The Progress., 1893-10-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Notes Of Interest Gathered from About
The National CAPITAL.
WAsmNGToS, ID. g.. October. Ii. 1898
pecial Correspondence 20 The Progress:

Every one has hllONn Ol casts Nltf'
people refused to believe their loveC
ones were dead although the corpse lay
before them prepared for burial. Ol
cremation. That is precisely the con
ditiOn of the Voorhees, unconditional
repeal bill II is dead. and almost
everybody knows it, but few of it,
nearest friends still refuse to believe il
or to consent To the final disposal of the
corpse. President Cleveland the chief
physician and mourner, insists that il
is still alive and that if the chief nurse
Senator Voorhees,, and the assistant
Senatorial nurses will follow his di-
rectiOns and give the medicine pre-
scribed by him that it may yet be re-
stored to robust health. This opinion.
however. is not shared by his associates
and consulting physician. Secretary
/ Carlisle, who has prepared IA substitute
! for the defUnct bill. which he would
| prefer to the one prepared by the silver
men if. as he believes. substitute is
bound to be accepted or all hope of
financial Legislation abandoned.
Secretary Carlisle's proposed amend
ment, which is evidently intended to
capture the vote Of the anti-repeal
southern Senators, is subs bstantially as
follows: the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law: the nur-
chase of 10000, 900 ounces Of silver. one
fourth to be purchased anDually; the
coinage Of the seigniorage in the Treas
ury: the repeal of the tax on state bank
currency, and authority for the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. at his discretion.
to issue s150,00J, 900 iu bonds to pur-
chase gold. This amendment will not
be likely to get any Republican votes.
because of the proposed repeal of the
State bank tax, but with that clause
out it would lose votes among the
southern Senators.
There are a number of other cOmprO-
mise amendments prepared and in
course of preparation, in fact there are
so many of them that their very num-
ber and diversity is acting as prevent
i've Of action, and may result in nothing
being done, although the general i'm
preston among Senator's of all opinions
is that some one Of them will be passed
by the Senate this week. Conferences
are hourly being held and as soon As
any amendment that can command
majority sufficiently large to prevent
tillibustering against it is agreed upon
ii will be at once passed by the Senate.
That may be to-day, tomorrow, or anv
day this week it is altogether probable
that the whole question may be thrown
over to the regular session. as il is daily
becoming more difficult to keep the
Senators who are anxious. for one cause
or 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 quorum.
One result OF the physical endurance |
fizzle in the Senate is the proposal of a
large number of amendments to the |
Senate Rule, all having one end in
curtailment of privileges en-
loyed under the present rules by the
minority. Whatever may be done in
the future there is no probability that
my of the proposed amendments will be
adopted at the present session. The
'eason is obvious.
In times of excitement some foolish
.hings are always done in Congress, but
Harter, of Ohio, would {
lave gone down in history as the origi-
Iator, of the most foolish thing ever ,
One il some of his level headed col ,
eagues had not nipped the scheme in :
he bud. He drew up a petition asking ,
he Democratic Senators to Immediate
Y pass the Voorhees, bill, and started :
ut with the mention of securing the q
ignatures thereto OF all the Democrats |
4 the House, but the bad taste OF the t
cheme was so apparent that the lead q
RS of his party soon put stop to it and C
)nvinced Mr.. Harter after more or {
'ss argument that it would be highly r
improper for the members of either a
ranch of Congress to send petition to u
lie other asking action either for or :
yainst any measure. :
The debate in the House on the q
hinese question, which ended this
ternoOn by the passing OF the
cCreary bill providing for an extern 4,
On Of the time within which Chinese y
ay register in accordance with the y
sary law and otherwise modifying the q
DIVISIONS of that law, was not partici- D
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