The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-09-09
COMPROMISE IN THE SENATE
A Universal Demand that The Cl0turG
Shall Not Be Applied.
HALE AND VOORHEES, QHsRRRL
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President Cleveland Is Bonding the SEN
ators to His Views by Personal Inter-
views and Solicitation.
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Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. S.-The extremity
cloture, is not to be invoked by the
American senate. A heavy majority OF
the members are in favor of uncondi-
tional repeal, but this majority has
been carefully polled and 1T has de-
clared that the conditions are not such
as to warrant radical departure from
the time honored traditions of the SEN
ate that would be necessary to secure
acloture of the debate and force the
repeal bill to final vote. A conference is
daily held between the president and
the leading senator's, participated in
almost invariably by Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle. These conferences
passage of the bill Internationally
tionally repeating the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act, but of this bill
amended by such additions as to give
to it the undeniahle garb of comprom-
Use. One by one the senators who open
ly expressed themselves in favor of un-
conditional repeal, and they are nearly
three-fifths of the United States sem
ate, have been consulted as to the adj
visibility of the cloture rule. The re-
suit has been that less than thirty of
the eighty-six senators have expressed
themselves in favor Of resorting TO
such extreme measures. With the prop
osition for cloture abandoned, there
remains but two alternatives for the
repeal senators-a compromise or de-
feat at the hands Of the filibusterers.
No one can doubt which of these two
alternatives appears likely to be ohos-
en-, and that is for the compromise.
The proposition of compromise is now
under discussion and is meeting with
great favor. 1t provides that, coupled
with the bill repeating the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act, there shall
be a law authorizing the secretary of
the treasury to buy monthly con-
siderably reduced amount of silver
bullion and to actually coin this bullion
into money. The secretary of the treas
ury is also to be given ample power to
protect all gold and currency and mon
ey of the United States and to make
it interchangeable. In addition to this
tlfe National banks are to be permitted
to issue national notes to aggregate
equal to the face value of United States
bonds on deposit. Concessions to the
state banks are also being discussed.
There is a growing disposition in the
senate to oppose presidential nomina-
tions of outside parties to offices in the
territories.
The air about the senate wing of the
capitol is full of rumors of the com
promise upon the financial question,
but it is impossible to trace the most OF
these to any authoritative source: The
silver men declare that they can at
any time get safe majority on a
compromise on the line of Faulkners
proposition. The chief obstacle in the
way of compromise appears to be
the difficulty of formulating a propo-
sition upon, which the southern and
western and repeal democrats can un-
ite. The repeal leaders ridicule the idea
Of a. compromise but are no longer so
confident of rushing the bill to a rapid
conclusion
At the close of the moFsling business
in the senate, Voorhees, called up the
repeal bill. Faulkner of West Virginia,
addressed the senate He said he would
vote for the repeal bill, but declared
that he would present an amendment
for the coinage of three million dollars
in silver per month until there was
$500, 200, 900 in circulation. He predicted
a deficit of $5O,OOOOOO for this fiscal
year.
Hale of Maine said: 'The republl-
cans had refrained from taking up
time by answering speeches made on
the other side with the exception Of
Sherman and perhaps one OF. two 9TH
ers on the republican side who were m
favor of repeal, they had sat silently in
their seats ready to vote at all times,
and they had taken up none OF the
time of the session, and they were now
in that attitude. ready and willing and
desirous of voting. VOORHEES, was rath-
er nettled by Hale's remarks and re-
piled in somewhat Leated manner.
Senator Dubois republican, Of Indiana,
said that Hale did not represent all
the republicans. 1t seemed difficult
for Hale to realize the fact that the re-
publicans had lost control Of the senate.
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