Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-09-30
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-A bill was

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OF standard silver. 1t provides that
not more than a hundred million shall
be coined in any one fiscal year, and
that the coinage shall cease when the
total coinage reaches one thousand
millions OF dollars. The bill provides
further that the silver bullion now
held in the treasury, purchased under
the provisions of the act of July IA,
1893, in excess of the amount necessary
to redeem the treasury notes issued
by the provisions of that act, shall be
coined into standard silver dollars and
converted into the treasury as mis-
cellaneous reserve.
Or the $50 ounces of silver offered to
the treasury department yesterday, DO
ounces were purchased at seventy-four
There is a growing probability that
the tactics of delay which the silver
senators are now employing will be
used in the senate by the republicans
to prevent the passage of the Wilson
tariff bill in the form in which it will
come from the house. There is no reason
why, as long as cIoture rule does not
exist in the senate, republican mem
bers should not take advantage of the
absence of limit to debate to wrest
from the democratic majority as many
concessions in tariff schedules as they
may demand. Bourke Cochran is
quoted as saying in reply to an inquiry
from friend, shat the fifty-third
congress would repeal the Mckinley
act, but the next thing it would dc
would be to pass another tariff bill as
much like the Mckinley law as posi-
ble."
This shows the feeling Of eastern
democrats who have been awakened
by hearing before the ways and means
committee of the growing feeling in
favor Of protection among his sout hern
brethren upon the tariff question.
The arrangement announced by Sen
ator Voorhees, at the close of yesterday 8
session that, beginning on Monday next,
the daily sessions of the senate shall
begin at IL a. NJ. and close at p. M,
was engineered by Senator Jones, of
Arkansas, and Faulkner, and was con-
sented to by Mr.. Voorhees,, when con-
WINGED that the agreement would be
satisfactory to both sides of the chamber,
and when assured, as be was, that un-
less an arrangement of this character
was made, the silver men would con-
sumo the time after reasonable adjourn
ment hour by dilatory motions, and not
with speeches, or that the friends of the
bill would be compelled to do the talk
ing. Mr.. Voorhees, feels that the
friends of the bill achieved a signal
triumph yesterday in showing the
disparity between their members and
those of the opposition, as was done by
the two votes taken, and that the coun-
try should accept this as an assurance
of the success of the measure when a
vote shall be reached, and that no adj
vantage can be gained by futile attempt
to prolong the working hours into the
night.
The repeal men are still hopeful of
reaching a vote at comparatively ear
ly day and none of them place the time
beyond the first week in October. 1t
will be observed that this will be in
time to get the bill out of the way for
the federal election bill, if that bilf
should come over from the house on
the 9th of October as it probably
will. They say, however, that even in
case the federal election bill should
reach the senate before the financial
bill is out of the way there would be
no danger OF displacing tho latter
measure with the former, and they
make this assertion with such assur-
ance as to give color so the report that
a canvass Of the senate has been made
upon this point and results have prov
en- satisfactory to the repeal leaders.
The silver senators spent the greater
part of the day in conference among
themselves looking to the closing up
of their lines and preparing themselves
for any sudden assault like that of
yesterday. They do not propose to be
taken by surprise again and will be
prepared for any emergency. They
believe that the agreement reached
yesterday will be to their benefit
and they are very much pleased with
1t. They have determined to hold on
until it can be ascertained whether the
elections bill can be taken up in the
senate to the displacement of the sill
yer bill. They say that they can talk
for reasonable length of time each
day until that bill can be brought in
and that they will find other means of
putting in the time until then if
forced to sit beyond the ordinary ad-
journment hour, which they do not
consider at all probable under the
agreement entered into yesterday. 1t
is understood that this agreement is
for only one week, but it Is presumed
that if necessary it will be renewed at
the expiration of that time.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept 25.-Fire
started in Townsend & Wystt's dry
goods store this morning and consumed
the five-story building of the Regnier &
Shoup Crockery company, the Com
mercial bank and other small buildings.
Loss nearly 100000. Unconfrmed
report is that three firemen were killed.
The loss is over 100000. The rumor
that five were killed by falling walls is
denied by the police. A number were
more or less seriously hurt. Over a hun
hundred people at work in Townsend &
Wyatt's building when the flames were
Escape was cut off but all
we're rescued by the fire department
The fire Is believed now to be under
control.
PITTsBURG, Sept. 26.-At Calamity,
Pa, small mining town, last night
Moen Laysen and August Brice attacked
August Reece and wife. They shot the
woman to death, beat the husband into
usenslbility and left him for dead
Laysen was captured but Brice escaped.
rhe murderers are anarchists who
plotted to go TO Canady and blow up
he public building. The Recess dis
covered the plot and the anarchists de-
,i6ed to put them out of the way.
SAN Francisco, Sept. 26.-The senss
ional Gllmour case took new turn today |
When marriage contract between Dr. |
Vest and Annie Staley, who the police |
ay was Vests accomplice in the murder |
# Miss Gilmour, was recorded.