The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-01-25
ARE STILL FIGHTING !
Anticipation Bill the Cause OF Much
Discussion.
Washburn Threatens to Continue the
Session Till Vote Is Taken.
JUDGE eREsHAM's CHANCES GOOD
1t Is Generally Believed hat He Will
Re Asked to Accept a Place in
CleveIand's Cabinet.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-[Special.J j
One thing after another has conspired
to delay final action upon the antl'op-
ton bill in the senate till its best friends
now admit that its chances of becoming
a law are remote, and that it will likely
fail of passage in the house. The senate
has amended the bill already in a num-
Der of material points, SO that when it
goes back TO the house there will be con-
siderable discussion should it again be
taken up. Ex-Speaker Reed, who is op-
posd to the bill, stated to a senator the
first of this week that if the bill was not
sent back to the house before the first Of
next week it would not be finally acted
upon, as beginning with next Monday
it is the intention of the committee on
rules, of which Mr.. Reed is a conspicu-
Gus member, to keep the appropriation
bills before the house till they are all
passed and that it would take night and
day work to get them all completed by
the end Of this session.
There will, Mr.. Reed said, beginning
on next Monday, be given days for the
discussion Of only two or three general
measures, and among them the anti op-
ton bill will not be. He added that
even should the anti, option bill get up
two or three days at least would be re-
quired for the discussion Of the senate
amendments, and it was his belief that
there could be no time given the measure
in the first place, and secondly a num-
Der of members would kill the time al.
lotted for it and her filibuster to defeat
a final vote. 1t looks now as though
the bill could not get out of the senate
before late next week, despite the fact
that its author, Mr.. Washburn, has
threatened to keep the senate ia contin-
uous session till a vote is reached when
the bill comes up again. In the senate
tomorrow Mr.. George, Of Mississippi,
will take the floor; after him will come
Messrs. Gray, Hill, Hiscock and Daniel.
All of these gentlemen are given to
lengthy speeches. Deaths, funerals and
all sorts of combinations have arisen to
retard the progress of the anti-option
bill till it now appears that it is doomed
to fail.
A report was circulated on the demo
cratic side Of the senate to day that Presi
dent elect Cleveland had rendered Judge
Walter q. Gresham a portfolio in the
new cabinet, and that he had concluded
to accept. There could be found little
direct information upon the subject,
such senators as Carlisle, Mcpherson,
Palmer and Gray, who are supposed to
get their information direct from Mr..
Cleveland, refusing to talk upon the sub
ject for publication. All Of them stated,
however, that it was not altogether i'm
probable that Judge Gresham would be a
member of the next cabinet. Senator
Brice, of Ohio, who is an intimate friend
of Senator Carlisle and is said to have a
'pipeline' into Mr.. Cleveland's kitchen
through Senator Carlisle, said to a sena-
tor in reply to the direct question whether
he believed Judge Gresham will be in MI
Cleveland's cabinet, IL do not know
whether Judge Gresham will be in Mr..
Cleveland's cabinet, but l do know that |
have it from reliable sources closely con.
nected with Mr.. Cleveland that he will
be rendered a place in the cabinet"
rs it your individual opinion that he
will accept?"
No. said Senator Brice, II do not be.
lieve he will accept. should add, how
ever, that | have no information upon
that point from Judge Gresham himself.
The judge may GO upon the bench of the
supreme court of the United States if he
does not go into the cabinet, and yet he
may go into the cabinet and also upon
the supreme bench" and the shrewd sena
tor from Ohio and New York smiled a
knowing smile.
One of the most prominent members
OF the senate committee on judiciary
really the most active member of it
said TO THE GLOBE correspondent in the
course of a talk on the subject of Gresham
and the cabinet: at is my opinion that
Gresham will not accept the place in the