
Remarks of Hatch in the House.
In the house yesterday Hatch was chair
man Of the committee of the whole, which
was considering the Indian bin About 5
p. m. he left the chair and addressed his
successor therein, saying that for three
legislative days the Indian bill had been
under consideration. There was not, he
continued, an intelligent member of the
house who did not absolutely know that at
this hour of the session the appropriation
bill was being used as a means of obstruct-
ing the consideration of the anti-option
bill and that the opponents of the latter
measure, the friends of the decentralization
Of silver, and the friends of the senate
rider to an appropriation bill! we1e in an
absolute agreement and conspiracy, and
no gentleman from this time until l.
O'Clock to-day Saturday week could
shield himself under any sort of subterfuge
unless he was willing to go on record not
OhA1 dS OppOSCu " Tue dulI-ODtlOIS DILL,
but as the opponent of silver and the
friend OF the 3 per cent. amendment.
Another Alleged Agreement.
In conclusion he said he would fight this
alleged conspiracy to the last hour Of the
session. Further inquiry into the alleged
agreement noted in the first paragraph of
the above resulted in the disclosure of an.
other agreement that makes it probable
that there will be no fight in the house
over the Sherman bond amendment, when
the sundry civil bill comes up for action
on the amendments made by the senate,
and that the bill viii be quickly sent to
conference without a preliminary fight.
Holman. who will be the leading membe
of the house conference committee, and
Bland, the leader of the free coinage Dem
ocrats, have reached an agreement that the
bill shall be sent to conference without
the house first considering in committee OF
the whole and acting on the senate amend.
mentS It Is understood that the house
conferrees will stand firm against the
Sherman bond amendment, and that when
the conference report comes back there
shall then be vote on this amendment by
the house The silver men say that they
can make their fight then if the senate
should refuse to yield, and that by a vote
in advance of the conference it might hap
pen that the bill would go into conference
with the house concurring in the senate
bond amendment.