The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-10-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsmrSeros, Oct. lG, 1893
Posts Regular Correspondent.)

Edh0i' I0St
Everyone has known of cases
where people refused to believe then
loved ones when dead, although the
corpse lay before them prepared for
burial, or cremation. This is pre-
ciscly the condition Of the Voorhees,
unconditional repeal bill. 1t is dead
and everybody knows it, but few
Of it's nearest friends still refuse to
believe it or to consent to the final
disposal of the corpse. President
Cleveland, the chief physician and
mourner, insists that it is still alive
and that if the chief nurse, Senator
Voorhees,, and the assistant Senator
ial nurses will follow his directions
and give the medicine prescribed by
him that it may yet be restored t.
robust health. The opinion, howcv-
cr, is not shared by his associate ana
consulting physician, Secretary Car
Isle, who has prepared a substitute
for the dcfunct bill, which he woul6
prefer to one prcpurcd by the silvci
men if, as he believes, substitute is
bond to be accepted or all hope Of
financial legislation abandoned.
Secretary Carlislc's proposed
amendment, which is evidently in
tended to capture the vote of the
anti-repcal Southern Senator's, is
substantially as follows: The repeal
of the purchasing clause Of the Shcr-
man Law; the purchase Of 10000
600 ounce, of silver, onc-fourth t.
be purchased annually; the coinage
of the seignioragc i'll the Treasury:
the repeal of the tax on State bank
currency, and authority for the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, at his discrc
ton, to issue $3.50, 000,0 600 in bonds
to purchase gold This amendment
will not be li4,cly to get any Rcpubli-
can votes, because Of the proposst
repeal Of the State bank tax, bur
with that clause out Of it would lose
vote, among the Southern Senator's
There is number of other com
promise amendments prepared and IN
course Of preparation, in fact there
are 50 many Of them that their very
number and diversity is acting as a
preventative Of action, and may re
suit in nothing being done, although
the general impression among Soma
tors Of ali opinions j, that some Que
Of them will be passed ~ HE Sepate
this week. Conferences are hourly
being held and as soon rs any
amendment that can command a
ma ority sufficiently large TO prevent
administering against it is agreed
upon it will be at once passed BY
the Senate. That may be to-day,
or any LAY this week; but if no agree
mont is inachc1 this week it is alto
gcthcr probable that the whole q"c,.
ton may be thrown over TO the reg
uIar session, as it is daily becoming
more difficult to keep the Senator,
who are anxious, for one cause OF
another to 90 to their homes, in
Washington, and the moment it be
comes apparent that no agreement
can be reached adjournment will be
forced by lack of 4 quorum
One result of the physical cndHr
ancr lizzlc in tLo Senate is the pro
posal Of a large number Of nmcnl-
mcnts to the Senate Rule, all having
one end in vicw-the curtailn!cnt .!
privileges enjoyed under the present
rules by the minority. Whatever
MAJ he done in the future there is
no probability that all. Of the pro-
posed amendments will be adopted
at the present session. The roasou
is obyions,
In times Of excitement some fool
ish things are always done in Con
grcss, but Representative llartcr. oi
Ohio, would have gone down in his
tory as the originator Of the most
foolish thing ever done if some Of his
lrycl-hcadcd colleagues had not nip
ped the scheme in rhc bud: e drew
mp petition asking the penocratl"
Senators to Immediately pass the
VOORHEES, bill, and started out with
the intention of securing the sigma
turc, thereto of all the Democrats in
,hc House, but the bad taste of the
scheme va, 80 hppatent thnt Fhs
leaders Of his party soon put stop
to it and convinced Mr.. Hartcr, after
more or less argument, that it would
DO highly improper for the members
OF either branch qI Congress to send
petition to the other asking action
Other for or against any measure.
The debate In lho House on the
Chinese question, which ended this
afternoon by the passing OF tho Me-
Greary bill providing for an extern
sion OF the time within which Chi
ncse may register in accordance with
the Greary Law and otherwise modi-
fy the PROVISIONS If that law, va,
not participated in by many mem
ber,, but it was at times very ear
nest. The California ilcmbcrs bit
terly opposed the bill and served no.